Call for Papers—Comedy and Humor Area

Please join us at the Comedy and Humor panels at

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Philadelphia, PA

Wednesday, April 15, to Saturday, April 18, 2020

For information on PCA/ACA, please go to http://www.pcaaca.org

 

For conference information, please go to http://www.pcaaca.org/national-conference/

                                                                   

Call for Papers—Comedy and Humor Area

We’re seeking paper or panel discussion proposals examining comedy and the nature of humor wherever we find it in popular culture:

Possible topics include (although we’re open to any others you might want to explore) comedy in/and/of:

• pedagogy—we’re particularly interested in this topic as a panel discussion
• media and advertising
• film, literature, television…
• political discourse
• the classics
• social justice and/or comedy as a means of social change
• religion
• consumer culture
• the internet
• globalization
• censorship
• music and/or the visual arts
• cultural boundary crossing
• race and ethnicity
• graphic novels and comics
• the tragic
• gender
• the family
• obscenity and transgression
• historical comedy

Please submit abstracts to the PCA/ACA database by November 1, 2019 to the Area Chair.

conference.pcaaca.org

 

Feel free to contact me with any questions:

Peter Seely, Area Chair

Professor and Chair, Communication Arts

Benedictine University

5700 College Road

Lisle, IL 60532 

pseely@ben.edu