1999 International Humor Conference/Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies

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Student Scholarships

At the 1999 International Humor Conference, 25 students presented papers, all of which reflected quality work and promise in the area of humor studies.   From among these presentations, the ISHS Awards Committee recognized five exceptional student papers with certificates of merit and $100 scholarships.   The recipients of these student scholarship awards were:

Andrew Davis, New York University
Paper: Putting it Over: The Art of Stage Clowning

Jacqueline S. Dowling, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Paper: Sense of Humor and Childhood Cancer

Erin A. Heerey, University of California at Berkeley
Paper: "Don't Tease Me, It's Not Funny!": How Children with Autism and Typically Developing Children Perceive Teasing

Giselinde Kuipers, Amsterdam School for Social Science Research
Paper: Good Sense of Humor — Bad Taste in Humor: Social Class and the Appreciation of Humor in the Netherlands

Colin Ormsby, University of California at Berkeley
Paper: The Properties of God and Dog: An Examination of the Uses of Analogy and Humor in a High School's Sheltered English, General Science Course

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Irvine Multicultural Education
Program Scholarships

As part of its commitment to multicultural education, Holy Names College established a special scholarship fund for the 1999 International Humor Conference to support research on humor and cultural diversity.  Scholarship applicants whose papers were judged to be of relevance to multicultural education were awarded an Irvine Multicultural Education Scholarship equivalent to their conference registration fees.

The following Breakout Session presenters received Irvine Scholarships:

Teresa Canosa, University of California at Santa Barbara
Paper: The Making of So Funny, They Forgot to Laugh": How a Web Page Can Advance the Study of Gender and Comedy

Delia Chiaro, University of Bologna
Paper: The Wisecracking Dame: An Overview of Female Wordplay on Screen

Emil Draitser, Hunter College, City College of New York
Paper: Russian Ethnic Humor

Celestino Fernandez, University of Arizona
Paper: I left My Car in San Francisco: The Humor and Satire of Lalo Guerrero's Music

Alexander Quiros, Texas A & M University
Paper: Perceptions of Conversational Uses of Humor by Men and Women as Ascribed to the Same vs. Opposite Sex

Allan J. Ryan, Simon Fraser University
Paper: A Tricky Mix: Creating a Book on Humorous Native American Art

Joseph Sample, Iowa State University
Paper: From Derision to Diversion: A Historical Overview of Ancient Chinese Joke Books

Kopi Saltman, Rock Hill School, Walingford, Connecticut
Paper: Will Rogers will Make your Students Laugh!

Vassilis Saroglou, Universite Catholique de Louvain
Paper: Religious People are Less Humorous Because of their Close-Mindedness or Because of their Conscientiousness?

Diana Solomon, University of California at Santa Barbara
Paper: The Making of So Funny, They Forgot to Laugh": How a Web Page Can Advance the Study of Gender and Comedy

Noriko Watanabe, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Paper: A Linguistic and Cognitive Account of Humorous Japanese Storytelling Art: Rakugo

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