<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><h3 style="margin:14pt 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;break-after:auto;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Dear members,</span></h3><div><span style="color:black;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:black;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;font-size:12pt">Please read the following information on the 10th <span class="gmail-il">Humor</span> Research Conference:  </span><br></div><h3 style="margin:14pt 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;break-after:auto;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Theme: Multidisciplinary</span></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Call for Papers</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> and General Registration</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Call Deadline: March 1st, 2020</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">The 10th annual <span class="gmail-il">Humor</span> Research Conference (HRC) 2020 is a dual-modality conference, that is it will take place at Texas A&amp;M - Commerce&#39;s main campus in Commerce, TX and will be simultaneously live-broadcast on the web. The <span class="gmail-il">Humor</span> Research Conference is a student-organized international multidisciplinary all-plenary event dedicated to the study of <span class="gmail-il">humor</span> in all its facets. The conference is student-friendly and invites submissions on <u>any topic</u> in <span class="gmail-il">humor</span> research, including and not restricted to literary studies, psychology, sociology, and linguistics.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Our goal in organizing a &quot;green&quot; conference is to contribute to a sustainable future through a cost-efficient and energy-saving conference, while acknowledging the need for scholarly interaction.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span></p><h3 style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;break-after:auto;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:normal"><a name="m_7736202700963256449__79nenx9l8uas" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Date:<b> March 20, 2020</b></span></h3><h3 style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;break-after:auto;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:normal"><a name="m_7736202700963256449__9j1oh38xcrg0" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Location:<b> Commerce, TX</b></span></h3><h3 style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;break-after:auto;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:normal"><a name="m_7736202700963256449__j8g4qma9fxf9" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Questions?<b> <a href="mailto:HRC@tamuc.edu" target="_blank">HRC@tamuc.edu</a></b></span></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Registration and additional information at</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><a href="http://www.tamuc.edu/academics/colleges/humanitiesSocialSciencesArts/departments/literatureLanguages/newsandevents/nethrc/default.aspx" target="_blank" style="color:blue">http://www.tamuc.edu/academics/colleges/humanitiesSocialSciencesArts/departments/literatureLanguages/newsandevents/nethrc/default.aspx</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Call for Papers:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Abstract for general submission (up to 250 words plus 1 extra page for images, references, etc.); indicate if paper (20m + Q/A) or poster or either, provide a title.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Submission Email: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><a href="mailto:HRC@tamuc.edu" target="_blank">HRC@tamuc.edu</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Faculty sponsors,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Salvatore Attardo, PhD</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Professor</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Department of Literature and Languages</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Christian F. Hempelmann, PhD</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Director, Ontological Semantic Technology Lab</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Department of Literature and Languages</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Students,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Reza Panahi </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">(<a href="mailto:preza@leomail.tamuc.edu" target="_blank">preza@leomail.tamuc.edu</a>)<b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Nabiha El Khatib </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">(<a href="mailto:nelkhatib@leomail.tamuc.edu" target="_blank">nelkhatib@leomail.tamuc.edu</a>)</span></p><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>