Fellows at the Eisteddfod, 2023
The following Fellows will be appearing at the Llŷn and Eifionydd National Eisteddfod…
Professor Mererid Hopwood FLSW will be presented to the Gorsedd Board at this year’s Eisteddfod for the position of Archdruid, 2024-27. She will be the second woman Archdruid after Professor Christine James FLSW.
Saturday 5th August
Yr Babell Len
1.45pm: ‘Hunaniaeth: Yr Hen Iaith‘ – Live podcast recording with Professor Jerry Hunter FLSW and Professor Richard Wyn Jones FLSW
Monday 7th August
Cymdeithasau 1
4.00pm: Lecture sponsored by ‘Hafod Ceiri’ by Professor E. Wyn James, FLSW: ‘Richard Hughes (1565–1619), Llanbedrog a Llundain: Bardd ac Anturiwr yn Llys Elisabeth’
Tuesday 8th August
Yr Babell Len
11.00am: Deisyf cybbes a theimladwy am Ryddid – Professor Jerry Hunter FLSW delivers the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol annual lecture.
Cymdeithasau 1
3.00pm: ‘Tewi’r iaith ar y Trothwy: Cerddi ac Ecoleg.’ Professor Mererid Hopwodd FLSW delivers the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion annual lecture.
Cymdeithasau 1
4.00pm: Annual Lecture of the Cardiff Centre for Welsh American Studies, Cardiff University, by Professors Bill Jones and E. Wyn James, FLSW: ‘Dau Lanc o Lŷn ac Eifionydd yn America: J. W. Jones (golygydd Y Drych) a J. Glyn Davies (awdur ‘Fflat Huw Puw’)‘.
Wednesday 9th August
Cymdeithasau 1
11.00am EG Bowen Lecture: ‘Cymru, Daearyddiaeth, a Hanes Gwyddoniaeth‘ – Yr Athro Iwan Morus FLSW.
Science & Technology Village
4.30pm: ‘From banking and investment to facing the climate crisis: the career of a woman with a scientific mind.’ – LSW Eisteddfod Lecture 2023 – Dr Carol Bell FLSW
Friday 11th August
Science & Technology Village
12.45pm: Dathlu Triawd o Gewri – the life and work of Richard Price (1723 – 1791), William Morgan (1750 – 1833) and Griffith Davies (1788 – 1855), with Professor Gareth Ffowc Roberts FLSW and Haydn E. Edwards, and a panel discussion chaired by Elin Rhys FLSW.
Cymdeithasau 1
3.00pm: Launch of the volume Gofal ein Gwinllan: Ysgrifau ar gyfraniad yr Eglwys yng Nghymru i’n llên a’n hanes a’n diwylliant, volume 1 (ed. A. Cynfael Lake and D. Densil Morgan) in the company of the Archbishop of Wales; E. Wyn James FLSW; D. Densil Morgan FLSW; and Eryn M. White FLSW.
Saturday 12th August
Cymdeithasau 2
12:30-13:30:
‘Robert Jones, Rhos-lan, awdur Drych yr Amseroedd, a rhai o emynwyr Eifionydd.’ Lecture by Professor E. Wyn James FLSW, sponsored by the Department of Ethnology and Folk Studies of the University of Wales Alumni Association.