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May 2017

Young Scholars Florence Fellowships: the call for applications

By Announcements

The Sangalli Institute is glad to announce to the international community of the young researchers (included the Italians) the publication of the call for applications to the ‘Young Scholars Florence Fellowships in Religious History and Religious Studies’: three residencial monthly fellowhips (worth 2.000,00 euros each) will be offered to international young scholars of any nationality with an adequate qualification on religious topics, privileging interdisciplinary and interreligious perspectives, for the first academic semester 2017-2018. Download here the call for fellowship applications for more details.

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The Dominicans between Middle Ages and today

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Next Wednesday June 14th, at 5 pm, in the Salone Multimediale of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, our Institute, in collaboration with the Provincia romana di santa Caterina da Siena and other Dominicans institutions, will organize the launch of the book of our vice-president Massimo Carlo Giannini ‘I domenicani’, il Mulino, Bononia 2016. Franco Cardini and Roberto Rusconi will discuss about the historical aspects of a fundamental religious order in the history of the Church. Download here the program for more details.

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The Church of Jorge Mario Bergoglio

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After ‘Italy and Religions’, here is the second appointment with our series ‘Religions: local and global scenarios’: next Thursday 25th May at 6 pm, in the San Firenze room of our Institute, prof. Roberto Di Stefano, from La Pampa University in Argentina, who is in town with the project of the ‘Florence Short Term Fellowships’, financially supported by the Fondazione Cassa di risparmio di Firenze, will give a lecture on “Religion and Politics in Argentina: some particular aspects in the history of the Church of pope Bergoglio”, in a dialogue with the Director of Toscana Oggi Andrea Fagioli. Church and politics, immigration, Peronism will be some of the topics of the lecture, in order to better understand the context in which Jorge Mario Bergoglio spent most part of his life. Download here the program.

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