[Air-L] International Society for Humor Studies 2026 Conference (at UFF, Brazil)

[Viktor Chagas]

Dear all,

I would like to inform you that registration and submissions are now open
for the 36th International Society for Humor Studies Annual Conference, to
be held in Niterói, at Fluminense Federal University (UFF), from July 6 to
10, 2026. Information regarding fees and submission deadlines is available
on the official website: ishs2026.org.

Interested participants may submit proposals in three different modalities:
individual papers <https://ishs2026.org/call_papers/>, panels
<https://ishs2026.org/call_panels/> and roundtables
<https://ishs2026.org/call_roundtables/>. Individual paper abstracts are
submitted by authors or groups of authors. Thematic panels, consisting of
three to five paper proposals, are submitted as pre-organized, self-managed
sessions by panel coordinators. Open format roundtables may also be
proposed by coordinators, who will indicate the invited
participants. Moreover, the conference’s different Special Interest Groups
(SIGs) speak directly to many of our shared interests, including Online
Humor, Humor and Artificial Intelligence, Humor and Freedom of Expression,
Humor and the Global South, Multimodal Humor, Screen Comedy, and much more.

The ISHS will also grant awards for Best Full Paper, Best Presentation, and
Best Graduate Student Work (Master’s and Doctoral levels), including an
unprecedented award for the Best Doctoral Thesis written in Portuguese.

Submission deadlines are February 27 (for panels and roundtables) and March
27 (for individual paper proposals).

Further information and inquiries can be found on the conference website or
by contacting us at humorstudies at midia.uff.br. We kindly ask you to help
disseminate this call among potential interested colleagues, including
graduate students and advisees whose research may intersect in any way with
humor studies.

We look forward to welcoming you.

Sincerely,
Viktor Chagas (UFF)
On behalf of the Organizing Committee
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Kind Regards,
Viktor Chagas
Professor
Universidade Federal Fluminense
PhD in History, Politics and Cultural Assets