2023 Rome (ACU Campus) Annual Seminar
Rethinking (and Rebuilding) Trust in Contemporary Societies
20-25 August 2023
Australian Catholic University – Rome Campus
In-person and online event
Contemporary societies experience a widespread crisis of trust. Political, economic, scientific, educational, and religious institutions are increasingly affected by it. The protests against the vaccination for Covid-19, the abstention on the occasion of general and local elections, the increasingly widespread questioning of the opinion of the experts, the growing fortune of the various conspiracy theories, the polarization in the Church and in society, are just some symptoms of a transversal and radical crisis, potentially capable of undermining the very foundations of civil coexistence. Individual and collective existences are based, in fact, on trust. The Seminar will deal with questions like the following: What is trust? What does it mean to trust somebody at a personal or social level? How to rebuild trust?
Click here to download the programme.
Click here to the Proceedings of the Seminar (open access – external link).
The recordings of the presentations are available below.
*** Introduction ***
Opening Greetings
The Adventures of Trust, Confidence and Reliability – Why They Matter and why We should take care of Them
*** Keynote Lectures ***
Between religious faith and existential trust
Conditions of Trust and Betrayal: rules, virtues and forms of life
Trust in the Unexpected
Peter Howard, Australian Catholic University (ACU)
“A paradise inhabited by devils”: reflections on trust in Renaissance Florence
Gabriella Agrusti & Valeria Damiani (LUMSA)
Building Communities of Trust through Civic and Citizenship Education
*** Students’ Presentations ***
Victoria BAUER, LUMSA-UCLy (Philosophy and Religion), 2022-2025
A minimal Notion of the Human Being – Macintyre’s “Dependent Rational Animals”
Cecilia BENASSI, LUMSA (Philosophy and Religion), 2022-2025
Pavel Florenskij – His Life and Work
Filippo BENEDETTI, LUMSA-ACU (History), 2020-2023
Divine Trust and National Sovereignty: Democracy, Theocracy and Institutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Pierangelo BIANCO, LUMSA-UCP (Philosophy and Religion), 2021-2024
The Cultural-linguistic Argument for Faith in the thought of George Lindbeck
Silvia CONTI, LUMSA-ICP (Philosophy and Religion), 2020-2023
Rebuilding trust. The Texture of Values and Images in Iris Murdoch
Francesca FIORETTI, LUMSA-UCP (Education), 2021-2024
Democratic school governance and organizational trust
Christophe HERZOG, LUMSA-UCP (Literature-Culture Studies), 2020-2023
Not a Wager: the Real Presence as a Question of Trust in George Steiner
Dany LÓPEZ GONZÁLEZ, PUC-ACU (Education), 2020-2023
Enhancing Validity in Genre-Based Assessment of Lab Reports for Tertiary Physics
Federico RUDARI, UCP-LUMSA (Culture Studies-Philosophy), 2021-2024
Embodied perception and aesthetic sense-making: the mediation role of space and architectural narratives in exhibition practices.
Jan Juhani STEINMANN, ICP-LUMSA (Philosophy and Religion), 2022-2025
Be who you become. The Possible, Impossible, and Real in Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Heidegger.
Jérémie SUPIOT, UCLy-LUMSA (Philosophy and Religion), 2021-2024
How to (re)build trust between universities and society. An epistemological inquiry on trust in the construction of scientific facts
Marco TASSELLA, LUMSA-UCLy (Philosophy and Religion), 2021-2024
Enhancing Moral Decision-Making: an Alternative Route
Gael TROTTMANN-CALAME, ICP- LUMSA (Philosophy and Religion), 2022-2025
Renewing trust in life : Dionysus or the affirmation of the human possible.
Costanza VIZZANI, LUMSA-PUC (Philosophy and Religion), 2022-2025
Female Empowerment and New Technologies. The Ethical Issues of Surrogacy and Ectogenesis
