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(Millennium Building)* | Thursday
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8:30-9:00
9:00-9:30 | Registration and Coffee
Welcome to ISS04 and Introduction | Announcements and Review | Registration and Coffee
Announcements and Review | Announcements and Review | Announcements and Review | Announcements and Review |
| 9:30-10:30 | Overview of Humour Research (GR) | Psychopharmacology of Humour (RH) | The fear of Being Laughed at: Gelotophobia (WR) | Laughter as a Pain Killer (WR) | Applications of Humour in the Business / Corporate Setting (ED&PW) | Laughter in Conversation: Sociolinguistic Dimensions (CH) |
| 10:30-11:30 | Smiles: Typology, Structure and Dynamics (WR) | Puns (CH) | Is Laughter the Best Medicine for Children in Hospitals? (FB) | Creating a Humour Program for any Setting (PW&ED) | Laughter without Jokes: Conversational Laughter and Interaction (JR) |
| 12:00-1:00 | Incongruity Resolution (GR) | Humour Appreciation and Personality (WR) | Humour Styles: Social Differences in Sense of Humour and How to Study Them (GK) | A Case Study of the Provision in Manchester Children Hospitals (FB) | The Impact of Globalisation on the Humour of Modern Society (BHK) | Managing Laughter in Stand-Up Comedy (JR) |
| 1:00-2:00pm | | | | | SHAZIA MIRZA WOMEN AND COMEDY | |
| 2:00-3:00 | Laughter: Morphology and Physiology (WR) | Interdisciplinary Work: Linguistics /Psychology (CH) | SYMPOSIUM | Applications of Humour in the American Health Care Setting (PW) | PRIVATE STUDY OR EXCURSION | Stand-up Comedy as Poetry: the Humour of Bill Hicks (PMcD) |
| 3:00-4:00 | The Semantic Script Theory of Humour and the General Theory of Verbal Humour (CH) | Measurement of Sense of Humour (WR) | Applications of Humour in the Educational Setting (ED) | Representation of Religion in the Work of Woody Allen and Philip Roth (PMcD) |
| 4:30-5:30 | Questions and Discussion | Form and Function in Humour Theory (GK) | Gender Differences in the Practice and Enjoyment of Humour (BHK) | Questions and Discussion |
| 5:30-6:30 | | Meet the Lecturers | Meet the Lecturers | |
