9:15 – 9:30
Holger Kersten, Magdeburg
Introductory Remarks

9:30 – 10:00
Neal Norrick, Saarbrücken
Humor and Spoken Language

10:00 – 10:30
Delia Chiaro, Forlì
Intercultural Differences in Humor Perception: Italy and the UK

10:30 – 10:45
Coffee Break

10:45 – 11:15
Chiara Bucaria, Forlì
Putting the Fun Back in Funeral: The Perception of Dubbed and Subtitled Humour in Six Feet Under

11:15 – 11:45
Linda Rossato, Forlì
Good Bye Lenin: Farewell to the Brave Old World of Prejudices On Humor and Culture

11:45 – 13:00
Lunch Break (Mensa)

13:00 – 13:30
Karin Ebeling, Magdeburg
"Anyone around here seen a president?" — Humorous Responses to the Year 2000 Presidential Elections in the USA

13:30 – 14:00
Christine Heyer, Magdeburg
Humor ist . . . wenn man trotzdem lacht! – Karikaturen im Russischunterricht

14:00 – 14:15
Coffee Break

14:15 – 15:00
Reinhold Wandel, Magdeburg
Humour in the EFL-Classroom (includes video material)

10:30 – 11:00
Konrad Groß, Kiel
The Not So Unhumorous Indian: First Nations Humour

11:00 – 11:15
Coffee Break

11:15 – 11:45
Holger Kersten, Magdeburg
"I Vill Instruction You How to Speak a Sentence" – Humor in German American Dialect Texts

11:45 – 12:15
Gary Scharnhorst, Albuquerque
Mark Twain on Humor: His Theories in Interviews

Holger Kersten
Closing Remarks