Die Macht des Lachens/Lachen über die Mächtigen

15. Mai | 09:00

Humour is generally overlooked in the analysis of political discourse and practices. Yet satire and caricature accompany, but also criticise the manifestations of power since immemorial times. Conversely, jokes can also become a vehicle for imposed connivance. A powerful tool for socialisation, creating community recognition or an instrument of exclusion, laughter brings a performative dimension to politics that naturally finds its place in contexts of mobilisation or militant criticism. Choosing laughter as an object of study makes it possible to reveal the signals or implicit messages that remain outside the official discourse. The international conference in English, French and German will examine the relationship between humour and power in all its forms. The aim is to study both its institutional aspect and ordinary laughter, and the ways in which it is used on a daily basis, in different eras, to embody power relationships.

Kontakt

Alexandra Oeser
alexandra.oeser  ( at )  cmb.hu-berlin.de

Programm

Wednesday, May 14th

18:30 - Welcome and film projection

Thursday, May 15th

Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Friedrichstrasse 191 (U-Bahn Stadtmitte)

Room Tillion, 7th floor

9:00. Introduction / Einleitung

Alexandra OESER (Université de Nanterre, ISP/CMB Berlin), André GUNTHERT (EHESS, Cral)

9:15 – 11:00. Session 1. Laughter as a weapon / Rire comme arme / Lachen als Waffe (mod. Alexandra Oeser)

9:15 - 10:15. Presentations

• Sebastian JOBS (FU Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institut), The “powerful effect” of Black Laughter: Slave Resistance and the Oppositional Gaze of Enslaved People
• David SLUCKI (Monash University, Australian Center for Jewish civilization), Holocaust Denial, Comedians, and the Falsification of History
• Lucile LEBRETTE (EHESS, IMAF), Le rire à la frontière italo-française : un outil de résistance morale et politique

10:15-11:00. Discussion

Coffee

11:15 – 13:00. Session 2. Laughing in professional settings / Rire dans le monde professionnel / Lachen auf der Arbeit (mod. Denis Laborde)

11:15 - 12:15. Presentations

• Claire BODELET (Sciences Po Paris, CSO), Rire du pouvoir médical ? Le travail quotidien des clowns à l’hôpital
• Alexandra OESER (Université de Nanterre, ISP/CMB Berlin), Learning to Laugh as a rite of passage. Becoming a professional guide in German memorial sites of national socialist concentration camps.
• Jens RUCHATZ (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Institut für Medienwissenschaft), Having fun with Food Imagery. Pictorial Picture Critique as a Practice of Internet Humour

12:15 - 13:00. Discussion

Lunchbreak

14:00 – 15:45. Session 3. Power of images / Pouvoir des Images / Macht der Bilder (mod. Eric Wittersheim)

14:00 - 15:00. Presentations

• Lynda DEMATTEO (EHESS, LAP), Le pouvoir insoupçonné de Winnie l’ourson face à la renaissance de l’autoritarisme. Artistes cyberdissidents et circulation des images subversives
• Neli DOBREVA (Université Paris 1 Panthéon), Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: memory and territory against dominant culture
• Annika Lisa RICHTER (Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, Institut für Bildende Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft), Zirkus, Zauber, Frauenpower. Vom Verlachen des Patriarchats im Künstler·innen-Album „Die Ringlpitis“ (1931)

15:00 - 15:45. Discussion

16:15 – 18:00. Session 4. Selfmockery / Autoderision / Selbstironie (mod. André Gunthert)

16:15 – 17:15. Presentations

• Denis LABORDE (EHESS, Centre Georg Simmel / CMB, Berlin), Rire en politique. L’art du chleuasme selon le député Jean Lassalle
• Guillaume  SILHOL (Université Claude-Bernard Lyon I, Elico), Précarités à plaisanterie : dilemmes de l’humour dans un collectif militant d’enseignants en Italie 
• Eric WITTERSHEIM (EHESS, LAP/CMB, Berlin), Punk laughter: parody and self-irony in French Rock music (1983-1989)

17:15-18:00. Discussion

19:00. Collective Dinner

Good time, Hausvogteiplatz 11, 10117 Berlin

Friday, May 16th

Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Friedrichstrasse 191 (U-Bahn Stadtmitte)

Room Tillion, 7th floor

9:00 – 10:15. Session 5. Punishing laughter / Lachen bestrafen / Punir le rire / (mod. Alexandra Oeser)

9:00 - 9:40. Presentations

• Benedetta CARNAGHI (Durham University, Department of History), Laughing about fascists. Humor against the cult of the leader in Italy, Germany and France, 1922-1945
• Olga GALANOVA (Ruhr-University Bochum), Resilienz durch Scherz : kommunikative Genres politischen Lachens in diktatorischen Regimen

9:40 - 10:10. Discussion

Coffee

10:25 – 12:30. Session 6. Laughter of the majority / Rire majoritaire / Lachen der Vielen (mod. Eric Wittersheim)

10:25 - 11:45. Presentations

• Yasmin AFSHAR (CMB Berlin), Theodor Adornos Sociology of Laughter
• André GUNTHERT (EHESS, CRAL),  Tintin in the Congo. Colonialism denial still on sale
• Patrick MERZIGER (Historisches Institut Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), « Wir lachen mit! » Populäre Unterhaltung im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland
• Denis THOUARD (CNRS, CMB Berlin), Penser le rire pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale : la philosophie en contexte

11:45 - 12:30. Discussion

Lunchbreak

13:30 – 15:15. Session 7.  Laughter as resilience / Rire comme résilience / Lachen als Resilienz (mod. Aurélia Kalisky)

13:30 - 14:30. Presentations

• Fernando GARLIN POLITIS (Université Paris Cité, Ceped, IRD), L’humour en migration. Rire aux frontières de la Colombie et du Venezuela
• Antoine PALEVODY (ENS de Lyon, IHRIM), Rire et dialectique. Le comique comme méthode théâtrale d’analyse historique du fascisme. L’exemple d’Edelweiss
• Pascal SCHNEIDER (CMB Berlin), L’humour alsacien. Rire de l’occupant

14h30-15h15. Discussion

Coffee

15:45 – 17:30. Session 8. Stand up (mod. André Gunthert)

15:45 - 16:25. Presentations

• Jeanne GAILLARD (Université Strasbourg, SAGE), « Dernières vannes avant l’expulsion ? » Les stand-uppeurs français issus de l’immigration entre autodérision et prise de position politique
• Pierre TERRY (Université Paris Cité, Canthel), La parole politique au sein des Comedy-clubs parisiens

16:25 - 17:00. Discussion

17:15 – 19:00. Session 9. Grand-children of victims and perpetrators. Doing research on laughter about the holocaust as a member of the third generation (mod. Aurélia Kalisky)

• Round table with David SLUCKI (Monash University, Australian Center for Jewish civilization) and Alexandra OESER (Université de Nanterre, ISP/CMB Berlin) and final discussion

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