Programme
Aims and Objectives
Interest in both research on humour and practical
applications of humour has increased sharply in
the past decade. For new research students just
beginning their research careers or those
already-trained researchers considering a first
research project on humour, this course will
ensure that they enter the field with a strong
foundation in existing theoretical and
methodological issues, and are well versed in the
pitfalls confronting the scientific study of
humour. For those interested in practical
applications of humour in a variety of applied
settings, the course will introduce them to the
kinds of 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
There will be sessions from Monday morning to
Saturday afternoon inclusive, with one afternoon
free for relaxation, sight-seeing, etc., and about
half a day during the week for the Symposium. For
the rest of the time, classes will be presented by
a number of lecturers. (See
the main Summer School site for information
about previous events in this series.)
The sessions are of two types:
Talks: These usually last about 45-50
minutes with a further 10 minutes or so for
questions and discussion. These constitute a
single slot on the timetable. Most of the
presentations are Talks.
Workshops: A Workshop is a double (1 or
2 hour) slot, so that the presentation can go into
more depth and specialisation, and will usually be
in parallel with some other very different
session(s), so that participants have a choice
between specialisations. A Workshop may involve
activities other than traditional lecturing, for
example discussion, debate, or exercises carried
out by the audience members.
There will also be a small number of Meet
the Lecturer sessions, where a participant
can sign up for a short one-to-one discussion with
a lecturer of his/her choice.
Symposium
The Symposium is where participants may present
their planned or finished research, or ideas on
how to implement and use humour in applied
settings, in any form they like.
Speakers
and proposed lectures
Dr Wladyslaw Chlopicki
Institute of English Studies
Jagiellonian University
Krakow, Poland |
- Characters as source of humour in
short stories (the concept of character
frames)
- Cognitive construals (perceptual
imagery) in humour
|
Prof Christie Davies
Department of Sociology
University of Reading
Reading, England |
- Ethnic and other jokes about stupid
persons: an exercise in generating and
testing a sociological hypothesis
- Why were more and better political
jokes told under socialism than in free
societies?
- American jokes about lawyers and
soviet jokes about Party leaders
|
Prof Alexander Kozintsev
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
Saint Petersburg, Russia |
- Tragedy and Comedy: Esthetic and
Cognitive Aspects
- Russian Literary and Psychological
Theories: Relevance to Humor Theory
|
Dr Liisi Laineste
Estonian Literary Museum,
Center of Cultural History and Folkloristics
Tartu, Estonia |
- Humour and insult in online
interaction
- New media and humour
|
Dr Tracey Platt and
Dr Jennifer Hofmann
Department of Psychology
University of Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland |
- The temperamental basis of the sense
of humor: findings on cheerfulness
- Gelotophobia and the fear of being
laughed at
- Humor and laughter in virtual
encounters
- WORKSHOP:FACS - Facial Action Coding
System
|
Prof Victor Raskin
Linguistics Program,
English & Lingusitics Department
Purdue University
West Lafayette, USA |
- Theory of Humor
- Formality and Computation
in Humor Theory
- WORKSHOP:
OSTH - Ontological Semantic Theory of
Humor (together with Dr Julia Taylor)
|
Dr Graeme Ritchie
Department of Computing Science
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Scotland |
- An overview of humour research
- Incongruity-based theories of humour
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Prof Willibald Ruch
Department of Psychology
University of Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland |
- Why
is it so difficult to define and measure
the sense of humor? or A new model of
humor
- What
humor tells about a person
- Humour and subjective
well-being
|
Dr Olga Scherbakova
Department of Psychology
Saint Petersburg State University
Saint Petersburg, Russia |
- Mental spaces and metacognitive
skills: things we really need for
understanding humor
|
Dr Julia Taylor
Computer and Information Technology
Department
Purdue University
West Lafayette, USA |
- Machine Learning-based humor
- Computational humor through rule-based
approaches: intentions and outcomes
- WORKSHOP OSTH (together with Prof
Victor Raskin)
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Prof Daniel Weiss
Slavic Linguistics
University of Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland |
- Superiority humour vs. release humour
in Russian political discourse: case
studies from different genres
- Humour vs. irony: where do they
intersect? Evidence from Polish and
Russian political talkshows
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