Programme
Aims and Objectives
Interest in research on humour
as well as practical applications of humour has been growing
significantly over the past twenty years. In the course of
this period, the field of humour research has expanded its
scientific and scholarly basis and has established itself
as a fertile, challenging, and exciting field of inter- and
transdisciplinary inquiry.
The programme of the International
Summer School and Symposium on Humour and Laughter is designed
to provide both advanced students setting out on a
research project and experienced researchers considering to
enter the field of humour research with a thorough foundation
in humour studies. It is our ambition to acquaint course participants
with current theoretical models, with methodological issues
and with factual knowledge to give them a sense of the complexity
of the issues involved, and to steer them away from the pitfalls
that are commonly encountered in the scientific study of humour.
To those interested in practical
applications of humour in a variety of applied settings, the
course offers an introduction to the approaches that are being
used around the world to put humour to work and to deliver
the benefits of humour and laughter.
Structure of Course
The course programme consists
of different structural components which are intended to address
the various interests and needs of the participants in the
best possible way.
Lecture classes by a selected
group of exerienced international scholars make up the bulk
of the programme (see the
main Summer School site for information about previous
events). These "talks" are supplemented by workshops,
a symposium, and opportunities for individual discussions
with the speakers ("Meet the Lecturer"). Sessions
are held from Monday morning to Saturday afternoon. One afternoon
is set aside for relaxation and sight-seeing.
Lectures / Talks: Most of the presentations in the
summer school programme are "talks" in the format
of an academic lecture. They last for 45-50 minutes and are
followed by a 10-15 minute period for questions and discussion.
"Talks" constitute a single slot on the timetable.
Workshops: A "workshop" is a double slot
(lasting from one to two hours) which gives presenters an
opportunity to explore and examine their specific topics with
greater depth. Traditionally, there have been parallel workshops
with different topics so that participants are given a choice
to pick a specialisation that is closest to their own work.
A workshop may involve activities other than traditional lecturing,
for example discussions, debates, or exercises performed by
the audience.
Symposium: The "symposium" is a format in
which participants present their planned, ongoing or completed
research. They may also present ideas on how to implement
and use humour in applied settings in any format that is suitable
for this academic meeting. Depending on the total number of
presentation, a time slot for an individual presentation in
the symposium is limited to 15 or 20 minutes. Click
here for a schedule and a list of the presentations in
the Symposium.
Participants will be given the opportunity to sign up for
Meet the Lecturer sessions in which they can discuss questions
regarding their individual projects with a lecturer of their
choice.
Speakers
and Lectures
Dr.
Wladislaw Chlopicki
Institute of English Philology,
Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland |
- Dilemmas of humorous discourse
research
- Script theory and cognitive linguistics
- Metonymy in humour
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- Testing hypotheses the case of
the Stupidity Joke
- The appearance and evolution of
the disaster joke
- How jokes change as they move between
countries
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- Computational approximations of
human humor processing
- Absurd and nonsensical humor
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- Humour and laughter in interactions
- Some uses of laughter in interactions
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- Humor and social theory
- The sense of humor: Social differences
and
how to study them
- Publishing research in HUMOR
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Dr.
Liisi Laineste
Estonian Literary Museum, Center
of Cultural History and Folkloristics, Estonia |
- Doing humour research on the Internet
– methodology
- Politics of taste in a post-socialist
state
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- Smiling and laughter
- FACS workshop
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Dr.
Graeme Ritchie
Department of Computing Science,
University of Aberdeen, Scotland |
- An overview of humour research
- Incongruity and its resolution
- The structure of puns
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- A lexical approach to laughter
- Benevolent and corrective humor
- Studies of Clowns and Clowning
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Jérôme
Urbain
Research center in Information Technologies,
University of Mons, Belgium |
- An overview of automatic acoustic
laughter processing
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- Humorous/funny drama activities
(workshop)
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- Mark Twain and the Complexities
of American Humor
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Details of Presentations
Timetable
for the week (July 18, 2013; PDF file)
List
and schedule for Symposium presentations (July 17, 2013,
PDF file)
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