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SUMMARY:HUMOUR | AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM
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DESCRIPTION:The TORCH Humour Network invites you to attend our event ‘Hu
 mour: An Interdisciplinary Symposium’ on 29 May 2026. This one-day works
 hop brings scholars from universities across the UK and beyond together to
  discuss how different disciplines approach the study of humour\, satire\,
  laughter\, and comedy. What does interdisciplinary research look like in 
 practice? The programme for the event is outlined below. All are welcome 
 – please register via the Eventbrite link. Coffee and tea will be provid
 ed throughout the day\, and we will also be serving complimentary lunch fo
 r all participants. Introduction: Welcome\n\nThe Programme\n\n10am -10.30a
 m\nWe will serve coffee and tea from 10am and begin the workshop with a fe
 w introductory remarks around 10:20.\n\nKeynote Address\n10.30am - 11.30am
 \nDr Oliver Double. ‘From Charity Shops to the British Stand-Up Comedy A
 rchive: Developing Stand-Up as an Academic Discipline’\n\nCoffee and tea
 \n\n11.30am - 11.45am\nPanel 1: Humour through Disciplines\n\n11.45am - 1.
 15pm \nProf Simon Kirchin. ‘Philosophy and Comedy: Dissecting Frogs?’\
 n\n\nDr Simon Weaver. ‘Developing a Critical Approach to Humour and Come
 dy through Rhetorical Discourse Analysis’\n\nLunch\n\n1.15pm - 2.30pm\n\
 nPanel 2: Thinking About Satire\n2.30pm - 4pm\nProf Marilyn Booth. ‘Thin
 king through satire as political history: Egypt\, 1890s-1920s’\n\n\nDr A
 dam Smith. ‘Satyrs and Scalpels Revisited: On Resisting Distorting Disco
 urses of Satiric Violence’\n\nCoffee and tea\n4pm - 4.15pm\n\nPanel 3: H
 umour in Unexpected Places\n4.15pm - 5.45pm\nDr Niamh Kehoe-Rouchy. ‘Gen
 dered Humour and Holiness in Old English Hagiography’\n\nDr Massih Zekav
 at. ‘A Literary Scholar\, a Psychologist\, and a Communications Scholar 
 Walk into a Bar.’ [Online]\n\n5.45pm Conclusion
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