Events

The fourth edition of the Davide Zordan Lecture will be held by Susan Ross (Loyola University, Chicago) in the Aula Grande of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Via S. Croce, 77 – Trento) on December 17th at 5 p.m. She will talk about: “Can Beauty really save the world? Theological Aesthetics in a time of Chaos”.

On 16th and 17th December, the Centre for Religious Studies of the Bruno Kessler Foundation will be hosting a workshop on AI, geopolitics and religious studies. The aim of the workshop is to assess the contribution that two distinct social sciences, geopolitics and religious studies, can give to the current debate on the role of Artificial Intelligence in society. Both can offer a global perspective on the role of AI, also in different societies. The event is organized in cooperation with Limes-Rivista Italiana di geopolitica.

According to the mission of the Center on religion and innovation, Luca Diotallevi (Roma Tre University) will give a lecture entitled “The Contingency of Contingency: Some Reflection on the Relationships between Innovation and ‘Religions, Faiths, Beliefs and Spirituality’”

According to the mission of the Center on religion and innovation, the workshop develops a broad vision on the topic “Young people and the Catholic Church” through the study of the Youth Synod of the Catholic Diocese of Padua

According to the mission of the Center on religion and innovation, Frederick Gedicks (Brigham Young University) will give a lecture entitled “Dignity and Discrimination: Religious Accommodation, Anti-discrimination Laws, and Reproductive Rights in the United States (and Europe)”

FBK-ISR organizes a workshop with the italian anthropologists to discuss the ISR’s position paper

Il Centro per le Scienze Religiose (FBK-ISR) e Religion Today Film Festival insieme il 7 ottobre 2019 promuovono un incontro su religione, pena e rieducazione nella nuova serialità televisiva.

Book launch: Erminio Gius, Compassione, EDB 2019. The event is organized by the Center for Religious Studies of the Bruno Kessler Foundation in partnership with the Culture Area of the Diocese of Trento and it will be held in the Aula Grande of the FBK, via S. Croce, 77, Trento.

The Center for Religious Studies (ISR) and the Security and Trust Unit of the Center for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) of the Bruno Kessler Foundation, in collaboration with the University of Siena, will host, on June 28th and 29th, a conference focused on the issues of the European security and cybersecurity.

On Thursday 18 April at 12.15, a seminar by Elena Nardelli (University of Trieste) will be held in the Aula piccola of the Bruno Kessler Foundation (Via S. Croce, 77, Trento, Hall)

In recent decades, the number of conflicts characterized by a more or less explicit appeal to what we commonly call “religion” has increased significantly. At first glance, this might suggest a non-random relationship between “religion” and “violence”.