21ST AUSTRALASIAN HUMOUR STUDIES NETWORK CONFERENCE 2015 4 - 6 FEBRUARY 2015, STATE LIBRARY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA Hosted by Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities (FIRtH) School of Humanities and Creative Arts, Flinders University Bruce Petty 2015 ©. ‘You’ve got to be joking’; cartoon drawn for the 21st Australasian Humour Studies Network Conference 2015, Flinders University. CONTENTS Welcome 3 Contacts 3 Partners 4 Program 5 Abstracts 11 Additional Bios 56 Maps 57 2 WELCOME AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We acknowledge and respect the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains on whose country the conference venues and Flinders University are based. Thank you to our generous sponsors, Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities (FIRtH) and the School of Humanities and Creative Arts, Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law at Flinders University, and also the Australasian Humour Studies Network (AHSN), the support of which we are very grateful. Warm thanks go to the State Library of South Australia, particularly Alan Smith, Director SLSA and the Art Gallery of South Australia, particularly Lindsay Brookes and the Director Nick Mitzevich, for their generous support. Particular thanks go to Jessica Milner Davis, Bruce Findlay and Michele Parker of the AHSN. Finally, we would like to thank the session Chairs and you, the presenters. We hope you find this 21st Australasian Humour Studies Network Conference engaging, collegial, and lots of fun. Best Wishes, The conference co-convenors Dr Christine Nicholls (Australian Studies, Flinders University) Associate Professor Robert Phiddian (English, Flinders University) Dr Colette Mrowa-Hopkins (French, Flinders University) Dr Antonella Strambi (Italian, Flinders University) CONTACT Administrative assistance is provided by Joy Tennant [email protected] 3 PARTNERS Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law Flinders University Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities Art Gallery of South Australia State Library of South Australia 4 PROGRAM WEDNESDAY, 4 FEBRUARY 2015 Hetzel Theatre 8:30am - 9:30am Registration / Refreshments 9:30am Welcome from Flinders Institute of Research in the Humanities (FIRtH) Director, Craig Taylor, and Organising Committee: Robert Phiddian; Christine Nicholls; Colette Mrowa-Hopkins and Antonella Strambi, Flinders University 10:00am - 11:00am PLENARY SESSION, KEYNOTE ADDRESS Session Chair: Dr Colette Mrowa-Hopkins, Flinders University Cliff Goddard, Professor in Linguistics, Griffith University “Sarcastic”, “deadpan”, “irreverent”: A semantic guide to Australian ways of laughing 11:00am - 11.30am Morning Tea 11.30am - 1.00pm PARALLEL MORNING SESSIONS BEGIN; 20 minute presentations followed by 10 minutes for questions for each speaker (or group of speakers) Hetzel Theatre Circulating Library HUMOUR AND AGGRESSION HUMOUR, VISUAL AND TELEVISUAL CULTURES Session Chair: Cliff Goddard, Griffith University Session Chair: Andrekos Varnava, Flinders University Presentation One: Presentation One: Jessica Milner Davis, The University of Sydney Mike Lloyd, Victoria University of Wellington Can’t take a joke? The etymology and practice of Putting words in their mouths: Granularity and “piss-taking” humour targets in a photo caption competition Presentation Two: Presentation Two: Colette Mrowa-Hopkins and Antonella Strambi, Rebecca Higgie, Curtin University Flinders University The king playing the fool: Play and interplay between “It’s not funny!”: Negotiating humour in football talk Australian politicians and satirists shows Presentation Three: Presentation Three: Brinker, J.K., Williamson, C, & Buckley, K., Josh Wheatley, University of Sydney Swinburne University of Technology Tim and Eric's carnival of the American image Pragmatic issues in examining the perception of aggressive humour Hetzel Theatre 1:00pm - 2:00pm Lunch 2:00pm - 3.30pm AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSIONS Hetzel Theatre Circulating Library HUMOUR AND PSYCHOLOGY HUMOUR, PERFORMANCE AND POLITICS Session Chair: Jessica Milner Davis, The University of Session Chair: Beatriz Carbajal, Flinders University Sydney 5 Presentation One: Presentation One: Maren Rawlings and Bruce Findlay, Swinburne Ann Lever Lee, National University of Singapore University of Technology, Melbourne “No, no, no, no, no, the minister of misinformation A theory of everything in humour? Self-deprecating approves”: The satirical revues of Instant Café humour? Theatre company in Malaysia Presentation Two: Presentation Two: Carmen Moran, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Angelina Hurley, Victoria University Wagga Whichway blak way? Theory of mind and humour: Empathy, concern or perspective taking? Presentation Three: Presentation Three: Brown, R & Brinker, J. K., Swinburne University of Karen Austin, Flinders University Technology The fresh face of Indigenous humour Can observers distinguish between self-defeating and self-deprecating humour? Hetzel Theatre 3:30pm - 4:00pm Afternoon Tea 4:00pm - 5:00pm PARALLEL AFTERNOON SESSIONS Hetzel Theatre Circulating Library HUMOUR AND POLITICS VISUAL HUMOUR IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE Session Chair: Robert Phiddian, Flinders University Session Chair: Karen Austin, Flinders University Presentation One: Presentation One: Andrekos Varnava and Casey Raeside Annick Pellegrin, University of Mauritius Flinders University Mastodonte power: Laughing at/with Spirou ‘Punch and the Cyprus Revolt, 1955-59’ Presentation Two: Beatriz Carbajal, Flinders University A cat has nine lives: Humour through the transmorphic in cartoons 7:30pm CONFERENCE DINNER Wah Hing Chinese Restaurant, 85 Gouger Street Adelaide (near Central Market) See maps section of this program. 6 THURSDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2015 Hetzel Theatre 9:00am - 9:30am Registration / Refreshments 9.30am - 11.00am PARALLEL MORNING SESSIONS Hetzel Theatre Circulating Library HUMOUR ACROSS TIME AND PLACE: LOOKING AT POLITICAL SATIRE AND HUMOUR AS CRITIQUE IN THE LINGUISTIC/LITERARY/ VISUAL/ AND AUDIENCE LITERARY CONTEXTS RECEPTION INTERFACE Session Chair: Peter Marks, The University of Sydney Session Chair: Jessica Milner-Davis, The University of Sydney Presentation One: Presentation One: Christine Nicholls, Flinders University Nicholas Holm, Massey University Analysing & interpreting (political) cartoons: towards “Against the assault of laughter”: Critique and the an evaluative framework politics of humour Presentation Two: Presentation Two: Mark Rolfe, The University of New South Wales Damien Marwood, The University of Adelaide The populist elements of political satire The tailor retailored, the recognitions re-cognised: Reconsidering the use of satire and Romantic and Socratic irony in Thomas Carlyle and William Gaddis Presentation Three: Presentation Three: April Bertels-Garnsey, The University of Sydney Pam Kelly, Flinders University Looking at the one-eyed garlic seller: Riddle 86 in Humour in the serious business of political satire: Anglo-Saxon England and beyond Delarivier Manley and her New Atalantis Hetzel Theatre 11:00am - 11:30am Morning Tea 11.30am - 1.00pm PARALLEL MORNING SESSIONS Hetzel Theatre Circulating Library HUMOUR IN THE WORKPLACE AND SOCIETY HUMOUR AND LINGUISTICS: CROSS CULTURAL Session Chair: Robert Phiddian, Flinders University PERSPECTIVES Session Chair: Colette Mrowa-Hopkins, Flinders University Presentation One: Presentation One: Sharyn Roach Anleu and Kathy Mack, Flinders Kerry Mullan, Christine Béal, Véronique Traverso, University (Sharyn Roach Anleu will be presenting) RMIT University Judicial humour as a practical resource in the Conversational humour from a cross-cultural courtroom comparative perspective: French and Australian English Presentation Two: Presentation Two: Bruce Findlay, Swinburne University of Technology, Anna Laszlo, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Melbourne What Grammar can tell us about sarcasm: A corpus- Twenty years of humour research based analysis of American soap operas Presentation Three: Presentation Three: Cale Bain, University of Technology, Sydney Scott Gardner, Okayama University News should be funny: How comedy news audiences “Don’t even ask”: Humour and pragmatics in junior become better participants in a democracy high school English textbooks in Japan 7 Hetzel Theatre 1:00pm - 2:00pm Lunch PARALLEL AFTERNOON SESSIONS 2:30pm - 4:00pm 2:30pm – 3:15pm Hetzel Theatre Circulating Library HUMOUR AND AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE - ACROSS Session Chair: Antonella Strambi, Flinders University THE COLONIAL DIVIDE Session Chair: Christine Nicholls, Flinders University Presentation One: Presentation One: Michael Walsh, AIATSIS Centre for Australian Michael Meany, University of Newcastle Languages The cake is a lie: Ideology, humour and comedy in Black humour: same or different? portal Presentation Two: Iva Polak, University of Zagreb To laugh, or not to laugh – that is the lesson: Gayle Kennedy’s Me, Antman & Fleabag Presentation Three: Rod Grant, The University of Sydney Kenneth Slessor and Bertha Blither Radford Auditorium, Art Gallery of South Australia ENTRY: ONLY through the western gates of the Art Gallery of South Australia (a distance of approx. 250 metres from the conference venue at the State Library of South Australia. See maps section of this program). 4:00pm - 4:15pm Refreshments 4:15pm - 5:30pm SPECIAL PLENARY PANEL SESSION: Charlie Hebdo - humour, politics and the art of provocation - where to draw the line? Session Chair: Jessica Milner-Davis, University of Sydney Panelists: Colette Mrowa-Hopkins, Flinders University The influence of Charlie Hebdo; a personal perspective Robert Phiddian, Flinders