SPEAKERS: Timothy Moore (Washington University in St.Louis), Chrysostomos Stamoulis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Pierre Taminiaux (Georgetown University), and Leslie Frost (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
MODERATOR: Eric Gordon, Emerson College
This conversation is focused on laughter and the comic as a political and social action. We explore the role of laughter in interpreting texts from antiquity to the present. We examine laughter as a diachronic mechanism of social cohesion and disruption. Laughter makes strange, while at the same time, it is an invitation for human connection. The speakers question how laughter can be used as a critical, interpretative device, and how we might create a critical take on laughing. Distinction will be made between laughing at versus laughing with.
Timothy J. Moore is John and Penelope Biggs Distinguished Professor of Classics at Washington University in St. Louis. His publications include Artistry and Ideology: Livy’s Vocabulary of Virtue, The Theater of Plautus, Music in Roman Comedy, Roman Theatre, a translation of Terence’s Phormio, and articles on Latin literature, the teaching of Greek and Latin, ancient music, American Musical Theater, and Japanese comedy.
Chrysostomos Stamoulis is Professor of Dogmatic and Symbolic Theology at the Department of Theology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He studied Theology at the Universities of Thessaloniki (Greece), Belgrade (Serbia) and Durham (UK) and teaches the core module of Dogmatic and Symbolic Theology. His major works include: Theotokos and Orthodox Dogma. A Study in the Theology of St. Cyril of Alexandria, Palimpseston Publications, Thessaloniki 2003 (1996) • On Light. Personal or natural Energies? A contribution to the contemporary debate on the Holy Trinity in the Orthodox world, Palimpseston Publications, Thessaloniki 2007 (1999)• Sacred Beauty. An Introduction to the Philocalic Aesthetics of Orthodoxy, Akritas Publications 2010 (2004, 2005, 2008) • Lot’s Wife and Contemporary Theology, Indictos Publications, Athens 2008• Eros and Thanatos. Essay for a Culture of Incarnation, Akritas Publications, Athens 2009• As if I were a Stranger and a Wanderer, Or, Incarnation: The migration of Love, Akritas Publications, Athens 2011. Further papers and essays have been published in English, French, Italian, German, Serbian, Romanian, and Russian. In 2011-2013 he served his first term in office as Head of the Department of Theology and was re-elected for a further term (2013-2015). He undertook musical studies at the Macedonian and State Conservatories in Thessaloniki. He is principally engaged in choral music and composition and has made 5 CDs.
Pierre Taminiaux is actively involved in university teaching, research and service at Georgetown since the fall of 1991. In addition, he pursues a wide range of creative activities, both in literature and the visual arts. In this regard, he has recently given several poetry readings of his own work, in particular a series of four readings at the Alliance Francaise of Washington DC between 2008 and 2014, and has also exhibited some 100 art works (paintings, drawings and photographs) both in his native Belgium and in the United States. Moreover, he has presented a series of 12 art projects in the field of conceptual photography in various graduate seminars and international conferences both on the East Coast of the United States and in Europe. The wide range of his academic interests is also reflected in his teaching. Professor Taminiaux concentrates particularly in his advanced courses on the relationship between 20th century French literature and the visual arts, with a specific emphasis on poetry and photography. At the same time, Professor Taminiaux serves as a student advisor and on various committees in both the French Department and at the University level.
Leslie Frost s a teaching associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In Dreaming America: Popular Front Ideals an Aesthetics in Children’s Plays of the Federal Theatre Project (2013) Frost traces the how the tumultuous politics of the late 1930s shaped the stories and staging of Federal Theatre Project (1935-1939) children’s plays. In 2016, Frost adapted and produced the Federal Theatre Project’s It Can’t Happen Here for an anniversary staged reading at Historic Playmakers Theatre at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is currently working on a project centered on New Deal U.S. Post Office murals.
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This event is co-sponsored by Citizen Tales Commons and the Engagement Lab.
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