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 intends to offer some reflections on solitude and communion through the lens of Marie-Dominique Chenu, an eminent historian of medieval theology and philosophy, as well as an "intellectuel engagé" active in Paris in the labor movement during the 1940s.

Electronic health records, telehealth platforms and IA are fundamentally reconfiguring clinical space and time — with far-reaching implications for healthcare chaplains. This presentation discusses current research on and responses by the professional community to this development.

Solitude and community are intimately connected in the practice of tradition and authority in (Theravada) Buddhism, which is based on a variety of shared practices of hierarchy, authority, and relationships of power. The idea of tradition remains essential to thinking as well about modern politics and ethics.

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.

The 2nd Human & Things conference (May 27-28, Trento) explores the human-thing bond. Shifting from mastery to a quantum-inspired relational model , it addresses how AI and digital shifts redefine agency. The goal is a new legal framework for our interconnected reality.

Starting from an analysis of Giacomo Leopardi’s "Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell’Asia" (1829–1830), Stefano Biancu shall attempt to highlight the dual significance of solitude in the modern age.

Laboratorio Health & Humanities

A study conducted by the Universities of Verona and Trieste indicates that immersive virtual reality in palliative care is well accepted, and associated with improvements in various symptoms and overall well-being, with a possible indirect effect on patients’ sense of loneliness.

May words represent a way of healing? Starting from a research realized on communication in medicine and healthcare, the speakers will dialogue with Stefania Cavagnoli to understand how relevant remain words and narratives in the different situations and contexts of care.

In a world of crisis and "dimming luminosity," this Trento workshop explores hope as an interdisciplinary practice. Moving beyond optimism, it uses philosophy and literature to transform modern anguish into a "semiotic device" for dignity and shared responsibility, seeking new languages for an uncertain future.

This paper proposes a semiotic reading of "hikikomori" as a figure of contemporary solitude, showing how their withdrawal reconfigures the conditions of presence to oneself and to others within technologically mediated environments. "Hikikomori" subjects construct their own semiotic niches in which social bonds are reorgan