Conference Welcome
Martin Lampert, Conference Convener
Holy Names University

General Session:
Judiciary Humor
Chair: The Honorable Carol A. Corrigan
Associate Justice, California State Supreme Court

Funny Judges: Judges as Humorous, Judges as Humorists
Marc Galanter
University of Wisconsin Law School
    
Humorous Anecdotes about Judges in the United Kingdom
Christie Davies
University of Reading
   
Supreme Wit: The Use of Humor by the United States Supreme Court
Pamela Hobbs
Attorney at Law, Los Angeles

Humor and Health:
Has Research Supported the Popular Movement?
Paul McGhee
The Laughter Remedy

Humor and Subjective Well-Being
Willibald Ruch
University of Zurich

The Evolution of Humor over the Lifespan
George Vaillant
Harvard University Medical School

  
Symposium: Philosophers
of Humor Revisited
Chair: Elliott Oring
CSU Los Angeles

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The Third Earl of Shaftesbury
Lydia Amir
School of Media Studies
College of Management

Henri Bergson and
the Social Theory
of Humor and Laughter
Arie Sover
Al-Qasemi Academic
College of Education

What Freud Actually
Said about Jokes
Elliott Oring
California State University
Los Angeles

  
Paper Session: Analyses in
Conversational Humor
Chair: Salvatore Attardo
Texas A&M University-Commerce

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Sustained Humor
in Chinese Dyadic Conversation
Ying Zhang
Texas A&M University-Commerce
& Shanghai University
Salvatore Attardo
Texas A&M University-Commerce
    
Smiling Synchrony during
Dyadic Humorous Conversations
Elisa Gironzetti
Texas A&M
University--Commerce
     
Multimodal Markers in Conversational Humor
in Chinese Speakers
Meichan Huang
Salvatore Attardo,
& Lucy Pickering
Texas A&M University-Commerce

  
Paper Session:
Measuring Humor Styles
Chair: Larry Ventis
College of William and Mary

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Development of a Scale
of Self-Deprecating Humour, and its Difference from Self-Defeating Humour 
Bruce M. Findlay
Maren Rawlings
Swinburne University
of Technology
    
The Psychometric Qualities of the Short Version of Slovak PhoPhiKat
Robert Durka
Catholic University
   
An Investigation of the Construct Validity of Humor Styles
and Virtue-Related Humor
with Three Methods
Sonja Heintz & Willibald Ruch
University of Zurich

  
AATH Symposium:
Myths and Realities
of Applied and
Therapeutic Humor
and Laughter
Chair: Allen Klein
Healing Power of Humor

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Whatever it is, I'm Against it: Objections to the Concept of Therapeutic Humor
Don R. Baird
Chicago School
of Professional Psychology
     
Therapeutic Humor or Humor
that Is Therapeutic: Theory,
Practice, and Research
Steven Sultanoff
Pepperdine University
  
Sensible Skepticism,
Responsible Rhetoric,
and the Science of Snickers
Steven Wilson
Steve Wilson & Company

  
Paper Session:
Humor Theory I
Chair: Thomas Ford
Western Carolina University

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Philosophical Foundations
for Humour Research
Alan Roberts
University of Sussex
  
On Benign Violations
Elliott Oring
California State University
Los Angeles
 
Intrapersonal Communication:
The Epistemological Benefits
of Self-referential Humor
in Internal Dialogue
Lydia Amir
School of Media Studies
College of Management

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Clashing Intentions and Incongruities across Layers
of Action: Humour within the Participation Structure of Telecinematic Discourse
Thomas C. Messerli
University of Basel
  
Face-Threatening and
Face-Saving Acts in Humor
Carmen Maria Romana
Universidad de las Americas Puebla
Brita Banitz, & Paola Montforte
Universidad de las Americas Puebla
  
Celebrity Interviews in Chinese: Adversarialness and Neutralism
in a Humorous Frame
Di Yu
Columbia University

  
ISLHHS Symposium: Humor in the Hispanic World between Poverty and Wealth (Part 1)
Chair: Francisco Ocampo
University of Minnesota

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The Stereotype of Poverty and Wealth as Seen from the Point of View of Cultural Linguistics
Joanna Wilk-Racieska
University of Silesia
  
Corruption, Pretention,
and the Humorous Side of Tango
Alicia M. Ocampo
University of Minnesota
    
Argentina’s Economic Situation through the Optic
of Tabaré’s Diogenes y el Linyera
Maria Isabel Kalbermatten
Gustavus Adolphus College

       
Paper Session:
Deciphering Irony and Satire
Chair: Sue Ervin-Tripp
University of Califonia, Berkeley

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A Minimal Account of Irony
Joana Garmendia
ILCLI and Department of Basque Language and Communication

Inferences from Jokes to Meaning
Tristan Thomas Keillor
Otago University

Study Finds Jack Shit: An Investigation of the Mental Processing of Satirical
Onion Headlines
Stephen Skalicky, Cynthia Berger,
& Scott A. Crossley
Georgia State University

Workshop:
A Funny Thing Happened…But was it Therapeutic Humor?
Steven Sultanoff
Pepperdine University

   
Paper Session:
Humor Applications in Education
Chair: Nancy Bell
Washington State University

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It is a Little Known Fact that Batman Does not pick up his Soda Cans: Measuring Humor in Student Academic Writing
Cynthia Berger, Stephen Skalicky,
& Scott A. Crossley
Georgia State University
  Danielle S. McNamara
Arizona State University
  
“The Funniest Accidents” Channel
Suriati Abas
Indiana University

Taking Laughter Seriously in
the Science Classroom:
Examining Students’ Use
of Humor in Scientific
Sensemaking Discussions
Luke David Conlin
Stanford University

  
Paper Session:
Humor and the Law
Chair: Marc Galanter
University of Wisconsin Law School
  
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Laughter
in the Defendant's Bench
Joao Paulo Capelotti
Universidade Federal do Paraná

Humor and Intellectual
Property Law
Sayoko Jean Blodgett-Ford
University of Hawaii

Both the Mother and the Baby:
An Analysis of Brazil's Most Controversial Humor Case
Joao Paulo Capelotti
Universidade Federal do Paraná

    
ISLHHS Symposium: Humor
in the Hispanic World between Poverty and Wealth (Part 2)
Chair: Alicia Ocampo
University of Minnesota

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The Multilayered Humor
of Fontanarrosa's Inodoro
Pereyra, el Renegau
Francisco Ocampo
University of Minnesota

Baja Humor in 2015
Ruben Olachea
Universidad Autonoma
de Baja California Sur

     
Paper Session:
Humor and Personality
Chair: Willibald Ruch
University of Zurich

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Faith and Laughter: An Empirical Study of the Relationship between Religious Self-Identification and Humor Appreciation
Bernard Schweizer & Karl-Heinz Ott
Long Island University

The Relationship between Subjective Well-Being, Humor Styles, and Humor Behaviors: Maladaptive Styles, Adaptive Behaviors?
Sonja Heintz
University of Zurich

Self-Enhancing Humor is Related to Self-Compassion and Positive Emotional Traits
Sarina Rodrigues Saturn
University of Portland
Walter Piper
New York University
Michael Brydone-Jack
Oregon Health & Sciences University

Workshop:
Humor Intervention: The Seven Humor Habits Program
Paul McGhee
The Laughter Remedy

Women Matter in British Stand-Up Comedy
Sharon Lockyer
Brunel University

Japanese Traditional Sit-Down Comedy
Kimie Oshima
Kanagawa University

The Best Stand-Ups Stand Up for Something:
The Politics of Troublemaking Funny Women
Regina Barreca
University of Connecticut

   
Paper Session:
Humor Theory II
Chair: Jim Lyttle
University of Minnesota Duluth

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Incongruity-Resolution
and Predictive Processing
Alan Roberts
University of Sussex

The Topology of Humor
Donald J. Casadonte
Columbus State
Community College

The Humour Transaction:
A Conceptual Model
Jessica Milner Davis
University of Sydney

   
Paper Session:
Shaping Public Opinion
with Humor
Chair: Moira Marsh
Indiana University

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“Point at the Mulberry Tree
to Curse the Locust Tree”:
Smog Jokes in China
Jocelyn Chey
University of Sydney

Comedians like Walter Cronkite -
The Role Comedians and Comedy Writers are the New Newsmakers
Cale Bain
University of Technology
Sydney

Humor in the Everyday
Life Struggles of the Urbanites
Gunes Ekin Soysal
Mountain View, California

   
Roundtable:
Gender Differences
in the Lives and Works
of Comedians
Chair: Patrice Oppliger
Boston University

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Roundtable Discussants
Patrice Oppliger
Boston University

Eric Shouse
East Carolina University

Cornelia Cody
University of Maryland

   
Paper Session:
Humor Communities
and Social Media
Chair: Kate Isaacson
Holy Names University

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Merry Bands: Comedy and
Tribalism in the New Media Age
Rebecca A. Krefting
Skidmore College

Long Live Jokes: Old Jokes
as Part of Online Communication
Liisi Laineste
Estonian Literary Museum

Virtual Amusement: Examining Message Board Boredom, Surrogacy, and Temporality
Nikhil K. Jayadevan
Simon Fraser University

Workshop:
Humor as a Pedagogical Tool in English Language Teaching as a Foreign Language
Denise Maria  Margonari
UNESP Araraquara

    
TASP Invited Symposium:
Humor and Play
Partners in Child Development
Chair: Barb O’Neill
California State University, Fresno

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Children's Play and Humor Development
Doris Bergen
Miami University of Ohio

Children's Speech and Language Play and Humor:
Finding the "Funny Bone"
Evangeline Nwokah
& Gabriella Alderete
Our Lady of the Lake University

It’s Not Funny! Aggressive Humor, Bullying, and Psychosocial Well-Being in Early Adolescence
Juliana Raskauskas
Caliifornia State University,
Sacramento

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Impious Humor and the “Sense of What Properly Goes With What”
Stephen Olbrys Gencarella
University of Massachusetts
Amherst

Parody as Subversion: The Impiety of Drag King Performance
Rachel R. Briggs
University of Massachusetts
Amherst

Laughter is Useless and Leads Nowhere: Bataille, Humor, Impiety, and Social Critique
Ray E. Huling
University of Massachusetts
Amherst

   
Paper Session:
Assessing Humor in
Discourse Cross-Culturally
Chair: Cornelia Cody
University of Maryland

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The Discourse Completion
Task as a Method for the Study
of Second Language Humor
Nancy Bell
Washington State University
  
Public Speeches by Toastmasters:
The Role of Humor Styles
  Shuming Bai
Nanyang Technological University, National Institute of Education
    
Discourses in a Humorous
Speech Contest in Macau
Joshua Lee
University of Macau

     
Paper Session:
Perspectives on Stand-Up
Comedians
Chair: Rebecca Krefting
Skidmore College

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Rhetors and Jesters: Rereading the Stand-up Comedians as Sophists
Jillian Marie Belanger
University of Rhode Island

The Language of Humour in Nigerian Stand-Up Comedy:
A Study of Selected Basket
Mouth’s Jokes
Emmanuel Adedayo Adedun
University of Lagos

A Ph.D. Walks into a Bar: Stand-Up Comedians with Advanced Degrees
Eric Brian Shouse
East Carolina University

Workshop:
(re) Reading the TV Sitcom
Deborah Therese Klika
Middlesex University London

   Paper Session: Humorous Play with Words & Music
Chair: Linda Morris
University of California, Davis

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Punny Names:
The Humorous Use of Homophones, Homographs, Metonyms and Polysemy in Assigning Names
Noleen Turner
University of KwaZulu-Natal

Humor in Instrumental Music: What’s So Funny about Slide Trombones, Whistles, Kazoos,
& a Musical Typewriter?
Bruce H. Glenn
Arizona State University
Larry Barron
Grand Canyon University

    Paper Session:
Humor and Gender Identity
Chair: Eric Shouse
East Carolina University

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The Host and The Roast:
Kitchen Humour in the Work of Julia Child and Suzanne Lacy
Margot K. Berrill
University of Illinois at Chicago

Humorous Awkwardness:
Performing Traditional Masculinities and Femininities, Heteronormative Sexualities, and Age-Stereotyped Identities in Between Two Ferns
Scott Patrick Murphy
Lindsay Lovett
Allison Hauser
University of South Florida

Stand Up and be (En) Countered
Kathryn Elizabeth Fox
University of Leeds

  EJHR Symposium: Humour
in Communication Styles
Chair: Wladyslaw Chlopicki
Jagiellonian University

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Polish Humorous Communication Style–a Pilot Study
Wladyslaw Chlopicki
Jagiellonian University

Multimodal Analysis
of Humor in Conversation
Elisa Gironzetti
Salvatore Attardo
Lucy Pickering
Meichan Huang
Shigehito Menjo
Ying Zhang
Texas A&M University-Commerce

Communication Styles,
Culture, and Humor
Dorota C.  Brzozowska
Opole University

Workshop:
Laughing Matters: A Playful and Philosophical Approach to Creating Humor in Everyday Life
Mary E. Fridley and Marian Rich, East Side Institute
Helen Abel, Life Performance Coaching Center

Mark Twain in the West: An Exhibition
Victor Fischer
University of California, Berkeley

Editing Mark Twain in the West
Benjamin Griffin
University of California, Berkeley

    
Paper Session:
Humor Theory III
Chair: Robert Mankoff
The New Yorker Magazine

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Humor and the Body:
A Perceptual Symbols Approach
Amy Rose Billingsley
University of Oregon

Steps Supporting Cultural
Diversity in Theoretical
Discourses on Laughter
Mark Weeks
Nagoya University

Humor Beyond the Brain:
A Call for Socially Situated Studies
of Humor Cognition
Patrawat  Samermit
& Raymond Gibbs
University of California, Santa Cruz

    
Symposium:
Humor and World History
Chair: Elaine Gerbert
University of Kansas

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We laugh at the Conflict, We are part of the World”: The Global Cold War in Chile through the Political Cartoons of the Topaze's Magazine between the Years 1958 – 1964
Matías Hermosilla
Pontificia Universidad Católica
de Chile

The Voice of the Common Man: Humour and Public Discourse
in R. K. Laxman's Cartoons
Suman
Indian Institute
of Technology (IIT) Mandi

Humor as a Wartime Communication Strategy: Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Curtin & Allied Journalists, 1941-1945
Caryn Michelle  Coatney
University of Southern Queensland

    
Paper Session:
Humor and Social Identity
Chair: Liisi Laineste
Estonian Literary Museum

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An Idealistic Vision of a “Good” Canadian Muslim and of a “Welcoming” White Canadian: The Sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie
Christelle Pare & Denise Helly
Institut National
de la Recherche Scientifique

‘Let’s Try that Curtsy Again’:
Biting Royalty in a
Photo Caption Competition?
Mike Lloyd
Victoria University of Wellington

To Be Real:
African American Standup
Comedy from 9/11 to Obama
Lanita Jacobs
University of Southern California

   
AHSA Invited Symposium:
Revisionist Strategies for
the Study of 19th Century
American Humor
Chair: Janice McIntire-Strasburg
St. Louis University

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One-Sided Scholarship,
or How we (Narrowly) Defined
American Humor
Janice McIntire-Strasburg
St. Louis University

Women in Comic Valentines,
from Old Maid to Golfe
Cameron Nickels
James Madison University

It Smacks of the Soil:
Racy Humor as Literature
and Lucre
Tracy Wuster
University of Texas, Austin

Workshop:
The Therapeutic Laughter Experience
Deborah Harbinson & Steve Wilson
World Laughter Tour, Inc.

     
Paper Session:
Linguistic Approaches
to Humor Research
Chair: Christian Hempelmann
Texas A & M University--Commerce

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Describing the
Multiple Components of a Joke
Graeme Ritchie
University of Aberdeen

Response-Based Computational Detection of Humor
Julia Taylor
Purdue University

Default Exploitation
in Verbal Humor
Victor Raskin
Purdue University

      
Paper Session:
Social Dynamics of Humor
Chair: Ursula Beerman
University of Geneva

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Not All Groups are Equal: Why Disparagement Humor Fosters Discrimination against Some Groups But Not Others
Thomas Ford
Western Carolina University

Blurred Boundaries: Audience Reception of Racial Discourse in Stand-up Comedy
Elise M. DeCamp
Western Michigan University

The Effects of Humour and
Physical Appearance on Ratings
of Attractiveness in Romantic Partners
Jay K. Brinker
Swinburne University
of Technology

    
Israeli Society Invited Symposium: Israeli and
Jewish Humor (Part 1)
Chair: Arie Sover
Al-Qasemi Academic College
of Education

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Jewish Humor Research:
An Outline
Arie Sover
Al-Qasemi Academic College
of Education

Jewish Humor
in Acient Rabbinic Literature
Avigail Ohali
University Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle

Holocaust Humor
in Israeli Culture
Liat Steir-Livny
The Open University
Sapir Academic College

 
Paper Session:
Humor Writers
through Time
Chair: Noleen Turner
University of KwaZulu-Natal

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The Joke is on Ctesippus
John S. Rundin
University of California, Davis

Various Shades of Humor in Chaucer's Writings
Smita Jha
Indian Institute of Technology

The Perfect Soufflé: The Stylistics
of  Humour in  P. G. Wodehouse
Krishna Barua
Indian Institute Of Technology Guwahati

Workshop:
Seeing Demise thru Humorous Eyes: How Cartoonists, Comedians
and Cinematographers Help Us See Death as Less of a Grave Matter
Allen Klein
The Healing Power of Humor

   
Paper Session:
Computational Humor
Chair: Victor Raskin
Purdue University

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Automatic Set-Up Detection
for Daily News Parodies
Christian Hemplemann
& Todd Morris
Texas A&M University--Commerce

Evaluate Japanese Punchline Framework: Psychological Aspects, and Comparison between Computer-generated and Human-made Punchlines
Hiroaki Yamane
Keio Univeristy; Prof. Masafumi Hagiwara, Keio University

Computer Assisted Humor
Evaluation of The New Yorker
Cartoon Caption Contest
Robert Mankoff
The New Yorker Magazine
Dragomir Radev
University of Michigan
Dafna Sharaf
Microsoft

      
Israeli Society Invited Symposium: Israeli and
Jewish Humor (Part 2)
Chair: Arie Sover
Al-Qasemi Academic College
of Education

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“As Much as You Like” - The Metamorphosis of Ephraim
Kishon’s Skit Across
Languages and Cultures
Yaniv Shimon Goldberg
Ashkelon Academic College

In Defense of JAPS and JAMS: A Look at Jewish American Princess and Jewish American Mother Jokes
Joyce M. Saltman
Special Education, Southern Connecticut State University

The Changing Style of Jewish Humor in the Second Half of
the 20th Century
Arie Melnik
University of Haifa

 
Paper Session:
Humorous Characters
Chair: Caryn Michelle Coatney
University of Southern Queensland

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Russell's Brand
of Political Philosophy
Jim Lyttle
University of Minnesota Duluth

Have You Read the World's
Funniest Joke Book? The Frog
Joke Books as Interaction Strategy
Moira Marsh
Indiana University

Engaging Dexter: A Case of Characterization by Humor
Linda Katherine Coleman
University of Maryland

Workshop:
Using Comedy and Tragedy in Complex Trauma Treatments
Daniel Lappin
Natural Arts Wellness Center

Cross the Road, They Said
No one will Ever Wonder Why, They Said:
Conceptual Blending and Humorous Memes
Seana Coulson
University of California, San Diego

     
Paper Session:
Humor Theory IV:
 Chair: Christelle Paré
Institut National
de la Recherche Scientifique

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Shape Humor, Activate Laughing:
A Communication Approach
Jean-Marie Lafortune
Université du Québec à Montréal

What is the Adaptive Function
of Laughter? A Test of
Competing Hypotheses using
Naturalistic Data
Ben Suddath
University of California
Los Angeles

Does a Logicial Proof
Exist that Humor can
Change the World?
Dirk Meissner
The Red Penguin

     
Paper Session:
Humor and Neuroscience
Chair: Seana Coulson
University of California, San Diego

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The Neural Genesis of a Joke
Ori  Amir & Irving Biederman
University of Southern California

The Bayesian Brain and Incongruity
Donald J. Casadonte
Columbus State Community College

Evidence for the Effects of the
Serotonin Transporter Gene 5-HTTLPR on Smiling and Laughing
Ursula Beermann
University of Geneva
Claudia M. Haase
Northwestern University
Laura R. Saslow
University of California
et al.

      
Paper Session:
Personal and Social
Narratives through Humor
Chair: Bruce Findlay
Swinburne University of Technology

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Psychobiography, Narrative,
and Life Story: Humorous
Narratives as Personality Data
Kate Isaacson
Holy Names University

How is New York City
Like a Stand-Up Comedy Routine?
Cornelia Cody
University of Maryland

We are More than Jailbirds:
Political and Editorial Factors Influences on Political
Cartoonists in Pakistan
Ayesha Ashfaq
University of the Punjab, Lahore

    
JSLHS Invited Symposium:
Catastrophe Humor
Chair: Goh Abe
Kagawa University

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A Comparative Analysis of Perceptions of Disaster Jokes
and Humor by Japanese
and Americans
Goh Abe
Kagawa University

Why did the Victims Compose
“Sinsai (great disaster) senryū?:
Recovery from Damage Due to
the Great East Japan Earthquake
Hiroaki Matsumoto
Shigakukan University

Political Cartoon Commentary and Disasters: a Comparative Study of Japanese and US Cartoons
Ronald Stewart
Prefectural University of Hiroshima

Workshop: Anatomy of the Stand-Up Comedy Act-Outs and Joke Structure:
Or How Can I Make This Title Even Longer Without Adding Any Relevant Information
Greg Verne Dean
Greg Dean's Stand-Up Comedy Workshops

Observatoire de l'Humour
Invited Symposium:
Mirror of Society
 Chair: Denise Helly
Institut National
de la Recherche Scientifique

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Profile and Ecosystem of the Francophone Humour Industry
in Québec
François Brouard
Carleton University
Christelle Paré
Institut National
de la Recherche Scientifique

Building Bridges: A Young Francophone Comedian
in a Bilingual Market
Gabriel Masson-Boucher
Artist-Entrepreneur
Quebec Comedy Industry

     
Paper Session:
Humor in Asian Cultures
Chair: Mark Weeks
Nagoya University

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Cantonese Xiehouyu:
Traditional Chinese Witty
Proverbs in a Regional
Dialect Culture
Marjorie Chan
The Ohio State University
Jocelyn Chey
University of Sydney

Brushes Filled with Laughter
Elaine T. Gerbert
University of Kansas

   
Paper Session:
Humor in Health Care
Chair: Don R. Baird
Chicago School
of Professional Psychology

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Humor and Empathy in the Public Mental Health Workplace: Coping with Secondary Traumatic Stress
Michelle Greenspoon Barrett
Antioch University Santa Barbara

Audacity and Insane Courage –
Dream Doctors' Secret Remedies
Atay Citron
University of Haifa

 
General Forum:
The Teaching
of Humor Studies
Facilitator: Martin Lampert
Holy Names University