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Thanks to a VHS, we can review the original 1991 footage, which allows us to reflect on the fact that the images we see are always the product of someone's choice.

ISIG researchers worked together with the Museo Diocesano Tridentino to enhance the history of the city of Trento in the seventeenth century and museum collections

With a new research project, we also begin a journey through the papers of Bruno Kessler, in the company of historian Camilla Tenaglia, from FBK-ISIG (Italian-German Historical Institute)

CheSpreco! (what a waste!) the FBK project funded by the CARITRO Foundation allowed, on its wrapping-up event, the fruitful exchange of good practices devised by the students of 4 Trentino high schools. Lots of innovative proposals to actually take food out of the trash and contribute to the fight against food waste.

Edition No. 63 of the Italian-German Historical Institute's Study Week took place from Oct. 12 to 14, 2022.

The "ARO" forum devoted to the history of the German Empire provides an opportunity to reflect on the relationship between historiography and public memory

How much can we trust reviews and comments found online? The risk of fake or artfully cooked news is always around the corner, we propose a parallel between catering and research to think about it.

ISIG historian Katia Occhi recounts the articulated project dedicated to documents on borders created between 1400 and 1800

The "Aro" Forum dedicated to "Veronica and the Devil" is an opportunity to reflect on the writing of history

Considerations of a historian on the importance of team work and confronting during the writing of manuals.

Barring resounding twists and turns, Italy will not be at the World Cup to be played in Qatar between November and December. Those who struggle to cope with watching a World Cup orphaned by their national team can make up for it by diving deeper into the study of the history of the World Cup, to which historical research has in recent times devoted some attention.

Viktor Elbling, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Italy, visited the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento, accompanied by the Honorary Consul of the German Federal Republic for the Trentino-Alto Adige Region, the lawyer Gerhard Brandstätter. They were welcomed by Francesco Profumo, the President of the Foundation, the Secretary General Andrea Simoni and the Director of the Italian-German Historical Institute (FBK-ISIG) Christoph Cornelißen

This month's podcast and vodcast sees a conversation between a human scientist (historian Claudio Ferlan) and a researcher in science and technology (Elisabetta Farella). An interdisciplinary path around the topic of falsehood, in history as well as in the present time. An open reflection that poses new questions and at the same time allows us to take a closer look at what the craft of research is all about, exploring the laboratory of knowledge in the making

The school model we have experienced is not the only one possible. A journey into the school universe with the historians Enrico Valseriati and Vanessa Roghi.

Here come the Radio FBK podcasts: the Research you don't expect

Applications may be submitted by July 18, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. as indicated in the FBK website dedicated section

Considerations on scientific communication and on the new look of the FBK Magazine

The purpose is promoting a wider circulation of historical research and historiographical innovations

A comment by ISIG historian Cecilia Nubola and a hint to some related research insights that, for example, employ ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE technologies to GENERATE COUNTER-NARRATIONS USEFUL TO FIGHT ONLINE HATE SPEECH

Before the Catholic feast of All Saints (November 1) there is that of Halloween (October 31), which is increasingly present in Italian families. But are they really two separate occasions? By carefully marching back through the centuries, we can find the arguments to build our answer to this question.

The city of the Council in an app developed by the Italian-German Historical Institute at Fondazione Bruno Kessler as part of the PURE European research project

We are in Lent, the forty-day period preceding Easter which according to Catholic norms should be characterized by fasting and abstinence. Often the two terms are used interchangeably, but it is wrong to do so.

Considerations on the female professional dimension with Anna Bellavitis and Melania Mazzucco

The health emergency forces us to postpone the awaited event entitled "Environment and infrastructures from the early modern period to the present: challenges, knowledge and innovation" to next year.

The reflections of Francesco Profumo, Claudia Dolci and Fernanda Alfieri on the transition period we are going through

The first webinar organized by FBK-ISIG in the time of Covid-19 focused on the analysis by media historian Simone Natale

Fondazione Bruno Kessler is hosting the Siscalt conference dedicated to the complexity of the German republican experience one hundred years after its birth

The ISIG 2019 summer school has involved modern and contemporary history scholars in an intense debate on ongoing research projects and scientific investigation methods

A discussion from different perspectives starting from the critical reading of the books "L'Europa che fu" by Pietro Rossi, "European Modernity" by Bo Stråth and Peter Wagner, and finally, "Projekt Europa" by Kiran Klaus Patel entrusted to Edward Tortarolo, Christoph Cornelißen and Gabriele D'Ottavio

The winner will be invited to deliver a public lecture in Trento during the 'Giornata in ricordo di Paolo Prodi'

The FBK-ISIG researcher was selected with a writing project that investigates the relationship between religion and food

The research dedicated to rediscovering public spaces will be launched in 2019 and will be conducted in partnership with a consortium of European companies. The creation of theme-based routes apps to discover the signs of the past in contemporary cities is also planned

Initiative in view of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

La rappresentazione per immmagini delle più alte cariche dello Stato ha sempre avuto un impatto rilevante, soprattutto in termini storiografici. Maurizio Cau, ricercatore di FBK-ISIG, ci spiega il perché.

Trento is hosting the FBK-ISIG Study Week September 19-21

Applications must be submitted by August 15, 2018

The Italian-German Historical Institute (FBK-ISIG) offers 10 grants to cover board and lodgings expenses for the days of the conference

A historical research project aims to shed light on the tourist vocation and the evolution of the social fabric in Trento in 1500

Cecilia Nubola, researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Italian and German Historical Studies, tell us about her mobility period at Glasgow Strathclyde University.

FBK is hosting an event dedicated to the memory of the intellectual who founded ISIG. Among the guests are Romano Prodi and Massimo Cacciari

FBK's Italian-German Historical Institute is hosting the Study Week November 22 through 24, 2017. Young researchers and PhD students will have the opportunity to present their research projects.

Historian Christina von Hodenberg told FBK how television has changed the pace and habits of families since the post-war period until today

An award to honor the memory of the founder of the Italian-German Historical Institute

Through diaries, letters, illustrated magazines and oral memories, the historical reconstruction of television audience through the changes of the 1950s and 60s

Enrico Letta and FBK-Isig Director Christoph Cornelissen will hold the Lectio Degasperiana 2017 on Friday 18 August at Pieve Tesino, on the initiative of the Trentino Foundation Alcide De Gasperi. Lectio 2107 will explore in depth the relationship between Alcide De Gasperi and Konrad Adenauer, whose fiftieth death anniversary is being celebrated this year, and will analyze the link between Italy and Germany in the context of a new European perspective.

The project for the national online and open access edition of Moro's works, to which Fondazione Bruno Kessler is collaborating through their Italian-German Historical Institute (FBK-ISIG) and Digital Humanities team with the Center for Information and Communication Technologies (FBK-ICT), will be presented next Wednesday, May 10, at the Historical Archive of the President of the Republic's Office, in Rome.

The conference "The Protestant Reformation in the context of global history" being hosted at Trento-based Fondazione Bruno Kessler wraps up tomorrow. Religious reforms and civilizations".

The volume, part of the FBK Press series, recounts the international significance of the Agreement, which helped make it a highly advanced legal document for its time in the protection of ethnic and linguistic minorities