Events

  • How tend to be read and interpreted the body and corporeity by the disciplines that deal with them also in terms of care? Phenomenology overcomes the opposition between objective gaze and subjective perception and allows a different understanding of the body, also with respect to the condition of illness.
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  • The Georgetown University Representative Office in Rome, in partnership with the Center for Religious Studies at the Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK-ISR) and Filosofia in Movimento, is organizing a book launch for Fra kósmos e pólis: identità e cittadinanza da una prospettiva mediterranea (2023) edited by Debora Tonelli
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  • Revelations of longstanding medical conditions have been defined by Danielle Spencer with the term "metagnosis". These experiences create the opportunity to newly examine the relationship between illness/impairment, experiences of embodiment/dis-embodiment, and its relationship to personal identity.
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  • The new technologies could put us in a position to connect the minds of different individuals more and more. Not only could an individual have the possibility of immediately transmitting their thoughts and feelings to others, but super-individuals might also come into existence.
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  • The meeting aims at discussing the relationship between different forms of autonomy and different types of minorities, in particular the religious ones.
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  • l’Intelligenza Artificiale è ovunque e rende la capacità decisionale sempre più automatizzata. In tale contesto diventa vitale che la tecnologia lavori per noi e non contro di noi – o contro alcuni di noi –.
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  • Disembodied souls and embodied self? There seems to be at present a return of attention to the body in spirituality and to the soul in healthcare.
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  • Maitreya is the Future Buddha in Buddhism while the God of Wealth is a folk deity. Nowadays, the symbol of Maitreya has been mixed with the God of Wealth to form a new deity in Vietnam: Maitreya - God of Wealth (MGW). The research will explore this new embodiment based on the perspective of syncretism.
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  • In her talk, Pasqualin will discuss anthropomorphism both as a target of criticism and as an object of recent re-evaluation in the fields of animal ethics and ethology. Focusing on Heidegger’s understanding of anthropomorphism, she will stress the ambivalence of anthropomorphism as a resilient way of thinking.
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  • In this talk, I will critically analyze the relationship between embodiment and the digital self in three theoretical steps: 1) I will briefly provide the historical philosophical context of the emergence of the problem; 2) I will question the dualistic argument by providing a three-step counter-argument; finally 3) I will focus on the third step by delving into the relationship between extension and incorporation in the digital sphere.
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  • RYAN MCKAY, Professor of Psychology at the Department of Psychology of Royal Holloway, University of London, will give a workshop in FBK’s Aula Piccola on the sacred and the profane in language and law.
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  • A researcher since 2006 at FBK-Istituto storico Italo-Germanico in Trento, Fernanda Alfieri is now a researcher in Modern History at the University of Bologna. Her studies investigate the history of sexuality in the long modern age and the relationship between science and religion. Her publications include: "Nella camera degli sposi. Tomás Sánchez, il matrimonio, la sessualità (secoli XVI-XVII)", Bologna, il Mulino, 2010; "Veronica e il diavolo. Storia di un esorcismo a Roma", Torino, Einaudi, 2021; with T. Jinno, "Christianity and Violence in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. Perspectives from Europe and Japan", Berlin, De Gruyter, 2021.
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