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The East Carolina Humor Festival & Conference
November 1 - 3, 2007 - Greenville, NC
A partnership of the English Department and the Office of Co-Curricular Programs and Cultural Outreach
with support by the College of Arts and Sciences, University Writing Program, Joyner Library, Rives Chair of Southern Literature,
North Carolina Literary Review, School of Theatre and Dance, Department of Biology, and WITN-TV.
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SCHEDULE |
Click on the session time for additional information.
All events are open free of charge to ECU students.
[Main]
[Registration]
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| Thursday, November 1 |
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Moderator |
Location |
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| 12:00-5:00 |
Conference Registration |
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Mendenhall Student Center (MSC) |
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| 11:00-12:00 |
Andrei Codrescu speaks to students |
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Joyner Library |
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12:00-1:00 |
Pirate Pie Throw -
[Required Waiver Form] |
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MSC Brickyard |
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| 1:00-3:00 |
Playing in the Dark' in Visual Culture: Racial
Whiteness and Satire in Mark Twain, Toni Morrison, and Contemporary American and Asian
Film Culture |
Joyce Middleton |
Great Room 1, MSC |
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| 3:15-4:45 |
The Old Mirth State: Humor in North Carolina Literature |
Randall Martoccia |
Great Room 2, MSC |
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| 3:15-4:45 |
Humor and Nationalism |
Michael Palmer |
Great Room 3, MSC |
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| 4:45-5:30 |
Comedy Break |
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Room 244 MSC |
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| 5:30-6:45 |
Dinner on your own |
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| 7:15-8:15 |
Stretching Muscles and Words - Claire Porter |
Patti Weeks |
Hendrix Theater, MSC |
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| 8:15-10:15 |
Stretching Muscles and Words - Andrei Codrescu |
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Hendrix Theater, MSC |
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| Friday, November 2 |
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| Time |
Event |
Moderator |
Location |
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| 8:00-4:00 |
Conference Registration |
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Mendenhall Student Center (MSC) |
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| 9:00-10:30 |
Ethnic Comedy in the United States |
Bernard Timberg |
Great Room 1, MSC |
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| 10:45-12:15 |
"a purty set uv ill-begotten, turkey-trottin'
pukes": The North Carolina Sketches of Hardin Taliaferro, Antebellum
Satirist |
Margaret Bauer |
Great Room 2, MSC |
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| 11:00-12:00 |
Kinky Friedman meets with students |
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Great Room 1, MSC |
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| 12:15-1:15 |
Lunch on your own |
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| 1:30-3:30 |
Literary Humor as a Teaching Strategy in the
Classroom |
Tabitha Slusher |
Great Room 2, MSC |
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| 1:30-1:45 |
Giuliano Campo, Commedia dell 'Arte/Harlequin
Performance |
Jill Twark |
Great Room 3, MSC |
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| 1:45-3:30 |
European Humor After the Fall of Communism |
Jill Twark |
Great Room 1, MSC |
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| 3:45-5:15 |
Satire, Camp, and Wit: Three Faces of 20th and 21st Century Literary Humor |
Marie Farr |
Great Room 2, MSC |
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| 3:45-5:15 |
Subverting Race and Legends in American Culture |
Javier Reyes |
Great Room 3, MSC |
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| 5:30-6:15 |
Comedy Break |
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221, MSC |
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| 5:30-7:45 |
Dinner Theatre: All in the Timing |
Greenville Theatre Project |
244, MSC |
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| 6:15-7:45 |
Dinner on your own (if not attending dinner theatre) |
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| 8:00-10:00 |
Kinky Friedman performance and book signing |
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Hendrix Theatre, MSC |
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| Saturday, November 3 |
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| Time |
Event |
Moderator |
Location |
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| 8:00-2:00 |
Conference Registration |
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Mendenhall Student Center (MSC) |
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| 9:00-10:30 |
Humor and Healing |
Rosina Chia |
Multipurpose Room, MSC |
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| 9:00-10:30 |
Political Satire in Cartoons |
Ken Parille |
244, MSC |
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| 10:45-12:15 |
Claire Porter Open Workshop |
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Studio Theatre, Messick |
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| 10:45-12:15 |
Medieval and Renaissance Literary Humor |
Larissa Tracy |
244, MSC |
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| 11:00-12:00 |
Jill McCorkle with students |
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Joyner Library |
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| 12:30-2:30 |
Luncheon with Jill McCorkle |
Margaret Bauer |
Great Rooms 1-2, MSC |
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| 2:45-4:45 |
Taboo Humor in Southern Literature |
Nicole Nolan Sidhu |
Multipurpose Room, MSC |
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| 2:45-4:45 |
Humor and Satire in Popular Culture |
Robert Siegel |
244, MSC |
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| 5:00-6:00 |
Funny Short Films + Swash |
Erica/Eric/Randall |
244, MSC |
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| 8:00-10:00 |
Post Conference Party |
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| 8:00-10:00 |
Student Union Comic |
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