Events

How are we to comprehend Plato’s conception of desire? What is its relation to reason? And is the position defensible? Fiona Ellis will respond to some familiar objections to Plato’s view, and argue that there are good reasons for taking seriously his idea that desire is a mode of cognition.

Partendo dall’esperienza umana dei limiti normativi all’agire e al pensare, ragioneremo secondo uno stile dialogico, sul contributo che la fenomenologia, e in particolare l’opera di Husserl, ancora oggi fornisce alla comprensione dell’intelligenza personale, collettiva e artificiale.

Prof. Stephanie Plamondon Bair (Brigham Young University Law School) to give a public talk on the impact of social norms on innovation processes.

The Davide Zordan Lecture is an event annually held in late Autumn. It was established to honour the memory of Davide Zordan, a senior researcher of the Center for Religious Studies of FBK, who died in 2015 when he was only 47 years old. In tune with the Center’s mission to study the interaction between religion and innovation, the Lecture’s focus is on the role of theology in a secular society.

The FBK-ISR conference Religion in the Innovation Landscape concludes the 2018 series Religion and Innovation. Developing the action research work pursued by the Center since the adoption of the mission on religion and innovation in 2016, the final conference will continue to engage scholars of religion in a sustained dialogue with innovation researchers and practitioners. The conference, which will be held in English, is open to the public.

ISR co-organize the Meeting that will take place in Siena at the Certosa di Pontignano

“Dire di no” alla chiusura e all’intolleranza per “dire di sì” alla conoscenza, all’incontro e al dialogo

In collaboration with the 21st Religion Today Film Festival New Generation, FBK-ISR proposes the workshop Pray cool. Orthodoxies and youth cultures on new screens – the seventh event in the Center’s 2018 series Religion & Innovation.

The sixth event in FBK-ISR’s 2018 series “Religion & Innovation” is dedicated to the exploration of the role of religion in the intellectual history of innovation discourses

Jeroen Temperman to lecture on innovation in Religion and the Law

Presentazione del numero di luglio 2018 della Rivista che sarà dedicato al tema della Geopolitica della Chiesa Cattolica.

Through the analysis of "anger" in religious texts, the seminar shall show that the innovative combination between religious studies and psychoanalytic analysis of feelings has consequence in our understanding of religious texts and is able to open new and fruitful interpretations.