The University of Wyoming’s Department of Anthropologyis hosting “The Work of Storytelling: Theory, Practice, Play, Persuasion” workshop on Thursday in the American Heritage Center Stock Growers Room.
A Wyoming Humanities grant will be funding the event, making it free to the public. This event will require registration by the end of Wednesday since there is limited space.
A light lunch with dessert will be provided at 12:45 p.m., followed by the speakers at 1:20 p.m. Each speaker will be given 20 minutes each to present with 15 minutes in between presentations for questions.
The audience will be expected to break into small groups to discuss after each of the presentations and form questions to ask the speakers. After the presentations are completed, there will be panel discussion to wrap up the event.
The presentations will be given by some of UW’s professors as well as professors from different universities on individual topics that relate to storytelling.
Carole McGranahan, an anthropology professor from the University of Colorado, will be the first presenter of the afternoon starting at 1:30 p.m. Her presentation will focus on the topic of theoretical storytelling and ethnography.
Kaatie Cooper, a communications and journalism assistant professor at UW, will give her presentation on documentaries and its unique form of storytelling at 2:05 p.m.
She will be followed with a presentation given by Paul Taylor at 2:40 p.m., the director of Yubulyawan Dreaming Project and UW Honors College guest lecturer. He will be presenting on Aboriginal creation storytelling.
UW’s Creative Writing program professor, Alyson Hagy, will give her presentation on writing and revising fiction at 3:30 p.m.. She will be incorporating her own research and interviews to discuss this topic.
The event will be wrapped up by Paul Stroller, an anthropology professor from West Chester University, with a presentation on the power of stories and will dive deep into narratives to argue that stories have impact on us as readers. He will also be giving a lecture on Friday, April 26th at the annual Mccoy lecture at the Agriculture auditorium for the Anthropology department here at UW.
