Events

In his talk, Andrea Rota suggests drawing on the philosophical analysis of social ontology and collective intentionality to revive empirical work on collective forms of religiosity.

A conservation-and-transformation process is doubly at work in the diachronic survey of cinematic avatars of Count A. K. Tolstoy’s 19th c. French-language novella introducing the Slavic vampiric figure of the “vourdalak” as well in the disintegration and reconfiguration of the family structure that these films depict or suggest.

The seminar explores the "Feminine" in Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah) through the studies of Moshe Idel and various liturgical sources, linking it to the role of women in Orthodox Judaism and the "halakhic spirituality" rooted in the Tanakh, the Talmud, and major rabbinic commentaries.

Scholars of different fields will discuss the role of AI as a tool for transforming the human world and analyze its impact on the preservation of civic and spiritual values that underpin our living and our ability to establish relationships.

Jean-Claude Monod (ENS Paris) will be a guest speaker at FBK’s Center for Religious Studies. He will give a talk on the relationship between secularization and modernity. Who is right in the end: the critics of secularization, its supporters, or neither?

What is artificial linguistic creativity? An historical point of view will serve as introduction, focusing on the scientific ties of linguistics and cybernetics and shedding light on their convergence, between Shannon and Chomsky until the birth of natural language processing.

On Thursday, January 30, at 3 p.m., the seventh and final event of the “Nothing is Ever Lost” seminar series, dedicated to the memory of Italian sociologist Massimo Rosati, will be held at Sapienza University of Rome and online.

What remains of the body, how does the body affect the mind and how does our mind determine the body's dynamics, movements and evolutions? In the book "Corpo, Umano" Vittorio Lingiardi, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, tackles some of the questions concerning corporeity by going through three different rooms, that of the ‘remembered body’, the ‘detailed body’ and the ‘rediscovered body’.

On 21 January 2025, at 4.30 p.m. in FBK’s Aula grande, there will be a roundtable with Michela Milano, Paolo Traverso, Paolo Costa, Eugenia Lancellotta and Boris Rähme, to discuss the AI Revolution and how society is gearing up for the challenge of the new intelligent machines

Addressing theologians, Pope Francis called for a radical renewal of theology, a real shift in the sign of a paradigm shift resulting in “a fundamentally contextual theology.” The seminar will discuss possible ways to implement this call to transformation.

The global scenario is disrupted by numerous conflicts, in many of which religion seems to play a role. But is this really the case? Exiting Violence: The Role of Religion examines the concept of religion, the role it plays in triggering conflicts but also in finding solutions.

Through an interdisciplinary lens, we will explore the processes that lead meaning to take on this enchanted quality, examining the mechanisms by which certain symbols, narratives, or objects come to evoke wonder, reverence, or a sense of the sacred.