Lincoln Performing Arts Centre
On Saturday 9th of October, the Lincoln School of Performing Arts will be running a one day symposium on satire at the LPAC.
Registration is now open at the conference office website!.
The symposium will take place at the same time as the Lincoln Comedy Festival which runs 7th – 12th October 2010
Symposium keynote speaker: ALISTAIR BEATON
Arguably Britain’s greatest political satirist with work in radio, television, the theatre and publishing. He has been involved in some of the iconic comedy shows on the last few decades including NOT THE NINE O’CLOCK NEWS and SPITTING IMAGE. Most recently he has received aclaim for his satirical take on the New Labour project with his 2004 work A VERY SOCIAL SECRETARY about the David Blunkett affair and his 2007 BAFTA nominated THE TRIAL OF TONY BLAIR. His award winning 2001 satire of spin FEELGOOD continues to be performed across Europe and the US and his new play CALEDONIA is currently being premiered at the Edinburgh Festival in collaboration with the National Theatre of Scotland.
We also have a great programme of panelists on a wide variety of satirical subjects from the UK and the US :
The Horror, the Humour: Satire and Dark Comedy in a Postmodern World
09:00 Registration and Coffee Studio 2
10:00 Welcome and Introduction Studio 1
Dr. Mark O’Thomas, Head of Lincoln School of Performing Arts
Lisa Gaughan, University of Lincoln
10:30 Panel 1A Studio 1
Antosha Chekonte: The Comic Genius Who Became Anton Chekov
Professor Michael Earley, Rose Bruford College
“Victoria Was My Queen”: Satirical Representations of Queen Victoria since the Sixties
Dr. Ben Poore, University of York
Panel 1B PA3001
Satirical Tweeting
Sue Grau, University of Lincoln
The Manliness of Satire: gendering genre in eighteenth-century Britain
Annie Richardson, University of Lincoln
Satirical/Satorial: Fashion Cartoons in the New Yorker
Jenna Rossi-Camus, London School of Fashion
12:00 A Contemporary ‘Comedy of Errors’?: Political Culture 2010 and Media Genre Studio 1
Professor John Corner, Dr Kay Richardson, Dr Katy Parry, University of Liverpool
12:45 Lunch Studio 2
13:45 Keynote Lecture Studio 1
Alistair Beaton
15:15 Refreshment break Studio 2
15:45 Panel 2A Studio 1
Good Gags Gone Bad: Fallacy in American TV Satire From Archie Bunker to Stephen Colbert
Professor Dan Carter, The Pennsylvania State University
“In the Thick Of It”: Politics, the mock-documentary, and the blurring of reality
Richard Wallace, University of Warwick
The Horror and Humour of Malcolm Tucker: The Actor’s Place in Political Satire
Dr James Walters, University of Birmingham
Panel 2B PA3001
“Isn’t it Ironic”: The films of the Coen Brothers
Professor Stephen Rothman, California State University, Los Angeles
Seinfield: Satire or Comedy of Manners?
Dr. Chris Ritchie: University of Southampton Solent
Destroying Faith, Moral Values and Integrity: That was the week that was as a dystopian broadcast
Matt Crowder, Royal Holloway, University of London
17:15 Plenary Studio 1
Lisa Gaughan, University of Lincoln
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