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I believe this program, hosted by the Center for the Study of Religion and Melton Center for Jewish Studies, would be of interest to folklorists. </div>
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It's one month from today: the Religious Humor & Laughter Symposium is on Friday, February 9<span style="font-weight: inherit;"><sup>th</sup></span> in the colloquium space in the 18<span style="font-weight: inherit;"><sup>th</sup></span> Avenue Library from
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two panel discussions exploring the following questions: Why is it important for scholars to attend to humor and laughter, and, if it's often been neglected or overlooked, why is that the case? What does humor reveal about how communities and individuals
negotiate boundaries of religious and ethnic identity? What, if anything, do we gain by engaging religious humor comparatively and cross-culturally?</span></div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://www.drjennifercaplan.com/" id="OWAd25ef445-5249-741b-8f0a-52a3a7ab9f59" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.drjennifercaplan.com/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly">Jennifer
Caplan</a> (</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Judaic Studies,
University of Cincinnati</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">): "What’s Jewish about Jewish Humor?"</span></div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://www.ithaca.edu/faculty/schoudhury" id="OWA516234c1-0ded-04d5-cc6b-0943073b6456" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.ithaca.edu/faculty/schoudhury" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly">Samah
Choudhury</a> (</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Philosophy
and Religion, Ithaca College</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">): "Thinking About Religion and Race by Taking Humor Seriously." </span></div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://comparativestudies.osu.edu/people/curley.32" id="OWAbb999fc2-3f1b-059a-4f45-0759f51f574a" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://comparativestudies.osu.edu/people/curley.32" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly">Melissa
Anne-Marie Curley</a> (</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Comparative
Studies</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, OSU): "Rain-Making and Piss-Taking: Bawdy Humor in a Few Buddhist Stories."</span></div>
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Hamlin</a> (English, OSU): "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost walk into a bar...: Does Christianity Have a Sense of Humor?" </span></div>
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of the presenters, go to our <a href="https://religion.osu.edu/events/religious-humor-and-laughter-symposium" id="OWAd40f2194-fe8d-efc5-3e91-9b4f3d5f51f2" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://religion.osu.edu/events/religious-humor-and-laughter-symposium" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
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