Conference

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The Archaeology of Humour: Visual humour, freedom of expression and political contexts in ancient Greece and Rome

I am making preparations for a day symposium to be held in Cambridge in  2010.  This will provide a unique opportunity to bring together scholars from a wide variety of disciplines with an interest in visual humour, ancient and modern.  The main emphasis will be on comic art and thought in democratic Greece and Republican/Imperial Rome. Their respective forms of visual humour will provide interesting contrasts both in types of humour and political contexts. Theories of humour and visual humour in particular will be discussed, as well as the uses and abuses of Bakhtinian theory, issues of interpretation of ancient art, and anthropological and cultural history models in more recent or modern contexts.