CONFERENCE INFORMATION

Scrive a me e ad altri l’amica Prof.ssa Daniela Marcheschi: “Vi mando il materiale informativo del II Congresso Internazionale di Studi sull’Umorismo, che si terrà a Lucca e a Collodi dal 6 all’8 aprile 2009. E’ il frutto di un progetto di ricerca che coinvolge 40 e passa università e istituzioni di ricerca in tutto il mondo. Il I congresso si è svolto con successo in Portogallo nel gennaio 2008. Quanto a questo che avrà luogo in Italia fra un mese o poco più,  fin da ora – senza troppa  fatica di grancassa  – abbiamo già 40 studiosi iscritti in rappresentanza di 10 nazioni.”
Quello che segue è il manifesto curato dall Fondazione Dino Terra, dal Museo Nazionale del Fumetto e dell’Immagine e dalla Fondazione Nazionale Carlo Collodi. (bdm)

Full Title
II Convegno Internazionale sull’Umorismo in prospettiva Interculturale “Immagini, Aspetti e Linguaggi” – 2nd International Conference on Crosscultural Humour “Images, Aspects, and Languages”

Organization:
Museo Italiano del Fumetto e dell’Immagine – Lucca, Fondazione Dino Terra – Lucca, Fondazione Nazionale Carlo Collodi – Collodi (Italy)

Short Title
Studies on Humour: “Images, Aspects, and Languages”

Location
Lucca and Collodi – Italy

Date
April 6-8, 2009

Contact
Organization: Ms Marta Marsili (mmarsili@comune.lucca.it)

Scientific Committee: Angelo Genovesi info@fondazionedinoterra.it; Daniela Marcheschi fondazione@pinocchio.it; Luisa Marinho Antunes marinho@uma.it; Angelo Nencetti segreteria@museonazionaledelfumetto.it; Darko Suvin   darko.suvin@tin.it

Meeting e-mail
mmarsili@comune.lucca.it

Meeting URL:
 www.pinocchio.it

Call Deadline :
24^th of March

Plenary Speakers:
To be confirmed

Meeting Description:
This conference follows the first one that was held in Madeira (Jan 2008), in which a first overlook on aspects, linguistic strategies, peculiar national and intercultural characters of humour was done.
This time we will deepen aspects of humour according to its codes, cultural traditions, images through artistic practices; most of all, approaches to humour will be deeper and wider thanks to multidisciplinarity   Humour will also be contextualized in history, through a survey from Classical civilization to our times

Domains:
Linguistics, Literature, Children’s Literature, Literary Criticism, Stylistics, Translation, Culture, History of the Arts, Philosophy, Anthropology, Visual Arts including Comics, Music, Classic and Modern Literatures, Theatre, Cinema and TV, Psychology and Neurosciences.

Subject Languages:
Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, English, French, German

Presentation Languages:
Preferably Italian, Portuguese, English, French

Registration fees:
Early birds (to 12 th of March): 50 Euros

Normal fees: 100 Euros
Gala dinner (optional):   50 Euros

To be paied to:
Comitato Lucca Città del Fumetto e dell’Immagine, c/o Comune di Lucca, via S. Giustina, 6     I-55100 – Lucca cod fisc.: 92041710465
 IBAN: IT03 B030 3213 7030 1000 0022 008
 Bank code: BACRIT21709

Format of Proposals:
Anyone interested in presenting a paper related to this theme is invited to send a proposal to mmarsili@comune.lucca.it , to the attention of Prof. Daniela Marcheschi, by February 28, 2009. In addition to the following information:
Name; Professional affiliation (University, Faculty and Department, if any); Status (Full, Associate or Assistant Professor, M.A. or Ph.D. Student, etc.); Mailing address; E-mail address; Phone number
you must provide a title for your proposal, a summary of up to 250 words. Abstracts should be submitted as MS Word file attachments. Paper presentation: papers should last 15 minutes, with up to 10 minutes for discussion. The Scientific Committee reserves the right to refuse any proposal deemed incomplete or unrelated to the theme.
The papers will be collected in a volume on the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cross-cultural Humour – “Images, Aspects, and Languages”

Scientific Committee:
Angelo Genovesi (Fondazione Dino Terra, Italy); Daniela Marcheschi (Fondazione Nazionale Carlo Collodi, Italy); Luisa Marinho Antunes (University of Madeira, Portugal); Angelo Nencetti (Museo Italiano del Fumetto e dell’Immagine, Italy); Darko Suvin (McGill University, Canada).