This talk explores what it means to access the real through attention, and draws sharp distinctions between Murdoch and Weil on the role of the self, with metaphysical and ethical consequences for the practice of attention.

FoReSt is a new initiative promoted by FBK-ISR, aimed at PhD students and early-career researchers in Religious Studies. Its goal is to provide an open and welcoming space for in-depth discussion of individual research trajectories.

As part of the "Mortali. Vivere nonostante" Festival, Diana Petech offers a reflection on death and life, drawing on the teachings of Zen Buddhism to promote awareness on the meaning and miracle of being alive.

On the tenth anniversary of the event, Paolo Costa (FBK, Trento) will deliver the annual Davide Zordan Lecture. His talk will start from the dark times that we are living in today to see how to get through them.

The lecture focuses on the famous Dead Sea Scrolls and the people who wrote and copied them. Particular attention will be given to recent developments in which diverse methods from artificial intelligence, the sciences, and the humanities are used.

In an important 1981 essay on the theologico-political, Claude Lefort asserted that the advent of democracy had brought about a «désintrication» between the religious and the political. What, then, is the role of religion in Lefortian democratic society? How does Lefort contribute to the secularization debate?