Refereed Journal Articles:
Chapters:
Talks and papers:
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- Aparna Sharma, ‘The History of Photography in Meghalaya’, article in peer-reviewed journal (forthcoming).
- Lisa Lewis, ‘O’r ddrama gymdeithasol i’r pasiant: theatr yn y gyfnewidfa ddiwylliannol rhwng Cymru a gogledd-ddwyrain India’ (From social drama to the pageant: theatre in the cultural exchange between Wales and north-east India), Gwerddon, October 2019, pp. 28-58.
- Lisa Lewis, ‘On Memory’, in ‘On Reflection: Turning 100’, Performance Research: International Journal of the Performing Arts (2018), 23:4-5 (2018), pp. 409–413.
- Lisa Lewis and Aparna Sharma, ‘Welsh and Khasi Cultural Dialogues: Transactions and Translations’, Performance Research: International Journal of the Performing Arts, 21.5 (2016), pp. 81–84.
Chapters:
- Lisa Lewis, ‘Performing on the Tightrope: Sacred Place, Embodied Knowledge and the Conflicted History of Colonial Modernity in the Welsh and Khasi Relationship’, chapter, in S. Battista (ed.), The Performances of Sacred Places: Crossing, Breathing, Resisting (Intellect Books, 2021).
- Lisa Lewis, ‘Perfformio yn erbyn y graen: tuag at theatr draws-ddiwylliannol Gymreig’ (‘Performance in ‘small’ nations: practising against the grain’), book chapter on practising transcultural performance, in I. Rowlands and D. G. Williams (eds), Y Genedl Anghyflawn (specific volume on theatre and performance), (University of Wales Press, 2021).
Talks and papers:
- Lisa Lewis, with performers Rhys ap Trefor, Gareth Bonello, Lapdiang Syiem, ‘Postcolonial Performance and Small Nations’, Lisa Lewis, University of South Wales (professorial lecture), 2019.
- Rhys ap Trefor, Gareth Bonello, Helen Davies, Benedict Hynñiewta, Desmond Kharmawphlang, Lisa Lewis, Aparna Sharma, Lapdiang Syiem, public exhibition and performance at St Fagan’s Museum of National History (Amgueddfa Cymru: National Museum Wales) Cardiff, 2019, including: panel presentation on Welsh and Khasi Cultural Dialogues project and interpretation of artefacts from the Museum’s missionary collection; screening of research film; musical performance; Khasi storytelling session; interview with children of Welsh missionaries raised in the Khasi-Jaiñtia Hills; performance of Performing Journeys with Q&A session; project exhibition.
- Lisa Lewis, ‘Performance and the Documentary Archive’, Visible Evidence conference, University of Southern California, 2019 (paper).
- Aparna Sharma, ‘Through Missionary Eyes: Welsh Mission Photography in Northeast India', Visible Evidence Conference, University of Southern California 2019 (paper).
- Helen Davies and Lisa Lewis, ‘Memory, orality and the archive: making performance from the traces of the Welsh and Khasi cultural exchange’, Memory Studies Association conference, Complutense University Madrid 2019 (paper).
- Lisa Lewis, ‘Welsh and Khasi Cultural Dialogues: the cultural exchange between Wales and north east India’, School of Welsh, Cardiff University, 2019 (invited research seminar).
- Helen Davies and Lisa Lewis, ‘Multilingual practice in “Welsh and Khasi Cultural Dialogues”: Strategies for the performance of minority languages’, Performing Multilingualism in World Literatures: Aesthetics and Activism, Exeter College, University of Oxford, 2018 (paper).
- Rhys ap Trefor, Gareth Bonello, Helen Davies, Lisa Lewis, Lapdiang Syiem, ‘The Welsh in Northeast India: Cultural explorations through Creative Arts practice’, North American Society for the Study of Welsh Culture and History (NAASWCH) Conference, Bangor University, 2018 (panel presentation).
- Lisa Lewis, 'Welsh and Khasi Cultural Dialogues: History and Performance' Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol History conference, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2018 (invited lecture).
- Helen Davies, 'Welsh and Khasi: contemporary experiences of lesser spoken languages in Britain and Northeast India' Languages Memory Conference, Kings College London, 2018 (paper).
- Lisa Lewis, ‘Epistolic writing and the performance of colonial self in the Welsh Mission in North East India’, Welsh and Khasi project consultative seminar, North Eastern Hill University, India, 2017 (paper).
- Aparna Sharma, ‘Working paper: Photographic Practices’, Welsh and Khasi project consultative seminar, North Eastern Hill University, India, 2017 (paper).
- Helen Davies, ‘Language in the Welsh and Khasi Cultural Dialogues’, Welsh and Khasi project consultative seminar, North Eastern Hill University, India, 2017 (paper).
- Lisa Lewis, 'Colonial ‘flow’ and the performance of civility: The Welsh in North East India' Performance Studies international (#PSi23 - OverFlow), Hamburg University and Kampnagel, 2017 (paper).
- Lisa Lewis and Aparna Sharma, ‘Sacred Places and Stories in the Welsh and Khasi Cultural Dialogues’, George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling Symposium, ‘Storytelling and Place’, University of South Wales, 2017 (paper).
- Helen Davies, 'Female Missionaries in the Welsh and Khasi Cultural Exchange' talk for Women's Institute, Whitchurch, Cardiff, 2017 (talk).
- Lisa Lewis and Aparna Sharma, 'Sacred Places in the Welsh and Khasi Cultural Dialogues', Sacred Places: Performances, Politics and Ecologies – A Multidisciplinary Perspective, conference, Liverpool Hope University, 2017 (paper).
- Lisa Lewis, ‘Welsh and Khasi Cultural Dialogues: Interweaving Theory and Practice’, Interweaving Performance Cultures conference, University of Malta, 2017 (paper).
- Helen Davies, 'Translations and transformations: the performance of language in the interweaving of cultures', Interweaving Cultures: Theory and Practice Conference, University of Malta, 2017 (paper).
- Helen Davies and Lisa Lewis, talk for Rhiwbina Welsh Society, Cardiff, 2017 (talk).
- Lisa Lewis, ‘“Intercultural” Performance in India and Wales: Welsh and Khasi Cultural Dialogues’, Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA), Bristol University, 2016 (paper).
- Aparna Sharma, 'Pluralities of Political Thinking in India's Documentary Cinema', International Symposium on Mapping 21st Century Indian Political Documentary Films: Formal and Discursive Trajectories, Central University of Kerala, 2016 (invited lecture).
- Gareth Bonello, Helen Davies, Lisa Lewis, 'Deialogau Cymreig a Chasi' (Welsh and Khasi Dialogues), Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol lecture, University of South Wales (lecture/talk).
- Lisa Lewis, Aparna Sharma, Helen Davies, ‘Welsh and Khasi Cultural Dialogues: Mapping Methods of Performance’, North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History (NAASWCH), International Conference on Welsh Studies, Harvard University, USA, 2016 (papers and screening).
- Helen Davies, Lisa Lewis, Aparna Sharma, ‘Welsh and Khasi Cultural Dialogues’, University of California Los Angeles, 2016 (research seminar).
- Lisa Lewis, ‘Postcolonialism and Imagi-Nation’, Department of World Arts and Cultures, UCLA, 2016 (invited lecture).
- Lisa Lewis, ‘Dychmygu cyfnewidfa theatr rhwng Cymru a Bryniau Casia’, Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol national conference for theatre and drama, ‘Wales and the world’, University of South Wales, 2014 (lecture).
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