ISHS Dublin 2016: ‘The World Brings Fools Together’
The 28th Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies will be held from June 27 to July 1, 2016, at Trinity College Dublin. Conference activities will begin on Monday, June 27, with pre-conference sessions, including what we are calling Interdisciplinary Huddles, for attendees who would look forward to engaging in specially moderated small-group discussions (no more than five in each) with a prime directive of getting researchers from diverse scholarly and practical backgrounds to talk to one another. Attendees are invited to an evening wine reception in the historic Long Room of Trinity’s Old Library, with its vaulted ceilings and age-old holdings.
Tuesday, June 28 to Friday, July 1 will be full conference days with plenary sessions, panel discussions, practice-based workshops, installations and paper sessions. A conference banquet will be held on Wednesday night in Trinity’s Dining Hall, with a dinner scheduled for the final night at a local eatery. A special performance event is being produced in association with the conference on Thursday night, June 30, titled, Laughter in Our Bones: A Comic Cultural Buffet, offering short, classic comic pieces from Dublin’s range of ethnic communities along with several Irish sub-cultures, within a free-moving, fairground atmosphere. Other events will include a limerick competition as a variation on the yearly joke contest.
The Conference invites proposals for papers, poster sessions, special panels, and workshops related to humor research or the applications of humor research in the arts, humanities, and sciences. Papers should focus on original research dealing with humor under the general conference theme, ‘Humor as Embodied Practice’. The theme is intended to facilitate a wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary consideration of the humor transaction in its lived-through fullness for literary, virtual and mediatised worlds as well as everyday joking and obvious performance contexts. The deadline for submissions will be March 15, 2016, and abstracts will not be accepted prior to payment and registration.
Registration and abstract submission can be carried out at the conference website, ISHS Conference | Dublin 2016. Inquiries can be sent to the Conference Convener, Eric Weitz at [log in to unmask] or to the Conference email at [log in to unmask] Please also see social media sites, https://www.facebook.com/ishs2016 and https://twitter.com/ISHS2016.
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