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We are pleased to announce an open research position (postdoc, two years) within the project “Resilient Beliefs: Religion and Beyond”. The project is funded by the Euregio Science Fund and coordinated by the Center for Religious Studies of Fondazione Bruno Kessler.

Our Policy Paper is online

The fourth Zordan Lecture, given in 2019 by Susan Ross, has just been published by EDB in a volume edited by Paolo Costa and entitled “Can Beauty Really Save the World? Theological Aesthetics in a Time of Chaos.”

The sixth edition of the «Davide Zordan Lecture» will be held by Ingolf Dalferth (Claremont Graduate University) at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler on 14 December 2021.

Our researcher Valeria Fabretti has been selected to take part in the Global Exchange on Religion in Society (GERIS) network, a new global platform for dialogue on diversity, coexistence and social inclusion.

As a partner of the G20 Interfaith Forum and Fondazione per le scienze religiose (FSCIRE), the Italian convener of the 2021 G20 Interfaith Forum Italy, FBK-ISR is organising three events.

Lucia Galvagni, researcher at the Center for Religious Studies of the Bruno Kessler Foundation, published recently her new book Narrazioni cliniche. Etica e comunicazione in medicina (Carocci, Rome 2020).

In February 2020, the European Commission published its White Paper “On Artificial Intelligence – A European Approach to Excellence and Trust”. Thisreport provides an overview of religious or belief actors’ contributions to the public consultation launched by the Commission.

On Tuesday 15 December, the Center for Religious Studies, the Cultural Sector of the Diocese of Trento and Religion Today Film Festival organize “Disorder: What Films Know about Us”, an event in memory of Davide Zordan, broadcast live at 8.30 pm on the PastoraleCulturaTn YouTube channel.

Researcher Margherita Galassini will participate to the OSCE's 3rd Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting (SHDM) of 2020 on "Freedom of Religion or Belief: The Role of Digital Technologies and Civil Society Actors in Advancing This Human Right for All".

The 23rd Religion Today Film Festival, a strategic partner of the FBK’s Center for Religious Studies, is scheduled from 23 to 30 September 2020: all events will be available in live streaming.

Monica Consolandi has been invited to talk about the topic "Toward a Digitized Medicine: The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Disclosure of the Importance of Communication in the Clinical World“ at the “10th annual Western Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference” on 25 September.