Events

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.

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.

Does mystical experience belong exclusively to the individual self? Or does it primarily involve a collective dimension? Starting from the reflections of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Simone Weil, I will show a third, impersonal way, which lies beyond the tension between solipsism and community.

Overseeing the historical moment, Vincenzo Sorrentino will talk about the role of compassion in politics. While acknowledging that the political sphere is a battlefield, it still matters to reflect on the value of compassion as a, not only ethical, means in the fight against unjust suffering.

Umberto Curi will give a talk based on his book Parlare con Dio: un’indagine fra filosofia e teologia (2024). How much room is there for reason in our ways of relating to God, and how much space is there for God in our incessant search for reasons?

"Preserving meaning" defines an essential operation of culture. It gathers time into form, it extends memory into transmission, it shapes continuity through vigilance.

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?

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.

This presentation discusses intersections between Japanese and Italian conservation theories and their relevance to the conservation of contemporary art, where issues of authenticity, variability, and material change challenge traditional frameworks.

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 meeting of the ‘Global Faith-Based Healthcare Systems’ project will be held in Trento, at the Bruno Kessler Foundation. The project has been developed in partnership between Georgetown University and the Bruno Kessler Foundation’s Centre for Religious Sciences.

This lecture explores how religious actors and worldviews shape international climate change politics. Drawing on empirical research, it highlights the normative influence of religion in global climate governance and its potential to foster ethical, inclusive climate action.