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Nasce la Rete nazionale per il contrasto ai discori e fenomeni d’odio cui il FBK-ISR partecipa insieme ad un nutrito network di centri di ricerca, ong e associazioni di rilievo. Un progetto interdisciplinare volto alla ricerca, all’intervento e all’advocacy e capace di riunire le più importanti realtà che da diverso tempo si occupano di mappare e combattere i discorsi e i fenomeni di odio in Italia.

The visual investigation that TerraProject has carried out concerns the relationship between threats to security in contemporary European society and changes in the urban landscape. What does the landscape we have built express? What message will we leave to future generations through it?

What will stay with us after the CoViD-19 pandemic is over is not only the bewilderment at a huge life change or the collective anxiety for an insidious threat impending over mankind. Besides this, there are some images that have disturbed the consciences of those who care about the future of religious belief. In this article, Paolo Costa explains why we should be wary of these images and of the view of the relationship between religion and modernity that they tacitly embody.

In collaboration with the Center for Information and Communication Technology, the project focuses on characteristics and geographical distribution of the so-called religious nones in the world.

We are pleased to announce the publication of our response to the public consultation on the European Commission’s White Paper “On Artificial Intelligence - A European Approach to Excellence and Trust”.

Our PhD candidate Matteo Corsalini has just published his essay “Religious Freedom, Inc: Business, Religion and The Law” in the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion.

The fifth edition of the «Davide Zordan Lecture» will be held by Shawn Copeland at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler on 14 December 2020, at 5.30 p.m. Shawn Copeland is Professor Emerita of Systematic Theology at Boston College. The title of her lecture is: «Are We Civilized Enough to Sustain a Civilization?». The event will take place online and will be live-streamed.

Can the covid-19 pandemic be seen also as a source of cultural innovation? Paolo Costa and Enrico Piergiacomi tried to read the current santiary emergency within the framework of their research project "Spirituality and Life Styles" with a series of written and filmed interventions.

Expressions of interest are now invited from postdoctoral researchers for applying jointly with our Centre for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Individual Fellowship.

On 28 February, our researcher Boris Rähme has given a paper entitled “On Religious and Non-Religious Relevance” at the University of Vienna.

The Center for Religious Studies is pleased to announce the availability of 5 competitive travel grants for the participation in the conference Artificial Intelligence and Religion – AIR2020

A Research position at the Center for Religious Studies of the Bruno Kessler Foundation is now open for applications.