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LOCATION: Holiday Inn Johannesburg, Sunnyside Park & Online
DESCRIPTION:WiCDS  is hosting its 10th Annual Conference on Irreverence, Ridicule and the Risqué: Humour in (De)(Pro)moting Social Justice.The conference will gather scholars from different directions and locations to critically engage with the question of humour in (de)(pro)moting social justice. Of particular interest for this conference, is how humour is implicated in, and acts through, on, and against the power relations that organise understandings of social differences. When is humour harmless? When is it dangerous? When should we applaud? Where do we draw the line? 
<br />Scholars in the humanities and social sciences, from different parts of the world, are called upon to reflect on humour as a vehicle for both disempowering and speaking truth to power.
<br />Our conference is therefore not about humour for the sake of humour but wishes to consider ridicule, laughter, and fun in the context of dismantling injustice, discrimination and othering, and in promoting a fairer, kinder, less exclusionary world.
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<strong>WiCDS  is hosting its 10th Annual Conference on Irreverence, Ridicule and the Risqué: Humour in (De)(Pro)moting Social Justice.</strong><p class="x_MsoNormal"><span data-ogsc="black">The conference will gather scholars from different directions and locations to critically engage with the question of humour in (de)(pro)moting social justice. Of particular interest for this conference, is how humour is implicated in, and acts through, on, and against the power relations that organise understandings of social differences. When is humour harmless? When is it dangerous? When should we applaud? Where do we draw the line?&nbsp;</span></p>
<br /><p class="x_MsoNormal"><span data-ogsc="black">Scholars in the humanities and social sciences, from different parts of the world, are called upon to reflect on humour as a vehicle for both disempowering and speaking truth to power.</span></p>
<br /><p class="x_MsoNormal"><span data-ogsc="black">Our conference is therefore not about humour for the sake of humour but wishes to consider ridicule, laughter, and fun in the context of dismantling injustice, discrimination and othering, and in promoting a fairer, kinder, less exclusionary world.</span></p>
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SUMMARY:WiCDS Annual Conference: Humour in (De)(Pro)moting Social Justice
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