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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.

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.