Le rire pédagogue et le rire savant -- Teacherly Laughter and Scholarly Laughter
- Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 - 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Teaching and research are too serious occupations not to benefit from laughter. Who has never given to the temptation — be it in front of an audience of students or colleagues, or in front of their computer screen in the process of developing a future article — to embellish their speech with a joke, a pun, a proverb, an allusion, a (self)ironic comment, an antiphrasis, an anecdote, a paradox or some other process specific to the rhetoric of humour? This desire to make people laugh that threatens professors, teachers and researchers cannot be blamed on a simple accident of the mood. It must respond to an external need. We know, since Bergson, that laughter has a social function. We also know, from the oratory technique, the benefit that can be drawn from the humour of a speech. But what about educational activity and research work? What benefits can amusing speech bring to them?
Those are the questions that will be asked and addressed during this one-day symposium organized by the Department of French and Francophone Studies. This event has been thought as a virtual roundtable to which are invited faculty members as well as graduate students. Papers (15 minutes) will be given either in English or French. To propose a paper (deadline April 15, 2021) or to register for the event, please contact Iulian Toma (iuliantoma@trentu.ca) and Isabelle Fournier (isabellefournier@trentu.ca).
CONTACT INFO:
Iulian Toma iuliantoma@trentu.ca
Isabelle Fournier isabellefournier@trentu.ca
Posted on March 22, 2021