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The ICEF Humour Research Symposium
in Strandir, Iceland November
15th - 16th 2008
PROGRAM
Saturday
November 15th
- Bus leaves from University of
Iceland - Oddi 8:00 am. (ATT: CHANGE)
12 am - 5 pm Symposium
- Kristinn
Schram, Icelandic Centre for Ethnology and Folklore: Approaches
to humour
- Jón
Jónsson, Storyworks: Humour on the
edge: the comedy of vagrants
- Kolbeinn
Proppé: Is humour like
blóðmör (blood pudding), best sour?
- Kristín
Einarsdóttir: So, what did you think of the
'skaup'?: Annual satire from a social
perspective
- Elliott
Oring, California State University: Contested
performance and joke aesthetics
- Sigurjón
Baldur Hafsteinsson: From calf-skins to foreskins:
Curating in the Phalic Museum
6
pm
- Reception
at ICEF exhibitions in ICEF in Hólmavík.
The editorial cartoons of
Tryggvi Magnússon and photographer Brian Berg's
exhibition Landscape in Motion.11:00 am - 3.30 pm
8
pm
- Symposium dinner at Café
Riis.
9
pm
- Evening of humour with among others
comedian Þorsteinn Guðmundsson,
folklorist Kristín Einarsdóttir and the finals of
the ICEF Humour Competition.
- Music (DJ Addi) and open bar at
Café Riis.
Sunday
November 16th
* Bus leaves for University of Iceland
- Oddi before noon
Additional papers are very welcome.
Papers to be ca. 20 minutes in length
(with an additional 10 minutes for questions). For more information,
accommodation or suggestions for ‘alternate'
sessions (displays etc) please contact
dir@icef.is or phone +3548661940.
Registration for symposium, dinner and bus (= 9.000 ISK.) at dir@icef.is.
Accommodation
in
Hólmavík and surroundings
Ferðaþjónustan Kirkjuból: Tel:
451 3474 - web
Gistiheimilið Borgabraut 4: Tel:
451 3136 -
web
Malargisting, Drangsnesi: Tel: 451 3238 - web
Hótel Laugarhóll,
Bjarnarfirði: Tel: 451 3380 - web |
