Laura McAllister CBE
Professor of Public Policy and the Governance of Wales, Cardiff University and current Vice-President of UEFA
Dr Toby Driver FSA
Senior Investigator (Aerial Survey) at the Royal Commission, Wales
Efa Gruffudd Jones
Comisiynydd y Gymraeg/Welsh Language Commissioner
Professor Jane Williams
Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, Swansea University
The Very Reverend Dr Sarah Rowland Jones LVO OBE
Dean of St Davids, Cathedral
Dr Huw Williams
Reader in Philosophy and University Dean for the Welsh Language, School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University
Mae’r Cymmrodorion yn falch iawn i ddweud bydd Medal y Cymmrodorion yn cael ei ddyfarnu i Peter Lord am oes o wasanaeth i hanes celf yng Nghymru ac i ddathlu ei nifer fawr o lyfrau. https://llyfrgell-cymru.zoom.us/rec/share/XAH0fsOkmvHciN-MWGg1QF8mBgDDTiZm0f6z_VxEJa_EJyF6Vp6XSA4L411Sfec7.xRvQREk6tIisHdTf Passcode: #2MYDfG6
Martin Shipton
Associate Editor, Nation.Cymru
Dr Sian Rhiannon Williams
Archif Menywod Cymru/Women’s Archive Wales
Dr Rowan Williams
Theologian and poet
Emeritus Professor Prys Morgan
Swansea University
Professor David Willis
Jesus Professor of Celtic, University of Oxford
The June Gruffydd Memorial Lecture
Richard Mayou
Emeritus Professor and Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University
Dr Marion Löffler Reader in Welsh History, Cardiff University Michael Gibbons QC, Member of Council in the chair
Peter Lord and Rhian Davies Independent visual art and music scholars Peter Lord and Rhian Davies will talk on their newly published joint work The Art of Music: Branding the Nation, published by Parthian Books. The authors’ outstanding contribution to Welsh scholarship in their respective fields of art and music is well-recognised. Hear them together […]
A Welsh Parliament has been able to make laws again since the Wales Act 2017. How does this work within the framework of a single England and Wales legal jurisdiction? David Lloyd-Jones, Justice of the Supreme Court, explains at the society’s next meeting. Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, former Lord Chief Justice and vice president of […]
Dr Lucy Taylor Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University Admired in Wales for irrigation and peaceable relations with indigenous neighbours, the 156 pioneers who crossed perilous seas to establish Y Wladfa struggled to resist assimilation by an Argentine state keen on building a coherent nation. This talk will chart these tensions, including appeals for help […]
All are welcome to join this talk, which will be live and with questions. Wales and Islam: contact, coexistence and conflict in nine centuries of literature. Award-winning poet and critic Dr Grahame Davies shows the full and surprising story of the Welsh relationship with Islam. Speaker: Dr Grahame Davies, poet, librettist and cultural historian, Governor of Goodenough […]
All are welcome to join this talk, which will be live and with questions. Ben Bowen Thomas was one of the most influential Welsh adult educators and civil servants of the twentieth century. He was very well-known among those who, like himself, were prominent civil servants but perhaps less well known to the Welsh public […]
All are welcome to join this talk, which will be live and with questions. Access will be via this page; no registration is needed. Almost all scholars of medieval Welsh texts will have come across manuscripts in the hand of John Jones of Gellilyfdy, Flintshire (c.1580–1658), a competent scribe who copied countless texts, of prose […]