International Symposium ENTANGLED FUTURES: ETHICAL, SOCIAL, AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON DIGITALIZATION AND ECOLOGY

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International Symposium ENTANGLED FUTURES: ETHICAL, SOCIAL,
AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON DIGITALIZATION AND ECOLOGY, Barcelona, 13–15 May 2026

Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies ZRS Koper and Blanquerna Observatory on Media, Religion and Culture, Barcelona invited their members and affiliated researchers to contribute to an internal symposium dedicated to the ethical challenges emerging from the digital and green transitions. These transformations are reshaping societies, economies, and human self-understanding, raising urgent normative questions that require interdisciplinary reflection.

The symposium aims to foster dialogue between philosophical, theological, and sociological perspectives, with particular attention to their critical, ethical, and emancipatory dimensions.

The topics include (but are not limited to):

• Ethical implications of digitalization, artificial intelligence, and datadriven societies
• Epistemological Considerations of Mediated Societies: Critical Approaches to the Phenomenon of Algorithmic Dependence and AI-Mediated Cognition
• Social justice, power, and inequality in the digital and green transitions
• Ecotheology, ecological ethics, care for nature, and sustainability
• Theological responses to ecological crisis and technological change
• Human dignity, responsibility, and solidarity in times of rapid transformation
• Intersections between digital technologies, ecology, and social change
• Digital existence, human–computer interaction, and ethical relations with the non-human world
• Media, religion, and activism: understanding emerging movements for social change and participation

This symposium has been financially supported by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS), through the research programme Constructive Theology in the Age of Digital Culture and Anthropocene (P6-0434) and research project Toward New Ecumenical Models of Ecotheology in the Age of Green and Digital Transition (J6-70233)