Events archive

FBK's Stefano Merler speaks at the panel discussion ‘Doctor or robot? The prospects of artificial intelligence in infectious diseases' at the 10th AMIT International Congress.

This seminar will consider emerging theistic conceptions of AI and their connections with other conspiritual and neo-liberal modes of meaning making and aspirational imaginaries. Professor Dr Singler’s work on the relationship between religion and AI provides new perspectives on cultural forms arising from this entanglement.

The lecture will attempt to construct a transcultural, transmedial and transdisciplinary problematics that will focus on some of the various ways in which Buddhism, technology and the arts are linked in a context of the Asian tradition, and the Korean tradition in particular.

In this talk, Marnie Hughes-Warrington will illuminate history as source of particular tension in the global geopolitics of AI and argue for the value of seeking a new architecture for history making in the 21st century.

A conservation-and-transformation process is doubly at work in the diachronic survey of cinematic avatars of Count A. K. Tolstoy’s 19th c. French-language novella introducing the Slavic vampiric figure of the “vourdalak” as well in the disintegration and reconfiguration of the family structure that these films depict or suggest.

This event will explore how artificial intelligence can be harnessed to combat hate spee and misinformation online. With the participation of FBK's Marco Guerini, Hatedemics project coordinator.

Using the Holy Land’s objects as a case study, this paper discusses the role of indulgences in shaping Catholic materiality in the early modern period.

FBK's Miguel Pincheira Caro participates as invited speaker at Smart Sustainable Cities 2025: an Innovative Conference on Smart Cities and Sustainable Urban Living.

This study introduces a data-driven, machine learning-based method to detect suitable control variables and instruments for assessing the causal effect of a treatment on an outcome in observational data, if they exist.

This workshop compares different perspectives, to understand whether the energy consumption of AI systems can become a critical issue, considering that there are other items of global power consumption far more impactful in quantitative terms.

Jean-Claude Monod (ENS Paris) will be a guest speaker at FBK’s Center for Religious Studies. He will give a talk on the relationship between secularization and modernity. Who is right in the end: the critics of secularization, its supporters, or neither?

Meeting between representatives of FBK and the University of Padua to follow up and give substance to the framework agreement on research and development signed last summer. Participation by invitation only.