Sara Hejazi
Sara Hejazi is an anthropologist and senior researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler’s Center for Sensors and Devices in Trento, Italy, where she studies the social and anthropological impacts of emerging technologies.
She regularly teaches courses and seminars at the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento and is a columnist for the Trentino-Alto Adige local daily ILT; she also produces podcasts and radio programs for Radio Rai Trento and Radio Svizzera Italiana. She has numerous popular and scholarly publications to her credit.
Her latest monograph. “The Anthropology of the Invisible: Nanotechnologies, Meaning-Making, and the Redefinition of the Human” is currently in press with J. Stanford Publishing, Singapore.
Spotlight's articles
-
July 23, 2026Bridging physics and philosophyThe Center for Sensors and Devices explores non-dualism as a new interdisciplinary aradigm -
September 17, 2025Quantum pioneers at FBK: inside the lab of the revolutionThe first edition of the “Pioneers in Research” Summer School offered an innovative programme created to immerse students in the dynamic field of microelectronics, which is expected to have a transversal and deep impact in the next future. -
July 2, 2018Internship trip note by Kaznu studentsRysbek Togzhan and Dauletbekkyzy Dinara share their experience in FBK Center for Religious Studies
-
May 7, 2018Talking about technology, religion and innovationAn interview with researcher Sara Hejazi: Sara was born in Iran and studied in Italy. She is an anthropologist with a focus on religions, gender perspectives and identity construction through body practices and symbols -
March 26, 2018The veil in the Islamic world (and outside)In recent years, in particular after the Twin Towers attacks on September 11, 2001, growing attention has been paid to Islam, until then generically associated with sandy dunes and pointed minarets and then increasingly recognized within the Western world as unsuspecting and exotic next door tenant
-
March 8, 2018RELIGION TO GO! Religion in the virtual worldFrom the discovery of fire to the printing of the Bible, technology has never stopped involving religion. FBK's ICT and Humanities Centers work in synergy on the implications of an app that can virtualize objects and places of worship.