#religiousstudies
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December 4, 2024Borderline places: reflections on religion in contemporary cultureThe 2024 edition of the Davide Zordan Lecture, an annual event organized by ondazione Bruno Kessler's Center for Religious Studies to honor the memory of Davide Zordan, a researcher who died prematurely in 2015, was held on November 26 in Trento. -
July 8, 2024Regulating and learning about Artificial Intelligence through the challenges of deepfakesRegulating AI is a complex and multifaceted issue that requires a balanced approach. -
May 25, 2024Money and ReligionsThe 19th Edition of the Trento Festival of Economics hosted the Panel entitled "Money and Religions" May 25, 2024 at the Vittoria cinema. -
March 11, 2024Mission for health: promoting health in different contexts around the worldA summary of the proceedings and a video interview with the speaker of the "Global Faith-Based Healthcare Systems" conference, which starts with a metaphor about redwood trees to talk about how health is promoted within the various socio-cultural contexts. -
February 28, 2024The indelible faintness of tracesA new joint FBK-ISIG and 3DOM project that reveals the face of the city of Trento from the profound changes that have affected it over the years and the effects these have had on the community. -
November 14, 2023The musical frontiers of researchFBK and the Conservatory of Trento strategic partners in knowledge production and dissemination -
September 4, 2023Artificial intelligence and discriminationAt the FBK-ISR international seminar held this summer, researcher Ilaria Valenzi presented the report "Bias in Algorithms - Artificial Intelligence and Discrimination" published by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. We asked her some questions to understand when algorithms generate discrimination and what solutions can be put in place. -
May 31, 2023Study, research and organizational learning: Fondazione Bruno Kessler and the TESEO project living labAn opportunity for reading and reflecting to mark the celebration of the European Diversity Month 2023 -
May 8, 2023Artificial intelligence for urban securityFBK and the City of Trento are partners in three EU-funded international projects aimed at improving the protection of public spaces. -
April 13, 2023Discourses of the beyond, between peaks and abyssesAn interview with the director of the Center for Religious Studies on the recently published FBK Press volume. -
March 14, 2023GOING QANON: religion, digitization and the security challengeWhat does the U.S. conspiracy movement QAnon have in common with religion, what is the role of digitization in its spread and radicalization, and what should we expect in terms of security and cybersecurity. -
November 24, 2022The impervious meaning: peaks and abysses of the extreme interpretationA consideration of the concept of extremism leads us to reflect on some of its characteristics: relationality, gradualness and dynamism, starting with the study example of eating behaviors -
November 14, 2022The virtuous excesses of religionRobert Orsi in Trento for the 2022 Davide Zordan Lecture -
October 25, 2022SkeinIf you are dealing with Iran, whether by national affiliation, by birth, for tourism, love, interest, study, or for more than one of these reasons, you will feel that you are dealing with a large skein, impossible to unravel. -
July 12, 2022FBK-ISR’s YouTube new channel is online!FBK’s Centre for Religious Studies is now on YouTube with a specially dedicated channel -
May 2, 2022Bioethics: end-of-life scenarios and choicesThe ISR researcher continues her reflection about the delicate yet necessary issue of the end of life -
March 17, 2022Care, justice and relational autonomy: how to rethink the ethics of health careThe various forms of polarization of the ethical and bioethical debate -
January 18, 2022Prof. Ventura’s mandate as director of ISR ends with the publication of a new policy paperThe recently published policy paper has symbolically wrapped up Prof. Ventura's experience at the Foundation -
January 17, 2022(Non-)Religion, Big Data and AI Ethics: Is Bigger Necessarily Better?The complex relationship between Big Data, AI ethics, religion, and non-religion -
December 27, 2021How does the future look watched from above? Mountains after the pandemicThe story of a day of public meetings designed to highlight the kaleidoscopic character of the "High lands". -
December 17, 2021Three new Directors of FBK have been appointedRichard John Hall-Wilton, Massimo Leone and Mirco Tonin appointed today by the Board of Directors to lead the S&D, ISR and IRVAPP centers -
September 15, 2021FBK for interfaith dialogue and peaceSince 2016 FBK has been a partner of the G20 Interfaith Forum; September 11-14, 2021, it took part in the G20 Interfaith Forum which took place in Bologna, coordinating the working group on innovation in science and technology chaired by the director of the Center for Religious Studies, Marco Ventura -
July 29, 2021Deadline extension of the call for the selection of 3 leaders for FBK research centersThe deadline of the calls for the selection of the new Directors for the Sensors and Devices Center (FBK-S&D), Evaluation of Public Policies (FBK-IRVAPP) and Religious Studies (FBK-ISR) Centers has been extended until 10 September 2021. More information is available at jobs.fbk.eu -
June 23, 2021FBK IS LOOKING FOR DIRECTORS FOR 3 OF ITS RESEARCH CENTERSFBK HAS PUBLISHED THE CALLS FOR THE SELECTION OF 3 DIRECTORS FOR RESEARCH STUDY AND INNOVATION IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS: SENSORS AND DEVICES (FBK-S&D); EVALUATION OF PUBLIC POLICIES (FBK-IRVAPP); RELIGIOUS STUDIES (FBK-ISR). NEW Application deadline: 10 September 2021, 12 pm. Further information available at jobs.fbk.eu -
May 5, 2021Suggestions for future research on artificial intelligence and religionThe two-year webinar series on Artificial Intelligence and Religion (AIR 2020/21) organized by the FBK-ISR Center for Religious Studies has wrapped up. A final assessment and a relaunch with new knowledge challenges -
January 20, 20212021 at the FBK Center for Religious StudiesISR's research and cultural initiatives go on with the mission of the center always clearly defined in the background -
September 21, 2020Big data, big faith? About beliefs and biases in algorithmic decision-makingWith the arrival of Big Data analytics, data rapidly became the petroleum of the 21st century and a new social contract came into existence. -
September 4, 2020FBK joins the International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable DevelopmentThe network currently includes 124 international organizations and research institutes aiming to promote the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development -
September 1, 2020Religious nones around the worldThe category of non-affiliates, the so-called religious nones, includes all those who declare that they do not belong to any religious denomination. The highest concentrations are among men, among people under the age of fifty, among highly educated individuals and among those who reside in urban areas. -
June 22, 2020SECURITY LANDSCAPE: a 3D exhibition within “BESec” Jean Monnet projectThe 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?
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June 4, 2020Gender equality: achievements and perspectivesIn any crime against women it is always to be found the gender stereotype according to which women must stay one step behind anywhere: at home, at work, in society. It is high time is for a turning point. -
May 13, 2020Violence against women: law and responsibilitiesItalian norms and sentences have long justified the culture of female subordination and at times indulged violence against ‘disobedient’ women. Let's see how it was so. -
May 4, 2020Gender violence. Violence against women. FeminicideThrough human and social sciences and statistics, we can understand differences, shared characteristics and the evolution of such criminal phenomena. Let's see in what they are different. -
April 20, 2020WHAT IS VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMENThe first of four insights into the phenomenology of gender-based violence, a "cultural and civil emergency" that questions the very reasons for our being together -
April 17, 2020Reading Harari during the pandemicIt is not easy for a researcher to keep focused these days. The problem is not so much telework or the rarefaction of human contacts. The point, rather, is that it is hard to prevent the most creative part of one's mind from returning obsessively to the event that some weeks ago has changed everyone's lives. -
April 7, 2020COVID-19, Religion and Belief Webinar SeriesCoronavirus has impacted many domains of our lives. This webinar series aims at exploring the strategies and initiatives of governments and religious groups to deal with the crisis -
March 16, 2020We are fragile but not defenceless: changing is possibleConsiderations on morality and human fragility in the time of the coronavirus, by the philosopher of FBK-ISR Paolo Costa. The good news is that we can do our part and change. -
November 26, 2019Educazione e informazione per combattere la violenzaLe riflessioni dell'incontro con Cinzia Mammoliti in occasione della Giornata internazionale per l'eliminazione della violenza contro le donne -
August 12, 2019Follow the leaderSome examples to present the "religion of innovation". The research by Matteo Corsalini (Unisi/FBK-ISR PhD student) starts from a central question: can profit maximization be read as a new option of faith?
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July 16, 2019Religion for a better innovationThree reasons why religious freedom matters and is key to sustainable development -
July 9, 2019DEBORA TONELLI AT “SENTI CHI RICERCA”The researcher from the Center for Religious Studies is being featured in the third episode of the radio format where FBK researchers talk about themselves -
April 10, 2019FBK at the 2019 education festivalThe program of the tenth edition of Educa was presented today. Fondazione Bruno Kessler will be present with a science cafè, an information corner, two workshops and three round-table discussions. -
September 24, 2018Report on the freedom of belief and religious tolerance of the European ParliamentThe report investigating violations of the right to religious freedom in non-European countries and the influence that the EU can have on them was presented in Brussels on September 4. The FBK-ISR research centre is among the authors of the document
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July 2, 2018Internship trip note by Kaznu studentsRysbek Togzhan and Dauletbekkyzy Dinara share their experience in FBK Center for Religious Studies
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May 31, 2018Conclusions: tomatoes at 99 centsThe conclusions of the end of the HEADING "The European Migration Government" curated by Osvaldo Costantini, associate researcher at the Center for Religious Sciences of FBK. Co-author of the article: Daniela Galiè
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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
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March 16, 2018My internship in FBK, from KazakhstanEvery year, Kazakh National University named after Al-Farabi gives an opportunity to every student to pass an internship in any country in the world. This is an excellent opportunity for students of this University -
March 8, 2018MY UNIVERSITY, MY POSSIBILITIESOn 26 February 2018, al-Farabi Kazakh National University and FBK signed the Agreement on Cooperation for the purpose of further perspective relations between two countries in educational and scientific fields, taking into account close international relations between the Republic of Kazakhstan and Italy.
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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. -
March 6, 2018FBK-ISR | 14th Action against racism Week | Riva del GardaValeria Fabretti and Sara Hejazi, researchers with the Center for Religious Studies, are at the 14th Action against Racism Week (Riva del Garda) to present the book "The mad dream of Neve Shalom Wahat Al-Salam", curated by Brunetto Salvarani -
February 26, 2018Religion and Video Games. ISR Workshop on religion and innovation.On February 6, at the Center for Religious Studies, has taken place a workshop dedicated to the little explored theme of the relationship between religions and video games
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February 23, 2018Stories of (induced) marginalityThe dynamics of reception produce illegality and vulnerability that push people to accept to be exploited
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February 8, 2018Highlanders! Population and depopulation in the Alps areaISR researcher Paolo Costa talks about culture as a means of regeneration of the Alpine areas in a conference at Fondazione Demarchi in Trento from 9 am to 10 am on February 2018
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January 25, 20182018 events at the FBK Center for Religious StudiesThe program, illustrated by director Marco Ventura, provides monthly meetings on the multiple interactions between religion and innovation, a theme around which all the activities of the Center revolve. Along with the scientific seminars in English, there are also events dedicated to citizens, in Italian, on current topics such as "Religion, human enhancement and artificial intelligence".
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January 10, 2018Ventimiglia between official reception and informal waysThe stakes in the dialectic between surveillance and resistance
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November 29, 2017God’s will for a better lifeFrom Ventimiglia to Taranto together with Biniam: the fourth appointment with the headline on the European governance of migration. -
November 3, 2017The Maritime AlpsStories of rejection and "spaces of exception" at the Italo-French Border
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October 5, 2017Mobility Story: Paolo CostaPaolo Costa is a researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler's Institute for Religious Studies. He has already been on three Mobility Programs, the latest one has recently ended. All of them in Vienna, all of them somewhat different, but each one of them lived as a "precious incentive for mental mobility, intellectual dynamism". -
October 4, 2017How Is Europe Governing MigrationDeported, rejected, detained migrants. On the Road survey to get to know the migratory paths that lead to Italy and the open challenges
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September 25, 2017Violence in Sacred Texts. Religions Between War and PeaceA Reset-Dialogues conference in partnership with Fondazione Bruno Kessler and the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs.
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September 6, 2017Conference Exiting Violence | Call & Grants for StudentsSix grants available for students and young scholars who are welcomed to participate to the Conference
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June 27, 2017Freedom of Religion or Belief and Tolerance and Non-Discrimination for All is Vital to SecurityMarco Ventura, Director of the FBK Center for Religious Studies and member of the OSCE/ODIHR Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief: "freedom of religion or belief is under threat in the OSCE region and international co-operation can strengthen it as a force for security". -
June 14, 2017Why “traditional values” are today at the core of national and international law and politics debates?Video interviews to some of the protagonists of the Workshop “Tradition and Traditionalisms Compared. A Joint Program of the Tradition Project and the Postsecular Conflicts Project” co-organized by the Centre for Religious Studies at the FBK Foundation.
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May 26, 2017Race and TheologyA VIDEO-message from prof. Leo D. Lefebure on "The Conflict of Social Innovations: Christian Theologies, Empires, and Modern Constructions of Race"
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March 21, 2017L’arte di migrare | The art of migratingFBK-ISR is a partner of "The art of migrating" sponsored by the City of Riva del Garda in the framework of the 13th Action Week Against Racism from March 20 to March 26
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February 2, 2017The 2017 FBK-ISR events: between religion and innovationThe ISR Center promotes over 20 events dedicated not only to the scientific community, but also to a wider, lay audience, in order to promote a fruitful exchange of views and ideas on issues often topical, and to become a meeting point that can favor the growth of the entire community. -
January 30, 2017FBK in “The Economist”Technology of language and religions. Trento-based Fondazione Bruno Kessler mentioned twice this month in the worldwide reknown weekly magazine. -
January 4, 20172017 Highlight EventsLooks like 2017 will be an eventful year for Fondazione Bruno Kessler. Alongside the initiatives dedicated to the discussion on FBK's research topics, the attention to dissemination to a broad audience, as well as to collaborations with prestigious national and European organizations, remains high.
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November 2, 2016How religions talk and talk to each other in the public sphereA conference in Trento in 2017 co-financed by the Universities of Berlin and Friburg and organized by FBK's Center for Religious Studies. The Humboldt-Universität of Berlin and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität of Friburg will co-finance FBK’s Center for Religious Studies project entitled “Arguing religion”, and in particular an international conference to be held in Trento in June of next year.
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October 25, 2016FBK and Religion Today FilmfestivalInnovative event offered by FBK's Center for Religious Studies at the 2016 Religion Today Filmfestival in Trento warmly welcomed -
October 2, 2016The Centre for Religious Studies goes to ParliamentLecture on radicalism and extremism, at Palazzo Montecitorio. The Committee invited researcher Maria Chiara Giorda as an expert of the subject to provide some clues about it and suggestions for the making of the bill to preventing violent fundamentalisms cases.
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September 9, 2016Pope Francis and his reform: a meeting at Trento-based FBKThis coming Thursday, September 15, 2016, at 5.00 pm, at Fondazione Bruno Kessler in via S. Croce 77 in Trento, three witnesses, Riccardo Cristiano, Rocco D'Ambrosio and Severino Dianich will discuss Pope Francis's debated pontificate that arouses expectations and concerns for the reform of the Church.