Humours of the Past

幽默在我们的日常生活中起着至关重要的作用。它加强了关系和身份，使我们能够批评我们的政治和社会结构。它将我们与他人联系起来，帮助我们科普悲剧。幽默是人类的重要组成部分，但对所有人来说并不相同。对讽刺杂志《查理周刊》办公室的袭击凸显了幽默与我们对世界的文化特定看法之间的联系。正如当代幽默揭示了我们自己的生活经验，理解过去文化的幽默有可能为产生它的社会的社会价值观开辟新的视角。过去的幽默网络（HOP）将加强我们访问和使用历史文化幽默的方式。探索历史幽默使我们能够接触到那些参与其中的人的情感历史，以及不断演变的社会态度，这些态度对我们自己社会的塑造产生了影响。更好地理解过去的幽默可以丰富我们自己的文化生活，为更好地欣赏历史文本，图像和表演中的喜剧提供一个框架。此外，更深刻地理解历史社区中幽默与文化价值观之间的相互关系，可以帮助我们更好地理解我们自己社区中的这种联系。但我们如何听到过去的笑声呢？HOP将使学术研究人员不仅相互对话，而且还与表演者，策展人，翻译，政策制定者以及其他在更好地理解过去的幽默及其文化背景和影响方面有专业利益的人进行对话。该网络的驱动力来自于这样一种信念，即仔细比较我们获得过去幽默的文化特性的模式，以及这些模式的合作融合，将有助于所有参与者加深对与其工作相关的历史幽默的理解。许多用于研究当代幽默的工具，如观众反应研究和认知测试，对过去的幽默研究者来说是不可用的。因此，我们对过去幽默的理解必须结合不同的文化分析工具和广泛的从业者的经验。如此大规模的合作方式来研究幽默在过去从来没有发生过以一种集中的方式。该网络将运行两个链接论坛进行讨论。第一个将涉及一个仔细集中的方法论的不同历史幽默的文化特性的交流。第二部分将涉及这些研究结果的实际应用，让学术界、工业界和社区参与者有机会通过相互丰富的讨论分享他们的项目。我们还将举办一系列活动，与更广泛的社区接触，包括一个实验性的表演之夜和一个关于幽默的历史审查及其对今天的影响的公开讨论。该网络的成果将最终导致出版《走近过去的幽默：手册》，这将是该领域的多学科指南，其中有针对研究人员、学生、教师、表演艺术专业人员、学术和商业翻译、策展人和其他人的需要的章节。

Humour plays a vital role in our everyday lives. It strengthens relationships and identities and enables us to critique our political and social structures. It connects us with others and helps us cope with tragedy. Humour is an essential part of being human, but it is not the same for all humans. The attack on the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo highlighted how connected humour is to our culturally specific view of the world. Just as contemporary humour reveals much about our own lived experience, understanding the humour of past cultures has the potential to open up new perspectives on the social values of the societies that produced it. The Humours of the Past Network (HOP) will enhance the way we access and use the humour of historical cultures. Exploring historical humour allows us access to an emotional history of those that take part in it as well as to evolving social attitudes that have ramifications for the shaping of our own society. Better understanding past humour can enrich our own cultural lives by providing a framework for a greater appreciation of the comic in historical texts, images and performances. Moreover, a sharper understanding of the interrelation between humour and cultural values in historical communities could help us to understand that connection better within our own communities. But how do we hear the laughter of the past? HOP will bring academic researchers into dialogue not only with each other but also with performers, curators, translators, policy makers, and others who have a professional stake in working on better understanding the humour of the past, and its cultural contexts and ramifications. The Network is driven by the conviction that a careful comparison of the modes by which we access the cultural specificity of past humour, and a collaborative merging of those modes, will help all participants to sharpen their understanding of the historical humours relevant to their work. Many of the tools used to study contemporary humour, such as audience response studies and cognitive testing, are not available to researchers of past humour. Our understanding of humour from the past must therefore bring together the different tools of cultural analysis and the experience of a wide range of practitioners. Such a large-scale collaborative approach to the study of humour in the past has never happened in a focused way before . The Network will run two linked forums for discussion. The first will involve a carefully focused exchange of methodological approaches to the cultural specificity of different historical humours. The second will involve the practical application of these findings, giving academic, industry and community participants the opportunity to share their projects through mutually enriching discussions. We will also run a number of events to engage with the wider community, including an experimental performance evening and a public discussion of the historical censorship of humour and its consequences for today. The Network's results will culminate in the publication of 'Approaching Humour in the Past: A Handbook', which will be a multidisciplinary guide to the field with chapters targeted towards the needs of researchers, students, teachers, performing arts professionals, academic and commercial translators, curators and others.