Silvia Omenetto

Silvia Omenetto is a scientific collaborator at the Centre for Religious Studies of the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento, for the TESEO project “sociomaTErialità del Sacro e gEOgrafie dell’incontro: dai luoghi di culto agli spazi multi-religiosi sul territorio trentino” funded by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto (2023-2024).

She is a research fellow in Geography at the Department of History Anthropology Religions Visual and Performing Arts of the University of Rome "Sapienza" and a contract lecturer in “Foundation in Human Geography” at the same university.

Her research interests include the relationship between space and religions in the contemporary world, the materiality of religions in urban space, architectures for worship and death, architectures of religious sharing, gurdwaras in the Sikh diaspora, the role of religious organisations in urban regeneration, the use of GIS technology (Geographic Information System) in the study of religions.

She is a member of the Scientific and Organising Committee of the “Permanent Global Seminar Religious Diversity in Italian Urban History” promoted by New York University and University of Roma Tre. She is a founding member of the ShaRP research group, an international and multidisciplinary network of scholars interested in interreligious interaction in its spatial declinations, and of the ‘Geographies of the Sacred’; working group of the Association of Italian Geographers (AGeI).