{"id":2095,"date":"2019-03-01T10:53:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T10:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2019-05-22T14:00:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T13:00:42","slug":"bsa-award-for-how-to-do-things-with-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/03\/01\/bsa-award-for-how-to-do-things-with-jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"BSA award for \u2018How to Do Things with Jokes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/may.html\">Dr Shaun May<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/quirk.html\">Dr Sophie Quirk<\/a>, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/drama.html\">Department of Drama and Theatre<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/\">School of Arts<\/a>, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/philosophy\/staff\/kirchin.html\">Professor Simon Kirchin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/philosophy\/staff\/forbes.html\">Dr Graeme Forbes<\/a>, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/philosophy\/index.html\">Department of Philosophy<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/\">School of European Culture and Languages<\/a>, have been awarded funding from the <a href=\"https:\/\/british-aesthetics.org\/\">British Society of Aesthetics<\/a> (BSA) to organise a conference bringing together comedians and philosophers.<\/p>\n<p>The conference, entitled \u2018Aesthetics and Comedy: How to Do Things with Jokes\u2019 will take place in October 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The School of Arts hosts the Performance and Theatre Research Cluster and the <a href=\"http:\/\/aesthetics-research.org\/\">Aesthetics Research Centre<\/a>, while the University also hosts the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library\/specialcollections\/standupcomedy\/index.html\"> British Stand-Up Comedy Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A call for papers is to be announced shortly.<\/p>\n<p>For more details about BSA awards, please see the page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/british-aesthetics.org\/funding\/\">https:\/\/british-aesthetics.org\/funding\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Shaun May and Dr Sophie Quirk, from the Department of Drama and Theatre in the School of Arts, along with Professor Simon Kirchin and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/03\/01\/bsa-award-for-how-to-do-things-with-jokes\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":2097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50018,124,168430,9112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2096,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/2096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}