Programme

Friday  3rd June

9.00      Registration.

10.00    Stuart Green (University of Leeds): Atlantic Crossings: Hollywood Humour and Cultural Identities in Franco's Spain.

10.30    Brais D. Outes-León (University of Oxford): Ethnic Boundaries and Identity in Spanish “Transformation Jokes”.

11.00    Coffee Break

11.30    Isabel Olid (Universitat Autònoma, Barcelona): La traducció de l'humor en el doblatge anglès > català.

12.00    Aitor Rivas (Centro de Estudos Galegos, Tübingen): A retranca na quinésica dun contacontos.

12.30    Paz Cabo (Universidad Autónoma, Madrid): Ambigüedad genérica en los chistes gráficos españoles: Mingote, Forges y Maitena.

13.00    Lunch Break

14.00    John Rutherford (University of Oxford): Towards a Theory of Fun.

15.00     Oriol Ponsatí i Murlà (Universitat de Girona): El risus paschalis, reflex del sentit de l'humor medieval.

15.30    Carles Gutiérrez Sanfeliu (University of Oxford): Teoría y práctica del humor en el Renacimiento.

16.00    Tea Break

16.30    Hilde ten Hacken (University of St Andrews): Humour in the Poetry of Gloria Fuertes: Valle-Inclán's Conclave Mirror as a Poetic Survival Strategy.

17.00    Ramón Sanz (URV, Tarragona): Ironía del hecho, la forma y el concepto.

17.30    Maria Dolores Oria Merino / Paloma García Bellido (University of Oxford): Lingüística humorística: mecanismos lingüísticos del chiste.

18.00    Closing

19.30    Dinner at Exeter College

Call for Papers

XI FORUM FOR IBERIAN STUDIES

Tickling the Iberian Funny Bone.

Ideas of Fun in the Iberian Mind.

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

From the the Arcipreste de Hita and the "cantigas d'escarnio e maldizer" to La Trinca’s satirical songs, humour in the Iberian Peninsula has been a rather serious business. Unintentional or deliberate, embedded in a graver context or just a good laugh for its own sake: fun, humour, mirth, irony, sarcasm, glee, merriment and hilarity modulate Iberian culture and punctuate our everyday language and attitudes with more or less successful punches. The Galician retranca, the Andalusian cachondeo, the Catalan conya, are just part of an endless stream of risa, burlas, bromas, agudeza, ironia, sarcasmo and humoradas.

But what does that tell us about ourselves? What (and whom) do we laugh at? And… why on earth are we being laughed at? And… is there a distinctly Iberian sense of humour? Can we find a common flavour that connects Cervantes and Mendicutti, Lazarillo de Tormes and Fernando Esteso and Funes, Les Luthiers and Quevedo, Forges and Gómez de la Serna?

Do we, indeed, laugh with a shared accent?

We welcome contributions from areas such a literary and cultural studies, philosophy, film studies, media studies and linguistics, amongst others. Papers can be submitted in English or any of the romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula.

Proposals for 20-minute papers should include a title and an abstract of about 300 words. Please mention any technical requirements and include your name, affiliation and contact details.

Abstracts should be submitted by 15th April 2006 to any of the following

Carles Gutiérrez-Sanfeliu                                                        María Liñeira

Lector (by decree) in Spanish                                                 Lectora in Galician (Xunta de Galicia)                                                       

Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages                         Centre for Galician Studies

University of Oxford                                                               The Queen’s College

47 Wellington Square                                                              University of Oxford           

OX1 2JF Oxford                                                                     OX1 4AW Oxford  

United Kingdom                                                                      United Kingdom      

+44 (0)1865 270479                                                                 +44 (0)1865 279159

carles.gutierrez-sanfeliu@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk                       maria.linheira@queens.ox.ac.uk