HUMOUR | AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM

Fri May 29 2026 at 10:00 am to 06:00 pm UTC+01:00

Learning Centre | Oxford

TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
Publisher/HostTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
HUMOUR | AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM
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About this Event

Lunch will be provided, please email any dietary requirements to [email protected]. Please also email if you would like to opt out.


Programme


Introduction: Welcome

10-10.30

We will serve coffee and tea from 10am and begin the workshop with a few introductory remarks around 10:20.

Keynote Address

10.30-11.30

Dr Oliver Double. ‘From Charity Shops to the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive: Developing Stand-Up as an Academic Discipline’

Coffee and tea

11.30-11.45

Panel 1: Humour through Disciplines

11.45-1.15

Prof Simon Kirchin. ‘Philosophy and Comedy: Dissecting Frogs?’

Dr Simon Weaver. ‘Developing a Critical Approach to Humour and Comedy through Rhetorical Discourse Analysis’

Lunch

1.15-2.30

Panel 2: Thinking About Satire

2.30-4

Prof Marilyn Booth. ‘Thinking through satire as political history: Egypt, 1890s-1920s’

Dr Adam Smith. ‘Satyrs and Scalpels Revisited: On Resisting Distorting Discourses of Satiric Violence’

Coffee and tea

4-4.15

Panel 3: Humour in Unexpected Places

4.15-5.45

Dr Niamh Kehoe-Rouchy. ‘Gendered Humour and Holiness in Old English Hagiography’

Dr Massih Zekavat. ‘A Literary Scholar, a Psychologist, and a Communications Scholar Walk into a Bar.’ [Online]

5.45 Conclusion

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