West Hartford – “The Roots of Jewish Humor” with Josh Lambert, academic director of the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Mass., and author of American Jewish Fiction: A JPS Guide and Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture; co-sponsored by UConn Storrs Judaic Studies and the University of Hartford Greenberg Center; 7:30 p.m.; Wilde Auditorium, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Ave., (860) 768-4963, Hartford.edu/greenbergcenter.