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This paper offers a pragmatist reading (Peirce, Dewey, Mead) of the digitalization of care: beyond its technical dimension, digital health tools must be assessed by their capacity to recognize each individual and to institute a genuine community of inquiry among patients, professionals, and institutions.More info
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Paolo Costa, researcher at the FBK Center for Religious Studies, will hold a seminar on September 14 in the Aula piccola of FBK, where he will discuss the ambivalent relationship between thought and solitude relying on three different examples of uses of truth.More info
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Dimitri D’Andrea, professor of political philosophy in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Florence, will give a talk on October 5 in the Aula Piccola at FBK, focusing on the analysis of a new form of individualism: singularism.More info
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Can a digital model break social isolation? Contrasting invisible gurdwaras in Italy with monumental ones in Singapore, this seminar explores urban solitude, introducing participatory 3D reconstruction as a listening process to counter marginality, giving a voice to the community as they imagine and redesign their spacMore info
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The idea of nature is once again at the heart of contemporary reflection. It is an unstable notion, no longer easily opposable to ‘culture’. The same idea of a return to nature seems obsolete: we are part of nature, which is not an essence to be protected or violated, and is itself imbued with artificiality.More info
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The international conference “The Lonesome Meaning” explores multiple forms of solitude and isolation in contemporary cultures, bringing together religious, ethical, social, and technological perspectives. Through an interdisciplinary approach, it will examine both painful experiences of separation and abandonment and voluntary forms of withdrawal, recollection, and meaning-making, including new scenarios shaped by artificial intelligence and imaginaries of insularity.More info
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18 August 2026Are you a doctoral researcher or a PhD holder in religious studies, semiotics, communication sciences, or a related field? Does your research address solitude in its religious, ethical, social, technological, artistic, or semiotic dimensions? We invite you to apply for one of five Conference Grants to attend the international conference “The Lonesome Meaning”, devoted to the forms and meanings of solitude from an interdisciplinary perspective.More info
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11 February 2026Researchers from the FBK Center for Religious Studies are participating in several open panels at the 9th Conference of European Academy of Religion (EuARe), “Religion and (In)equalities”, held at the University of Rome LUISS Guido Carli, 30 June - 3 July 2026. We invite you to read the descriptions of the FBK-ISR open panels and submit a paper proposal by 13 March 2026.More info
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10 February 2026Opportunity to participate in an international one-day event that begins from a shared diagnosis: the widespread perception of living in a time permeated by sombe atmospheres, marked by a progressive dimming of the world’s symbolic luminosity and an increasing sense of fragility.More info
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12 January 2026On November 19th-21st, 2025 a meeting of the project “Global Faith-Based Healthcare Systems” was held at FBK, hosted by the Center for Religious Studies and Georgetown University, concerning the global impact of AI in medicine and challenges faced by local healthcare systems in Bangladesh, Kenya and India.More info