The Provocateurs: A 600-Year-Old Fart Joke / Don’t Read the Classics!
(The Provocateurs / The Stand Comedy Club)
The Stand Comedy Club
(Stand 1)
11 Aug
11.45
Spoken Word
Hosted by comedian Susan Morrison. Dr Michael Barany (The University of Edinburgh) argues that a fart joke can explain the essence of mathematics. Dr Andrew Frayn (Edinburgh Napier University) asks what makes classic literature and what focusing on those books makes us ignore.