[ecrea] CFP: Humor Studies at ASA 2011

> *CALL FOR PAPERS*
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> The Humor Studies Caucus of the American Studies Association is seeking
> papers for the 2011 ASA Conference:
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> *"Imagination, Reparation, Transformation"*
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> *October 20-23, 2011*
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> *Baltimore, Maryland*
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> *http://www.theasa.net/annual_meeting/page/submitting_a_proposal/*
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> Proposals on any aspect of American Humor will be welcomed.
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> Proposals due by: *January 15th*
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> Panels will be assembled for submission by the January 26 ASA deadline.
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> Proposals should be no more than 500 words and should include a brief CV.
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> Proposals should be sent to Tracy Wuster: (wustert /at/ gmail.com)
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> If you are interested in chairing a panel, please contact the above person.
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> *In addition, we are looking for people to fill three specific panels:*
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> *1)  Humor and Politics:*
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> >From Benjamin Franklin's clever satire to Stephen Colbert's parodic
> punditry, from *The Masses's *devastating cartoons to Gary Trudeau's  *
> Doonesbury*: humor has played a vital, yet often unexamined role in American
> politics. This panel seeks papers that examine both humor as political
> discourse and rhetoric and the effects of humor on politics. We welcome
> proposals from a variety of perspectives historical, theoretical, or
> otherwise. Proposals should be no more than 300 words and include a short
> bibliography.
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> *2) Ethnic Humor:  Pleasures and Problems*
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> About any aspect of ethnic humor.
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> *3) Roundtable: Humor Studies and Cultural Studies*
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> A panel of scholars will discuss the relationship between humor studies and
> cultural studies as fields of discourse.  Each scholar will speak for 5-8
> minutes, then discuss with the audience.  Focus of individual remarks are
> open to interpretation.

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
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