Comedy and Gender Research Network organised by @EllieTomsett @Lisamoore4 @katefoxwriter @nataliediddams and @Dr_Ilott
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Registration is now open for our Comedy and Racial Justice conference. 22nd and 23rd April at Manchester Metropolitan University UK. International speakers, comedians, screenings and a comedy protest banner making workshop too. Info here - mixedbill.wordpress.com/2025…
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Check out the next @MixedBill CFP for a conference on #Comedy and Racial Justice, with keynotes from @RaulPerezSoc and @KavytaK hosted at @MMUEnglishDept by @ManMetMAPS next April 🥳
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📣CFP: "Laughing through Life? Humour in Families Facing Challenging Times"📣
For a session at the #ISAForum2025 Rabat July 2025
Submission deadline: 15 Oct 2024
Link and more details: bit.ly/3XJJSFM
RTs much appreciated!
#sociology #familystudies #humourstudies
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Come join the launch of Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives with the amazing @OliverDouble @RayCampbell19 @charmianhughes Sophie Quirk and Brian Mulligan @BrunelUni @CBASSResearch It'll be great! Reserve your free space:
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Call for Papers: Panel titled "Only joking": Negotiating offensive humour in interaction | International Pragmatics Conference | Deadline: 1 November 2022 | For more information visit: uea.ac.uk/web/groups-and-cen…
#HumourStudies
#CfP
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The role of Black comedians is radically different to that of white ones. Black comedians act both as a balm to sooth the pains of racism & a sword to challenge power.
Listen to #BlackBritishComediansMatter with @ginayashere, @DaneBaptweets & @LennyHenry
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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It was great to be part of the exploration of the British sense of humour with @HarryHill on @HISTORYUK @BrunelUni @BrunelResearch @CBASS_Research @SSCBrunel
Tonight on Sky History at 9pm. Harry Hill looks at humour in Britain's Greatest Obsessions. bit.ly/3B8mer5
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In response to the open letter to the Fringe Society, they have published a more detailed response:
edfringe.com/learn/news-and-…
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Have you submitted your abstract for the Australasian Humour Studies Network's 2023 conference yet? Never fear, the deadline has now been extended to 31 July!
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Twitter, I need your help again. I'm looking for participant families for my @LeverhulmeTrust
/@SocStudiesShef project - exploring the uses of humour when facing challenges in everyday family life. Current challenge - MOVING HOME. Any RTs much appreciated!
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Conference Call for Papers: "A Human Right to Humour?" | 29th Annual Conference of @AHSN_Humour Network | The University of Sydney | Deadline: 15 July 2022 | For more information visit: ahsnhumourstudies.org/annual…
#CfP #HumourStudies
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Film/TV/media studies grad students! Have a paper on comedy/humor? Submit it to our grad student essay contest by April 15! Check requirements below.
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Ace looking event chaired by @Dr_Ilott on 18th Feb on Queering the RomCom in Manchester- screening+director intro+discussion 💜❤️🧡💛💚 - info here eventbrite.co.uk/e/queering-…
ICYMI 🎉- the recordings from our #ComedyInCrisis2022 conference @MyBCU are now available. If you missed one of the excellent panels, our keynote speaker @DrHDavies or the Industry session programmed with @LHC4MD check them out - mixedbill.wordpress.com/2022…
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Free downloads of my review of @huwmarsh's recent work The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction are available here 👇 Marsh offers an important recentring of #comedy to provide new critical frameworks for understanding the contemporary moment.
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ONE WEEK TO GO ⏰ Conference Call for Papers: "Comic Verse of the 19th Century: Power, Politics, Poetics" |
@RoehamptonUni | Deadline: 31 January 2022 | For more information visit: victorianist.wordpress.com/2…
#CfP #Victorian #HumourStudies
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Hello! I'm looking for participant families for my @LeverhulmeTrust/@SocStudiesShef project - exploring the uses of humour when facing challenges in everyday family life. The first challenge - families with young children. RTs would be super appreciated!
Last but by no means least we have @Dr_Ilott leading a discussion session on Comedy Theory in Crisis :the need to decolonise comedy studies. #ComedyInCrisis2022