Contemporary Humanism 2023 Annual Seminar

"Rethinking (and Rebuilding) Trust in
Contemporary Societies"

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?

20-25 August 2023
Australian Catholic University – Rome Campus
Largo Giovanni Berchet, 4
00152 Roma ITALY
In-person and online event

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