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Estonian Literary Museum
    Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies

            30th ISHS Conference
Humour: Positively (?) Transforming
    Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia
            25–29 June 2018

PROGRAMME
                    30th
                International
              Society for Humor
                  Studies
                 conference

                                  June    Think out of
                                  25-29    the box!

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PROGRAMME Humour: Positively (?) Transforming - 30th ISHS Conference Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia - Folklore.ee
Humour: Positively (?) Transforming                                                                                                    30th ISHS Conference 2018 in Tallinn, Estonia

Monday, June 25, 2018
08:00-19:00 registration
09:00-10:00 M218 Opening lecture (Chair: Liisi Laineste): Jessica Milner Davis (University of Sydney). Investigating Humour and
            Laughter: The Importance of Looking Beyond Your Own Discipline
10:00-10:30 coffee/tea

10:30-12:00 Władysław Chłopicki           Jessica Milner Davis       Thomas Ford (Western              Giselinde Kuipers (University
            (Jagiellonian University).    (University of Sydney)     Carolina University). Social      of Amsterdam). Humour
            Humour in Narratives –        and Jennifer Hofmann       Psychology of Humour              and Social Boundaries:
            From the Word to the Text     (University of Zurich).    in Intergroup Settings:           Studying Humour
            and Back.                     Experiencing Humour:       Applications to Political         From a Social Science
            M226                          A Conceptual Schema of an Humour.                            Perspective.
                                          Interpersonal Transaction. M328                              M342
                                          M340
              Theoretical overview        Overview and presentation Laying the Groundwork:             Studying humor from
                                          of Schema, Glossary, and A social psychological              a social science perspective
                                          Applications              approach to the study of
                                                                    disparagement humour

12:00-13:00 lunch
13:00-14:30 parallel lectures and workshops continue
              Comparative model           Schema Pt 1 (Stages          Application 1: Deriving new     Humor tastes and social
                                          1 and 2), Schema Pt 2        hypotheses and developing       boundaries: comparing
                                          (Stage 3 and beyond)         new studies related to          across and within cultures.
                                                                       political humour                Research exercise

14:30-15:00 coffee/tea
15:00-16:30 parallel lectures and workshops continue
              Narratives compared         Applying the schema in         Application 2: Deriving new   Humor and moral
                                          your field (writing exercise), hypotheses and developing     boundaries / boundaries
                                          discussion                     new studies related           of cultural knowledge.
                                                                         to political humour           Research exercise

16:30-17:30 M218 Wrap-up (Chair: Thomas Ford)                          HUMOR, EJHR, RISU, ISJHR
19:00-21:00 opening reception             Announcing ISHS 2018 early student registration awards, DANYS, GSA and CDA
            at Tallinn University

                    Organised by the Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts, supported by the Tallinn University’s ASTRA
                    project, TLÜ TEE Tallinn University as a promoter of intelligent lifestyle (no 2014-2020.4.01.16-0033,
                    activity D41).

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PROGRAMME Humour: Positively (?) Transforming - 30th ISHS Conference Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia - Folklore.ee
Humour: Positively (?) Transforming                                                                                                           30th ISHS Conference 2018 in Tallinn, Estonia

Tuesday, June 26, 2018
08:30-18:00 registration
9:00-9:20    A002 Presidential address: Władysław Chłopicki
9:20-10:30   A002 Keynote (Chair: Władysław Chłopicki): Jessica Milner Davis (University of Sydney). The Politics and Satire Project: Scrutinising Satire From a Transdisciplinary
             Perspective
10:30-11:00 coffee/tea                      Posters up!
11:00-13:00 Current Topics in the           Humor and Intertextuality Humor, Gender and                  Theory: A Linguistic Close-Folklore (Chair: Elliott           Education (Chair: German
            Psychology of Humor I           I (Chairs: Villy Tsakona and Sexuality I (Chair: Delia       Up (Chair: Lauren Olin)    Oring)                             Payo)
            (Chair: Sonja Heintz)           Jan Chovanec)                Chiaro)                         A121                       A402                               A224
            A002                            A325                         A346
             Thomas Ford (Western           Kseniiya Shilikhina          Esther Linares-Bernabéu    Graeme Ritchie (University        Moira Marsh (Indiana             Will Noonan (University of
             Carolina University).          (Voronezh State University). and Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo    of Aberdeen). Surprise in         University). The Missing         Burgundy – Franche-Comté)
             Disparagement Humor and        Humor and Intertextuality in (University of Alicante).  Jokes                             Abyssinians and the              and Yen-Mai Tran-Gervat
             Prejudice: Current Research    Online Fake News             Shaping Gender Identity in                                   Cowardly Italians: Hoax,         (Sorbonne New University –
             and New Advances                                            Spanish Stand-Up Comedy                                      Race, and Woolf                  Paris III). Humour in English
                                                                                                                                                                       Versus “English Humour” in
                                                                                                                                                                       the Language Classroom:
                                                                                                                                                                       Case Studies From France
             Ru-Huei Dai and Hsueh-         Jan Chovanec (Masaryk          Patrice Oppliger (Boston      Marta Dynel (University      Jonathan Wilcox (University      Marisa Holzapfel, Karin
             Chih Chen (National Taiwan     University). Intertextuality   University). Separating       of Łódź). The Importance     of Iowa). Humor Theory           Stachelscheid and Maik
             Normal University). The        and Targeting the Other        the Art From the Artist:      of Being (Un)Truthful in     for the Historically Inclined:   Walpuski (University of
             Differential Mechanisms of     in Online News Reader          Responses to Comedians’       Humour                       Uncovering the Comedy of         Duisburg-Essen). Learning
             Beneficial and Detrimental     Comments                       Sexual Harassment                                          the Old English Riddles          Material With Subject-
             Humorous Coping                                               Allegations                                                                                 Specific Humor Used for
                                                                                                                                                                       Health Education

             Yu-Chen Chan (National         Iullia Amatuni (European       Cornelia Cody (Humor          Shuming Bai (Nanyang         Elena Semenova (FSBSI            Danuta Maria Furszpaniak
             Tsing Hua University).         University at St. Petersburg), Lab). Comedians, Sexual       Technological University).   “Institute of Art Education      (Adam Mickiewicz University
             Linking Humor Reward to        Performances and Humour Harassment, and the                  Humor-Logos, Humor-          and Cultural Studies RAE”).      in Poznań). Humour in
             Hedonic Consumption: An        on Football Terraces in        #MeToo Movement               Pathos, and Humor-Ethos      Street Theatre as Part of        Students’ PowerPoint
             fMRI Study                     Russia: Fan’s Ideology and                                   to Explain Humor-Rhetoric:   the Contemporary Carnival        Presentations and Critical
                                            Local Identity                                               Whom Do We Laugh             Culture                          Thinking
                                                                                                         About? What Generates
                                                                                                         Laughter? Why Do We
                                                                                                         Laugh?
             Larry Ventis (College          Libby Chernouski (Purdue       Debra Aarons (University of   Minoru Hashimoto (The        Anastasiya Fiadotava             Holly Schreiber (University
             of William and Mary).          University). Memes             New South Wales). Do Men      Japan Society for Laughter   (University of Tartu).           of Maine). Humor as
             Thinking Fast and Slow and     and Script Opposition:         Have a Sense of Humour?       and Humor Studies). How      Humour: Positively (?)           Pedagogy: Teaching
             Creatively in the Experience   A Semantic Analysis            Who’s Asking? (And by the     to Improve Your Laughter     Transforming Family Life         Diversity and Ethics in an
             of Humor                       of Multimodal Humor            way, does my dick look big    Potential (LP)                                                Online Humor Studies
                                                                           in this?)                                                                                   Course
13:00-14:30 lunch                           EJHR meeting M649

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Humour: Positively (?) Transforming                                                                                                           30th ISHS Conference 2018 in Tallinn, Estonia

14:30-16:30 Current Topics in the          Rethinking the Politics of      Humor, Gender and             Theory: Ontological          Stand-Up (Chair: Ian          Religion (Chair: Sammy
            Psychology of Humor II         Humor (Chair: Giselinde         Sexuality II (Chair: Cornelia Foundations (Chair:          Brodie)                       Basu)
            (Chair: Sonja Heintz)          Kuipers)                        Cody)                         Graeme Ritchie)              A402                          A224
            A002                           A325                            A346                          A121
             Willibald Ruch (University Nicholas Holm (Massey              Gil Greengross              Igor Krichtafovitch (MAFS).    Eric Weitz (Trinity College   Bernard Schweizer (Long
             of Zurich). Comic Styles and University). The Politics        (Aberystwyth University),   Quantitative Humour            Dublin). Waking the           Island University). Does
             Positive Psychology          Are in the Details: Notes        Paul Silvia and Emily       Theory. Formula of             Comedians: Humour             Religion Shape People’s
                                          Towards a Political              Nusbaum (University         Laughter                       as Weaponry for Social        Sense of Humor? An
                                          Aesthetics of Humour             of North Carolina at                                       Change                        Empirical Study of Humor
                                                                           Greensboro). Sex                                                                         Appreciation Among
                                                                           Differences in Humor                                                                     Members of Different
                                                                           Production Ability –                                                                     Religions and Nonbelievers
                                                                           A Meta-Analysis
             Hsueh-Chih Chen (National     Ivo Nieuwenhuis (Radboud        Andrew Bekreev                Lauren Olin (University of   Antti Lindfors (University    David Zmijewski (Baika
             Taiwan Normal University)     University Nijmegen).           (independent researcher)      Missouri – St. Louis). The   of Turku). Appropriation of   Women’s University).
             and Shu-Lin Cho (Fu Jen       Speaking Truth to Power?        and Vitaliy Grigoriev (St.    Dismissal Theory of Humor    the Personal and the Three    Miracles, Parables and
             Catholic University). The     The Political Implications of   Petersburg State University).                              Perspectives on Stand-Up      Prophecies: Humor and
             Serial Multiple Mediator      Playing the Fool                A Sociological Approach to                                 Comedy                        Religion in Christopher
             of Social Self-Efficacy and                                   the Study of Humor: I Know                                                               Moore’s “Lamb: The Gospel
             Self-Compassion Between                                       That You Know That I Know                                                                According to Biff, Christ’s
             Gelotophobia and PERMA                                        That My Joke Is Not Funny                                                                Childhood Pal”
             Alyona Ivanova (Pirogov       Dick Zijp (Utrecht             Manuela Thomae and Paige Sergey Troitsky (St.            Madhavi Shivaprasad (Tata        Reet Hiiemäe (Estonian
             Russian National Research     University). Repoliticizing    Lofthouse (University of   Petersburg State University). Institute of Social Sciences).   Literary Museum).
             Medical University, Mental    Dutch Cabaret: A Critical      Winchester). The Impact of Universality of Parody as     “Are you funnier than me?”:      Negotiating Personal
             Health Research Center),      Analysis of the Depoliticizing Sexist Facebook Humour     Cultural Practice. Russian    Politics of the Popularity       Spirituality Through Humor
             Anastasia Lubavskaya          Tendencies of Humour           on Women’s Political       Researches in the 1920–       of Stand-Up Comedians
             and Igor Oleichik (Mental                                    Engagement                 1950s (Mikhail Bakhtin and in India
             Health Research Center).                                                                Olga Freidenberg)
             Gelotophobia, Gelotophilia
             and Katagelasticistm in
             Patients With Depressive
             Syndrome
             Jennifer Hofmann, Sonja       Karlijn Luk (Radboud            Evelyn Ferstl, Juliane Kraft Victor Raskin (Purdue         DISCUSSION                    Lina Molokotos-Liederman
             Heintz, Dandan Pang and       University Nijmegen). The       and Samantha Stedtler        University). Substance of                                   (Independent researcher).
             Willibald Ruch (University    Politics of Stereotype:         (University of Freiburg).    Humor                                                       Religion and Humour:
             of Zurich). Humor and         Ridiculing German               Are Comediennes as                                                                       Bringing Jews, Christians and
             Mindfulness: Siblings at      Immigrants in Early Modern      Funny as Comedians? An                                                                   Muslims Together One Joke
             Heart?                        Dutch Farces                    Experimental Study of                                                                    at a Time?
                                                                           Gender Effects on Humour
                                                                           Appreciation
16:30-17:00 coffee/tea                     Veronika Zangl (University
                                           of Amsterdam). Politics of
                                           Humor in Extremis. Cabaret
                                           and Propaganda in the
                                           Netherlands Under German
                                           Occupation
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Humour: Positively (?) Transforming                                                                                                          30th ISHS Conference 2018 in Tallinn, Estonia

17:00-18:30 Tests and Measures        Identity, Context and     Gender (Chair: Patrice                 Philosophy (IAPH) I (Chair: Politics I (Chair: Veronika        Workshop
            (Chair: Jennifer Hofmann) Political Transformations Oppliger)                              Lauren Olin)                Zangl)                             A046
            A002                      (Chair: Jessica Milner-   A346                                   A121                        A402
                                      Davis)
                                      A325
             Sonja Heintz (University       Sophie Quirk (University of   Wei He Xu (Middlebury        A welcoming address           Ágnes Tamás (University of Nadia Desroches (Université
             of Zurich). Benevolent and     Kent). The New Alternative:   College). An Erotojocular    from Lydia Amir (Beit Berl Szeged). Election Campaign du Québec à Montréal).
             Corrective Humor: A Cross-     British Stand-Up Comedy       Tool of Power – A Reading    College). “Good News from Tools in Comic Newspapers Stand-up | Sit-down:
             Cultural Study With the        and Its Contemporary          of Traditional Chinese Sex   the International Association                            Reflecting on the Creation of
             BenCor                         Context                       Jokes                        for the Philosophy of                                    a Comic Persona for Stand-
                                                                                                       Humor”                                                   Up Comedy

             Robert Durka and Petra         Simon Weaver (Brunel          Agnieszka Piskorska          Sammy Basu (Willamette         Dorota Rygiel (Krosno State
             Lajciakova (Catholic           University London). Brexit    (University of Warsaw).      University). Public Honor,     College). The Political Power
             University, Ruzomberok).       Irony, Caricature and         Exploiting “Man Versus       Personal Dignity, and the      of Cartoons: An Outline of
             Benevolent and Corrective      Neoliberalism                 Woman” Stereotypes in        Prospects of a Life of         Polish and Turkish Political
             Humor in Relation to the                                     1950s and Present-Day        Philosophical Humor            Humour
             Dark Triad in the Population                                 Polish Cartoons
             of Slovak University
             Students
             Simge Aykan and Erhan        DISCUSSION                      DISCUSSION                   Jean Braybrook (Birkbeck Yousef Barahmeh
             Nalcaci (Ankara University),                                                              College, University of      (University of Portsmouth).
             Humor Comprehension and                                                                   London). Laurent Joubert on The Use of Humour in
             Appreciation Test (HCAT):                                                                 Laughter                    Jordanian Society After the
             Development, Reliability and                                                                                          Arab Spring
             Validity

             Trevor Flowers and                                                                        Alejandro Mesa Villajos (The
             Tracey Platt (University                                                                  Autonomous University
             of Wolverhampton). If                                                                     of Barcelona). Humor and
             Gelotophobes Smile                                                                        Revolution
             Differently to Non-
             Gelotophobes During
             Interviews, Can the
             Emphatic Underpinning of
             Counselling Psychologists
             Enable Detection
             Above Non-Counselling
             Psychologists?
19:00-00:00 comedy contest @Must Puudel

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Humour: Positively (?) Transforming                                                                                                         30th ISHS Conference 2018 in Tallinn, Estonia

Wednesday, June 27, 2018
08:30-18:00 registration
9:00-10:30   A002 Plenary session (Chair: Martin Lampert): Adam Valen Levinson (Yale University). Taking Offense Seriously (DANYS), Gabriella Valentino (Swansea University). Stiff
             Upper Lip: Wodehouse’s Berlin Broadcasts (GSA), Joonas Aleksi Koivukoski (University of Helsinki). Verbal Humor in Populist Rhetoric – Jab Lines Along the Way From
             Marginal to Minister in Timo Soini’s Career (GSA)
10:30-11:00 coffee/tea
11:00-12:30 Psychology (Chair:              Humor and                     Humour and Violence         Sports (Chair: Kalle           Humour in/and/or             Translation (Chair: Will
            Willibald Ruch)                 Intertextuality II (Chairs:   (Chairs: Anna-Sophie        Voolaid)                       Protest I: The Theory of     Noonan)
            A002                            Villy Tsakona and Jan         Jürgens and Jarno           A121                           Political Humour (Chairs:    A224
                                            Chovanec)                     Hietalahti)                                                Daria Radchenko and
                                            A325                          A346                                                       Alexandra Arkhipova)
                                                                                                                                     A402
             Sonja Heintz and Willibald     Anastasiya Astapova           Anna-Sophie Jürgens         Jessica Milner Davis           Alexandra Arkhipova          Evgeniya Abaeva (Moscow
             Ruch (University of Zurich).   (University of Tartu, Uppsala (Australian National        (University of Sydney).        (RANEPA, RSUH), Daria        City University). Language
             Six Humor Skills and Their     University). Joking About     University). Humorectomy:   Breaking the Taboo: Sport      Radchenko and Anna           Factor in Production and
             Overlaps With Humor-           (the Fear of) Joking in a     Frankenstein and Evil       and Satire in Australia        Kirzyuk (RANEPA). “Our       Translation of Humorous
             Related Traits and Life        Non-Democratic Regime         Clowns                                                     schmuk”: Russian Folklore    Effects
             Satisfaction                                                                                                            About American Elections
             Martin Lampert (Holy           Villy Tsakona (National and Susanne Ylönen (University Laura Hokkanen (South-      Catherine E. Davies                Dahui Dong and Meng-Lin
             Names University). The         Kapodistrian University      of Jyväskylä). “Ten Little Eastern Finland University (University of Alabama).           Chen (Chang Jung Christian
             Intersection Between           of Athens). The Role of      Zombies”: On Killing Humor of Applied Sciences). The American Political Satire           University). Translation
             Humor Styles and Humor         Intertextuality and Cultural                            Public Disgracing and      in Public and in Private:          Competence and Humorous
             Types                          Literacy in Joke Processing                             Punishment With the Power Humorous Insults Directed           Errors
                                                                                                    of Humor                   at Trump
             Yu Hsiu Liao, Meng-Hua      Vasia Tsami (University of       Lena Straßburger              Piret Voolaid (Estonian      Julie Dufort (University of   Renata Kamenická (Masaryk
             Tsai, Hsueh-Chih Chen and Patras). Metapragmatic             (University of Cologne). It’s Literary Museum) and Kalle   Montreal). “… is it something University). Humour
             Si-Yu Luo (National Taiwan Stereotypes and Humor:            a Matter of Life and Death – Voolaid (Estonian Sports      I said”: Toward a Theory of Across Cultures? The Case
             Normal University). The Re- Interpreting and Perceiving      Incongruity in Humor and and Olympic Museum).              Humor Controversies           of Saturnin, a (Not Very)
             lationship Between Primary Linguistic Homogeneity in         Horror                        Sports Commentators’                                       Czech Comic Novel and Its
             Teachers’ Humor Styles and Mass Culture Texts                                              Gaffes as a Type of (Un)                                   Mirrorings in Translation and
             Emotional Labour                                                                           Intentional Humour in                                      Rewriting
                                                                                                        Estonia
12:30-14:00 lunch                           ISHS board meeting M649

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Humour: Positively (?) Transforming                                                                                                      30th ISHS Conference 2018 in Tallinn, Estonia

14:00-15:30 Arts (Chair: Anastasiya       Humour and                     Asking the Audiences I       Artificial Intelligence I:   Humour in/and/or Protest Workshop
            Fiadotava)                    Intertextuality III (Chairs:   (Chair: Richard Talbot)      Humour Generation &          II: Humour and Protest in A046
            A224                          Villy Tsakona and Jan          A346                         Recognition (Chair: Julia    the Internet (Chairs: Daria
                                          Chovanec)                                                   Rayz)                        Radchenko and Alexandra
                                          A325                                                        A121                         Arkhipova)
                                                                                                                                   A402
             Saša Babič (Estonian         Margherita Dore (University Neslihan Arol (Berlin           Christian F. Hempelmann, Aleksandar Takovski (SEE Ira Seidenstein (International
             Literary Museum). What       of Rome “La Sapienza”).         University of the Arts).    Rajesh Sundaram and Derek University). Beyond Internet: School for Acting and
             is the Difference Between    The Boomerang Effect of         Questions From a Feminist   Harter (Texas A&M Univer- Humour and Political          Creativity). Embodied
             an Orchestra and a Cow?      Controversial Humour and Killjoy: “Why did you              sity-Commerce). Generation Engagement                   Humour via I.S.A.A.C.
             Exploring the Idiosyncracy   Intertextuality in Advertising: laugh?”                     of Humorous CAPTIONS                                    Performance Exercises
             of Musicians’ Humour         Social and Cultural                                         FOR CARTOON IMAGES
                                          Implications                                                Using Deep Learning
             Maria Goeth (Crescendo).     Maria Jesus Pinar Sanz         Ian Brodie (Cape Breton      Vladislav Maraev (University Daria Radchenko (RANEPA).
             Humor in Music               (University of Castilla-La     University). The Validation of Gothenburg), Ilya Utekhin Cook Me Some Rusiano:
                                          Mancha). Humor and             of Laughter: The Audience’s (European University at       Economic Sanctions,
                                          Intertextuality in Political   “Responsibility” to Stand-Up Saint Petersburg). News      Jokelore and Marketing in
                                          Cartoons                       Comedy                       Aggregator as a Tool for     Russia
                                                                                                      (Black) Humor Generation

             Aikaterini Zacharopoulou     Anna Rewiś-Łętkowska           Ian Wilkie (University of    Martin Rebane, Caroly        Amy Johnson (Amherst
             (Architectural Association   (Krosno State College).        Salford). The Sounds of      Huobolainen (Tallinn         College). Memeing Where
             School of Architecture).     Waking the Sleeping            Laughter: A Study Into       University of Technology).   the Public Is: The Humor
             Humour and/or Irony:         Dragon: The Humorous           Communal Laughter            What Does It Take for        Debates of Government
             How an Architecture of       Effect of Unintended                                        Computers to Recognise       Social Media Managers
             Communication Can Fail       Metaphorical Blends in                                      Funny Images?
             to Communicate               Political Discourse
15:30-16:00 coffee/tea                    Poster session

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Humour: Positively (?) Transforming                                                                                                         30th ISHS Conference 2018 in Tallinn, Estonia

16:00-18:00 Yuck, Yuck, Yuck:          Linguistics (Chair: Kseniia Asking the Audiences II             Artificial Intelligence II:   Humour in/and/or Protest Health and Humour (Chair:
            Laughing at Disgust (Chair:Shilikhina)                 (Chair: Ian Wilkie)                 Analysis and Theory of        III: Humour and Protest   Paavo Kerkkänen)
            Delia Chiaro)              A325                        A346                                Humour (Chair: Tristan        Around the Globe (Chairs: A224
            A002                                                                                       Miller)                       Daria Radchenko and
                                                                                                       A121                          Alexandra Arkhipova)
                                                                                                                                     A402
             Delia Chiaro (University of Helga Kotthoff (Freiburg  Roald Dijkstra (Radboud    Valeria Generalova (Russian MJ Robinson (Brooklyn       Alyona Ivanova (Pirogov
             Bologna). Yuck, Yuck, Yuck: University). “Ethno-      University). Lacking       State University for the    College). Weimar ::         Russian National Research
             Laughing at Disgust         Comedy” Between Inclusion Humour, Theoretically:     Humanities). Spontaneously Watergate :: 2018 – PoliticalMedical University, Mental
                                         and Exclusion: Humorous Early Christian Responses to Funny Dialogues in Human- Humor in Crisis?              Health Research Center),
                                         Hyper-Types, Their        Classical Comical Texts    Machine Communication                                   Victoria Obraztsova (Mental
                                         Communicative Practices                                                                                      Health Research Center;
                                         and Their Reception                                                                                          Federal Scientific Clinical
                                                                                                                                                      Center of Reanimatology
                                                                                                                                                      and Rehabilitation),
                                                                                                                                                      Ekaterina Grabovaya
                                                                                                                                                      (PJSC “B&N Bank”),
                                                                                                                                                      Russell Chan (University
                                                                                                                                                      of South Australia) and
                                                                                                                                                      Olga Shcherbakova (Saint
                                                                                                                                                      Petersburg State University).
                                                                                                                                                      Cognitive and Emotional
                                                                                                                                                      Components of Humor
                                                                                                                                                      Comprehension in Healthy
                                                                                                                                                      People and Psychiatric Patients
             Debra Aarons (University of Magdalena Wieczorek             John Magnus Dahl              Max Petrenko (Texas A&M Sümeyra Güneş (Sabanci Richard Talbot (University
             New South Wales). Having (Siedlce University of             (University of Bergen). The   University-Commerce, ntent.University). Humor as a Way of Salford), Claire Dormann
             a Spew: The Gag Reflex      Natural Sciences and            Show “Black Humour” and       com), Courtney Falk (Texas of Resistance: The Case of (Liverpool School of Tropical
                                         Humanities). Functions          the Inclusive Laughter:       A&M University-Commerce, Zaytung                       Medicine). Virtual Clowning
                                         of Humour in “Modern            Comedy, Recognition and       Optiv Inc.), Christian F.                              for Dementia Care
                                         Family”: A Relevance-           Cultural Identities           Hempelmann (Texas A&M
                                         Theoretic Approach                                            University-Commerce).
                                                                                                       Automated Ontologized
                                                                                                       Oppositeness
             Giselinde Kuipers (University Henri De Jongste (DortmundDISCUSSION                        Julia Rayz and Xiaonon Jing   Jayshree Chander (Beyond German Payo (Educahumor).
             of Amsterdam). Humor and University of Applied                                            (Purdue University). Joke     Holistic). The Use of Humor Humor and Laughter: A Tool
             the Cultivation of Disgust    Sciences and Arts). Culture                                 Similarity: GTVH Versus       in Seeking Justice After a   for Dementia and Alzheimer
                                           as Common Ground                                            Joke Embedding                Major Industrial Catastrophe Caregivers
             Nikita Lobanov (University   Evelyn Ferstl (University of                                 Elena Mikhalkova and       DISCUSSION                    Shuli Victor (Dream Doctors
             of Bologna). Holy Moley!     Freiburg), Laura Israel (LMU                                 Nadezhda Ganzherli                                       Project/Sapir College).
             Nice to Mole You!            Munich). Comprehension                                       (Tyumen State University).                               Medical Clowning in an
                                          of Verbal Humour: Eye-                                       Towards a Unified Feature-                               Earthquake Zone
                                          Tracking Reveals Differences                                 Based Semantic Tagging of
                                          Between Reading and                                          Humor, Irony and Metaphor
                                          Listening
19:00-22:00 banquet at Olde Hansa
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Thursday, June 28, 2018
8:45-10:00    trip to Vihula
10:00-11:00 Constance Hall. Keynote (Chair: Moira Marsh): Elliott Oring (California State University, Los Angeles). Oppositions, Overlaps, and Ontologies: The General Theory of Verbal
            Humor Revisited
11:00-11:30   coffee/tea
11:30-13:00 Christie Davies Panel I:          Humour and Literature I     Video games (Chair:           Humour in communication Workshop,
            Close Circles (Chair: Liisi       (Chair: Roni Cohen)         Valeria Generalova)           (Chair: Helga Kotthoff) Vodka Distillery
            Laineste)                         Ursula Hall                 Dora Hall                     Palm House Hall
            Constance Hall

              Delia Chiaro (University of     Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard      Mikhail Fiadotau (Tallinn     Santa Stopniece (University   Mariann Martin
              Bologna). Christie and His      (University of Ottawa).     University). Why Did the      of Jyväskylä). The Simple     (Independent medical/
              Vest of Many Pockets            Vladimir Nabokov’s          Humor Scholar Cross the       and the Complex Nature        rehab humor researcher).
                                              Geometry of Humour          Road? Translating Canned      of Humor and Laughter         Blending Ventriloquism
                                                                          Jokes for the Videogame       in Finnish-Chinese            With Folklore /
                                                                          Medium                        Negotiations                  Storytelling – A Universal
                                                                                                                                      Commonality
              Władysław Chłopicki        John Parkin (University of Manuel Garin (Pompeu                Andrew Olah and Thomas
              (Jagiellonian University)  Bristol). Satire and Parody in Fabra University).              Ford (Western Carolina
              and Dorota Brzozowska      the Early Evelyn Waugh         Reappropriating Mario:          University). Humor’s
              (Opole University). Polish                                Transformative Online           Impact on Perceived
              Highlander Jokes and Their                                Humor and Nintendo Video        Trustworthiness
              Targets                                                   Games
              Goh Abe (Kagawa                 Mokhtar Sahnoun             Daniel Hessler (University    Lita Lundquist (Copenhagen
              University). The Lessons I      (Manouba University). The   of Bayreuth). You Lose, You   Business School). Learning
              Have Learned From Christie      Function of Humor in the    Laugh – On Agency, Loss       and Un-Learning Humour in
              Davies                          Work of Samuel Beckett      and Humour in Computer        the European Parliament
                                                                          Games
              Nina Famichova (Belarusian
              State University).
              Dimensions of Rural Humor
13:00-14:00 lunch                             RISU Goes Glocal (roundtable)
14:00-15:30 Christie Davies Panel II:         Humour and Literature II    Tourism (Chair: Anja          Comedians (Chair: Eric        Workshop,
            Influences (Chair: Dorota         (Chair: John Parkin)        Pabel)                        Weitz)                        Vodka Distillery
            Brzozowska)                       Ursula Hall                 Dora Hall                     Palm House Hall
            Constance Hall
              Anssi Halmesvirta               Firouzeh Dianat (Howard     Marit Piirman (University     Ewa Barbara Luczak            Haide Männamäe and
              (Jyväskylä University).         Community College),         of Tartu Pärnu College).      (Warsaw University). Face     Toomas Tross (Piip and Tuut
              Socialist Jokes in Finland in   Narges Dianat (Kurdistan    Conceptualizing the           to Face With Eugenics:        Theatre). What Makes Us
              the Mid-1960s                   University). Humor and      Usage of Humour               Charlie Chaplin and the Art   Laugh
                                              Amalgamated Identity in     in Accommodation              of Perturbation
                                              Dumas’ Memoirs              Establishments

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             Liisi Laineste (Estonian     Claire Duffy (Deakin          Maja Turnsek and Tatjana Giacinto Palmieri (University
             Literary Museum). Joke       University). Parodic Feminist Zupančič (Unviersity of     of Surrey). The Role
             Tales and Their Targets:     Literature: Margaret          Maribor). Taking Them Back of Humour in Identity
             The Clergy in Estonian       Atwood’s “Penelopiad” and to School: Use of Humour Negotiation: The Evidence
             Jokelore                     Danielle Wood’s “Rosie        in Intertwining of Heritage From a Bilingual Comedy
                                          Little’s cautionary tales for Interpretation and Staged Club in London
                                          girls”                        Experiences
             Jan Chovanec (Masaryk        Mokhtar Farhat (University Anja Pabel (Central       Joanna Ut-Seong Sio
             University). Early Titanic   of Gafsa). Humour in the   Queensland University).   (Palacky University).
             Jokes: A Disaster for the    Maghrebian Literature      Towards a Better          Short-Form Improvisation:
             Theory of Disaster Jokes?                               Understanding of the      Creativity, Constraints and
                                                                     Humour Repertoire Concept Humour
15:30-16:00 coffee/tea                                                  Ambrozio Correa de Queiroz
                                                                        Neto (CEFET-RJ), Anja
                                                                        Pabel (Central Queensland
                                                                        University). Tourist Visitation
                                                                        to Comedy Clubs in
                                                                        Fortaleza, Brazil
16:00-17:30 Christie Davies Panel III:    Humour and Literature         Identity (Chair: Anastasiya Philosophy (IAPH) II (Chair: Workshop,
            Reverberations (Chair:        III (Chair: Yen-Mai Tran-     Astapova)                   Sammy Basu)                  Vodka Distillery
            Delia Chiaro)                 Gervat)                       Dora Hall                   Palm House Hall
            Constance Hall                Ursula Hall
             Guillem Castañar (University Alice Haines (University of   So-Yeon Kim (Sogang               Dmitrij Gluščevskij            Anita Dorczak
             of Barcelona). Ethnic        Nottingham). The Cognitive    University). From “All-           (Vilnius University). In       (Seasoned Canadian
             Groups, Social Identities:   Stylistics of Humour          American Girl” to “Fresh          Search of Semiotics of         Lawyer). Transforming
             Jokes in Russian About       ‘Enhancers’                   off the Boat”: Comedy as          Humour: A. J. Greimas and      Conflict With Creativity and
             Georgians and Tajiks                                       an Approach to Cultural           Philosophy                     Humour, Seriously?
                                                                        Citizenship
             Anneli Kõvamees (Tallinn    Aleksandr Lavrentev            Arie Sover (The Open              Jarno Hietalahti (University
             University). ‘Vene värk‘ or (Udmurt State University).     University of Israel). What’s     of Jyväskylä). Jung Meets
             the Russian Way of Things A Cognitive Approach to          Special About the Jewish          Camus: Making Sense of
                                         Studying Literary Humor        Joke?                             the Absurd Shadow World
             DISCUSSION                   Antionio Leggieri (Beijing   Eyitayo Aloh (Trent         Lauren Olin (University of
                                          Language and Culture         University). Laughing to be Missouri – St. Louis). On
                                          University). The Old Scholar Citizens: Humour, Belonging Comic Value
                                          as a Humorous Trope in       and African Immigrants of
                                          Late-Ming Literature         Canada
17:30-18:00 coffee/tea
18:00-19:00 Constance Hall. CDA plenary (Chair: Giselinde Kuipers): Hannah Baldwin (Royal Holloway, University of London). “Was it you who died, or your brother?”
19:00-19:30 Piip and Tuut show
19:30-21:30 dinner
21:30-22:30 trip back

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Friday, June 29, 2018
08:30-18:00 registration
9:00-11:00    A002 Keynotes (Chair: Liisi Laineste): Trevor Blank (State University of New York at Potsdam). How the Mighty Have Fallen: American Celebrity Scandals and Humor
              Dynamics Online
              Limor Shifman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). The Promises and Perils of Internet Memes
11:00-11:30   coffee/tea
11:30-13:00 Humor and (the Lack of)          Humour and Literature IV Canadian connection                Politics II (Chair:             Comedy documentaries I Interdisciplinary Debate
            Limitations I (Chair: Maria      (Chair: Jessica Milner   (Chair: Antti Lindfors)            Aleksandar Takovski)            (Chair: Carlo Cubero)  on the Novel “The Man
            Laakso)                          Davis)                   A346                               A121                            A046                   Who Spoke Snakish”
            A402                             A325                                                                                                               (Andrus Kivirähk) (Chairs:
                                                                                                                                                                Władysław Chłopicki and
                                                                                                                                                                Reet Hiiemäe)
                                                                                                                                                                A002
              Jarno Hietalahti (University   Evangeline Manickam            Jean-Marie Lafortune         Junichiro Sano (Inter-        Funeral Season (direcor:   Anastasia Astapova
              of Jyväskylä). God and         (Indian Institute of           (Université du Québec        national Pacific University). Matthew Lancit)            (University of Tartu, Uppsala
              Humor. Philosophical           Technology Madras).            à Montréal). Televised       Humor Against “Abe-Gate”                                 University), Giselinde Kuipers
              Analysis on the Conceptual     What’s So Funny About          Mass Humor: Towards          2014–2018                                                (University of Amsterdam),
              Possibility of Holy Humor      a Wooden Leg? Spirituality     a Hegemonic Process in                                                                Delia Chiaro (University
                                             and the Comic Grotesque:       Montreal’s French General-                                                            of Bologna), Christopher
                                             The Curious Case of            Interest Channels                                                                     Moseley (School of
                                             Flannery O’Connor                                                                                                    Slavonic & East European
                                                                                                                                                                  Studies, University College
                                                                                                                                                                  London), Siret Campbell
                                                                                                                                                                  (Drakadeemia), Giovantonio
                                                                                                                                                                  Forabosco (CRU – Centro
                                                                                                                                                                  Ricerca Umorismo)
              Nicole Graham (University      Yen-Mai Tran-Gervat            Jay Friesen (University of   Massih Zekavat (Yazd
              of Kent). Laughing With        (Sorbonne New                  Alberta). Grey Comedy and    University). Satire as
              ‘Horrible’ People: Social      University – Paris III). Don   Vibrant Multiculturalism:    Ethical and Political Action:
              Morality, Games, and Safe      Quixote as a Prototype of      The Canadian Emergence       Environmental Advocacy
              Spaces to Laugh                Humour in 18th Century         of Little Mosque on the      Through Satire in “The
                                             England                        Prairie                      Simpsons”
              Caitlin Hogan (Ohio            Elaine Gerbert (University     Lucas Loizou (University      Sara Ödmark (Mid Sweden
              University). Censorship,       of Kansas). A Typology of      of Toronto). Laughing in      University). When Small
              Criticism, and Comedy:         Japanese Comic Character       the Anthropocene: The         State Comedians Frame the
              Playing a Part in My Own       Types                          Divergences of Egyptian       News: The Agenda-Setting
              Degradation                                                   and Canadian Political Satire of Political Humor
13:00-14:30 lunch                            HUMOR board meeting M649

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14:30-16:00 Humor and (the Lack of) Humour and Literature V Health benefits of humour Politics III (Chair: Massih                   Comedy documentaries II
            Limitations II (Chair: Jarno (Chair: Jeanne Mathieu- (Chair: Sibe Doosje) A346 Zekavat)                                 (Chair: Carlo Cubero)
            Hietalahti) A402             Lessard) A325                                     A121                                     A046
             Marianna Keisalo (Aarhus      Roni Cohen (Tel Aviv         Kadri Nazlı (Dicle University). Sammy Basu (Willamette La Promesa (director:
             University). The Revolution   University). A Sacred        “Too childish to be fun, or University). ‘We shall         Valeria Luongo), Who Cares
             Will Be a Joke: Semiotic      Parody: When a Purim         not?”: The Relationship         overcomb’: President Trump About Caring? (director:
             Ideologies of Morality and    Parody Stops Being Funny     Between Age and Humor as the Tragic Consequence Amaranta Heredia)
             Transgression in Finnish                                                                   of Humor Gone Awry
             Stand-Up Comedy
             Serguisz Anoszko (Cardinal Thuy Hien Le (University of Paavo Kerkkänen (University Asaf Nissenbaum (Hebrew
             Stefan Wyszyński University Naples “L’Orientale”). Trans- of Eastern Finland, freelance University of Jerusalem). Is
             in Warsaw). Church of the    lating humorous literature retired researcher).            This a Joke? Transnational
             Flying Spaghetti Monster – from Vietnamese Into Italian Retirement Humor and            Comic Reactions to the
             the Invented Joke-Religion orLanguage: An Empirical       “Senior Clowns”               Election of Donald Trump
             New Religious Movement? Study of Humor Reception
             Maria Laakso (University of DISCUSSION                     Gudrun Baumgartner (Inde- DISCUSSION
             Tampere). Limitations of Hu-                               pendent researcher). Mutual
             mor in a Satirical Text. Short                             Well-Being Through “Hum-
             movie “Mercy All the Way”                                  munication” Creating a Win-
             as a Seriously Humorous and                                Win Situation in Caring for
             Humorously Serious Text                                    Relatives With Dementia
16:00-16:30 coffee/tea
16:30-18:00 Humor and (the Lack            Law and Limits (Chairs:      Memes (Chair: Limor           Comedy documentaries III
            of) Limitations III (Chair:    Laura Little and Rachel      Shifman)                      (Chair: Carlo Cubero)
            Marianna Keisalo) A402         DiCioccio) A325              A121                          A046
             Phillip Deen (University of   Natalia Defiel (University   Rūta Muktupāvela (LatvianPlanet Petrila (director:
             New Hampshire). Is Bill       of Minnesota). Beyond the    Academy of Culture). Univer-Andrei Dascalescu)
             Cosby Still Funny?            Limits of Humor              sity Students’ Humour in the
                                                                        Digital Environment: Internet
                                                                        Memes as a Folklore Genre
             Evgeniya Zaretskaya          João Paolo Capelotti          Mare Kalda and Astrid Tuisk
             (NRU Higher School of        (Federal University of        (Estonian Literary Museum).
             Economics - St. Petersburg). Paraná). Humor and            School Memes: The
             Humoristic Caricatures:      Copyright                     Estonian Case
             Network and Privacy of
             “Nastoyaschie Krylovtsi”
             DISCUSSION                    Laura Little (Temple         Asaf Nissenbaum and Limor
                                           University School of Law)    Shifman (Hebrew University
                                           and Rachel DiCioccio         of Jerusalem). Between
                                           (University of Rhode         Awkward Penguins and
                                           Island). Humor Dynamics in   Gloating Pandas: A Cross-
                                           Adversary Litigation         Linguistic Study of Meme
                                                                        Templates as Expressive
                                                                        Vocabularies
18:00        ISHS general meeting A002
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POSTER presentations (June 26–27, 2018)                                                                                 Co-author(s)

How Did the Japan Society for Laughter and Humor Studies (JSLHS)              Kazasuke Ito (The Japan Society for       Tetsuya Sumiyoshi (Sakakibara Heart Institute Tokyo)
Approach the Local Government and the Medical Societies?                      Laughter and Humor Studies)

Lowering the Fences – Finding Humour With our Distant Neighbours              Elaine Anderson (Independent
                                                                              researcher)

Gender as a Moderator in the Relationship Between Gelotophobia and the        Shu-Ling Cho (Fu Jen Catholic             Hsueh-Chih Chen (National Taiwan Normal University)
Identity and Memory of Facial Expression                                      University)

BenCor in Latvian: Relation With Humour Styles and Personality Traits         Ieva Stokenberga (University of Latvia)   Sabīne Petruseviča (University of Latvia)

Fear of Being Laughed at and Bullying Experience Among Adolescents            Ieva Stokenberga (University of Latvia)   Sanita Stroda (University of Latvia)
in Latvia

The Role of Clowns in the Reduction of Distress and Pain in Children During   Laura Vagnoli (Meyer Children’s Hospital) Elena Amore, Alessandra Bettini, Daniela Graziani, Brunella
Venipuncture: A Comparison With Animal Assisted Activity and Musicians                                                  Voltarelli and Andrea Messeri (Meyer Children’s Hospital)

The Efficacy of Clowns’ Intervention in Increasing Positive Emotions          Laura Vagnoli (Meyer Children’s Hospital) Francesca Addarii (Meyer Children’s Hospital), Alberto Dionigi
of Hospitalized Children                                                                                                (Federazione Nazionale Clowndottori), Andrea Messeri (Meyer
                                                                                                                        Children’s Hospital)

Humor Culture at Work: Why Humor Makes a Difference for Employee              Tabea Scheel (Europa-Universitaet         Maria Bley (Foundation Humor Hilft Heilen), Stefan Borgelt
Satisfaction                                                                  Flensburg)                                (Great Place to Work Germany)

Research on Humor Production and Creativity: An Overview                      Sonja Heintz (University of Zurich)       Willibald Ruch (University of Zurich)

The Effect of Curriculum of Teaching Imagination: Using PhoPhiKat as          Yaonan Lin (Fu Jen Catholic University)   Fa-Chung Chiu (Chinese Culture University), Hsueh-Chih Chen
a Moderate Variable                                                                                                     and Yu-Lin Chang (National Taiwan Normal University)

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                  Nr   Name                                 Category                        Address                                   Telephone

                    1 Tallinn University - ASTRA Building   Conference venue and Reception Narva maantee 29, Tallinn

                   2 Olde Hansa Restaurant                  Banquet (Wednesday)             Vana turg 1, Tallinn                      +372 6279020
                   3 Must Puudel Cafe                       Comedy night (Tuesday)          Müürivahe 20, Tallinn                     +372 5056258
                   4 Tallink City Hotel                     Accomodation                    A. Laikmaa 5, Tallinn                     +372 6300808
                   5 Hestia Hotel Seaport                   Accomodation                    Uus-Sadama 23, Tallinn                    +372 6676600
                   6 Park Inn by Radisson Central Tallinn   Accomodation                    Narva maantee 7c, Tallinn                 +372 6339800
                   7 Nordic Hotel Forum                     Accomodation                    Viru Square 3, Tallinn                    +372 6222900
                   8 Salt Restaurant                        Fusion / Exotic                 Vase 14, Tallinn                          +372 5188510
                   9 Restaurant Villa Thai                  Thai / Indian food              J. Vilmsi 6, Tallinn                      +372 6419347
                  10 Restaurant Istanbul Kebab              Kebab / Fast food               Narva maantee 31, Tallinn                 +372 55597915
                   11 Faeton Restaurant                     Armenian / Georgian / Local     J. Köleri 2, Tallinn                      +372 6872125
                  12 Restaurant Riis                        Asian                           Tina 21, Tallinn                          +372 6427025
                  13 Kosher Restaurant Jeruusalemm          Kosher                          Karu 16, Tallinn                          +372 6644370
                  14 Japanese Restaurant Haku               Japanese (open from 5pm)        Narva maantee 55a, Tallinn                +372 56314547
                  15 Cafe Pushkin                           Russian                         Narva maantee 36, Tallinn                 +372 6313636
                  16 Musita Resto                           Local food / Fusion             J. Köleri 2, Tallinn                      +372 6006557
                  17 Altunbas Turkish Food                  Turkish                         Narva maantee 31, Tallinn                 +372 55597915
                  18 Dereku Burger                          Hamburgers                      Fr. R. Faehlmanni 3, Tallinn              +372 55672010
                  19 ANNO Home Restaurant & Wine Corner     Local / Home restaurant         Poldri Street 3, Tallinn                  +372 6220044
                  20 Come In Restaurant                     Local / Russian                 Narva maantee 15, Tallinn                 +372 6616099
                  21 Kochi Aidad - Brewpub                  Pub food                        Lootsi 10, Tallinn                        +372 6667308
                  22 Cafe Narva                             Retro cafe / Local cuisine      Narva maantee 10, Tallinn                 +372 6601786
                  23 NOP Cafe and Shop                      Eco-friendly / Vegan            J. Köleri 1, Tallinn                      +372 6032270
                  24 Sushi Plaza                            Sushi                           Narva maantee 6, Tallinn                  +372 53332699
                  25 IO Restaurant                          Italian / Fusion                Narva maantee 63/4, Tallinn               +372 6717115
                  26 Oaas Cafe                              Local food                      Narva maantee 29, Tallinn                 +372 6602133
                  27 Restaurant Masha                       Russian                         Lootsi 14, Tallinn                        +372 6003633
                  28 Cafe Fe                                Local food                      Raua 23, Tallinn                          +372 6030091

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