VENUE: FACULTY OF ARTS, HUMANITIES BUILDING, UMEÅ UNIVERSITY
PLENARY SPEAKERS:
Saturday 8 December
09.30-10.00 Registration & Coffee Room D108
10.00-10.30 Welcome & Opening Jonas Liliequist, UGPS, Ann Öhman, Gender studies
10.30-11.30 Session 1 : Antiquity and Early Christian Culture D108 (Chair: David Konstan)
Alexandre Mitchell Humour, Women and the Male Gaze in Ancient Greek Visual Culture
Anna Foka Mimes Humour and Pornography in Early Christianity
11.30-13.00 Lunch & Socializing Lindellhallen
13.00-14.00 Plenary I (Chair: Anna Foka) Auditorium F
David Konstan Laughing at Ourselves: Gendered Humour in Classical Greece
14.00-14.15 Refreshments
14.15-15.15 Plenary II Auditorium F (Chair: Jonas Liliequist)
Didem Havioglu Do Muslims Laugh? Humour in Islamic Aestethetics and Its Function in Ottoman Poetry
15.15-15.30 Coffee
15.30-16.30 Session 2: Medieval Europe I D108 (Chair: Virginia Langum)
Martha Bayless Is the Comic World a Paradise for Women?: Medieval Models of Portable Utopia
Jóhanna Friðriksdóttir ‘Seint er þó at tryggja slíkar konurnar sem þú ert’ [It takes a long time to tame a woman like you]. Gender, Performance and Humour in Icelandic Saga Literature
16.30 – 16.45 Refreshments
16.45 – 17.45 Session 3: Medieval Europe II D108 (Chair: Jonas Carlquist)
Virginia Langum Ale and Sympathy: Drinking, Laughter and Confession in Medieval Culture
Olle Ferm Laughter and the Change of Mentalities
17.45 – 18.00 Closing of the first day’s sessions D108
19.30 Dinner at the Humanities Building
Sunday 9 December
09.30- 10.30 Session 4: The Near East: Ottoman Humour D108 (Chair: Didem Havioglu)
Isik Tamdogan Public morality in Ottoman society through the prism of the Karagöz shadow theater, or how rules can be transgressed through humor
Yavuz Aykan Loving Boys as Fun in Early Modern Ottoman Erotic Imagery
10.30-10.45 Coffee
10.45- 11.45 Session 5: Early Modern Europe I D108 (Chair: Stephan Steiner)
Kristine Steenbergh Gender and Laughter: City Women in the Early Modern Theatre Audience
Anu Korhonen Constructing Gender in Early Modern English Jest-books
11.45 – 12.45 Lunch Lindellhallen
12.45- 13.45 Session 6: Chinese Culture D108 (Chair: Jonas Liliequist)
Mario Liong Reproducing Hegemonic Masculinities: Representations of Fatherhood and Masculinities in Three Pre- modern Chinese Humorous Texts
Rey Tiqua Qi, Gender, Humour and Laughter in Contemporary Traditional Chinese Medical Practice in Australia
13.45-14.00 Refreshments
14.00-15.00 Session 7: Early Modern Europe II D108 (Chair: Anu Korhonen)
Jonas Liliequist Laughing at the Unmanly Man in Early Modern Sweden
Stephan Steiner Emotions in Motion Laughing out loud with Casanova and Baudelaire
15.15-15.30 Coffee
15.30-16.30 Concluding discussion, publication project D108
18.00 Dinner
Workshop on Gender, Laughter, and Humour 