THURSDAY, 05.07.2012 | HS 3118

18:00 Barbara KORTE (Freiburg): Introduction

18:30 Lesley MILNE (Nottingham): Letting Loose the Doggerel of War: Humorous and Satirical Journals in Britain, France and Germany 1914-1918

19:15 Brian MAIDMENT (Salford): The After-life of Regency Caricature: Victorian Re-imaginings of Early Nineteenth Century London

20:00 Martin CONBOY (Sheffield): Goeff Hurst’s Ball: Popular Tabloids and Humour on the Dark Side

FRIDAY, 06.07.2012 | HS 3042

10:00 – 11:00
Katharina BOEHM (Regensburg): Antiquarian Laughter: Satire, Sex and Homosociability in Late-Eighteenth Century Dilettanti Culture

Ulrike ZIMMERMANN (Freiburg): On Boots, Beef and Blackadder: The Comic Historiography of the Duke of Wellington

11:30 – 13:00
Bob NICHOLSON (Manchester): The Laughter of Good Fellowship? Negotiating the Past, Present and Future in Anglo-American Humour, 1870-1900

Dorothea FLOTHOW (Salzburg): Merrying the Monarch: Charles II in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Historical Comedies

Allison STAGG (New York): Presidential Humor: The Political Caricature of James Akin

14:00 – 15:00
Sandra SCHWAB (Mainz): Richard Doyle’s Historical Caricatures

Katerina VARELA (Athens): George Papandreou – A Leader Through the Cartoons (1960-1967)

15:15 – 16:45
Axel HEIMSOTH (Essen): Alfred and Friedrich Alfred Krupp as Butt of Jokes? The German Perception of the Economic Elite in the 19th century

Moshe MAGGID (Jerusalem): The Humorous Ladino Newspapers in Ottoman Turkey

Eberhard DEMM (Koszalin): Propaganda through Humour: Cartoons in World War I

17:15 – 18:45
Jonathan WATERLOW (Oxford): Mirth, Myth and Martyrs: The Loaded Histories of Popular Humour in Stalin’s 1930s

Martina KESSEL (Bielefeld): ‘Victims’ and ‘Perpetrators’: Constructing History and Society in Nazi Humour

Louisa REICHSTETTER (Jena): Between Journalism, Arts and Politics: Left-wing and Liberal Satiric Press and Their Protagonists in the Interwar Period. A Comparative Study of Germany, France and Spain

SATURDAY, 07.07.2012 | HS 3042

09:30 – 11:00
Elisabeth CHEAURÉ (Freiburg): Napoelon and the ‘Patriotic War of 1812’ in Russian Humour

Benjamin KOHLMANN (Freiburg): ‘Brittle Ghosts’: Surrealism, History, and Black Humour in the 1930s

Irvin HUNT (New York): Ralph Ellison’s Humor as Curative Historiography

11:20 – 12:40
Shannon GRANVILLE (Washington): History with a Human Face: Humour and Historical Representation in Hetalia: Axis Powers

Sabrina FEICKERT (Freiburg): ’Then We Will Fight in the Shade’: Comic Representations of Sparta and Dealing with Fearsome Otherness

Duncan MARKS (Sheffield): We ARE Amused; the Afterlife of Queen Victoria’s Alleged Remark, ‘We are not amused’

12:40 Doris LECHNER (Freiburg): Round-Up