The annual conference of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS) will take place online on April 19th-21st. Please click here for the full schedule, including details on the double panel ‘LOLz and the Law: Online Humor in …
On April 16th-17th, in Rotterdam, the European Commission’s Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) will hold a face-to-face meeting with approximately 20 experts, focusing on how practitioners can deal with borderline content (such as disparaging memes) spread by extremists as a way …
In the 4th Annual Research Webinar of the Australasian Humor Studies Network (AHSN), ForHum member Dr Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández (Queensland University of Technology) will delve into the intricate interplay between digital platforms, memes, and racial …
On May 22nd (12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. EST), Andrew Bricker and Alberto Godioli will moderate a Zoom session on the special issues on humor and the law they co-edited for Law, Culture and the Humanities (Laughter as Critique/The …
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 …