• HUMAN & THINGS: An Insight on Signs, Science and Law

    27 - 28 May 2026
     
  • Alone on the Fading Path of Halakhah | RAV DAVID MEYER | Leo Baeck College

    08 June 2026 | 11:00 -13:00
     
  • Buddhist Tradition, Community and Forms of Life | ANANDA ABEYSEKARA | Virginia Tech

    22 June 2026 | 11:00 - 13:00
     
  • Between resource and danger: some thoughts on loneliness in Philo of Alexandria | MASSIMO GARGIULO | Università Pontificia Gregoriana

    20 July 2026 | 11:00 - 13:00
     
  • Cycle "Solitude and Communion in Religion and Ethics"

    New 2026 Calendar
     
  • ISR’s YouTube channel is online

    ISR's Youtube channel offers an up to date wealth of videos. You can find seminars, webinars and events organized by the Centre, in the last years as well as brand-new.
     
Upcoming events
  • The 2nd Human & Things conference (May 27-28, Trento) explores the human-thing bond. Shifting from mastery to a quantum-inspired relational model , it addresses how AI and digital shifts redefine agency. The goal is a new legal framework for our interconnected reality.
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  • Starting from an analysis of Giacomo Leopardi’s "Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell’Asia" (1829–1830), Stefano Biancu shall attempt to highlight the dual significance of solitude in the modern age.
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  • The seminar examines loneliness in biblical theology - from Genesis to Job to Soloveitchik - focusing on halakhic loneliness during the Shoah through Rav Oshry's Kovno Ghetto Responsa. It explores how Jewish law confronts unprecedented rupture, and what ethical possibilities emerge from radical theological solitude.
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  • Solitude and community are intimately connected in the practice of tradition and authority in (Theravada) Buddhism, which is based on a variety of shared practices of hierarchy, authority, and relationships of power. The idea of tradition remains essential to thinking as well about modern politics and ethics.
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  • In Philo, solitude facilitates the sage's interior search and is described as personal experience. However, isolation doesn't automatically accelerate perfection: one can withdraw only when ready, having already achieved good self-control. Philo addresses this with references to his own lived experience.
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