International Society for Humor Studies

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2013 International Society for Humor Studies Conferences

The Place and the Date

The 2013 ISHS Conference will be held from July 2 to July 6, 2013 on the campus of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. For more information about the 2013 ISHS Conference, click on the link above to go directly to the Conference website. The 2013 Conference website is now open for registration and submission information.

 
 

International Humor Conferences from 1976 to 2013

From 1976 to 1988, humor scholars met seven times at international conferences to discuss advances in humor research. Since 1989, the International Society for Humor Studies has been the primary sponsor of these conferences with annual meetings alternating between North America and other regions of the world. Since 2002, the Society has recognized each year emerging scholars and/or exceptional graduate students in humor studies with a special plenary session featuring their work.
Cardiff, Wales, 1976
Chairs: Antony Chapman, University of Leeds, & Hugh Foot, Cardiff University

Oakland, California, 1999
Chair: Martin Lampert, Holy Names College

Visit the 1999 Conference Website  View Abstracts (Password Required)
Los Angeles, CA, 1979
Chairs: Harvey Mindess & Joy Turek, Antioch University

Osaka, Japan, 2000
Co-Chairs: Hiroshi Inoue, Kansai Univ. & Goh Abe, Tokushima Bunri Univ.

Visit the 2000 Conference Website
Washington, D.C., 1982
Chairs: Rufus Browning, American Humor Studies Assoc., Larry Mintz, University of Maryland, & Herb Cummings, Workshop Library on World Humor

College Park, Maryland, 2001
Chair: Larry Mintz, University of Maryland
Visit the Humor Center at the Univ. of Maryland
Tel Aviv, Israel, 1984
Chair: Avner Ziv, Tel Aviv University		 Forli, Italy, 2002
Chair: Delia Chiaro, University of Bologna
Visit the 2002 Conference Website
Cork, Ireland, 1985
Chair: Desmond McHale, University College, Cork		 Chicago, Illinois, 2003
Co-Chairs: Judith Kaplan-Weinger & Richard Hallett,
Northeastern Illinois Univ.
Visit the 2003 Conference Website
Tempe, Arizona, 1987
Chairs: Don & Alleen Nilsen, Arizona State Univ.		 Dijon, France, 2004
Chair: Lorene Birden, University of Bourgogne 
West Lafayette, Indiana, 1988
Chair: Victor Raskin, Purdue University		 Youngstown, Ohio, 2005
Chair: Salvatore Attardo, Youngstown State Univ.
Laie, Hawaii, 1989
Chairs: Margaret Baker & Jesse Crisler,
Brigham Young University–Hawaii		 Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006
Chair: Martin Führ, Danish Univ. of Education
View 2006 Conference Pictures
Sheffield, England, 1990
Chair: Mark Glazer, University of Sheffield

Newport, Rhode Island, 2007
Chair: Margaret Mathias, Salve Regina University

View the 2007 Program

Saint Catharines, Canada, 1991
Chair: Ann-Marie Guilmette, Brock University

Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 2008
Chair and Co-Chairs: Juan Garcia Cerrada, Carmen Valero-Garces,
and Begona Carbelo Baquero, University of Alcalá

Visit the 2008 Conference Website
Paris, France, 1992
Chair & Co-Chair: Judith Stora-Sandor & Nelly Feuerhahn, Univ. of Paris

Long Beach, California, 2009
Chair: Amy Bippus, California State University, Long Beach
View the 2009 Abstract Book (Membership Password Required)

Luxembourg, 1993
Chair: Larry Sherman, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio		 Hong Kong, June 24-27, 2010
Chair: Xiaodong Yue, City University of Hong Kong
Visit the 2010 Conference Website
Ithaca, New York, 1994
Chair: Mary Ann Rishel, Ithaca College
View the 1994 Abstract Book (Membership Password Required)

Boston, Massachusetts, July 5-9, 2011
Chair: Patrice Oppliger, Boston University
Visit the 2011 Conference Registration Website

Birmingham, England, 1995
Chair: George Paton, Aston University		 Kraków, Poland, June 25-29, 2012
Chair: Wladyslaw Chlopicki, Jagiellonian University
Visit the 2012 Conference Registration Website
Sydney, Australia, 1996
Co-Chairs: Jessica Milner Davis & John McCallum,
Univ. of New South Wales View the 1996 Program 		Williamsburg, Virginia, July 2-6, 2013
Chair: Larry Ventis, College of William and Mary
Visit the 2013 Conference Registration Website
Edmond, Oklahoma, 1997
Chair: Amy Carrell, University of Central Oklahoma
View the 1997 Abstract Book (Membership Password Required)		 Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 7-11, 2014
Chair: Sibe Doosje, University of Utrecht

Bergen, Norway, 1998
Chair: Sven Svebak, Norwegian University of Science & Technology
View the 1998 Program

2015 ISHS Conference
Proposals currently under consideration for the 2015 Conference site.
 

Conference Awards

At the 1999 ISHS Conference in Oakland, California, the Society for the first time awarded special recognition to outstanding doctoral students pursuing research programs in humor studies. At the 2002 Conference in Forli, Italy, Delia Chairo (University of Bologna) and Willibald Ruch (University of Zurich) presented the first Emerging Scholar Awards (ESAs) to outstanding humor researchers who had recently completed doctoral degrees.  Through 2005, the Society presented two to four ESAs at each of its Conferences. To recognize both graduate students and post-doctoral researchers, the Society replaced the ESAs in 2006 with separate conference awards for outstanding graduate students and for more advanced scholars doing notable research in humor studies. These new laurels were aptly named the Graduate Student and the Scholarly Contribution Awards. In 2012, the Society added the Don and Alleen Nilsen Young Scholar Award (DANYS) to recognize exemplary graduate student work presented at ISHS Conferences.

The Society's Working Rules on Awards provide the nomination guidelines for Graduate Student and Scholarly Contribution Awards.
Emerging Scholar Awards, 2002-2005

Forli, Italy,

2002

Jodi Nelms Eisterhold, Applied Linguistics, Georgia State University
Martin Führ, Educational Psychology, Danish University of Education
Giselinde Kuipers, Arts and Culture, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Birgit Rissland, University of Lueneburg, Germany

Chicago, Illinois

2003

Elisa Everts, Georgetown University

Christian Hempelmann, University of Memphis
Stephen Kercher, History, Univ. of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Dijon, France
2004

Rachele Antonini, Tranlation and Languages, University of Bologna

Sharon Lockyer, Media Studies, De Montfort University

David O'Mara, Applied Computing, University of Dundee

Julia Taylor, Mason, Ohio, USA
Youngstown, Ohio
2005

Dorota Brzozowska, Polish Philology, University of Opolski

Béatrice Priego-Valverde, Linguistics, Université de Provence
Graduate Student Awards, 2006-2012
Copenhagen, Denmark,
2006

Chiara Bucaria, Translation, University of Bologna

Andrea Samson, Psychology, University of Fribourg
Katrina Triezenberg, Linguistics, Purdue University
Newport, Rhode Island, 2007

Gil Greengross, Anthropology, University of New Mexico

Julia Hans, English, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Ryota Nomura, Educational Psychology, Kyushu University
Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 2008 GSAs were not awarded in 2008. However, the Society presented certificates of merit to recognize exemplary
student papers. Receipients of these certificates were: Liisi Laneste (Folklore, Estonian Literary Museum),
Maren Rawling (Psychology, Swinburne University), and Anrdrea Samson (Psychology, University of Fribourg).
Long Beach,
California,
2009

Ursula Beermann, Psychology, University of Zurich

Cornelia Cody, American Studies, University of Maryland

Debbie Iancu-Haddad, Anthropology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Hong Kong,
China,
2010

Clare Watters, Italian Studies, University of Birmingham

Till Weingaertner, Japanology, Freie University, Berlin
Boston,
Massachusetts
2011

Audrey Adams, Linguistics, Texas A & M University, Commerce

Tracy Platt, Psychology, University of Zurich
Krakow,
Poland
2012

Lillian Boxman, Communication and Journalism, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (DANYS Recipient)

Rebecca Higgie, Communication and Cultural Studies, Curtin University, Australia
Seyed Mahmood Farjami, Communication and Journalism, University of Science, Malaysia
Kim Edwards, Clinical Psychology, University of Western Ontario