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On Thursday, October 19, 2023, from 9.15 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., a roundtable discussion will be held on “The Meanings of Creation” at the Auditorium of the “F. A. Bonporti” Conservatory of Music in Trento. Speakers include, among others, D. Assael, M. Giuliani, M.A.M. Pusterla, M. Camerini.

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Debora Tonelli edited a new collection of essays titled "Fra kósmos e pólis: identità e cittadinanza da una prospettiva Mediterranea" (2023), which includes seven works from Mediterranean scholars exploring the concepts of identity and citizenship, particularly in the context of globalization.

The eighth edition of the «Davide Zordan Lecture» will be held by Isabella Guanzini (KU-Linz) at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Aula Grande) on 28 November 2023, at 5.00 pm.

Massimo Leone and Marco Ventura, Director and former Director of ISR, respectively, co-chair, along with Alessandra Vitullo, a panel on religion and artificial intelligence at the 20th Annual Congress of the European Association for the Study of Religion (EASR), Vilnius, Sept. 4-8, 2023.

April 18, 2023 saw the release of L’arte dell’essenziale. Un’escursione filosofica nelle terre alte, Paolo Costa’s book dedicated to the spiritual meanings of mountains

On November 18-19, the first workshop of the interregional and interdisciplinary research project “Resilient Beliefs: Religion and Beyond” (2022-2024), funded by the Euregio Science Fund and carried out by the Center for Religious Studies in cooperation with the University of Innsbruck and PTHSTA, was held in Brixen.

What ethical, social and political issues has Covid-19 raised in the course of its management? How have different countries approached this issue? On 4 and 5 November 2022, an international conference organised at the University of Turin will discuss these issues from a comparative and cross-cultural perspective.

The book by Enrico Piergiacomi studies the reception of the theological-ethical verses of Lucretius' "De rerum natura" in the philosopher Pierre Gassendi. He was the first to have cited and analyzed almost the entire Lucretian poem, with the aim of creating a neo-Epicurean philosophy compatible with modern science and with Christianity.

There are two pitfalls in digital health ethics: an approach to the digital as an environment to which to adapt and an approach that reduces the digital to a mere instrument. It is possible anyway to approach the digital as a "milieu" as well.

Monica Consolandi, affiliated to the FBK-Ph.D. Program and collaborator at FBK-ISR, has reached an important milestone earning her Ph.D. in Philosophy with honors on July 2022 at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University.

The Post-Secular City, the book in which Paolo Costa systematically reconstructs the new debate on secularization, was released by Brill on September 12, 2022.