Raymond Williams in Transit: Wales Japan

Centre for Research into the Literature and Language of Wales

Canolfan Richard Burton Centre

JSPS/MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research

Raymond Williams in Transit: Wales – Japan

Raymond Williams, Cymru a Siapan

Friday, 16th October 2009 / Dydd Gwener, 16 Hydref, 2009

9.30 – 4.30

Arts and Humanities Conference Room

Ystafell Gynhadledd y Celfyddydau a’r Dyniaethau

Adeilad James Callaghan Building.

9.45 – 10.00

Opening remarks. Professor Noel Thompson

10.00 – 11.00

Chris Williams, 'Coal and its aftermath in South Wales and Japan’

11.00 .- 11. 30 Coffee

11.30 – 12.30

Shintaro Kono, 'Soseki Natsume, Raymond Williams, and the Geography of "Culture."

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch,

1.30 – 2.30

Takashi Onuki, ‘Translating/Interpreting Raymond Williams: Action without Quotation Marks’

2.30 – 3.00

Gwenno Ffrancon, 'Animating Wales and Japan: Miayzaki's 'Laputa: Castle in the Sky'

3.00 Tea

3.30– 4.00 Discussion of further research. Potential funding for future research projects. Final remarks

Notes.

Shintaro Kono and Takashi Onuki come to Swansea as part of projects

supported by JSPS/MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research.

Shintaro Kono, Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University. Co-translator of Eqbal Ahmad's Confronting Empire, Fredric Jameson's Cultural Turn, Edward W. Said's Power, Politics, Culture and Culture and Resistance into Japanese.

Takashi Onuki, Associate Professor of Kushiro Public University of Economics. Has published articles on David Hare, David Edgar, Arnold Wesker, as well as Raymond Williams, and is co-translator of Eqbal Ahmad’s Confronting Empire and Edward W. Said’s Reflections on Exile and Other Essays.

Chris Williams, Director, Richard Burton Centre

Professor Williams is currently completing Portrait of a British Town: Newport Society in 1851, to be published by the University of Wales Press. He isalso working on The Victorians and the Alps and a pocket-guide to the mountains of Wales, and is co-editor of two volumes of the Gwent County History.

Gwenno Ffrancon, Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, Swansea University

Main research interests are imaging Wales, Scotland and Ireland on screen; film and television in Wales; the history of film in Britain and America during its Golden Age and the careers of some of Wales’ foremost actors including Emlyn Williams, Hugh Griffith, Rachel Thomas, Richard Burton, Rachel Roberts and Siân Phillips. Cyfaredd y Cysgodion, was nominated for the long short list of the Academi Book of the Year Competition for 2004–5. She is currently researching a biography of Swansea-born actress Rachel Thomas.

The event is arranged by Daniel Williams, Director of CREW and Assistant Director of the Richard Burton Centre.