Events

The 2025 Summer Symposium organized by the Center for Religious Studies of FBK will bring together scholars from diverse fields to discuss the semiotic ideologies underlying processes of conservation and transformation.

This contribution examines the intersections of feminisms, religions, and digital media, with a focus on podcasts as sites that can enable both the transformation and the reinforcement of religious traditions and norms.

From Antiquity to the present day, urban spaces have been characterized by the multifaceted use that was made of them. This workshop aims to open up a discussion on the uses and changes of urban spaces in a diachronic and interdisciplinary framework.

4th seminar of the cycle of meetings ‘Medicine and Environment’, organised in collaboration with the Centre for Religious Sciences of the Bruno Kessler Foundation of Trento and the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento for the year 2025.

Paolo Costa, researcher at FBK-sr, will hold a seminar on May 12 in the Aula piccola of FBK, where he will discuss the role played by the contrast between conservation and progress in the modern imagination of the future and whether it makes sense to look to the mountains for the seeds of a change in perspective

The current paradigm for theory construction assumes that there are few coincidences among physical observables. Yet, a number of observed coincidences seem particularly meaningful for life. For some of them, we might soon find an explanation within physics. Some other "explanations" are currently beyond (established).

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.

This seminar will consider emerging theistic conceptions of AI and their connections with other conspiritual and neo-liberal modes of meaning making and aspirational imaginaries. Professor Dr Singler’s work on the relationship between religion and AI provides new perspectives on cultural forms arising from this entanglement.

3rd seminar of the cycle of meetings ‘Medicine and Environment’, organised in collaboration with the Centre for Religious Sciences of the Bruno Kessler Foundation of Trento and the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento for the year 2025.

In this lecture I will attempt to construct a transcultural, transmedial and transdisciplinary problematics that will focus on some of the various ways in which Buddhism, technology and the arts are linked in a context of the Asian tradition, and the Korean tradition in particular. asiatica e, in particolare, della tradizione coreana.

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.