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
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 […]
Wales is dotted with fine country houses, many still in active occupation, others not, and far too many just a memory after demolition in the early 20th century. Bur how much do we know about these sometimes splendid properties and their surrounding estates, and, just as importantly, the role they played in Welsh community life […]
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 […]
Awn ar drywydd rhai o’r artistiaid o Gymru a ddenwyd i’r Eidal rhwng y 18fed a dechrau’r 20fed ganrif, boed i hybu eu haddysg, i chwilio am gyfleon gwaith, i bortreadu mannau enwog, neu i drwytho eu hunain yn swyn gwlad a ddisgrifiwydgan yr artist Thomas Jones fel ‘Magick Land’. Byddwch cystal â nodi newid […]
One of the best-selling novelists of her time, Marguerite Jervis (1886-1964) lies in an unmarked grave near her beloved adopted hometown of Aberystwyth. Author, journalist, actor, theatre, she worked with Hitchcock and other greats. So why is she forgotten today? Speaker: Dr Liz Jones University of Aberystwyth Professor Prys Morgan, President of the Society in […]
One of Stonehenge’s great mysteries is its link with the source of the famous bluestones from the Preseli hills of North Pembrokeshire 180 miles away. Recent research has identified megalith quarries and Neolithic monuments which throw new light on this fascinating subject. Speaker: Professor Mike Parker Pearson Professor of British Later Prehistory, Institute of Archaeology, […]