Events

This is a contribution to the reflection on the ambivalent relation of urban dwellers to nature, torn between enchantment and valuation under the current circumstances of climate change. Taking trees as an illustration, it shows how eco-spiritual views and practices currently value them as good and ethical, while also making them object of economic valuations for institutions and structural regulations. In this ambivalent context notions of transcendence, and sacrality develop.

Conference co-organised by the Sensors & Devices Centre and the Centre for Religious Sciences (FBK) together with the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento, with the aim of concretely exploring the interdisciplinary space between science and humanities.

Understanding mysticism as a multidimensional and multifaith phenomenon is not an easy task. What explanatory paradigms do scholars use today?

The contemplative life, as well as aptitudes of wonder, of awe and the exercise of imagination, seem to return to the centre of attention and in the ethical-philosophical debate. How are these dimensions understood and thematised within our increasingly technological and digital societies?

The WHO has declared the global health emergency due to Covid-19 over, but it has not come to an end: this is why it is interesting to discuss it in a philosophical perspective, in particular by adopting an archaeogenalogical approach, as proposed by Michel Foucault.

Il seminario si concentrerà su una contestualizzazione e problematizzatine del concetto di “incanto” (e derivati) nelle teorie storiche, sociologiche, e antropologiche dall’inizio del ‘900 a oggi. Particolare attenzione sarà dedicata agli usi di tale concetto e alle pratiche sociali cui esso si riferisce nei contesti post-socialisti dell’Europa Centro-Orientale.

This lecture will first present discuss the paleological thinking as a mode of understanding of cosmic correspondences. It will then proceed to the field of intersubjectivity and evaluate the phenomena within religious science usually designated as “magical” or “nonscientific” – by primarily focusing on telepathy as a form of entanglement within the quantum theology.

The seminar in the series in memory of sociologist Massimo Rosati, "Nothing is Ever Lost," explores the work of Émile Durkheim from the perspective of asceticism and exercise, interpreting him as a reinterpreter of ancient wisdom in a modern and collective key.

Il Workshop è dedicato alla partecipazione di un gruppo di volontari a una serie di attività di "participatory design" e di applicazioni semiotiche, con l'intento di fare emergere idee e necessità utili per lo sviluppo del progetto EUFACETS

A dialogue between Stella Casola (University of Milan) and Paolo Costa (FBK-ISR) on the past, present and future of cultural memory in a postsecular society takes place in the fourth event of the seminar series in memory of Massimo Rosati

The lecture deals with secularization from a sociological perspective. After discussing the concept of secularization and the distinction between religious and secular, the distinction between micro, meso and macro processes will be applied to the religious sphere. Finally, some aspects of the current religious situation in Europe are examined.

Robert L. Kendrick (Chicago), visiting fellow at the Italian-German Historical Institute, will hold a seminar in FBK’s Aula piccola on April 19, in which he will discuss the growing interest of historians in the topic of “soundscapes” and focus on continuities and discontinuities between the early and late modern age.