Dr. Baldassare Scolari


Untere Breuch 97
CH-8706 Meilen
Switzerland

E-mail: baldassare.scolari@fhgr.ch

Biography

Baldassare Scolari (* 1985) graduated from high school in Locarno and then studied religious studies («Religionswissenschaft») at the university of Zürich. He teaches media ethics at the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) and at the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons (FHGR Chur). Since 2012 he is a member of the research group «Media and Religion». His dissertation on the performativity of martyrological representation of political violence appeared in 2019.

Research Topics

Politics and religion
Religion and visuality
History of christianity
Discourse analysis
Performance theory
Hermeneutics in the study of religion
Political philosophy and theory
Media ethics
Violence in the media
Climate Crisis in the media

Publications (PDF)