Teaching Middle Welsh in the Twenty-First Century: A One-Day Virtual Conference

Editor's note:
May 08, 2021

EST/BST 

9:00 AM/2:00 PM Welcoming Remarks and Statement of Purpose 

9:30 AM/2:30 PM Digital and scholarly developments at the National Library of Wales: Digitisation of Peniarth manuscripts and the publication of the Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes Dr. Maredudd ap Huw, National Library of Wales 

10:00 AM/3:00 PM A novel approach to learning Middle Welsh Dr. Guto Rhys, Independent Scholar, Wemmel 

Social Adrenaline is the Glue of Linguistic Form 

Dr. Craig R. Davis, Smith College 

Cymraeg Canol ar-lein: The New Frontier in Language Pedagogy 

Edward Mead Bowen, University of Rochester 

Dr. Sebastian Rider-Bezerra, Yale University 

12:00 AM/5:00 PM Break 

12:45 PM/5:45 PM Round Table: Teaching Middle Welsh in the Twenty-First Century 

Dr. Joshua Byron Smith, University of Arkansas 

Dr. Jean-François Mondon, Minot State University 

Dr. Simon Rodway, Aberystwyth University 

Dr. Ian Hughes, Aberystwyth University 

Dr. Ranke de Vries, St. Francis Xavier University 

Dr. Diana Luft, Independent Scholar 

2:00 PM/7:00 PM Concluding Remarks 

To register, go to this link: 

Sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program of Yale University 

and the Department of Welsh and Celtic Studies of Aberystwyth University 

Jesus College MS 111 ‘Llyfr Coch o Hergest’, f. 161v, used by kind permission of Jesus College, Oxford