Dear all, I would like to inform you that registration and submissions are now open for the 36th International Society for Humor Studies Annual Conference, to be held in Niterói, at Fluminense Federal University (UFF), from July 6 to 10, 2026. Information regarding fees and submission deadlines is available on the official website: ishs2026.org. Interested participants may submit proposals in three different modalities: individual papers <https://ishs2026.org/call_papers/>, panels <https://ishs2026.org/call_panels/> and roundtables <https://ishs2026.org/call_roundtables/>. Individual paper abstracts are submitted by authors or groups of authors. Thematic panels, consisting of three to five paper proposals, are submitted as pre-organized, self-managed sessions by panel coordinators. Open format roundtables may also be proposed by coordinators, who will indicate the invited participants. Moreover, the conference’s different Special Interest Groups (SIGs) speak directly to many of our shared interests, including Online Humor, Humor and Artificial Intelligence, Humor and Freedom of Expression, Humor and the Global South, Multimodal Humor, Screen Comedy, and much more. The ISHS will also grant awards for Best Full Paper, Best Presentation, and Best Graduate Student Work (Master’s and Doctoral levels), including an unprecedented award for the Best Doctoral Thesis written in Portuguese. Submission deadlines are February 27 (for panels and roundtables) and March 27 (for individual paper proposals). Further information and inquiries can be found on the conference website or by contacting us at humorstudies@midia.uff.br. We kindly ask you to help disseminate this call among potential interested colleagues, including graduate students and advisees whose research may intersect in any way with humor studies. We look forward to welcoming you. Sincerely, Viktor Chagas (UFF) On behalf of the Organizing Committee __ Kind Regards, Viktor Chagas Professor Universidade Federal Fluminense PhD in History, Politics and Cultural Assets