Ian Brodie, Cape Breton University

Research

Stand-up comedy Verbal art Spoke word Humour Performance Folklore Audience studies COVID-19

Latest papers

When rumours fly like helicopters: an international conspiracy 'language' for the new reality?
Social anthropology : the journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists = Anthropologie sociale · 2020 · senior author

All 1 publications

Latest funding

Stand-up in new places: examining the practice of humorous verbal performance in emerging contexts in a post-COVID-19 world
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$63,398
Performance, placemaking, and cultural policy workshop and digital hub
SSHRC · 2014 · Co-investigator
$25,000
Painting the trestle: adolescent negotiation of space and place in post-industrial Cape Breton
SSHRC · 2011 · Principal investigator
$13,596

All 3 grants and awards

1 publications.

01

When rumours fly like helicopters: an international conspiracy 'language' for the new reality?

Arkhipova A, Brodie I

Social anthropology : the journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists = Anthropologie sociale2020Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/1469-8676.12826 PMID: 32836965

Stand-up in new places: examining the practice of humorous verbal performance in emerging contexts in a post-COVID-19 world

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Brodie, Ian

Keywords: Stand-up comedy; Verbal art; Spoke word; Humour; Performance; Folklore; Audience studies; COVID-19

$63,398

Performance, placemaking, and cultural policy workshop and digital hub

Co-investigatorSSHRC2014

Principal investigators: Levin, Laura

Keywords: performance and place; art and cultural policy; creative placemaking; cities; urban development; performance studies pedagogy; site-based mobilizations; events; scalability; temporality; cultural infrastructure; archive; heritage; curation

$25,000

Painting the trestle: adolescent negotiation of space and place in post-industrial Cape Breton

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Brodie, Ian B.

Keywords: cultural landscape; folklore; contested geography; adolescent culture; adolescent folkways; ritual; material culture; performance

$13,596

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Stand-up comedy Dear Professor Brodie, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "When rumours fly like helicopters: an international conspiracy 'language' for the new reality?" (2020), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Stand-up in new places: examining the practice of humorous verbal performance in emerging contexts in a post-COVID-19 world" (2021), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]