ISHS 2026 panel convened

Dr. Tristan Miller co-convened the annual Humor and Artificial Intelligence panel at the 36th International Society for Humor Studies Conference (ISHS 2026). The panel featured the following four paper presentations:

  • "Automated Coding for Discourse Analysis: A Case Study of the Böhmermann–Erdogan Humor Scandal" by Oguzhan Zobar (Ghent University)
  • "How AI Agents Tell Jokes on Social Media: An Analysis of Moltbook" by Gabriela Cecchin Monte Raso (USP)
  • "The Infinite Variations of Peter Coddles: Victorian Parlor Games and the Prehistory of Computational Humor" by Rob King (Columbia University)
  • "Scaling up humour understanding? Frontier LLMs increasingly reproduce professional comedians' structural sensitivity to jokes" by Christian F. Hempelmann (East Texas A&M University), Ori Amir (Fulbright University), and Willibald Ruch (ETH Zurich)

ISHS 2026 was held in Niterói, Brazil from July 6 to 10, 2026.

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