The 33rd ISHS Conference will be held at Boston University from, July 3 to July 7. You can click on the button above to visit the 2023 Conference website. ISHS offers three types of awards to graduate students planning to present at our annual conferences. You can find information on these awards in the Conference Awards section of this page.
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.
Chairs: Antony Chapman, University of Leeds,
and Hugh Foot, Cardiff University
Chairs: Harvey Mindess & Joy Turek, Antioch University
Chairs: Rufus Browning, American Humor Studies
Assoc.,
Larry Mintz, University of Maryland
and Herb Cummings,
Workshop Library on World Humor
Chair: Avner Ziv, Tel Aviv University
Chair: Desmond McHale, University College, Cork
Chairs: Don & Alleen Nilsen, Arizona State Univ.
Chair: Victor Raskin, Purdue University
Chairs: Margaret Baker & Jesse Crisler,
Brigham Young UniversityHawaii
Chair: Mark Glazer, University of Sheffield
Chair: Ann-Marie Guilmette, Brock University
Co-Chairs:
Judith Stora-Sandor &
Nelly Feuerhahn, Univ. of Paris
Chair: Larry Sherman, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Chair: Mary Ann Rishel, Ithaca College
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Chair: George Paton, Aston University
Co-Chairs: Jessica Milner Davis & John McCallum,
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the 1996 Program
Chair: Amy Carrell, University of Central Oklahoma
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Chair: Sven Svebak, Norwegian University of Science & Technology
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the 1998 Program
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the 1999 Website
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Co-Chairs: Hiroshi Inoue, Kansai Univ. &
Goh Abe, Tokushima Bunri Univ.
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the 2000 Conference Website
Chair: Larry Mintz, University of Maryland
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Chair: Delia Chiaro, University of
Bologna
Co-Chairs: Judith Kaplan-Weinger & Richard Hallett, Northeastern Illinois Univ.
Chair: Lorene Birden, University of Bourgogne
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Chair: Salvatore Attardo, Youngstown State Univ.
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Chair: Martin Führ, Danish Univ. of Education
Chair: Margaret Mathias, Salve Regina University
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the 2007 Program
Chair and Co-Chairs: Juan Garcia Cerrada, Carmen
Valero-Garces,
and Begona Carbelo Baquero, University of Alcalá
Chair: Amy Bippus, California State University, Long Beach
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Chair: Patrice Oppliger, Boston University
Chair: Wladyslaw Chlopicki, Jagiellonian University
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the 2012 Conference Registration Website
Chair: Larry
Ventis, College of William and Mary
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the 2013 Conference Registration Website
Chair: Sibe Doosje, University of Utrecht
Chair: Martin Lampert, Holy Names University
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the 2015 Conference Registration Website
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Chair: Eric Weitz, Trinity College
Chair: Jean-Marie Lafortune, University of Quebec at Montreal
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the 2017 Conference Registration Website
Chair: Liisi Laineste, Estonian Literary Museum
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the 2018 Conference Registration Website
Co-Chairs: Kiki Hempelmann, Salvatore Attardo,
Elisa Gironzetti, and Dale Koike
Martin Lampert, ISHS Executive Secretary
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Chair: Delia Chiaro, University of
Bologna
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the 2022 Conference Website
Chair: Patrice Oppliger, Boston University
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Proposals for the 2024 ISHS Conference are under consideration.
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) and in 2019 added the Christie Davies Award (CDA) to recognize exemplary graduate student work presented at ISHS Conferences.
The Society's
Italy
2002
Illinois
2003
France
2004
2005
2007
Spain
2008
GSAs were not awarded in 2008. However, the Society presented certificates
of merit to:
California
2009
China
2010
Massachusetts2011
Poland
2012
Virginia
2013
Netherlands2014
California
2015
Ireland
2016
Quebec
2017
Estonia
2018
Texas
2019
Italy
2022
Massachusetts
2023