Accademia Dimitri
Convegno «Comicità23»
From March 23-25, 2023, the international conference, which grew out of Anna Stoll Knecht’s “Ambition” project “Music and clowning in Europe, 20th-21st c.,” will explore the mechanics and theories of comedy, humor and laughter at the Dimitri Academy (Verscio).
Program March 23, 2023
13:00 – 13:30
Welcome
13:30 – 13:45
Paola Gilardi and Yvonne Schmid: Conference opening by the co-chairs of the Swiss Theatre Society (SGTK).
13:45 – 14:00
Anna Stoll Knecht (Accademia Dimitri): Introduction
Keynote lecture
14:00 – 15:00
Sophie Scott (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, London): “The neuroscience of laughter”
15:00 – 15:15
Break
Session 1 – Between comedy and philosophical laughter/u>
15:15 – 16:00
Gardi Hutter in conversation with Charlotte Gschwandtner (Leipzig)
16:15 – 17:00
Fabrice Hadjadj (Institut Philantropos, Fribourg): “Against comedy: the clown in search of tragic laughter”
17:00 – 17:45
Mathieu Horeau (Accademia Dimitri): “Le comique chez Kierkegaard”
18:00 – 19:30
Aperitif-Dinner
20:00
Compagnia Baccalà at the Teatro Dimitri “PSS PSS”