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Tuesday 4/24
6:30 – 8:00 pm
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Film Screening: “The Last Laugh”
RICHLAND LIBRARY ASSEMBLY ST: Second Level Theater
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Wednesday 4/25
7:00 – 8:30 pm
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Film Screening: “The Last Laugh”
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Thursday 4/26
7:00 – 8:30 pm
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Film Screening: “The Last Laugh”
KATIE & IRWIN KAHN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
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Saturday 4/28
7:30 – 9:45 pm
GAMBRELL 153
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Film Screening and Lecture
Welcome and introduction: Mark Cooper (University of South Carolina)
Screening: “The Last Laugh”
Filmmaker Lecture: Ferne Pearlstein (Independent filmmaker)
Confronting the Ultimate Taboo in Humor
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Sunday 4/29
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8:30 – 9:00 am
CAPSTONE CAMPUS ROOM
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Welcome and opening: Federica K. Clementi (University of South Carolina)
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9:00 – 11:00 am
CAPSTONE CAMPUS ROOM
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Session I: Humor in Social Context
Session Chair, Harvey Starr (University of South Carolina)
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9:00 – 9:30 Lawrence Mintz (University of Maryland)
Defining and Deconstructing Jewish Humor
9:30 – 10:00 Regina Barreca (University of Connecticut)
Why Does the Membership of the Friars Club Still Look
Like a Manifest from Ellis Island? Why Jews, Italians,
and Other Ethnic Types are Funny
10:00 – 10:30 Joseph Boskin (Boston University)
The Comedic Zeitgeist: ‘there’s good news
& bad news’
10:30 – 11:00 Discussion led by Harvey Starr (University of South Carolina)
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11:00 – 11:30 am
CAPSTONE CAMPUS ROOM
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Coffee break
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11:30 am – 1:30 pm
CAPSTONE CAMPUS ROOM
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Session II: Jewish Humor and Popular Culture
Session Chair, Catherine Keyser
(University of South Carolina)
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11:30 – 12:00 Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff (University of South Carolina)
The Dynamic Humor of Sophie Tucker
12:00 – 12:30 Federica K. Clementi & Christian
Anderson (University of South Carolina)
Jewish Professors on Film
12:30 – 1:00 Joseph Dorinson (Long Island University)
Jewish Humor: Kvetching and Shpritzing
1:00 – 1:30 Discussion led by Catherine Keyser
(University of South Carolina)
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1:30 – 3:00 pm
CAPSTONE CAMPUS ROOM
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Lunch for conferees and registrants
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3:00 – 5:00 pm
CAPSTONE CAMPUS ROOM
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Session III: Humor and Identity
Session Chair, Kimberly Simmons
(University of South Carolina)
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3:00 – 3:30 Lanita Jacobs (University of Southern California)
Authenticating Apologies in Black Standup Comedy
3:30 – 4:00 Russell Kaschula (Rhodes University)
Intercultural Global North-South Comedy: The Trevor
Noah Effect
4:00 – 4:30 Rebecca Krefting (Skidmore College)
Constructing People Through Comedy:
How We (Can) Joke About Marginalized
Identities
4:30 – 5:00 Discussion led by Kimberly Simmons (University of South Carolina)
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7:00 – 7:30 pm
GAMBRELL LOBBY
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Book exhibition and signing
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7:30 – 9:00 pm
GAMBRELL 153
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Keynote lecture:
Welcome and introduction: Lawrence Mintz (University of Maryland)
Bob Mankoff (Humor and Cartoon Editor, Esquire Magazine)
#MeTooSoon: Finding the Funny in Sexual Misconduct
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Monday 4/30
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9:30 – 11:30 am
CAPSTONE CAMPUS ROOM
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Session IV: Lenny Bruce and Transgressive Comedy
Session Chair, Paul Malovrh (University of South Carolina)
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9:30 – 10:00 Stephen Whitfield (Brandeis University)
Lenny Bruce and the Intellectuals
10:00 – 10:30 Jarrod Tanny (University of North Carolina at Wilmington)
Lenny’s Children: The Rise and Triumph of
Blasphemous Jewish Humor in post-World
War II America
10:30 – 11:00 David Slucki (College of Charleston)
Holocaust comedy in American popular culture
11:00 – 11:30 Discussion led by Paul Malovrh (University of South Carolina)
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End of Conference
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