ATRiuM, University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, September 18th 2009

 

From Coal House to Dr Who, South Wales has played host to a range of quality television of late, and this one-day Symposium at ATRiuM turns due attention to the BBC’s BAFTA Award winning sitcom Gavin and Stacey.

 

Andy Medhurst (author of A National Joke: Popular Comedy and English Cultural Identities) will open the Symposium with a paper entitled ‘Far East and Wild West: Mapping Comic Traditions in Gavin and Stacey’, and Welsh media journal Cyfrwng will host the closing event.

 

Papers are invited on, though not at all restricted to, the following topics:

 

Humour and the Celtic nations

Welsh identity and the sitcom

Regionality and the sitcom

The contemporary sitcom form

Representations of gender and the sitcom 

 

The deadline for 500 word proposals is Friday 12th June 2009.

 

For further details, please contact the Symposium organisers Dr Lesley Harbidge ([log in to unmask]) and Daryl Perrins ([log in to unmask]).

 

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Dr Lesley Harbidge
Film Studies Award Leader

Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries

Ysgol Diwydiannau Creadigol a Diwylliannol Caerdydd

Room CA407

ATRiuM

University of Glamorgan

Adam Street

Cardiff

CF24 2XF

Tel: +44 (0) 1443 668576
E-mail: [log in to unmask]