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BONDS OF ATTACHMENT: EMYR HUMPHREYS AT 100 CENTENARY SYMPOSIUM AND PUBLIC LECTURE Saturday 13 April 2019 Symposium: 10.00-4.30 at Taliesin Create, Swansea University, Singleton Park, SA2 8PP Lecture and Reception: 6.00-7.45 at Cinema & Co, 17 Castle St, Swansea SA1 1JF [cid:image003.jpg@01D4D441.64962030] © Bernard Mitchell In April 2019, Emyr Humphreys will celebrate his hundredth birthday. He is the pre-eminent novelist of Anglophone Wales, a major cultural figure who has operated on several different fronts, and a principled ethical activist. He has enjoyed a career that began when he was talent-spotted and mentored by Graham Greene, continued during the fifties through a creative friendship with Saunders Lewis and pioneering radio and television productions featuring the young Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole and Sian Phillips, diversified further from the early eighties onwards with his seminal contributions of plays and documentaries for the new Welsh-language channel S4C, and culminated with his remarkable late achievements in poetry and in fiction. His has therefore been a unique achievement, one without parallel in the long history of Welsh culture. CREW (the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales), with AWWE (the Association for Welsh Writing in English), is hosting a one-day symposium and evening lecture to assess and celebrate the literary and cultural legacy of Humphreys. All welcome. Both symposium and public lecture are free, but registration via Eventbrite is essential. SYMPOSIUM: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bonds-of-attachment-emyr-humphreys-at-100-a-centenary-symposium-tickets-58290106277 LECTURE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-world-woven-by-his-voice-emyr-humphreys-at-100-lecture-by-candida-clark-tickets-58111515106 A limited number of postgraduate / non-affiliated ECR travel bursaries are available from AWWE. To apply, please email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by 1 April. Organiser: Kirsti Bohata: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> BONDS OF ATTACHMENT: EMYR HUMPHREYS AT 100 PROGRAMME SYMPOSIUM 9.30-10.00 Registration (Tea and Coffee available) 10.00 Welcome 10.20-11.20 SAUNDERS LEWIS MEMORIAL LECTURE Chair: M. Wynn Thomas, 'Soul-searches: Marilynne Robinson's Gilead and Emyr Humphreys's Outside the House of Baal.' 11.20-11.40 Coffee / Tea 11.40-12 Launch of the Emyr Humphreys Archive and Book Launch 12-1.15 PANEL 1 Chair: Michelle Deininger, 'Emyr Humphreys' Short Fictions: Landscapes, Communities, Contexts Daniel G Williams, 'What's Wrong with Ancestor Worship? Emyr Humphreys in the 1970s' 1.15-2.00 BUFFET LUNCH 2.00 -3.15 - PANEL 2 Chair: Elinor Shepley, 'There was always an unspecified goal. It has turned out to be old age': Ageing in Emyr Humphreys's novels and short stories Andy Webb, 'Twenty-First Century Humphreys' 3.15-3.45 Tea / Coffee 3.45-4.30 - SESSION 4 Tristan Hughes in conversation with Kirsti Bohata 4.30PM CLOSE - MAKE WAY TO HIGH STREET FOR RECEPTION AND LECTURE AT 6PM PUBLIC LECTURE (at Cinema and Co) 6.00pm Reception 6.30pm Candida Clark, 'A world woven by his voice'; Myth-maker, story-teller, formal innovator and bard: tracing the unique songline of Emyr Humphreys at 100. Acknowledgements: CREW wishes to thank the following for their generous financial support: the Learned Society for Wales, the Saunders Lewis Memorial Trust, Swansea University, including the College of Arts and Humanities Research Environment Fund. We are also grateful to the postgraduate travel bursaries offered by our partners, the Association for Welsh Writing in English. Thanks to the Welsh Books Council, the University of Wales Press and Seren Books for the array of books - new and reissued - by and about Emyr Humphreys and the associated publicity material. We are grateful Bernard Mitchell for permission to use his photograph of Emyr Humphreys and to the Richard Burton Archives at Swansea University for their help in planning and organising elements of this event, not least the creation of the new Emyr Humphreys Archive at Swansea University. We are enormously grateful to the Cultural Institute at Swansea University for organising the Public Lecture and to Elaine Canning and Helen Baldwin for sound advice and generous support throughout. Yr Athro | Professor Kirsti Bohata FHEA FLSW Cyfarwyddwr | Director CREW: Canolfan Ymchwil i Lên ac Iaith Saesneg Cymru | Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales www.swansea.ac.uk/CREW<http://www.swansea.ac.uk/CREW> Prifysgol Abertawe | Swansea University ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the WELSHSTUDIES list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=WELSHSTUDIES&A=1