“Laughing at other people’s pain:
Why do we do it, and is it ethical?”

Dr Jessica Milner Davis FRSN
Honorary Research Associate
University of Sydney

Date: Thursday, 20 November, 6.30–7.30 pm AEST
Venue: RSL Mittagong, Carrington Room
Entry: Members, $5; Non-members, $10 (please note: cashless payments only)
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Dr Jessica Milner Davis is a research associate at the University of Sydney and at Brunel University London’s Centre for Comedy Studies Research. A member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK, and Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, she has twice served as president of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS: http://humorstudies.org/) and coordinates the Australasian Humour Studies Network (AHSN: https://ahsnhumourstudies.org/). Her publications deal with farce, satire, the comic tradition in European theatre and cross-cultural studies of humour in Australia, the UK, Japan and China.

In 2018, she received the ISHS Lifetime Achievement Award for her interdisciplinary research and publications on humour and laughter. With legal scholar Sharyn Roach Anleu, she has edited Judges, Judging and Humour (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and her latest book is Humour in Asian Cultures: Tradition and Context (Routledge Studies on Asia in the World, 2022).

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