The MENTOR project (Organised by Panteion University, in the framework of the MENTOR Project (CERV-2024-CITIZENS-REM) explores the ways in which humour was used as a form of non-violent resistance in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes in 20th-century Europe. Building on interdisciplinary research and educational innovation, the project focuses on the role of jokes, cartoons, and graffiti as tools of dissent, subversion, and psychological survival.

Submissions will centre on the following themes, while also considering additional relevant topics: humour under dictatorships, censorship subversion and semiotics, gender and humour in resistance and humour as democratic practice.