Cartoonist, writer and speaker Liza Donnelly joined The University of Rhode Island’s Honors Colloquium for the second to last colloquium of the semester Tuesday evening. Donnelly, a long time cartoonist for The New Yorker, spoke of the ways that free speech, feminism and humor can all be tied together with cartoons. From a very…
Tuesday’s Honors Colloquium examined the relationship between law and humor and presented real court case examples, continuing the semester’s series “The Power of Humor”. Laura E. Little, a professor of law and government in the Charles Klein School at Temple University, has been working for years to bring together her knowledge of law and her…
This week’s Honors Colloquium examined the psychology and science of laughter with Dr. Sophie Scott Tuesday evening, continuing this semester’s “Power of Humor” series. Scott, professor of Cognitive Science at the University College London, has been studying the science of laughter for many years. The colloquium focused on the ways that humans use laughter…