[ecrea] CfP Comedy and Society Symposium

Comedy and Society Symposium

School of Drama, Music and Screen, University of Hull

November 22nd 2014





Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines (theatre and 
performance studies, literature, sociology, psychology, politics and 
philosophy), this symposium 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 comedyʼs 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 Keynote Presentations from Professor Arpad 
Szakolczai, Professor of Sociology at University College, Cork and Dr 
Sharon Lockyer, Director of the Centre for Comedy Studies Research, 
Brunel University.



Papers are invited which engage with the questions above in relation to 
any form of written or performed comedy, historical or contemporary. 
Abstracts of 300 words for papers lasting 20 minutes should be sent to 
(l.s.peacock /at/ hull.ac.uk) by 22nd May 2014.







Dr Louise Peacock

Senior Lecturer in Drama,

Dept of Drama and Music

Gulbenkian Centre

University of Hull



01482 465236



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