International Society for Humor Studies
1998 ISHS Conference

Held at

The Radisson SAS Hotel Norge

Bergen, Norway
June 25-27, 1998


Daily Programs

Day 1: June 25           Day 2: June 26          Day 3: June 27 


 

OPENING DAY: THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1998

Conference Welcome
Salon 6, 10:30 am to 11:00 am

Conference Welcome

Sven Svebak, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Breakout Session #1
Salons 4 to 6, 11:00 pm to 12:30 pm

Paper Session 1A
Humor and Religion

Paper Session 1B
Humor Conceptions

Paper Session 1C
Humor in Literature

 

George Bernard Shaw Makes
Fun of Organized Religion: The
Devil's Desciple and Other Pious
People of the Church

Gladys Crane
Laramie, Wyoming

"And Muhammad Laughed":
The Spirit of Laughter in
the Traditions of the Prophet

Jean O. Schaefer
University of Wyoming


Religiosity and Religious
Fundamentalism as Predictors
of Humor Creation as Coping

Vassilis Saroglou
Catholic University of Louvain

 

The Origin and Evolution of
the Word, Humor

Vera C. Machline
Pontificia Universidade Catolica
de Sao Paulo
& William F. Fry
Stanford University

The Origins of Satire in
Societies and Civilizations
George E. C. Paton
Aston University

"Waiting is Funny": An Analysis
of Dramatic Black Comedy

Kristen A. Murray
University of New South Wales

 

 

Moliere's Sganarelle:
In His Majesty's Painful Service

James F. Gaines
Southeastern Louisiana University

The Ambiguous Gracioso in
the Theatre of Lopo de Vega

Luis A. Martinez
Western New Mexico University

Much Ado about Bachelorhood:
Shakespeare and the Ambiguity
of Happiness

Josephine A. Roberts
Lousiana State University

 

Lunch
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Pleanary Session
Humor and Visual Art
Galleri S. E.,
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm

Speaker

Michael J. Apter
University College Cardiff

Break
2:30 pm to 3:00 pm

Breakout Session #2
Salons 4 to 6, 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Paper Session 2A
Religion & Philosophy

Paper Session 2B
Workplace Humor

Paper Session 2C
Humor in Literature

 

Jaques Tati:
Comic Philosopher Extraordinaire

Peter Gerdes
University of New South Wales

The Criticism of Humor & Laughter
in Earlu Christianity

Ingvild S. Gilhus
University of Bergen

 

Doubled over in Laughter:
The Humor of Self-Degradation
and Self-Transcendance in
Alcoholics Anonymous

Melvyn Pollner & Jill Stein
University of California, Los Angeles

An Exploration of
the Aesthetic Performance of
Photocopylore Humor as a Tool
for Organizational Diagnosis
Nick Nissley
George Washington University

 

Mark Twain's Humor
about Indigenous People

Junichiro Sano
Soka University

In-House Humor in
Gay and Lesbian Comic Strips
and Editorial Cartoons

Edward H. Sewell
Virginia Polytechnic University

Coffee Break
4:00 pm to 4:15 pm

Breakout Session #3
Salons 4 to 6, 4:15 pm to 5:45 pm

Paper Session 3A
Humor, Creativity, & Madness

Paper Session 3B
Humor Conceptions

Paper Session 3C
Humor in Literature

 

Humor vs. Burnout:
An Organizational Analysis
of Principals and Teachers

R. Wilburn Clouse
Vanderbilt University
& Karen Spurgeon
Battlefield Elementary School

Humor Styles and Leadership Styles
for the Third Millennium

Kathi Phibrick
Seminole County Public Schools


Cross-Cultural Humor
in Education

R. Wilburn Clouse
Vanderbilt University
& Annette Sanchez
Nashville State Technical Institute

 

Whatever it is, I'm Against:
Writing Satire

Mary Anne Rishel
Ithaca College

Humor's Nasty Relatives:
Enjoying Bad Things
Dan Lyons
Colorado State University

Are You in the Right Mind?
Joyce M. Saltman
Southern Connecticutt State University

The Cognitive Architecture of Humor:
A Synthesis of Theory
William F. Fry
Stanford University

 

P. G. Wodehouse and
the Mock Pastoral

Laura Donohue
University of East Anglia

Benign Humor: The Whimsy,
Nonsense, and Fantasy of
Lewis Carroll, Kenneth Grahame,
Edward Lear, & Beatix Potter

Don D. L. F. Nilsen
Arizona State University


Humor Expectations: An Analysis
of the "Breach of Promise" Scene from
Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers
Sandra Nagy
Arizona State University

Film Session
The Power of Laughter
Salon 6,
5:45 pm to 7:15 pm


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DAY TWO: FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1998

Breakout Session #4
Salons 4 to 6, 8:30 am to 10:30 am

Paper Session 4A
Humor in the Media

Paper Session 4B
Ethnic Humor

Paper Session 4C
Humor in Literature

 

Japanese Pun in Mass Media

Heiyo Nagashima
Japan Society for Laughter
and Humor Studies

Comedy and Interatial Relations
in Contemporary French Cinema

Dina Sherzer
University of Texas


Stand-Up Comedy on Television

John McCallum
University of New South Wales

 

What do We Laugh at in Norway:
Gender Difference in the Practice
and Enjoyment of Humor

Birgit H. Johnsen
Norwegian Folklore Archives

The Geography of Scandinavian Jokes
Christie Davies
The University of Reading

Febold Feboldson meets Paul Bunyon:
Tall Tales among Swedish Pioneers
at Gothenberg, Nebraska

Dale Anderson
Bloomsburg University

Gender, Class, and Telling Jokes:
Differences in the Appreciation
and Telling of "Canned Jokes"
in the Netherlands

Giselinde Kuipers
Amsterdam School
for Social Science Research

 

Comedy and Ideology:
The Work of Leo Baxendale,
the Master of Bash Street

David Cornwall
University of Strathclyde
& Sandy Hobbs
University of Paisley

Trusting the Honest Liar:
the Unwittingly Humorous
Narrator in Liza Cody's London
Lassassin Crime Novels

Jane S. Bakerman
Indiana State University

Dracula in the
Post-Communist Romania

Jon Barbu & Mihal Barbu
Romanian Journalist Association

Dave Barry's Books:
Sophomoric Humor for Adults

James B. Carothers
University of Kansas

Coffee Break
10:30 am to 11:00 am

Breakout Session #5
Salons 4 to 6, 11:00 pm to 12:30 pm

Paper Session 5A
Humor in the Media

Paper Session 5B
Ethnic Humor

Paper Session 5C
Literature & Humor

 

Does Humor in Radio Advertising
affect Recognition of
Novel Product Brand Names

Eron M. Berg & Louis Lippman
Western Washington University

Game Playing with the Paradise Motif:
The Role of Humor in Extending
the Playing Field of Literature to
the Popular Media of Cartoons
and Advertisements

Ingrid Daemmrich
Drexel University

Obscene and Defamatory Language
in African American American
Television Comedy
Mamadou Niang
University of Missouri, Kansas City

 

Cross Cultural Comparisons:
Humor in Singapore, USA, and Israel

Ofra Nevo & Baruch Nevo
University of Haifa
& Janie Leong Siew Yin

The Oriental Characteristics
of Humor
Kyu-Tae Jeon
Feonju University

Ritual Performance
of Laughter in Japan

Goh Abe
Tokushima Burni University

 

 

Fiddle and Sing:
Humor and Morality in
Mary Taylor's Miss Miles

Marjorie Lightfoot
Arizona State University

A Problem Comedy and Three
Comic Heroes: The Example
of Measure for Measure

Teresa Guerra de Gloss
Universidad de las Palmas
de Gran Canaria

Saving the Vit'nery's Bacon:
Humor in the Stories
of James Herriot

Mitzi M. Brunsdale

Lunch
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Lifetime Achievement Award Session
William F. Fry
Salon 6,
1:30 pm to 2:15 pm

Presenter

Sven Svebak
Norwegian University of Sciene and Technology

Break
2:15 pm to 2:30 pm

Breakout Session #6
Salons 4 to 6, 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm

Paper Session 6A
Slaughterhouse 5 Symposium

Paper Session 6B
Ethnic Humor & Personality

Session 6C
Workshop

 

Fabulation and Comic Irony
in Slaughterhouse 5

Elaine Safer
University of Delaware

Slaughterhouse 5
Shadowboxing the Apocalypse

Larry Ventis
College of William and Mary

Reflections on Slaughterhouse 5

George Paton
Aston University

 

Folk Humor of Post-Soviet Russia

Emil Draitser
Hunter College of the
City University of New York

Humor at the
Fishmarket of Cagliari
Leide Porcu
Columbia University

Humor and Personality ...
Edward Sewell
Virginia Polytechnic University

 

FUN 101

Donny Tamblyn
National Society for
Training and Development

 

Coffee Break
4:00 pm to 4:15 pm

Breakout Session #7
Salons 4 to 6, 4:15 pm to 5:45 pm

Paper Session 7A
Slaughterhouse 5 Symposium

Paper Session 7B
Prison, Police, and Law Humor

Paper Session 7C
Analysis of Humorous Stories

 

Cognitive and Emotional in
Slaughterhouse 5

Peter Derks
College of William and Mary

Stolen Teapots, Wizard Chaps,
and Flying Saucers

Christie Davies
University of Reading


Names in Kurt Vonnegut's
Slaughterhouse 5

Alleen Pace Nilsen
Arizona State University

A Literary Approach to
Vonnegut's
Slaughterhouse 5

Don L. F. Nilsen
Arizona State University

 

Are There Laughs to be Found
in Prison: Uses of Humor among
and between Inmates and Guards

Laurie Young & Kay Caskey
Western Michigan University

Connections between
Sense of Humor and Work Performance
of Senior Police Officers
Paavo Kerkkanen
Medivire Occupational Health
Services Company

Ludicrous Laws and Lawsuits
Lance S. Davidson
Attorney at Law, Scottsdale, Arizona

 

Analysis of Humor in Short Stories
in the Light of "Frame Pragmatics"
Wladislaw Chlopicki
Jagiellonian University

Graphic Jokes and Metarepresentation

Rebeca. P. Navarro & Herman L. Hormaza
Cognicion y Cultura Universidad
del Valle, Cali, Columbia

Trying Translation Test

Margaret Hart
Universidad de las Palmas
de Gran Canaria

Line of Parody, or a Funny Thing
Happened to Me on the Way
to the Formula

Richard Henry
State University of New York

Reception
Bergen Maritime Museum
Salon 6,
7:30 pm to 10:00 pm

   


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DAY THREE: SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1998

Breakout Session #8
Salons 4 to 6, 8:30 am to 10:30 am

Paper Session 8A
Comedy and Satire

Paper Session 8B
Developmental Aspects

Paper Session 8C
Humor Coping and Health

 

Interaction: The Stand-Up
Comedian's Relationship
with the Alternative Comedy
Club Audience

Catriona Craig
University of London

The Evolution of Women
as Stand-Up Comedians

Alleen Pace Nilsen
Arizona State University


Laughing at Them: The Humorous
Role of Uncle Julius in Charles W.
Chestnutt's Conjure Tales

Jesse Chrisler
Brigham Young University

Black on White and White on Black
Targeting the Other Race in US Comedy

Mamadou Niang
University of Missouri, Kansas City

 

 

Harald Hoffding's " The Great Humour":
A Useful Background for the Study
of Children's Humour

Hans Vejleskov
Royal Danish School of Educational Studies

Investment of the Form and Function
of Humour in Adolescence
Martin Fuhr
Royal Danish School of Educational Studies

Humor, Lonliness, and
Peer Acceptance in Children

Frode Sobstad
Queen Maud's College of
Early Childhood Education

Aspects and Function of Humor
Lotte Linge
Sweden

 

 

Effects of Humor in Exposure Therapy
with Anxiety Disorders

Sharron Orovan & Adrienne Sloan
East Region Mental Health Service
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Studies of Preference for Supportive
Humor in Nursing Students

Fumiko Kobayashi, Yuki Ikeda,
& Kanji Hatta
Mie Prefectural College of Nursing

The Use of Humor in Multicultural
Counciling

Fabio M. Federico
American Psychological Association

Prevalence of Sense of Humor, Moods,
and Common Bodily Complaints in
County Population from Age 20 and Up:
The Significance of Gender and Age

Sven Svebak
Nowegian University of
Science & Technology

Coffee Break
10:30 am to 10:45 am

Plenary Session
Humor, Coping, and Health: What Does it All Mean?
Salon 6,
10:45 am to 11:30 am

Presenter

Rod Martin
University of Western Ontario

Breakout Session #9
Salons 4 to 6, 11:30 pm to 12:30 pm

Paper Session 9A
Humor Conceptions

Paper Session 9B
Educational Approaches

Paper Session 9C
Political Humor

 

Humor Appreciation and Latency
of Comprehension

William A. Cunningham & Peter Derks
College of William and Mary

Humor as Warmth on the Frozen Deep

John S. Batts
University of Ottawa

 

Should Foreign Language
Teachers be Humorous

Stefan Bucher
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Humorous Classes on the Airwaves:
Teaching Humor Classes through
Videoconferenceing
Martin D. Lampert
Holy Names College

 

The Power of Humour and
the Power of Humour
in the Roman Empire

Paul Schulten
Erasmus University

The Use of Humor in the
United States Congress

Dean L. Yarwood
University of Missouri, Columbia

Lunch
12:30 pm to 1:45 pm

ISHS Business Meeting
Salon 6,
1:45 pm to 2:30 pm

Breakout Session #10
Salons 4 to 6, 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm

Paper Session 10A
Workplace Humor

Paper Session 10B
Linguistic & Conceptual Approaches

Session 10C
Humor, Coping, and Health

 

Anecdotal Workplace Humor
in Reader's Digest: 50 Million
Readers Can't Be Wrong

Neil Harnisch & Karen Van Peursem
University of Waikato

The Ethics of Humor in the Workplace

Jim Lyttle
York University

Humor in Japanese Business

Kimie Oshima
International Christian University

 

Speech Play, Humor,
and Grammatical Structure

Joel Sherzer
University of Texas

The Lighter Side of Life: The Art
of Not Taking Yourself Too Seriously
Henry Tanners
Smithtown, New York, USA

On Jokes and Wittgenstein
N. J. C. Vasantkumar
Susquehanna University

 

The Woman who Walked into Doors:
A Story of Everyday Struggles to Survive

Aida D. Bild
University of La Laguna

The Further Adventureness of
Doctor Dippy: Depictions of
Psychotherapy in Contemporary
American Comedy Films
Don Baird
Chicago School of Professional Psychology

Humor and Reactance
Larry Ventis & Jesse Gill
College of William and Mary

Coffee Break
4:00 pm to 4:15 pm

Breakout Session #11
Salons 4 to 6, 4:15 pm to 5:45 pm

Paper Session 11A
Workplace Humor, Ethics, and Culture

Paper Session 11B
Laughter

 

Why does the Riddle of the Day Last
Much More Than a Day

Kopi Saltman
Rock Hill School, Wallingford, Connecticutt

It's Only a Puppet: Larry the Loafer, Fiction and Norms

Stuart Ainsworth
University of Strathclyde


Words of Laughter in Alnu Stories

Junichiro Sano
Soka University

 

Perceived Correlates of Health Promoting Laughter:
A Cross-Cultural Comparison

Diana Mahony & W. Jeffrey Buroughs
Brigham Young University, Hawaii
& Louis G. Lippman
Western Washington University

Sixteenth Century Conceptions of Laughter
Vera Cecilia Machline
Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo

Varieties of Risible Experience: Laughter as
Objective Correlative in 20th Century American Literature
Del G. Kehl
Arizona State University

Closing Session
Salon 6,
5:45 pm to 6:30 pm


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