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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.

In “Big Data and the Little Big Bang: An Epistemological (R)evolution”, recently published in Open Access in Frontiers in Big Data, Dominik Balazka (FBK-ICT/FBK-ISR) and Dario Rodighiero (Harvard University/MIT) discuss Big Data epistemology.

We are pleased to announce the submission of our contribution to the public online consultation on UNESCO’s first version of a draft text of a recommendation on the ethics of artificial intelligence.

We are pleased to announce that Fondazione Bruno Kessler has become a member of the International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD)

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.