HISTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HUMOR STUDIES

1987 in Tempe, AZ (Don & Alleen Nilsen, ASU)

1988 in West Lafayette, IN (Victor Raskin, Purdue University

1990 in Laie, HI (Margaret Baker and Jesse Crisler, BYU-Hawaii)

1990 in Sheffield, England (Mark Glazer, Univ of Sheffield)

1991 in St. Catharines, Canada (Ann-Marie Guilmette, Brock Univ)

1992 in Paris, France (Judith Stora-Sandor & Nelly Feuerhahn, Univ of Paris VIII)

1993 in Luxembourg (Larry Sherman, Univ of Miami, OH)

1994 in Ithaca, New York (Mary Ann Rishel, Cornell Univ)

1995 in Birmingham, England (George Paton, Aston Univ)

1996 in Sydney, Australia (Jessica Milner Davis & John McCallum, Univ of NSW)

1997 in Edmond, Oklahoma (Amy Carrell, Univ of Central OK)

1998 in Bergen, Norway (Sven Svebak, Norwegian Univ of Science & Tech)

1999 in Oakland, California (Martin Lampert, Holy Names Univ)

2000 in Osaka, Japan (Hiroshi Inoue & Goh Abe, Kansai Univ)

2001 in College Park, Maryland (Larry Mintz, Univ of Maryland)

2002 in Forli, Italy (Delia Chiaro, Univ of Bologna)

2003 in Chicago, Illinois (Judith Kaplan-Weinger & Richard Hallett, Northeast Illinois Univ)

2004 in Dijon, France (Lorene Birden, Univ of Bourgogne)

2005 in Youngstown, Ohio (Salvatore Attardo, Youngstown State Univ)

2006 in Copenhagen, Denmark (Martin Führ, Danih Univ of Education)

2007 in Newport, Rhode Island (Margaret Mathias, Salve Regina Univ)

2008 in Madrid, Spain (Juan Garcia Cerrada, Carmen Valero-Garces & Begona Carbelo Baquero, Univ of Alcalá

2009 Long Beach, California (Amy Bippus, Cal State Univ)

2010 Hong Kong (Xiaodong Yue, City Univ of Hong Kong)

2011 Boston, Massachusetts (Patrice Oppliger, Boston Univ)

2012 Kraków, Poland (Wladyslaw Chlopicki, Jagiellonian Univ)

2013 Williamsburg, Virginia (Larry Ventis, College of William and Mary) NOTE: On April 15, 2020, Larry died of the corona virus. He will be missed.

2014 in Utrecht, The Netherlands (Sibe Doosje, Univ of Utrecht)

2015 in Oakland, California (Martin Lampert, Holy Names Univ)

2016 in Dublin, Ireland (Eric Weitz, Trinity College)

2017 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Jean-Marie LaFortune, Univ of Quebec)

2018 in Tailinn, Estonia (Liisi Laineste, Estonian Literary Museum)

2019 in Austin, Texas (Kiki Hempelmann, Dale Kroike, Elisa Gironzetti, and Salvatore Attardo, Univ of Texas)

2020 No ISHS Conference Because of Covid-19 Pandemic

2021: ISHS Webinar Series: Samy Basu, Delia Chiaro, Wladislaw Chlopicki, Thomas Ford, Christian Hemplemann (convener), Jennifer Hofmann, Will Noonan, Martin Lampert, Patrice Oppliger, Villy Tsakona

2022 in Bertinoro/Forli, Italy (Delia Chiaro, University of Bologna)

2023 in Boston, Massachusetts (Patrice Oppliger, Boston University)

2024 in Krakow, Poland (Wladislaw Chlopicki, Krakow University)

Don and Alleen Nilsen “Humor Across the Academic Disciplines” PowerPoints:

https://www.public.asu.edu/~dnilsen/