Hi everyone,
This Friday (November 5th) from 15:00 - 16:00 there will be another exciting Hot Politics Lab meeting. During this lab meeting, Giselinde Kuipers (KU Leuven) will give a talk titled "Humor and Polarization: How humor can drive people apart, in politics and beyond". See below a short bio of Giselinde. The talk will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuva-live.zoom.us%2Fj%2F96492065253&data=04%7C01%7Cm.d.homan%40uva.nl%7C121dea5036ac40b9224108d997bd7da8%7Ca0f1cacd618c4403b94576fb3d6874e5%7C1%7C0%7C637707662434374561%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=Il%2BOPF6tNDertajWpBxpUfkeyhRHicwscPvbhOEO41c%3D&reserved=0 or join the live session in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) at 3pm (CET).
Giselinde Kuipers is research professor at KU Leuven in Belgium. Giselinde Kuipers (PhD, U of Amsterdam, 2001) is a cultural sociologist who studies the social shaping of cultural standards, and the consequences of such standards for such standards for social inequalities, identities and interactions. She has published extensively on humor, beauty, popular culture, cultural globalization, media, memes, translation, cycling, fashion, journalism and various other cultural forms, and is the author of Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke (second revised edition 2015). She was the editor-in-chief of the HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research and is the editor of the forthcoming De Gruyter Handbook of Humor Research (2022). She is also the co-curator of an international online exhibit on Humor in the European public sphere, which will be launched in the fall of 2021.
If you missed any of the previous online hot politics lab meetings, or just want to watch them again, you can find all video and audio recordings of our last online meetings in our Online Hot Politics Lab Meetings archive here: http://www.hotpolitics.eu/lab-meetings-archive/https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotpolitics.eu%2Flab-meetings-archive%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cm.d.homan%40uva.nl%7C121dea5036ac40b9224108d997bd7da8%7Ca0f1cacd618c4403b94576fb3d6874e5%7C1%7C0%7C637707662434384559%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=%2F1uI3YqHjR6p6Z5kj8AOim6HHc1HNBvkMR0EF7qwX2k%3D&reserved=0.
Have a great rest of the week and hope to see you all Friday!
Best, Maaike
Maaike Homan PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research University of Amsterdam Room B10.01 [logo hot politics]
