“The Serious Study of Humor – What is It? and Why is It?,”
Bob Mankoff, Pat Oliphant, Tim Carvell, Kevin Bleyer and Matt Diffee Join Nationally Known Experts Examining the Comic and Serious Side of Humor.
Monday, March 10, 2008
1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The Michigan Theater
603 East Liberty Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker, will lead a panel of experts and comedy practitioners at a conference hosted by the Knight-Wallace Fellows at Michigan. Joining Mankoff will be:
Pat Oliphant, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist
Matt Diffee , New Yorker cartoonist
Kevin Bleyer and Tim Carvell, writers from “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”
The experts include:
Richard Lewis, University of Michigan professor of psychology
John Morreall, College of William and Mary religion professor
Rod Martin, University of Western Ontario clinical psychologist
Paul Lewis, Boston College English professor and columnist
The conference is supported by:
University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and
The New Yorker Cartoonbank.
The event is free and open to the public.
For more information, call 734-998-7666
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