23-24 April 2026
Humour Matters: Laughter and Democracy
International Workshop for PhD students in Estonia
Humor Matters: Laughter and Democracy is an international, interdisciplinary workshop that brings together scholars and practitioners to examine humour as both a democratic resource and a site of conflict. Humour can enable critique, solidarity, and resistance, but it can also foster exclusion, polarization, and harm.
The workshop explores these tensions through the lenses of humour theory, legal boundaries, political satire, and civic education. Its central aim is to identify key research questions at the intersection of humour and democracy and to equip students with the conceptual tools and methodological approaches needed to address these questions through future research projects.
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