AUSTRALASIAN HUMOUR STUDIES NETWORK EVENTS

2010 Colloquium of the Australasian Humour Studies Network

The 2010 Colloquium of the AHSN will be held on Saturday and Sunday 13-14 February 2010 at Womens College, University of Sydney. The theme of the Colloquium is "Risk-taking and Transgression in Humour" and proposals for papers and workshops are now being accepted for review, with a preference for those relating to the theme. However all proposals for the usual post-graduate section are welcome.

There will be a special panel on "Humour and the Law" with Visiting Professor Laura E. Little, from Temple University Philadephia, and her colleague, Dr David Rolph, both from the Faculty of Law at Sydney University. They will be joined by Dr Catherine Curtis, Hon. Associate, Dept of History, University of Sydney, who will present an Early Modern period view of humour and the power of the Crown.

An additional invited speaker is George Major, Research Associate in Linguistics at Macquarie University, who will present on "Being (in)appropriate with workplace humour", recent findings of the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, study into "Language in the Workplace", led by AHSN member Prof. Janet Holmes.

The closing date for submissions is 9th October 2009. Registration is open until 9th January 2010.

Click on Information to access the proposal submission form, and on Registration for the registration form and accommodation details.

For more information, email the AHSN coordinator .