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2nd ICHCUP International Conference on Humour in Conventional and Unconventional Politics

Description: <p>We welcome contributions on humour in political speeches, humour in political campaigning and political conferences, humour in parliamentary debates, humour, democracy, and leadership, military humour, humour in totalitarian societies. </p> Organized by: Dunarea de Jos University of Galati <br />Deadline for abstracts/proposals: <font color="green"> 30 September 2012 </font> <font size="1">[<a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&amp;text=DEADLINE%3A+2nd+ICHCUP+International+Conference+on+Humour+in+Conventional+and+Unconventional+Politics&amp;dates=20120930%2F20120931&amp;details=Further+details%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.conferencealerts.com%2Fseeconf.mv%3Fq%3Dca1smma3&amp;location=Galati%2C+Romania&amp;trp=false&amp;sprop=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.conferencealerts.com&amp;sprop=name:Conference%20Alerts" target="_blank">add this deadline to Google Calendar</a>]</font> <br /><br /> Check the <a href="http://www.ichcup.com">event website</a> for latest details.

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Humour and the Fantastic

Description: Call for papers Fastitocalon volume III (2012) Published by Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (WVT) http://fastitocalon.kolbitar.de Humour and the Fantastic Humour has been a recognisable part of literature ever since antiquity. The ‘Homeric laughter’ has become proverbial and Lucian dazzled the readers of his Vera Historia with a firework of comic (and absurd) ideas. Nevertheless, the co-existence or even symbiosis of humorous and fantastic elements is the exception rather than the rule. Lucian’s work points the way for most of the later instances, and we find elements of the fantastic and the humorous co-existing most often in texts that show a self-reflexive ...

Keywords: literature, humour, humanities, fantastic