Cycle "Solitude and Communion in Religion and Ethics"

The series of meetings announced here aims to explore, through a theoretical and comparative approach, the multiple articulations of solitude within contemporary religious and ethical contexts, bringing into dialogue traditions that have construed “being alone” as an intentional practice of ascesis, introspection, and openness to transcendence with the transformations introduced by digital technologies. Proceeding along a semantic axis that distinguishes being alone as a condition, being lonely as an existential experience, being solitary as a symbolic and cultural posture, and being desolate as a form of relational deprivation and crisis of meaning, the meetings will place these figures in a dialectical relationship with the notion of communion—of clear Christian and Catholic provenance, yet endowed with profound social resonance—by examining its diverse modes of enactment. The inquiry will thus extend to the various forms of sharing, from ritual community to affective participation, from the sharing of word and silence to that of data, images, and mediated presences, in order to analyse how these forms do not simply oppose solitude but rather presuppose it, traverse it, or at times even produce it. Within this framework, the aim is not to set withdrawal against relation, or isolation against belonging, but to understand how, in the age of technological mediation, solitude and communion are mutually redefined, calling for a renewed ethical reflection and a possible rearticulation of their spiritual and social significance.

CALENDAR

• 12 January 2026 | 14.30 | Umberto CURI | Talking about god, talking with god: philosophy and theology in dialogue
• 02 February 2026 | 11.00 | Vincenzo SORRENTINO | Facing Suffering: Compassion and Politics
• 16 February 2026 | 11.00 | Seminar
• 02 March 2026 | 11.00 | Pietro VERENI | L’animale Rituale di Harvey Whitehouse
• 16 March 2026 | 11.00 | Seminar
• 30 March 2026 | 11.00 | Seminar
• 13 April 2026 | 11.00 | Seminar
• 27 April 2026 | 11.00 | Seminar
• 11 May 2026 | 11.00 | Another Life. When Virtual Reality Cares for Loneliness
• 19 May 2026 | 12.30 | Giornata di studi | Claudio CESA | Pensare la storia
• 27 May 2026 | 11.00 | Seminar
• 08 June 2026 | 11.00 | Seminar | Rav David MEYER
• 22 June 2026 | 11.00 | Seminar
• 30 June 2026 | 11.00 | Seminar
• 06 July 2026 | 11.00 | Seminar | Fabian WINIGER
• 20 July 2026 | 11.00 | Seminar | Massimo GARGIULO
• 07 September 2026 | 11.00 | Seminar
• 14 September 2026 | 11.00 | Paolo COSTA | La solitudine del parresiasta: Rousseau, Foucault e Arendt sull’enigma del pensare da sé
• 05 October 2026 | 11.00 | Dimitri  D’ANDREA | Contro il mito della singolarità (titolo provvisorio)
• 19 October 2026 | 11.00 | Seminar
• 26 October 2026 | 11.00 | Seminar
• 09 November 2026 | 11.00 | Seminar
• 23 November 2026 | 11.00 | Mario PANICO | Spaces of Nostalgia (provisional title) – in collaborazione con ISIG e UniTN/LIMS
• 07 December 2026 | 11.00 | Seminar
• 14 December 2026 |11.00 | Seminar
• 15-16-17-18 December 2026 | 14.00 | IL SENSO SOLINGO: Solitudine e condivisione nella religione e nelle etiche digitali

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The calendar may experience alterations.

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	L’iniziativa è stata realizzata anche grazie al contributo della Direzione generale Educazione, ricerca e istituti culturali del Ministero della Cultura.