{"id":1867,"date":"2024-03-21T09:06:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T09:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2024-03-27T14:00:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T14:00:25","slug":"cerees-lecture-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/2024\/03\/21\/cerees-lecture-3\/","title":{"rendered":"CEREES Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday 8 April,<\/b> 2024, 18:00-20:00<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Authoritarian Laughter: Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia in Lithuania<\/b><\/h2>\n

Neringa Klumbyt\u0117 (Miami University)<\/h3>\n

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Venue<\/strong>: TBC Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road London E1 4NS<\/p>\n

[QMUL Campus Map linked here]<\/a><\/p>\n

Book here: Eventbrite<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

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About the Event:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Speaking on the topic of her award-winning book,\u00a0Neringa Klumbyt\u0117 will examine the role of humour in times of repression and war. In the Soviet Union official humor was a propaganda tool for instituting communist ideology and governing society. In Soviet Lithuania, paradoxically, while official humor institutions involved people in co-governance through the intimacy of laughter, they also created critical publics who shared dystopian visions of Soviet modernity via authoritarian state sponsored venues. These critical\u00a0publics were mobilized in anti-Soviet revolutionary laughter in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In Soviet times, during the collapse of the USSR, or recently the war in Ukraine, humor has served as a medium of political participation and emancipation for a national cause.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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About the Speaker:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

NERINGA KLUMBYTE\u0307<\/strong> is Professor of Anthropology and Russian and Post-Soviet Studies and Director of the Lithuania Program at the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University. She is the author of Authoritarian Laughter: Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia in Lithuania <\/i>(Cornell UP, 2022), <\/i>the winner of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Women\u2019s Forum prize; a co-author of Social and Historical Justice in Multiethnic Lithuania <\/span><\/i>(2018), and co-editor of Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964<\/i>\u201385 <\/i>(2012, with Gulnaz Sharafutdinova<\/span>).<\/p>\n

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Event outline<\/strong>:<\/h3>\n

Welcome and introduction \u2013 18:00<\/p>\n

Discussion, chaired by Natalaya Chernyshova (QMUL) \u2013 18:10<\/p>\n

Drinks reception, meet the speaker \u2013 19:30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monday 8 April, 2024, 18:00-20:00   Authoritarian Laughter: Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia in Lithuania Neringa Klumbyt\u0117 (Miami University)   \u00a0   Venue: TBC Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road London E1 4NS [QMUL Campus Map linked here] Book here: Eventbrite     About the Event: Speaking on the topic of her award-winning […] Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1886,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions\/1886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}