Laboratorio permanente di Media and Humour Studies

For its 2021 edition, the Media and Humour Studies Lab presents the following programme of events.  All webinars will take place on Fridays at 4pm (Rome time) on MS Teams. Click here to attend the whole series or each individual event. You will receive a link to the meeting on the day of the event. Registration closes at 12pm on the day of the event.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH - 4-5pm

Jarno Hietalahti, University of Jyväskylä 

"The Ethics of Punching Up and Down: Controversial Cases of Humor as a Philosophical Challenge"

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH - 4-5.30pm

The Humorous Rhetoric of Brexit

Chair: Delia Chiaro, University of Bologna

Simon Weaver, Brunel University London

"Does populism need comedy? A discussion of the relationship between humour, comedy and populism"

Martin Rowson, cartoonist

"Neverending Nemesis: A Cartoon Guide to Brexit"

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH - 4-5.30pm

Do Androids Share Memes About Electric Sheep?

Chair: Anthony Dion Mitzel, University of Bologna

Salvatore Attardo, Texas A&M-Commerce

"Memetics and Combinatorics"

Christian F. Hempelmann, Texas A&M University-Commerce

“Can Artificial Humor be Bigoted?"

Tony Veale, University College Dublin

"Walking the Line: Navigating Offensiveness in Machine-Generated Humour"

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26TH - 4-5.30pm

Humour in the Public Sphere  (Part 1) - UnaEuropa funded project

Chair: Wladyslaw Chlopicki, Jagiellonian University

Introduction: Giselinde Kuipers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Răzvan Saftoiu, Transilvania University of Brașov

Agata Hołobut, Jagiellonian University Kraków

John Magnus, Ragnhildson Dahl University of Bergen

Joonas A Koivukoski, University of Helsinki and Juha Herkman, University of Helsinki

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3RD - 4-5.30pm

Humour in the Public Sphere (Part 2) - UnaEuropa funded project

Chair: Wladyslaw Chlopicki, Jagiellonian University

Introduction: Giselinde Kuipers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Jan Chovanec, Brno University

Anastasiya Fiadotava, Estonian Literary Museum

Jonas Nicolai, University of Antwerp

Delia Chiaro, University of Bologna