The National Cultures of English-Language TV Comedy symposium is a go!<\/p>\n
Hosted by the University of Notre Dame’s London Global Gateway<\/a>, the event will begin on 16 November at 6pm with a keynote address from Brett Mills<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. The keynote will be open to the public (registration info to come) and followed by a reception and then dinner for the symposium participants.<\/p>\n Symposium papers will be delivered on Friday, 17 November. The day will begin at 8:30 with introductions, and at 9 we will start the first of four panels, with breaks for coffee\/tea and lunch. We’ll wrap up the event by 4:30pm.<\/p>\n The invited participants and their paper titles are listed below, organized into panels. If any speakers have questions or concerns about their placement, please contact Christine Becker<\/a>.<\/p>\n The symposium is made possible by generous funding and sponsorship from the University of Notre Dame’s Nanovic Institute for European Studies<\/a>;\u00a0the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts<\/a>, College of Arts and Letters<\/a>; and the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Panel 1: Crossing Comedic Borders<\/strong> Taylor Nygaard, University of Denver, and Jorie Lagerwey, University College Dublin, \u201cCatastrophe<\/em> and Transatlantic Horrible White People\u201d<\/p>\n Heather Osborne-Thompson, California State University Fullerton, \u201cChildren\u2019s TV Animation as Transnational Comedy\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Panel 2: Comedic Representation and Transnational Reception<\/strong> Clive Marsh, Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Leicester, \u201cReligion\u2019s Public Visibility:\u00a0The Big Bang Theory<\/em>\u00a0as a Test-Case\u201d<\/p>\n Philip Scepanski, Marist College, \u201cSomething in a Lighter Vein: Parody and Affective History Across Borders\u201d<\/p>\n Julia Havas, University of East Anglia, \u201c\u2018Alec Baldwin is a genius, Tina Fey is tolerable\u2019: Issues of Nation and Gender in the Hungarian Critical and Popular Reception of 30 Rock<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n G\u00e1bor Gergely, University of Lincoln, \u201cAnti-German\u00a0stereotypes in Black-Adder<\/em> and Fekete Vipera<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Nicole Seymour, California State University Fullerton, \u201cNational Critiques of Environmentalism in Contemporary TV Comedy\u201d<\/p>\n Mark Stewart, University of Amsterdam, \u201cFunny Girls<\/em>:\u00a0Making Feminist Comedy in New Zealand\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Questions?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Cultures of English-Language TV Comedy symposium is a go! Hosted by the University of Notre Dame’s London Global Gateway, the event will begin on 16 November at 6pm with a keynote address from Brett Mills, Senior Lecturer in … Continue reading
\n<\/u>Marcus Free, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, \u201cFinding and Eluding the \u2018National\u2019 in the Television Comedy and Commentaries of Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/u>David Scott Diffrient, Colorado State University, \u201c\u2018Half the World Away\u2019: Cultural Distance and Intertextual (In)Competence in the American Reception of British TV Comedy\u201d<\/p>\n
\nPanel 3: Transnational Comedy Television in Post-Communist Cultures<\/strong>
\n<\/u>Anna Martonfi, University of East Anglia, \u201cFrom Sitcom to Flying Circus: Cultural Negotiation Tactics and the Trope of English Humour\u201d<\/p>\n
\n Panel 4: Comedy and National Tensions<\/strong>
\n<\/u>Emma Radley, University College Dublin, \u201cC\u00e9ad M\u00edle Zombies: Recession, Austerity, and Apocalypse in Conor McMahon’s Zombie Bashers<\/em> (RT\u00c9, 2010)\u201d<\/p>\n