Programme: Emyr Humphreys Centenary Symposium

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

             M. Wynn Thomas, 'Soul-searches: Marilynne Robinson's Gilead and Emyr Humphreys's                         Outside the House of Baal.'

11.20-11.40 Launch of the Emyr Humphreys Archive and Book Launch

11.40-12.00  Coffee / Tea

12-1.15 PANEL 1

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

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 Frust, Swansea University, including the College of Arts and Humanities Research Environment Fund.  We are also grateful for 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 to 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.