[ecrea] Workshop - Satire as perspective on the contemporary

Invitation to the workshop


      Satire as Perspective on the Contemporary

The Research Group for Culture Studies, KuFo, at Karlstad university, 
invites interested researchers to take part, with or without 
presentation, in the workshop */Satire as Perspective on the 
Contemporary/*/./

The workshop will take place on *Wednesday 17 October 2018, 
10.15-17.30*, at *Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden*.

The workshop is interdisciplinary, and is intended for researcher who 
engage with satire from different perspectives.

*Satire*

Satire can be regarded as a genre, a mode of expression or as a 
rhetorical means. It challenges borders, values, and principles, and can 
function as a way of pointing to prejudices, injustices, immoral 
behavior or bad governance. It can be literary, visual or performative, 
and can be mediated by books, journals, newspapers, comics, radio, 
television, blogs, social media, etc. Satire can be used to provoke or 
criticize, and is often directed at authorities. It can be effective in 
contexts where open criticism is dangerous or where deviant voices have 
difficulties reaching out. It can be elegantly ironic or brutally 
sarcastic. Its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, 
using wit and humor to draw attention to both particular and general 
issues in society. But is the criticism always constructive? And is it 
always funny? Today satire is used for many different purposes, and the 
reception depends on individual opinions and ideas. The message is of 
course, as always, dependent on the context, the rhetorical situation.

But what is the relation between satire and the contemporary? What does 
satire look like in Sweden and other countries? How does satire today 
comment on important issues such as climate change, democracy, the 
refugee situation, gender issues and wealth distribution? How can satire 
be constructed and interpreted, verbally, visually and aurally? Has the 
expanded medial production changed its character? Is it possible to 
counter satire?

*Keynotes*

Keynote speeches will be given by Associate Professor of English Per 
Sivefors, Linneaus University, Sweden, and Dr Dieter Declercq, Associate 
and Assistant Lecturer in Film Studies and Philosophy of Art at the 
University of Kent, UK. Per Sivefors is currently at work on a research 
project on representations of manliness in English satire, and he will 
give the presentation */A Manly Art? Satire and the Representation of 
Masculinity/*/. /Dieter Declercq completed his PhD thesis in 2017, 
entitled /A Philosophy of Satire: Critique, Entertainment, Therapy. /At 
the workshop he will give the presentation */What is satire? /**/And why 
does it matter today?/***

*Schedule*

The workshop will start at 10.15 with the presentation by Per Sivefors, 
and a following discussion. After lunch, at 12.30, Dieter Declercq will 
give his presentation. From 14.00 the participants will present on their 
topics, grouped by themes, for 15 minutes each, followed by discussions 
around each theme. The workshop will finish around 17.30, and then we 
can go out for dinner together in the evening.

*Registration*

To take part without presentation, please send an email to Karin 
Aspenberg, (_karin.aspenberg /at/ kau.se) <mailto:(karin.aspenberg /at/ kau.se)>_, no 
later than *17 September, 2018*

To take part with a presentation, please send an email with an 
abstract of roughly 300 words, and a short biography, to Margareta 
Wallin Wictorin, (_margareta.wallin-wictorin /at/ kau.se) 
<mailto:(margareta.wallin-wictorin /at/ kau.se)>_, no later than *17 September 
2018. *

*Welcome!*

Karin Aspenberg and Margareta Wallin Wictorin

KuFo, The Research Group for Culture Studies at Karlstad University.


www.kau.se/en/kufo/activities/satire-perspective-contemporary 
<http://www.kau.se/en/kufo/activities/satire-perspective-contemporary>

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