[ecrea] conference Laughing and coping during WWI - Luton UK

A one-day conference co-organized by the University of Bedfordshire, 
University Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle (EA 4399 CREW / CRAN) and Central 
Connecticut State University.

Laughing and coping during World War One:
Studying the mechanisms and forms of humor and entertainment


MARCH 24, 2016 – University of Bedfordshire, LUTON (UK)
University Square
Luton, Bedfordshire
LU1 3JU


9.30 Registration and coffee

10.00 am Opening

10.15 am Keynote – Michael Hammond (University of Southampton, UK)
Dr. Michael Hammond, a leading scholar in war and film, is a Senior 
Lecturer at the University of Southampton. He took his BA in History at 
California State University Los Angeles, his MA in Film Studies at the 
University of East Anglia, and his PhD at Southampton Institute. He is 
the author of numerous publications on war and cinema, including The Big 
Show: British Cinema Culture in the Great War (1914-1918) (2006), 
British Silent Cinema and the Great War (Ed. 2011). He is currently 
working on a British Academy funded project entitled The After Image of 
the Great War in Hollywood, 1919-1939.

11.15 am Panel 1 [Moderator: Alexis Weedon]

•        Emily Anderson ( Newcastle University, UK): Soldiers as Comic 
Heroes in British First World War Texts

•        Nicolas Bianchi (Université Montpellier-Paul Valéry, FR): 
Laughing in the French Trenches. Literary Perspectives on a Historical 
Phenomenon

•        T. Adrian Lewis (VU University Amsterdam, NL): Mobilizing 
Morale: American Ambulance Drivers and the Road to US Intervention

12.45 pm Lunch

1.45 pm Panel 2 [Moderator: Karen Randell]

•        Steven Gerrard (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 
UK): “Oh we don’t want to lose you but we think you ought to go. For 
your King and Country need you so.” The British Music Hall and its 
importance to the Great War

•        Robert Dean (University of Lincoln, UK): Sketches, Satire, 
and the Music Hall Stage during the First World War

•        Giannandrea Poesio and Alexis Weedon (University of 
Bedfordshire, UK) : Theatre with a view: Hugh Walpole and WW1 Russian 
entertainment

3.15 pm Tea

3.30 pm Panel 3 [Moderator: Karen A. Ritzenhoff]

•        Fabrice Lyczba (Université Paris Dauphine, FR):  Hoaxes, 
stunts, and other jokes: humor and the American marketing of Hollywood 
war films during the Great War

•        Barry Nevin (National University of Ireland, Galway, IE): 
From Cartier to Cagoulard: Entertainment and the Perils of Distraction 
in Jean Renoir's war correspondence and films

•        Matthew Leggett (Université de Bourgogne, FR): Edmund B: a 
lion among donkeys? Satire in the comedy series Blackadder Goes Forth

5.00 pm break

5.30 pm Screening and discussion:
Les Gosses de la Butte (1916), Love and Duty (1916), The Sinking of the 
Lusitania (1918), The Bond (1918), Doing his bit (1918), On Doit Le Dire 
(1918), A.W.O.L (1918)

6.30 pm Drink reception

NO REGISTRATION FEE, lunch offered to the participants by the organizing 
team.

Please confirm your presence to:
Karen Randell (University of Bedfordshire) (Karen.Randell /at/ beds.ac.uk)
Clémentine Tholas-Disset (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW/CRAN) 
(clementine.tholas /at/ univ-paris3.fr) / (ctholas /at/ gmail.com)
Karen A. Ritzenhoff (Central Connecticut State University) 
(Ritzenhoffk /at/ mail.ccsu.edu)

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