Humor Research

This page contains information pertaining to humor research (e.g. academic humor journals, scientific organizations, conferences, etc.) and teaching of humor as an academic subject.

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If you are here for the first time, consider to look up those entries

• Website of the International Society for Humor Studies--ISHS
• Website of The International Summer School and Symposium on Humour and Laughter: Theory, Research and Applications--ISS
• Journal HUMOR and books in the Humor Research series
• Internet Discussion list on Humor Research. An interdisciplinary forum for the discussion, debate and exchange of ideas and information associated with the study of humour in all its forms.
• Academic courses on humour & laughter at Universities
• Email addresses and www-sites of humor researchers
• Jason Rutters bibliography of humour ("Laughingly Referred To")

What is ? 

• Participants have been sought for a study on the individual differences to being laughed at in throughout the lifespan but particularly focusing on the over 60 year olds being conducted at the University of Zurich. The online survey (in English) can be found here. .

• Information on a humor training offered in the University of Zurich (in German)

Next ISHS conference/International summer school on humour and laughter (ISS):

• ISHS 2009, Long Beach, California, June 17-21, 2009
  Chair: Amy Bippus, California State University, Long Beach
• ISHS 2010, Aston University Hong Kong, June 24-27, 2010
  Chair: Xiaodong Yue, City University of Hong Kong
• ISHS 2011, Boston, Massachusetts, July 5-9, 2011
  Chair: Patrice Oppliger, Boston University
• ISS 2009, Granada, Spain from June 29 to July 4, 2009
  Local organizers: Dr. Hugo Carretero Dios and his team, University of Granada
• ISS 2010, Zurich, Switzerland from July 5-10, 2010
  Local organizer: Prof. Willibald Ruch and his team, University of Zurich

Previous events

• See the conference history on Don Nilsen's Historian page and our Humor Societies and Conferences page.

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