Wednesday 29 June
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| 09:00 – 10:00 |
Registration – Theatre Foyer
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| 10:00 – 11:00 |
Welcome and opening ceremony in Sala del Teatro
- Convenor’s Welcome: Delia Chiaro, Alma mater studiorum, Università di
Bologna
- Greeting from Gessica Allegni, Mayor of the Municipality of Bertinoro
- Greetings from Patrick Leech the Vice Chair of the Interpreting and Translation
Department of the Alma mater studiorum, Università di Bologna
- Greetings from Don Nilsen, Arizona State University
- Greetings from Victor Raskin, Purdue University
- Presidential Address: Sharon Lockyer, Brunel University London
- General Housekeeping – Delia Chiaro
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| 11:30 – 12:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 12:30 |
Keynote Speaker
Conal Condren, University of New South Wales
Academic Myth and the Political Origins of a Concept.
Chair: Jessica Milner Davis |
| 12:30 – 15:00 |
Lunch (ISHS Exec Board Meeting) |
| 15:00 – 16:30 |
Chair: Giselinde Kuipers
Wladyslaw Chlopicki and Dorota Brzozowska, Anastasiya Fiadotava, Jan Chovanec, Jonas Nicolai, Delia Chiaro
Session 1.C – Philosophical issues in Humor
Chair: Mark Ralkowski
Session 1.M – Humor in Education 1
Chair: Patrice Oppliger
- Caleb Prichard – L2 learners’ humor competence with verbal irony online
- Lisa Arter – Utilizing Humorous Texts and Engaging Pedagogies to Increase Literacy
- Manuel Padilla Cruz – How could jokes be dealt with in the ESL class? A pedagogical proposal centred on comprehension
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| 16:30 – 17:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 17:00 – 18:30 |
Session 2.T – Humor in the Public Sphere 2
Chair: Giselinde Kuipers
Session 2.C – Panel on Dave Chappelle
Chair: Lydia Amir
- Phillip Deen – Amusement: “Does Comedy Have to Be Funny? Chappelle’s 8’46” and Post-Comedy”
- Lauren Olin – Truth: “Is Dave Chappelle a Liar?”
- Mark Ralkowski – Goodness: “Is Dave Chappelle’s Comedy Good for Us?”
Session 2.M – Humor and Gender
Chair: Jarno Hietalahti
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| 18:30 – 19:00 |
Salvatore Attardo and Giovannantonio Forabosco – Dialogo sopra i massimi sistemi del comico: Conversation between two humor scholars and friends on the history of humor research
Chair: Villy Tsakona |
| 19:30 |
Welcome Reception (heavy hors d’oeuvres) |
Thursday 30 June
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| 09:00 – 10:00 |
Keynote Speaker
Don Kulick, Hong Kong University, Uppsala University, Sweden
Under what circumstances can funnily serious behavior be seriously funny?
Chair: Delia Chiaro |
| 10:00 – 11:30 |
Session 4.T – Humor Responses
Chair: Villy Tsakona
- Patrice Oppliger – Advances in technology in humor/laughter detection
- Luca Bischetti – Cracking smiles by different joke types: the zygomaticus major response
- Chiara Mazzocconi – Humour development in mother-child interaction: from 12 to 36 months
Session 4.C – Humor Recognition
Chair: Martin Lampert
- Niklas Müller – Executive humor: towards a multi-modal automated measurement
- Shahin Amiriparian – Speech-Based Spontaneous Humor Recognition Utilising Deep Spectrum and Acoustic Features
- Alexander Kathan – A Personalised Approach to Humour Recognition
Session 4.M – Stereotype, Stand–up and Translation
Chair: Dorota Brzozowska
- Jessica Milner Davis – The Politics of Stereotype and Caricature in Humour
- Will Noonan – From translating humour in games to games about the translation of humour: the GamiShT project
- Ian Brodie – When is a joke? Insights from contemporary legend scholarship for the study of stand-up comedy repertoire development
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| 11:30 – 12:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 12:00 – 13:30 |
Session 5.T – Humor and the Law
Chair: Jessica Milner Davis
- Alberto Godioli – Judging Jokes: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on ECtHR Jurisprudence
- Laura Little – The Many Ways Law and Humor Intersect
- João Paulo Capelotti – Good and bad taste in Brazilian humor case law
- Jennifer Young – “If In Doubt, Cut It Out”: An Empirical Study of humour regulation in the UK Broadcasting Industry
- Delia Chiaro and Rebecca Nocella – Laughing in the Face of the Law: Humour as a Thermostat Activating Social Change for Sex Workers
Session 5.C – Humor Theory
Chair: Will Noonan
- Wei He Xu – Rationalizing a “Funtastic” Skiing Feat: An evolutionistic tweak of the incongruity-resolution theory of humor
- Sylwia Klos – Frame semantics in the interpretation and translation of humour in children’s literature
- Book presentation: Housing Mirth by Laurin Olin
Session 5.M – Humor Styles
Chair: Giovannantonio Forabosco
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| 13:30 – 15:00 |
Lunch (Humor Journal Editorial Board Meeting) |
| 15:00 – 16:30 |
Session 6.T – Reinhold Aman Memorial Panel on Abusive and Offensive
Humor
Chair: Tristan Miller
Session 6.C – Humor in the Public Sphere 3: In and around wokeness
Chair: Giselinde Kuipers
- Dick Zijp – Nuanced humor: The affordances and limitations of humour in the public sphere
- Sara Atwater – Examining the Construction of a Gendered Public Sphere through Women’s Cabaret in Post-Industrial Germany
- Jan Chovanec – ‘Russian warship, go fuck yourself’: War-related humour in the European linguistic landscape
- Jonas Nicolaï – The Age of Outrage: Wokeness, free speech, and the disorientation of Belgian stand-up comedy
- Steve Michiels – Self-censorship- corrected thoughts of an artist “Which visual censorship is necessary today?”
- Ivo Nieuwenhuis – From Mocking Pastors to Roasting Politicians: Humour Scandals as a Sign of Changing Times
Session 6.M – Humor across Borders 1
Chair: Sharon Lockyer
- Birgit Maier-Katkin – Humor Across Borders: Mark Twain and the German language
- Anthony Manu – Non-human characters and humour in the works of Paulien Cornelisse and May Kendall: a narratological and post-humanist analysis
- Tuula Kolehmainen – “Very Funny, Then Scary, Then Funny Again. Yet Puzzling”: Misplaced Humor in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby
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| 16:30 – 17:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 17:00 – 18:00 |
Keynote Speaker (Theatre)
Salvatore Attardo, Texas A&M University–Commerce
Context, the ghost of Goffman, and humor. How can we tell when we are joking?
Chair: Wladyslaw Chlopicki |
| 17:00 – 17:30 |
Philosophy of Humor Lecture (Church): Lydia Amir
Chair: Don Kulick
The Legacy of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Laughter in France: Deleuze, Bataille, and Rosset |
| 18:00 – 19:30 |
Session 7.T – Humor Recognition
Chair: Salvatore Attardo
- Bèatrice Priego–Valverde – The multifunctional role of smile in designing and negotiating humor in conversation
- Elisa Gironzetti – Humorous Smiling: Applying the Smiling Intensity Scale for the Study of Conversational Humor
- Spyridoula Gasteratou and Villy Tsakona – (De)constructing imagined identities through humor: Evidence from written humorous narratives by L2 learners of Greek
Session 7.C – Humor, Architecture and Art
Chair: Liisi Laineste
- Katerina Zacharopoulou – Designing for amusement? From the intention to the interpretation of humour in Clore Gallery and TV-am Studios, London
- Michela Rosso – Laughing at the modern city and its architects: Architectural critique through humour
- Jean-Marie Lafortune – From art in humor to humor in art
Session 7.M – Humor in Education 2
Chair: Chiara Bucaria
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Friday 1 July
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| 9:00 – 10:00 |
Keynote Speaker
Martin Rowson, Cartoonist, illustrator and writer
Mocking the Preposterous: The Challenges of Satirising Populism
Chair: Delia Chiaro |
| 10:00 – 11:30 |
Session 8.T – Social Issues and Humor
Chair: Jan Chovanec
- Simon Weaver and Sharon Lockyer – Enacting and Critiquing Intersectionality in Stand-up Comedy
- Anthony Mitzel – “The Slap” Heard AND Seen Around the World: Unlimited Memeiosis and the Fecundity of Humor in Current Events
- Diego Hoefel – Comedy, horror and graphic violence: Brazilian allegories of the culture wars
Session 8.C – Covid and Humor
Chair: Anastasiya Fiadotava
- Luca Bischetti – Surfing through pandemic waves: Covid-19 humor appreciation during 2020
- Giselinde Kuipers – Covido Ergo Zoom: Coping and Collective Meaning Making Through Memes and Jokes during the First Global Humor Cycle
- Guilherme Giolo – Time in Laughter: Exploring Humor and Memory in The Digital Era
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| 11:30 – 12:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 12:00 – 13:30 |
Session 9.T – Humor in the Public Sphere 4
Chair: Giselinde Kuipers
- Sammy Basu – Whose Laughter is Left? Habermas, Nazism and Humor
- Noura Kamal – Reclaiming the Public Space via Humour: The Case of Palestinian Political Prisoners
- Raúl Pérez – The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy
- Eva Šipöczová – The History of European Dictatorships of 20th Century in the Internet Memes and the Reflection of the Current Political Situation, on Example of Slovak and Czech Data
- Villy Tsakona – Tracing liquid racism in online satirical news: Evidence from Greek
Session 9.C – Neurodiversity and Humor
Chair: Jessica Milner Davis
- Evelyn Ferstl – Comprehension of verbal humor in psychiatric populations: The case of autism spectrum disorder, depression and schizophrenia
- Mikhail Fiadotau – Between Self-Irony and Self-Advocacy: Digital Games, Vernacular Creativity, and the ADHD Community
- Noémie Treichel – Humor and laughter in individuals with autism spectrum disorder and Williams syndrome
- Michelle Matter – Silly, Serious, or Snarky: Humor’s Effect on Support Message Perceptions”
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| 13:30 – 15:00 |
Lunch (EUHA Meeting) |
| 15:00 – 16:30 |
Session 10.T – The Politics and Aesthetics of Humour in an Age of Comic
Controversy – Round Table
Chair: Giselinde Kuipers
Respondants: Dick Zijp, Ivo Nieuwenhuis, Simon Weaver, Sammy Basu
Session 10.C – Book presentation – Uproarious: How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth, by Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett
Chair: Lydia Amir
- Critic 1: Maggie Hennefeld
- Critic 2: Luvell Anderson
- Author’s response: Cynthia Willett
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| 16:30 – 17:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 17:00 – 18:00 |
Keynote Speaker
Tony Veale, University College Dublin
Computer Says D’Oh! Bridging the Gap Between “Funny Peculiar” and “Funny Ha-Ha”
Chair: Christian Hempelmann |
| 18:00 – 19:30 |
Session 11.T – Humor and Artificial Intelligence
Chair: Christian Hempelmann
- Tristan Miller – Reinhold Aman: The Oracle of Opprobrium
- Juan Carlos Farah – An Observational Study of Laugh Reactions to Bot Comments on GitHub
- Rey Gonzalez – Transformers Dissect Humor (Sometimes)
- Tiansi Dong – Identifying Commonsense Spatial Knowledge via Simulating Spatial Jokes using Blender
- Julie-Anne Meaney – Humor and Offense Ratings as a Function of Demographic Variables
Session 11.C Humor across Borders 2
Chair: Ian Brodie
- Marianna Keisalo– Sense of Humor as Sense of Self: Multiplicity of Perspectives
- Eyitayo Aloh – “Beware the Laughter of Aliens”: Comedy, African immigrants and the negotiation of liminality in Canada.
- Maria Laakso – Implied audiences of stereotype humor: Case Finnish Nightmares
- Rujuta Date – Creating Humour in Contemporary India: An Exploratory Study
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| 20:30 |
Gala Dinner – Panoramic Castle Courtyard |
