Fulbright Commission Summer Institute in Wales for Freshmen and Sophomore Undergraduates.

A message from the Fulbright Commission:-

After an extremely successful pilot year the US-UK Fulbright Commission is once again running a Summer Institute in Wales for freshmen and sophomore undergraduates.

The Institute provides an immersive academic, cultural and social experience for freshman or sophomore American students who wish to deepen their knowledge of the United Kingdom and Wales and its diverse population whilst developing their communication, research and presentation skills. The programme will last for six weeks from 23^rd June until 3^rd August 2012 and will be held at Cardiff, Bangor and Aberystwyth universities.

The programme covers participant costs including academic programme fees, travel, housing, subsistence an cultural visits.

I would be very grateful if you could pass this information to any relevant or potentially interested parties. I apologise for the short notice of this message given the upcoming deadline.

The application deadline for all Summer Institutes is Friday 16 March 2012. For more information on each Institute and details on how to apply visit the Institute webpages: http://www.fulbright.co.uk/fulbright-awards/for-us-citizens/summer-...

For more information contact the UK Awards Team: programmes@fulbright.co.uk

Complete A Short Survey - Win A Free Place At Cardiff University's 2012 Welsh Summer Course

 

Our newest member, Anthony Lydall from Cardiff, is researching potential demand for an online Welsh language course on behalf of Cardiff University’s Welsh for Adults Centre. He invites you to complete a short survey on the link below and there is a prize draw incentive of a free place on the University’s 2012 Welsh summer course, including accommodation, for one lucky respondent to the survey. It’s a good prize for doing something that only takes a few minutes!

https://www.snapsurveys.com/swh/surveylogin.asp?k=132800877385

Centenary of a Welsh great’s birth celebrated with two new books - Pennar Davies

  

November 12, 2011 marks the the centenary of the birth of one of the great figures in twentieth-century Wales. Pennar Davies was a coal miner’s son, who was born into sheer poverty in Mountain Ash. Educated there, he later obtained a double First Class Honours degree at University College, Cardiff before attending Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained a B.Litt. He spent the next three years at Yale University in the United States which awarded him a Ph.D. After another year at Cardiff he returned to Oxford, this time to Mansfield College. He was ordained into the Christian ministry at Minster Road Congregational Church, Cardiff in 1942.

In 1946 Pennar was appointed Professor of Church History at Bala-Bangor College before undertaking a similar post at the Congregational Memorial College, Brecon, in 1950. He served as college’s principal until his retirement. Pennar Davies, who learned Welsh as a teenager, became a leading figure in the literary life of Wales as a poet, novelist and writer.

To mark this centenary, Y Lolfa is publishing two books by former students of Pennar Davies: Saintly Enigma, a biography of Pennar Davies in the English language by the Rev. Ivor Thomas Rees of Sketty, and Diary of a Soul, a translation of Pennar Davies’ great spiritual classic Cudd fy Meiau [Hide my sins], by the Rev. Herbert D Hughes, a former lecturer at Trinity College, Carmarthen. A foreword to this volume has been written by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams. The two volumes will be launched at Christwell United Reformed Church, Manselton, Swansea on Saturday, 1 October at 10.30 a.m. Sadly, Rev. Hughes passed away at his Brecon home a few months ago.

The main speakers at the launch will be Professor D Densil Morgan, Professor of Theology at the University of Wales, Trinity St David’s and author of Pennar Davies’s Welsh-language biography, and Professor M Wynn Thomas, Professor of Welsh Writing in English at the University of Swansea.