admin Babette De Naeyer (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona), 29 March 2024
In the last month, two controversial cases have caused quite the commotion in the Belgian free speech landscape. The first one, the Acid case, concerned the conviction for cyber …
On April 4 and 5, the Center for Sociological Research (CeSO) at KU Leuven is organizing a symposium on humor and conflict in the public sphere. During this symposium, results will be presented on two interuniversitary projects that research humor …
Dr Alberto Godioli (University of Groningen) and Dr Hawley Johnson (Columbia Global Freedom of Expression) have been awarded an Impact Explorer grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for their project Humor and Free …
Dr Jennifer Young (University of Groningen), 30 January 2024
Humour is a useful device used by politicians both to gain popularity with the electorate but also to belittle their opponents. See for example the case of Patrício Monteiro Telo de …
Panel proposal for the annual conference of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS). The conference will be hosted online by Texas A&M University-Commerce, 19-21 April 2024.
The transformations of humor in the digital age (Attardo 2023) pose …
On November 7th, Cartooning for Peace and Cartoonists Rights published a report on the situation of threatened cartoonists around the world. The report was launched during the Forum Talk 9 (“Cartoonist: an endangered profession”) organized as …
As part of the online course ‘The Internet and Freedom of Expression‘ hosted by the São Paulo School of Judges in collaboration with Columbia Global Freedom of Expression, ForHum co-funder Alberto Godioli and …
Dr Jennifer Young (University of Groningen), 18 October 2023
