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The themes of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice are topical now as they always were. The digital humanities can bring a fresh perspective to frame and disseminate them.

Only an interdisciplinary work on the humanities can shed light on the growth of religious extremism across the world.

As a sociologist and ethnographer, I observe young people of migrant origin and their artistic productions as actors of social change.

In the conglomeration of ethnicities, destinies, imaginations, words and even colours that form our identities we find our freedom. The humanities are basically this freedom.

In the past images were used to speak to illiterate people. Are we still capable of reading them?

Economics never existed without an ethical discourse. How did the world of Medieval merchants express itself? How does it speak to us?

Studying religious and ethnic prejudices of the past helps us understand the roots of our current fears, dismantle forms of hatred against the «other» and build a new humanism.