[ecrea] Call for Registration, Comedy and Society Conference

Call for Registration



Comedy and Society Conference

University of Hull

November 22nd and 23rd 2014





Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines (theatre and 
performance studies, literature, sociology, psychology, politics and 
philosophy), this conference aims to encourage a wide-ranging 
consideration of the contribution made to society by comedy in all its 
forms.  How, for example, is it possible to theorise the connection 
between comedy and politics, comedy and society, comedy and identity and 
comedy and gender? In what ways has comedy’s impact on society shifted 
from its earliest incarnations to the present day? What was or is the 
manner in which playwrights reflect on the nature of their own craft, 
and its impact on social life? What might the relationships between 
personal or political protest and comedy be? To what extent can comedy 
issue a challenge to society by tackling prejudice and stereotyping head-on?

The symposium includes two Keynote Presentations:

Professor Arpad Szakolczai, Professor of Sociology at University 
College, Cork, ‘Modern Politics and Theatre: The Public Sphere as a 
Force of Commedification’

and

Dr Sharon Lockyer, Director of the Centre for Comedy Studies Research, 
Brunel University, ‘Funny Bones: Comedy and Disability in Live 
Performance from Performer and Audience Perspectives’





To see full details of the programme and to register, please use the 
following link:

http://shop.hull.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=31&catid=90&prodid=170



The cost of registration for waged is £50 and for PG students/unwaged is £30

Please direct any enquiries to me by replying to (l.s.peacock /at/ hull.ac.uk) 
rather than to the list.



Dr Louise Peacock

Senior Lecturer in Drama,

Dept of Drama and Music

Gulbenkian Centre

University of Hull



01482 465236



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