The Wits Centre for Diversity Studies (WiCDS) invites you to the 10th annual international conference themed Irreverence, Ridicule and the Risqué: Humour in (De)(Pro)moting Social Justice. Humour plays a constitutive role in the social world, entrenching some widely accepted ways of thinking, while challenging others, often providing new perspectives. The particular interest for this conference is how humour is implicated and acts through, on, and against the power relations that organise understandings of social differences. The conference takes place from 15 to 17 October 2024, both online and at the Holiday Inn, Sunnyside Park, Johannesburg. The second call for abstracts for paper and creative presentations are being accepted until 10 August 2024.

View the conference website here for the full call and themes, or contact conference.wicds@wits.ac.za for enquiries.

To register for the conference and payment enquiries, contact ditebogo.kalauba@wits.ac.za.