Preliminary Schedule

Friday, February 22, 2013 (Owen Arts Center, OFAC*)

16:00 - 16:30   Registration (Greer Garson Lobby, OFAC) 

16:30 – 17:45  Session 1: Linguistics (3531 Garson, OFAC)   

1. Alba-Juez: Evaluative Formulas Behind Psychology Jokes
2. Tsakona: Humor Reception and the GTVH
3. Raskin: Hard Humor Research is Hard to Do

18:00 - 19:00   Welcome Reception (Taubman Atrium, OFAC 1110)

19:00 - 20:30   Keynote (OFAC 2130)   

      Q&A on Humor and Leadership with
      Dr. Shaquille O’Neal and Dr. David M. Kopp

Saturday, February 23, 2013

(Umphrey Lee Center, UL*)

08:00 – 09:00     Breakfast (Holiday Inn)

09:15 – 11:15     Session 2: Professional (UL 228)

1. Warner: Journalism on Humor
2. Swope: Texas Travesty
3. Delaney: Humor-centered Design
4. Gimarc: Put Your Funny Where Your Mouth is
5. Roundtable

11:30 – 12:45     Session 3: Psychology (UL 233)

1. McGraw: The Psychophysics of Humor
2. Lynch and Trivers: Self-deception Inhibits Laughter
3. Lyttle: A Framework for Therapeutic Humor

13:00 – 13:45     Lunch (UL Dining Hall)

14:00 – 15:15     Session 4: Social (UL 228)

1. Barrett: Outsourcing Comedy
2. Mankoff: Crowdsourcing Humor

15:30 – 16:45     Session 5: Linguistics  (UL 233)

1. Taylor: Computational Humor
2. Attardo, Pickering, and Menjo: Smiling Intensity
3. Ergül: An Analysis of Ilgaz's Hababam Sınıfı Using the GTVH

17:00 – 18:15     Session 6: Social (UL 228)

1. Yoon and Kim: The Moderating Role of Masculinity
2. Little: Legal Regulation of Humor
3. Weinberger, Gulas, and Weinberger: Advertising Humor

19:30 – 21:00     Dinner (Desperados Restaurant, DR*)

Sunday, February 24, 2013

(Union Coffeehouse, UC*)

[08:45                 poster setup]

09:00 – 10:15     Session 7: Psychology/Linguistics

1. Beermann, Saslow, Saturn, Piff, and Keltner: What a Laugh Reveals
2. Guillory: Neuroscience of Humor
3. Clegg and Hempelmann: Absurd and Nonsensical Humor 

10:30 – 12:00     Session 9: Workshop on Humor in the Classroom

• Ansbro: Using Humor to Differentiate Power Between Men and Women
• Di Ferrante: Humor at Work
• Ford: Humorous Material and State Anxiety and Math Performance
• Gironzetti: Understanding Humor
• Liberato: South Park and Freshman English
• López and Jyotsna: George Lopez's Why You Crying?
• Menjo, Hempelmann, and Attardo: Revisiting Folk Theories of Humor
• Woodzicka, Caudill, and Ford: Impact of Sexist Humor
• Worth: Humor and Benoit's Theory of Political Campaign Discourse

*Locations

OFAC    Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd, SMU Campus, Dallas TX 75205

UL        Umphrey Lee Center, 3300 Dyer St, SMU Campus, Dallas TX 75205

D          Desperados Restaurant, 4818 Greenville Ave, Dallas, TX 75206

UC        Union Coffeehouse, 5622 Dyer Street, Dallas, TX 75206