Trevor Noah's comedic resistance to hatred in South Africa and the USA
2024.04.10.
ELTE English and American Studies Popular Culture Research Group invites to the public lecture by Lili Zách.
Comparing Trevor Noah’s stand-up comedy performed in front of South African and US audiences, this talk will trace the uses of laughter and explore the significance of humor when addressing race relations in the USA and with regard to the system of institutionalized racial segregation known as Apartheid in pre-1994 South Africa.
Time: 22 April 2024, 16.00
Venue: ELTE Faculty of Humanities, Building R, room 423. (map)
ELTE English and American Studies Popular Culture Research Group (EASPop) is engaged in the scientific processing of popular culture in English and Hungarian, and has been working in this capacity since autumn 2017. The aim of the research group is to examine the theoretical aspects of popular culture and its different forms of presentation in an interdisciplinary approach. The research focuses partly on historical and partly on synchronous phenomena, according to the interests of the members of the research team.