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[ecrea] The Value of Comedy: a day symposium

Mon Jun 26 18:41:31 GMT 2017






*REGISTRATION: THE VALUE OF COMEDY: A DAY SYMPOSIUM *

DATE: Friday, 11 August 2017

LOCATION: Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

TIME: 10am – 4pm.

*Keynotes*

Sharon Lockyer, Director of the international Centre for Comedy Studies Research at Brunel University London

Oliver Double, Director of the Popular and Comic Performance Research Centre at the University of Kent

*Papers*

A selection of papers representing a combination of academic research and practice about comedy in the context of a range of representations including national, regional and gendered.

*Presentations and discussion*

Brett Mills, University of East Anglia and Evan Beswick, editor of Fest magazine begin our presentations and discussions of the value of comedy in the creative industries with a focus on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe which celebrates its 70^th anniversary this year.

This is a free event. Please register to attend via https://thevalueofcomedy.eventbrite.comwhere there are additional details of how to book rooms in Queen Margaret’s accommodation (limited places available).

More details of the event are available on https://thevalueofcomedy.wordpress.com/

For further information email:

Jill Marshall: (jmarshall /at/ qmu.ac.uk) <mailto:(jmarshall /at/ qmu.ac.uk)>

Agata Korecka: (akorecka /at/ qmu.ac.uk) <mailto:(akorecka /at/ qmu.ac.uk)>



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