{"id":2009,"date":"2026-01-26T13:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/ggg\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2026-01-28T14:08:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:08:46","slug":"humour-matters-laughter-and-democracy-23-24-04-2026-tallinn-university-estonia-registration-until-22-02-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/ggg\/2026\/01\/26\/humour-matters-laughter-and-democracy-23-24-04-2026-tallinn-university-estonia-registration-until-22-02-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Humour\u00a0Matters: Laughter and Democracy (23.\u201324.04.2026 Tallinn University, Estonia, Registration until 22.02.2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Humour&nbsp;Matters: Laughter and Democracy<\/strong>\u202fis an international, interdisciplinary workshop that brings together doctoral researchers to explore humour as both a democratic resource and a site of conflict. Humour can enable critique, solidarity, and resistance\u2014but it can also foster exclusion, polarization, and harm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The workshop examines these tensions through humour theory, legal perspectives, political satire, platform governance, and civic education. Its central aim is to identify key research questions at the intersection of humour and democracy and to equip doctoral researchers with conceptual tools and methodological approaches relevant for future research projects.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The programme combines lectures by leading international scholars, hands-on workshops&nbsp;(such as drawing political cartoons), panel discussions with major international research projects, and informal networking events&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We warmly encourage doctoral researchers working on humour, democracy, media, law, political communication, cultural studies, education, or related fields to&nbsp;participate.&nbsp;Upon full participation in the workshop programme, participants will be awarded\u202f<strong>3 ECTS credits<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Participation and priority<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participation is open to doctoral researchers.\u202f<strong>Places are limited and&nbsp;allocated&nbsp;on a first-come, first-served basis<\/strong>, while&nbsp;observing&nbsp;the following\u202forder of priority:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Doctoral researchers of Estonian universities <\/strong>(accommodation and travel costs&nbsp;will&nbsp;be covered by&nbsp;DELIAH project).&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Doctoral researchers who are members of <\/strong><em>DELIAH, Larpocracy,<\/em>\u202fand <em>Democracy in Action <\/em>and <strong>doctoral researchers from ENLIGHT partner universities<\/strong>&nbsp;(whose expenses&nbsp;must be covered by their home institution).&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Applicants outside these categories may be considered subject to availability.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.cloud.microsoft\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=F2M1bQQNvEq2toyXc4hbsCbNyIdHCXRAjykzxfzX8-1UQk9HRUFQSkRFVldHNjdMVVdLRE9HSFZGQy4u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Registration form<\/a><\/u>\u00a0<\/strong>is open <strong>until February\u00a022.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any questions, please contact us at <a href=\"mailto:at%C2%A0ismet.suleimanov@ut.ee\">ismet.suleimanov@ut.ee<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organising committee: Anastasiya Astapova, Ismet Suleimanov&nbsp;(University of Tartu,&nbsp;Horizon Democratic Literacy and Humour (DELIAH)\u202fproject),&nbsp;Anastasiya Fiadotava&nbsp;(Estonian Literature Museum),&nbsp;Guillem Casta\u00f1ar Rubio&nbsp;(Tallinn University).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project\u202f\u201cCooperation between universities to promote doctoral studies\u201d\u202f(2021\u20132027.4.04.24-0003) is\u202fco-funded by the European Union.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Humour&nbsp;Matters: Laughter and Democracy<\/strong>\u202fis an international, interdisciplinary workshop that brings together doctoral researchers to explore humour as both a democratic resource and a site of conflict. Humour can enable critique, solidarity, and resistance\u2014but it can also foster exclusion, polarization, and harm.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/ggg\/2026\/01\/26\/humour-matters-laughter-and-democracy-23-24-04-2026-tallinn-university-estonia-registration-until-22-02-2026\/\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/ggg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/ggg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/ggg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/ggg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/ggg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/ggg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2010,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/ggg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/2010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/ggg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/ggg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/ggg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/ggg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}