No Laughing Matter - Special Events
- International Conference on Visual Humor.
The Humanities Institute will host an International Conference to be held between 8th and 10th November 2007. Speakers will be invited to complement the research of the Institute's fellows.
Students wishing to attend the conference may contact the Institute Director Angela.Rosenthal@dartmouth.edu to inquire about applying for small travel stipends.
- Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi's pop culture graphic novel brought to life on film. Presented by Telluride at Dartmouth. Thursday. September 27, 2007.
- The Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, October 25-28, 2007 will host a special panel on Visual Humor in the Global Eighteenth Century organized in conjunction with the Humanities Institute. These sessions are free and open to the public.
- A Special Exhibition on Visual Humor with works from the Hood Museum's permanent
collection will be on view in the Harrington Gallery throughout the fall term
2007. The Institute fellows, as well as members of the faculty and staff have
written the labels for the exhibition to provide many different perspectives and
critical voices. The exhibition includes anonymous broadsides, household
objects, and comic stereographs, as well as works by renowned artists such as
eighteenth-century British satirists William Hogarth and James Gillray,
nineteenth-century Japanese woodcut artist Yoshimori, and French caricaturist
Honore Daumier; it also includes illustrations for Harper's Weekly by Thomas
Nast, often called the "father" of the American political cartoon. Among the
contemporary artists represented in the show are Enrique Chagoya, Renee Cox, Bob
Haozous, Wangechi Mutu, Carrie Mae Weems, and Fred Wilson, as well as select
works on loan by artists from the Center for Cartoon Studies at White River
Junction.
The exhibition is mounted in conjunction with the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, October 25-28, 2007. For related programming see http://www.dartmouth.edu/~neasecs07/. - The Hopkins Center
Friday November 9 at 8.00pm and 10.00pm Dean Obeidallah, Comedian at the Warner Bentley Theater. $20 General Admission. Dartmouth students $5. Presented by the Hopkins Center in conjunction with the Humanities Institute 2007
Image credit: North America, Northwest Coast, Canada, British Columbia, Haida (?). Miniature portrait figure of missionary, 1820-60, wood, bone, black pigment. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Gift of Mrs. Margaret Kimberly.