Hosted by Suchandrika ChakrabartiFeaturing:Sharon Lockyerhttps://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/sharon-lockyerSophie Quirkhttps://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/people/536/quirk-sophieAnja Karlssonhttps://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/anjafranckkarlssonLINKSWhat can comedy achieve in the context of repression and violence? Can the meme save us?https://www.blogalstudies.com/post/what-s-so-funny-about-a-military-coup-how-generation-z-is-trolling-the-myanmar-armyWhat’s so funny in Afghanistan?https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0962629817304109Smiling while being arrestedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCIasDCtm7A&ab_channel=AJ%2BMyanmar coup: Pools and princesses as protesters go all outhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/56006324Laughing through lockdownhttps://theconversation.com/laughing-through-lockdown-why-comedy-is-important-in-times-of-crisis-160905Sometimes a Milkshake Is Just a Milkshakehttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/milkshake-thrown-nigel-farage-nothing-new/590317/Laughing at power: Humor, transgression, and the politics of refusal in Palestinehttps://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/envirc/v38y2020i3p387-404.htmlJoking: uses and abuses of humour in the Election campaignhttp://www.electionanalysis.uk/uk-election-analysis-2019/section-8-personality-politics-and-popular-culture/joking-uses-and-abuses-of-humour-in-the-election-campaign/Women, comedy and powerhttps://getofflivecomedy.co.uk/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/rosie-jones-question-time-trolling-ableist-abuse-bbc-b959464.htmlhttps://www.pastemagazine.com/comedy/live-comedy/comedy-isnt-accessible-enough/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687599.2015.1106402Comedy in academiaPalgrave Studies in Comedyhttps://www.springer.com/series/14644Centre for Comedy Studies Researchhttps://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Networks-and-Labs/Comedy-Studies-ResearchPLUShttps://guiltyfeminist.com/https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/entertainment/deborah-frances-white-685021