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Introduction: the aesthetics and politics of British tv comedy
The 1950s and 1960s: beginnings of the British sitcom and the satire boom. Richard Kilborn (Stirling): A golden age of British sitcom? Hancock's half hour and Steptoe and son
Bernd Lenz (Passau): "Your little game": myth and war in Dad's army (1968-1977)
Alexander Brock (Halle/Saale): The struggle of class against class is a what struggle? Monty Python's Flying circus and its politics
Mary Irwin (Northumbria): the rag trade: "everybody out!" gender, politics and class on the factory floor
The 1970s and 1980s: new loyalties, histories and collective identities: post-familiar paradigms. Nora Plesske (Braunschweig): "Sambo" and "Snowflake": race and race relations in Love thy neighbour
Paul Davies (Passau): "You snobs! you stupid stuck-up toffee-nosed half-witted upper-class piles of pus! Basil Fawlty's touch of class and other hotel matters in Fawlty towers
Jürgen Kamm (Passau): Ignorant master, capable servants: the politics of Yes minister and Yes prime minister
Eckart Voigts (Braunschweig): Zany "alternative comedy": The young ones vs. Margaret Thatcher
Gerold Sedlmayr (Dortmund): The uses of history in Blackadder
Deirdre Osborne (London): With some additional information from Stephen Bourne (London): Black British comedy: Desmond's and the changing face of television
The 1990s: (un)doing gender and race. Jochen Petzold (Regensburg): Laughing at racism or laughing with the racists? the "Indian comedy" of Goodness gracious me
Rainer Emig (Mainz): Exploding family values, lampooning feminism, exposing consumerism: Absolutely fabulous
Lucia Krämer (Hanover): Comic strategies of inclusion and "normalisation" in the Vicar of Dibley
John Hill (London): Subverting the sitcom from within: form, ideology and Father Ted
Marion Gymnich (Bonn): "The lady of the house speaking": the conservative portrayal of English class stereotypes in Keeping up appearances
Angela Krewani (Marburg): Family life in front of the telly: The Royle family
Brett Mills (Norwich): Old jokes: One foot in the grave, comedy and the elderly
The 2000s: Britcom boom "new Britain = "cool Britannia"?
Anette Pankratz (Bochum): Spin, swearing and slapstick: The thick of it (2005-2012)
Philip Jacobi (Passau): Life is stationary: mockumentary and embarrassment in The office (2001-2003)
Joanna Rostek and Dorothea Will (Passau): From ever-lusting individuals to ever-lasting couples: Coupling (2000-2004) and emotional capitalism
Oliver Lindner (Kiel): The comic nation: Little Britain and the politics of representation
Stephan Karschay (Passau): Laughing in horror: hybrid genre and the grotesque body in Psychoville.
The 1950s and 1960s: beginnings of the British sitcom and the satire boom. Richard Kilborn (Stirling): A golden age of British sitcom? Hancock's half hour and Steptoe and son
Bernd Lenz (Passau): "Your little game": myth and war in Dad's army (1968-1977)
Alexander Brock (Halle/Saale): The struggle of class against class is a what struggle? Monty Python's Flying circus and its politics
Mary Irwin (Northumbria): the rag trade: "everybody out!" gender, politics and class on the factory floor
The 1970s and 1980s: new loyalties, histories and collective identities: post-familiar paradigms. Nora Plesske (Braunschweig): "Sambo" and "Snowflake": race and race relations in Love thy neighbour
Paul Davies (Passau): "You snobs! you stupid stuck-up toffee-nosed half-witted upper-class piles of pus! Basil Fawlty's touch of class and other hotel matters in Fawlty towers
Jürgen Kamm (Passau): Ignorant master, capable servants: the politics of Yes minister and Yes prime minister
Eckart Voigts (Braunschweig): Zany "alternative comedy": The young ones vs. Margaret Thatcher
Gerold Sedlmayr (Dortmund): The uses of history in Blackadder
Deirdre Osborne (London): With some additional information from Stephen Bourne (London): Black British comedy: Desmond's and the changing face of television
The 1990s: (un)doing gender and race. Jochen Petzold (Regensburg): Laughing at racism or laughing with the racists? the "Indian comedy" of Goodness gracious me
Rainer Emig (Mainz): Exploding family values, lampooning feminism, exposing consumerism: Absolutely fabulous
Lucia Krämer (Hanover): Comic strategies of inclusion and "normalisation" in the Vicar of Dibley
John Hill (London): Subverting the sitcom from within: form, ideology and Father Ted
Marion Gymnich (Bonn): "The lady of the house speaking": the conservative portrayal of English class stereotypes in Keeping up appearances
Angela Krewani (Marburg): Family life in front of the telly: The Royle family
Brett Mills (Norwich): Old jokes: One foot in the grave, comedy and the elderly
The 2000s: Britcom boom "new Britain = "cool Britannia"?
Anette Pankratz (Bochum): Spin, swearing and slapstick: The thick of it (2005-2012)
Philip Jacobi (Passau): Life is stationary: mockumentary and embarrassment in The office (2001-2003)
Joanna Rostek and Dorothea Will (Passau): From ever-lusting individuals to ever-lasting couples: Coupling (2000-2004) and emotional capitalism
Oliver Lindner (Kiel): The comic nation: Little Britain and the politics of representation
Stephan Karschay (Passau): Laughing in horror: hybrid genre and the grotesque body in Psychoville.