This special event celebrates 10 years of the CCSR with fantastic speakers and performers.
We’ll hear about the brilliant research by doctoral researchers in comedy studies, an expert panel will debate the future of comedy studies and all of this will be topped off with a fantastic stand-up comedy show.
Confirmed speakers and performers so far include:
- Rachael Abbey (Doctoral Researcher, Department of Drama, De Montfort University)
- Daphna Baram (Stand-up comedian, writer, journalist and Doctoral Researcher in the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University)
- Joy Carter (Comedian, speaker, advocate, actress)
- Sharon Lockyer (Director of the Centre for Comedy Studies Research, Brunel University London)
- Sophie Lundberg (Doctoral Researcher, Department of Arts & Humanities, Brunel University London)
- Brett Mills (Professor of Media, Department of English and Creative Arts, Edge Hill University)
- Shona Paterson (Director of Global Lives Research Centre, Brunel University London)
- Gatlin Perrin (Doctoral Researcher, Department of Arts & Humanities, Brunel University London)
- Vicky Proctor (Doctoral Researcher, Department of Arts & Humanities, Brunel University London)
- Simon Weaver (Founding Member of the Centre for Comedy Studies Research, Brunel University London)
It promises to be a great birthday party, one not to be missed!