For further information, and accommodation enquiries, please contact Professor Dorothy Severin (d.s.severin@liverpool.ac.uk) before 9th of September. Register will take place on the day. That's Not Funny, Is It?:

Humour in Medieval Iberian Culture

20-21 September 2004

Room 209, Modern Languages Building, Chatham Street,

University of Liverpool

Programme

20th September 2004

Arrival: Registration on arrival; Sandwiches will be served

Session 1: Opening Plenary

2.15 Prof. Joseph Snow Humour in the Cantigas d'escarnho

Chair: Prof Dorothy S. Severin (Liverpool)

3.30-4.00: Afternoon Tea

Session 2: The Fourteenth Century

4.00-4.40: Dr Louise Haywood (Trinity Hall), 'Who Bests Who? The Greek, the Roman, and the Archpriest'

4.40-5.20: Dr Barry Taylor (British Library), 'Where's the joke? Strategies for Identifying Humour in El conde Lucanor"

Conference Dinner: 7pm: Carvery, Adelphi Hotel

21st September 2004

Session 3: The Fifteenth Century / 1

9.15-9.55: Prof Robert Archer (Durham), 'Jacme Roig's Lo spill and the Problem of Humour in Misogynism'

9.55.10.35: Dr Andrew M. Beresford (Durham), 'Humour in the Minor Poems of Juan Rodríguez del Padrón'

10.35-11.15: Prof. David Mackenzie (Cork) 'Venus in the Cockle: Sentimental Pilgrimage in the Siervo libre de amor'

11.15-11.45 Morning Coffee

Session 4: Plenary

11.45-12.45 Prof. Louise O. Vasvári (SUNY, SB, and New York University), 'Juan Ruiz' is a joke.

Chair: Dr Louise M. Haywood (Cambridge)

12.45-2pm Lunch; sandwiches will be served

Session 5: The Fifteenth Century / 2

2.10-2.50: Prof. Dorothy S. Severin (Liverpool), 'Parody in Sentimental Romance'

2.50-3.30: Roger Wright (Liverpool): 'Humour in the Oral Romancero: How Would We Know?'

3.30: Afternoon tea/ end of conference