BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260427T155526Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vilnius:20210211T040000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vilnius:20210212T120000 SUMMARY:Philosophy of Humour: New Perspectives UID:20260501T094932Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Vilnius LOCATION:Kaunas\, Lithuania DESCRIPTION:

&lsquo\;Philosophy of Humour: New Perspectives&rsquo\; &ndash\; Conference Programme

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Online event hosted by Vytautas Magnus University\, Kaunas\, Lithuania.

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All times are Eastern European Time (EET).

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To register (free) simply send an email to viktoras.bachmetjevas@vdu.lt.

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Thursday 11th February 2021

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9:00-9:40: Welcome and Introduction.

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9:40-10:20: &lsquo\;Sublime\, Beautiful\, Funny: Humour in §\;54 of Kant's Third Critique&rsquo\;\, David Sommer (University College London\, UK).

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10:20-11:00: &lsquo\;Kant and the Ethics of Humor&rsquo\;\, Robert R. Clewis (Gwynedd Mercy University\, PA\, USA).

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11:20-12:00: &lsquo\;Kierkegaard: the Power of Irony and Humour&rsquo\;\, Siobhan Doyle (St Nicholas Montessori College of Ireland and University College Dublin\, Ireland).

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12:00-12:40: &lsquo\;Humour as the Incognito of the Religious in Kierkegaard&rsquo\;\, Viktoras Bachmetjevas (Vytautas Magnus University\, Kaunas\, Lithuania).

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14:20-15:00: &lsquo\;Primitive Humour'\, Philip Letts (University of Manchester\, UK) and Andrew Routledge (University of Liverpool\, UK).

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15:00-15:40: &lsquo\;&lsquo\;That&rsquo\;s right\, clap the things you agree with&rsquo\;: Stewart Lee&rsquo\;s Content Provider and the Socratic Method&rsquo\;\, Matthew J. Barnard (Manchester Metropolitan University\, UK).

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16:00-16:40: &lsquo\;The Birth of Tragicomedy: A Nietzschean Analysis of Contemporary Stand-Up Comedy&rsquo\;\, Sheila Lintott (Bucknell University\, Lewisburg PA\, USA).

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16:40-17:20: &lsquo\;What Internalist Theories of Humour Cannot Say About Ethical Evaluation&rsquo\;\, Daniel Abrahams (University of Glasgow\, UK).

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17:20-18:00: &lsquo\;What&rsquo\;s So Funny? Improv Comedy and Humor Before Comedic Meaning&rsquo\;\, Timothy Mahoney (CUNY Graduate Center\, USA).

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Friday 12th February 2021

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9:00-9:40: &lsquo\;Prolegomena to a Revised Theory of Humor&rsquo\;\, Alberto Voltolini (University of Turin\, Italy).

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9:40-10:20: &lsquo\;&bdquo\;Aha!/Haha! &ndash\; That&rsquo\;s a good one!&ldquo\; On the Correlation of Laughter and Understanding in Joke Reception&rsquo\;\, Mira Magdalena Sickinger\, University of Vienna\, Austria.

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10:20-11:00: &lsquo\;Hidden Congruities&rsquo\;\, Daniel O&rsquo\;Shiel (Diego Portales University\, Santiago\, Chile).

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11:20-12:00: &lsquo\;The Role of Laughter and Humour in the Feminist Movement: From Assertion of Superiority to Symbolic Expression&rsquo\;\, Teodora Marija Grigaitė (Vytautas Magnus University\, Kaunas\, Lithuania).

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12:00-12:40: &lsquo\;The Possibility of Parody&rsquo\;\, Sarah W. Hirschfield (Cambridge University\, UK).

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14:20-15:00: &lsquo\;A Sensibility of Humour&rsquo\;\, Zoe Walker (Cambridge University\, UK).

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15:00-15:40:&lsquo\;Partisan Political Humour. Some Ethical Considerations&rsquo\;\, Javier Gil (University of Oviedo\, Spain).

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16:00-16:40: &lsquo\;Grotesque Leadership: The Carnival of Populism&rsquo\;\, Maura Ceci (Leiden University\, Netherlands).

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16:40-17:20: &lsquo\;Moral Responsibility for Amusement&rsquo\;\, Caroline Mobley (University of Tennessee\, Knoxville TN\, USA).

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17:20-18:00: Concluding Discussion. \;

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