Here is a preliminary list of comedy and humor related panels and panels that include papers that might be of interest to our members.
Our SIG meeting will be on Friday at 11:15am in the Kent Room.
Session B - 11:00AM-12:45PM, Wednesday, March 14, 2018
B8 Mediating Love, Desire, and Lust
Chair: Stacey Weber-Feve, Iowa State University
Stacey Weber-Feve, Iowa State University, “‘Free Women?’: Sensuality and Embodied Spectatorship in Małgorzata Szumowska’s Elles (2011)”
Ganga Rudraiah, University of Toronto, “When the Lights Go Off: Significations of the `First Night´ Scene in Tamil Cinema”
Scott St. Pierre, Bucknell University, “Dirty Old Man: Larry Clark's Teen Lust”
John Alberti, Northern Kentucky University, “Addicted to Love: The Productive Pathology of the Romantic Comedy in the Netflix Series Love”
B12 Tropes and Concepts in Screen Comedy
Chair: John Bruns, College of Charleston
Luke Holmaas, University of Wisconsin–Madison,“Of Gremlins and Popstars: Considering the Legacy of Vulgar Modernism”
Stephanie Clayton, University of East Anglia, “Grindah's Rise to Fame: Witnessing 'Celebrity' in BBC's People Just Do Nothing”
Ben Singer, University of Wisconsin–Madison, “Comedic Coincidence and the Synchronism Gag”
Mackenzie Leadston, Ohio State University, “Happily Never After: The Visual Politics of Contemporary French Romantic Comedy
Session D - 3:00-4:45PM, Wednesday, March 14, 2018
D13 Dissecting The Frog: New Approaches in Humor Studies
Chair: Benjamin Wright, University of Toronto
Co-Chair: Joshua Moss, California State University, Chico
Jennifer Bean, University of Washington, “The Art of Falling Apart: Grotesque Laughter and Female Clowns, 1890-1920”
Benjamin Wright, University of Toronto, “Best of the Worst: Comedy Podcasting and Participatory Snark”
Paul Cote, University of Maryland, “Laughing Gnomes, Goblins, and Clowns: The Pure Camp of David Bowie’s Novelty Songs"
Joshua Moss, California State University, Chico, “Punching Snooki: Crisis Slapstick and Geo-violence in Contemporary Humor””
Session E - 5:00-6:45PM, Wednesday, March 14, 2018
E11 Romcom Urbanism: Genre, Gender, and Place
Chair: Martha Shearer, Indiana University
Co-Chair: Anna Viola Sborgi, King's College London
Joshua Glick, Hendrix College, “Dreaming on the Edge: Coney Island, Classical Hollywood, and the Persistence of Nostalgia”
Anna Viola Sborgi, King's College London, “‘Lofts are no place for women’: Loft-Living and Gender in North and East London Millennial Romcoms”
Martha Shearer, Indiana University, “‘Second chances don’t expire until midnight’: New Year’s Eve and the ‘New’ Times Square”
Noelle Griffis, Auburn University, “I Heart West Covina: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Deconstruction of Genre and Place”
Session G - 12:00-1:45PM, Thursday, March 15, 2018
G20 Our Bodies, Our Comedy: The Embodied Humor of Women Comedians Chair: Amber Day, Bryant University
Co-Chair: Viveca Greene, Hampshire College
Seth Soulstein, Cornell University, “Mad Laugh(t)ers: Women’s Hysterical Laughter as an Alternative Carnival”
Kriszta Pozsonyi, Cornell University, “Aging Comedic Voices: The Cinematic Swan Songs of Mae West, Lucille Ball, and Moms Mabley”
Ashlynn d'Harcourt, University of Texas at Austin, “Clowning Around: Vaudeville Anarchy in Women Comics’ Stand-up Comedy Specials”
Amber Day, Bryant University, and Viveca Greene, Hampshire College, “OB Tampons and National Champions: (White) Feminist Satirists vs Rape Culture”
Session I - 4:00-5:45PM, Thursday, March 15, 2018
I5 Parody and Participation Chair: Jonathan Kahana, University of California, Santa Cruz
Jonathan Kahana, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Crimes Against the Original: Video Parody, Critical History, and ‘Sacred Reenactment’”
Jordan Schonig, University of Chicago, “Purposiveness without Purpose: On Reddit's Aesthetic Categories”
James Hansen, Oberlin College, “Make-believe Video Space: Joe Gibbons's Pixelvision Intrusions”
I22 Ageing Texts / Ageing Audiences: Memory, Adaptation, and Revival
Chair: Richard McCulloch, University of Huddersfield
Co-Chair: Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore, Birmingham City University
Hazel Collie, Birmingham City University, “‘My Time’: Ageing Television Audiences, Generation, and Memory”
Line Nybro Petersen, University of Southern Denmark, “Growing Older with Lorelai and Rory: The Role of Gilmore Girls for Fans in a Life Course Perspective”
Jenni Lehtinen, Nazarbayev University, “Rejuvenating the Canon: 21st-Century Adaptation, Online Audiences, and the Metamorphosis of Doña Bárbara”
Richard McCulloch, University of Huddersfield, and Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore, Birmingham City University, “Bringing Brent Back: Affective Continuities, Transmedia Audiences, and the Unfolding Celebrity Text”
I23 Psychiatry, Policing, and Incarceration
Chair: Christopher Cwynar, Defiance College
Christopher Cwynar, Defiance College, “Ear Hustle and the Ambivalent Politics of the First-person Narrative Non-fiction Podcast Genre”
Olivia Banner, University of Texas at Dallas, “The Gaze of Psychiatric Videotape: Gendering and Racializing the Cybernetic Patient”
Chris Barnes, Syracuse University, “Mapping the Prison in The Prison in Twelve Landscapes”
Eric Forthun, University of Texas at Austin, “Maria Bamford, Lady Dynamite, and the Stand-up Comic's Influence on the Sitcom Format"
Session K - 1:15-3:00PM, Friday, March 16, 2018
K12 Sketchy Humorists: Black Sexuality in the Comic Works of Spencer Williams, Josephine Baker, and Larry Fuller Chair: Terri Francis, Indiana University
Respondent: Glenda Carpio, Harvard University
Terri Francis, Indiana University, “Josephine Baker’s Oppositional Burlesque: Strategic Incongruity and Film Pioneering”
Jacqueline Stewart, University of Chicago, “The Girl in Room 20: Spencer Williams' Comedies of Black Female Performance”
Rebecca Wanzo, University of Washington at St. Louis, “Rape and Race in the Gutter: Larry Fuller and White Whore Funnies”
K15 Radical Romantic Comedy Chair: Maria San Filippo, Goucher College
Leslie Abramson, Loyola University Chicago, “Comedies of De-Marriage: Silent Cinema and Legal Interventionism”
Sueyoung Park-Primiano, Ithaca College, “The Awkward Truth: Failure to Romance and the Art of Decoupling in the Films of Hong Sangsoo”
Maria San Filippo, Goucher College, “Love Crimes: Incest, Murder, and Queer(ing) Romcom”
Kyle Stevens, Appalachian State University, “The Sweet, Sweet Invisible Climax of The Telephone Book”
Session N - 11:00AM-12:45PM, Saturday, March 17, 2018
N15 Comedians, Transmedia Performance, and the Evolution of American Mass Media Chair: Stephanie Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephanie Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “#HashtagWars: The Humor of Social TV on Comedy Central’s @Midnight”
Kristen Anderson Wagner, Solano College, “‘TV’s Funniest Females’: Martha Raye, Imogene Coca, and the Female Vaudeo Star”
Heather Osborne-Thompson, California State University, Fullerton, “Tally Ho!: Nature Cat, Sketch Comedy, and PBS Kids”
Session O - 1:00-2:45PM, Saturday, March 17, 2018
O15 Memes Against Humanity
Chair: Lauren Berliner, University of Washington Bothell
Jaimie Baron, University of Alberta, “The Hateful Meme”
Lauren Berliner, University of Washington Bothell, “Spreading Cancer: The Memefication of Illness on Crowdfunding Sites”
Isra Ali, New York University, “Meme-ing Cultural Citizenship”
Leah Shafer, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, “Springtime for Hatred: Downfall Memes and Nationalism in Internet Cultures”
Session Q - 5:00-6:45PM, Saturday, March 17, 2018
Q2 Racial Confusion in Silent Cinema
Chair: Laura Horak, Carleton University
Maggie Hennefeld, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, “‘Make Me Laugh’: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Early Film Laughter”
Richard Abel, University of Michigan, “The Skin Color of Identity in Early American Movies”
Laura Horak, Carleton University, “Racial Science, Racial Cinema: Constructing the Boundaries of Roma, Jewish, Black, and White Identity in Swedish Silent Cinema”
Kim Khavar Fahlstedt, Stockholm University/Yale University, “Christian Bells and Heathen Souls: The Ambiguous Geography of Warner Oland in Old San Francisco (1927)”
Session S - 11:30AM-1:15PM, Sunday, March 18, 2018
T3 Subversive Media/Subversive Comedy
Chair: Rob King, Columbia University
Co-Chair: Nicholas Sammond, University of Toronto
Rob King, Columbia University, “The Revelations of Bill Hicks: Standup and Televangelism on Parallel Tracks”
Jessica Hoover, University of North Texas, “As Seen on TV: The Carol Burnett Show, Second Wave Feminism, and the One-Two Punch to Advertising”
Peter Kunze, University of Texas at Austin, “Black Conservative Satire, Social Media Celebrity, and the Alt Right”
Nicholas Sammond, University of Toronto, “Flatulence Will Get You Everywhere: The Kipper Kids and Non-sense Video”