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Tuesday, 13 November 2007

Prof Hamish Fyfe Inaugural Professorial Lecture ‘Cycles of Affirmation – Art and Community in the New Century’

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Event Date November 13, 2007 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Location – Glamorgan Business Centre, Treforest Campus

‘Cycles of Affirmation – Art and Community in the New Century’ given by Professor Hamish Fyfe of the Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries

“What I’d like to do in this inaugural lecture is to frame three questions – about the value of the arts in people’s lives, about the elements required to make creative space for people and about some of the ways that we might move our work forward in the next decade to ensure that these spaces continue to develop.”

Refreshments will be served at 5.30pm and following the Lecture a buffet will be served in the Glamorgan Business Centre.

For further information or to book a place contact June Landeg on 01443 482788 or email: researchoffice@glam.ac.uk

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Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries

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Friday, 8 June 2007

Fyfe Finishes Glamorgan Storytelling Season

Pictured above: George Ewart Evans (1909–88) was a pioneering oral historian. He published a series of books examining the disappearing customs and way of life of rural Suffolk, the best know of these is Ask the Fellows who Cut the Hay. He was also an accomplished story writer and wrote short-stories, novels and poems. George Ewart Evans was born and raised in the mining community of Abercynon, a stone’s throw from the University of Glamorgan where the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling is based.

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The George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling research seminar series for 2007 concludes on Thursday 14th June with a seminar from our very own Prof Hamish Fyfe. Please join us at 5pm in L201 for the seminar and a glass of wine.

Thurs 14th June 5 p.m. Prof Hamish Fyfe (University of Glamorgan)

“Habits of the Heart” Storytelling and Everyday Life

Academics have long been ambivalent about storytelling and other aspects of everyday life. As a notion ‘everyday life’ is vague, inclusive, and loaded with ambiguous cultural meaning as are the words ‘banal’ and, despite Raymond William’s heroic effort to rescue it, ‘ordinary’. Often linked to the bathetically comic or eternally tedious the everyday can also refer to the heroically democratic non-elitist and normal.

Storytelling is an everyday activity for most people in the world in some form or another. This paper will attempt to place storytelling in the quotidian of everyday life and to indicate how it has fallen through the gaps of concern that of the academic disciplines that look at everyday life through the refracting mirror of their own specific concerns. Is it possible to rescue storytelling from its position as a kind of remaindered subject that evades traditional divisions of knowledge?

Please Contact: Emily Underwood T: 01443 483312 E: efunderw@glam.ac.uk