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The seventh edition of the «Davide Zordan Lecture» will take place on 24 October 2022.

On Monday 27 June, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., in FBK’s Aula Piccola, Cord Friebe and Eugenia Lancellotta will hold a workshop on “Trust, Delusions, Dissent”, kicking off the seminar activities related to the “Resilient Beliefs” research project.

The German astrophysicist and philosopher Sybille Anderl and ISR researcher Paolo Costa will talk about the scientific and human significance of major astronomical discoveries on Tuesday, June 14, at 6.30 p.m. at the Science Museum of Trento and online.

ISR's Youtube channel offers an up to date wealth of videos. You can find seminars, webinars and events organized by the Centre, in the last years as well as brand-new.

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.