Collaborations

Collaborations

  • BRETAGNE/PAYS DE GALLES : QUAND LES CHEMINS SE CROISENT ET SE DÉCROISENT

    Au fil des années des chercheurs au Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique et le University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies ont entretenu des relations amicales, et cette année s’ouvre un nouveau chapitre dans l’histoire des collaborations entre les deux centres: une série de quatre ateliers auront lieu alternativement à Aberystwyth et Brest en 2009–2010, et ceux-ci devraient permettre de jeter les bases d’une véritable coopération au plan institutionnel. Une bourse Alliance Hubert Curien/ British Council financera les déplacements des deux équipes. Le premier atelier ‘Approaching the Middle Ages: Wales and Brittany’ a eu lieu au CAWCS le 24 janvier 2009. Lisez les textes des communications ici. Le deuxième atelier ‘Paysage et patrimoine’ a eu lieu au Manoir de Kernault, Mellac, le 6 juin 2009. Ensuite en 2010 se tiendra un atelier à Aberystwyth sur la question linguistique, et un autre en Bretagne sur ‘la guerre et la paix’.

    Une sélection d’essais basés sur ces ateliers a été publiée. Cliquez ici pour les détails.

    CULTURAL CHANGES AND EXCHANGES: BRITTANY AND WALES

    Over the years a relationship has developed between researchers at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies and the Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique. This year saw the opening of a new chapter in the collaboration between them: during 2009–2010 a series of four workshops will be held alternately in Aberystwyth and Brest which will lay the foundations for collaboration at an institutional level. These workshops are funded by the British Council’s ‘Alliance’ programme which promotes Franco-British Partnerships. The first workshop ‘Approaching the Middle Ages: Wales and Brittany’ was held at the Centre on 24 January 2009. The papers may be read here. The second workshop ‘Paysage et patrimoine’ / ‘Heritage and Landscape’ was held at the Manoir de Kernault, Mellac, on 6 June 2009. The third workshop entitled will be held in Aberystwyth on 20 March 2010, and another in Brittany on the theme ‘War and peace’ later in the year.

    A selection of essays based on these workshops has now been published. Click here for details.

  • This is a collaborative AHRC-funded project involving Bangor University (Professor Carol Tully, Principal Investigator), Swansea University (Dr Kathryn Jones, Co-investigator) and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (Dr Heather Williams, Co-investigator).

    The project examines the representation of Wales and Welshness in texts by European travellers from 1750 to 2010. Drawing on expertise in several languages and cultures, the investigation will centre on texts in French and German as these constitute the majority. Works to be studied include travelogues, travel guides, almanacs, encyclopaedias, private correspondences, diaries, creative works and periodical contributions which have Wales as their focus. This important area of study has been neglected, but is central to our understanding of European intercultural relations, the development of Welsh identity and the establishment of the tourist industry in Wales.

    A workshop entitled Travellers to Wales was held at the Centre on 25 April 2009. Click here for the details.  

    As part of the project a special issue of Studies in Travel Writing will appear in 2014. Click here for more information.

  • Following the tercentenary conference, our work on Edward Lhwyd continues with a new project on his correspondence which began in September 2009 with the appointment of Helen Watt as Editorial Assistant. Her work on Edward Lhwyd is part of the ‘Cultures of Knowledge’ project run by the University of Oxford and generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 

    An online calendar of the letters will demonstrate Lhwyd’s central position within the network of the seventeenth-century ‘Republic of Letters’. As work progresses, the number of extant letters continues to grow, now totalling over 2,100 and covering an amazingly wide range of scholarship and science. The project is supervised by Dr Brynley F. Roberts, the foremost authority on Lhwyd who made the original transcriptions of the letters which are to be published together with digital images and annotations.