Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures

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The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures supports and promotes research into the cultures and intellectual life of the Middle Ages.

There's just two days left to register for the up-coming SSMLL Annual Conference 2026, Medieval Wales⛰️ Join us for at Cardiff University and online for cutting-edge presentations on medieval Welsh languages and literature. Sign up today here: mediumaevum.org.uk/events/medie...

Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures@mediumaevum.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The full programme for the SSMLL Annual Conference 2026, Medieval Wales, is now available! Join us 25-26 April at @cardiffuni.bsky.social and online for two days of research exploring the languages and literature of medieval Wales.

The first page of the programme for the conference reads as follows:

Rhagflaenir gan Ddarlith Goffa Henry Loyn, 24 Ebrill 2026
Preceded by the Henry Loyn Memorial Lecture, 24 April 2026

16:45: Derbyniad / Reception (Oriel Viriamu Jones, Prif Adeilad / Viriamu Jones Gallery, Main Building)
17:30: Darlith Goffa Henry Loyn / Henry Loyn Memorial Lecture (Darlithfa Wallace, Prif Adeilad / Wallace Lecture Theatre, Main Building)
Yr Athro / Professor John Hines: ''Pentref diffaith' neu 'Dasgwedd': golygion ar y safle hanesyddol ac archeolegol yn Cosmeston, Bro Morgannwg’ / ‘'Deserted Village' or 'Taskscape': perceptions of the historical and archaeological site at Cosmeston, Vale of Glamorgan’

Saturday 25 April / Dydd Sadwrn 25 Ebrill

All sessions will be held in the Glamorgan Building (Committee Room 1). 
Cynhelir pob sesiwn yn Adeilad Morgannwg (Ystafell Bwyllgor 1). 

9.30-10:00 Welcome and Coffee / Croeso a Choffi

10:00-12:00 Session 1 / Sesiwn 1
Thomas Clancy, ‘What's the Commotion? Sound, Structure and Sense in Ystoria Gereint uab Erbin’
Natalia Petrovskaia, ‘“Revisiting the “Cauldron Story”: Some Implications of Fractal Structures in the Second Branch of the Mabinogi’
Kit Treadwell, ‘A widowed countess owns the castle’: Positions of Widows in Medieval Welsh Literature’
Jessica Shales, ‘The Arthur of the Welsh?’

12:00-13:00 Lunch / Cinio

13:00-14.30 Session 2 / Sesiwn 2
Russell O Riagain, ‘The Welsh kingdoms and the Scandianvian diaspora, c.AD790–1110’
Buffy Revell, ‘Economy, Diet and Status: New perspectives on human:animal relations in medieval Wales’
Gwen Jones-Edwards, ‘Yr Hen Ogledd: Cyfarfyddiad y Gymraeg a’r Aeleg ar lannau’r Clud, ac olion y cyfarfyddiad hwnnw yn y ganrif rhwng 1150 -1250' (*‘The Old North: The meeting of Welsh and Gaelic on the banks of the Clyde and its traces in the century 1150-1250')