Mary Beard will be the Visiting Sather Professor of Classical Literature at the University of California, Berkeley in the fall.
She will lecture on Roman Laughter. Here is a list of the lectures.
The Sather lectures are published: Sather Classical Lectures, University of California Press. I own several of these, they are all interesting. So you can look forward to Mary's in due time.
She blogged the subject earlier in the year: What made the Romans laugh? and also reviewed two related books.