Georgiana Diana Apostica is a PhD candidate at the Italian Doctoral School of Religious Studies (DREST), with a scholarship dedicated to the theme Digital Creation: Ultra-technologies, Environmental Sustainability and Beliefs at the Institute for Religious Studies of the Bruno Kessler Foundation (ISR-FBK).
She completed her philosophical studies at the University of Trento, where she obtained both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. For her master’s thesis, under the supervision of Prof. Massimo Giuliani, she presented a work entitled Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR) in Jewish and Israeli Legal Thought. Her main interest was to explore the evolution of Jewish legal thought as a symbiotic relationship between normativity and religiosity, particularly in relation to the use of modern assisted reproduction techniques.
Subsequently, she pursued specialization in bioethics by attending the Master’s in Bioethics of Maternal and Child Health at the Libera Università Maria Santissima Assunta (LUMSA) in Rome. This program, under the guidance of Professor Laura Palazzani and Monsignor Don Renzo Pegoraro, deepened her expertise in bioethics and medical ethics and encouraged her to further explore the connection between religious studies, ethics, and the ethical challenges posed by new technologies in the medical field. In this context, supervised by Monsignor Pegoraro, she discussed a thesis entitled Reproductive Biotechnologies in Jewish Thought: Going Beyond the Sphere of Law.
In line with these interests, her doctoral project at DREST aims to explore the ethical implications of procreation in the Jewish tradition, analysing how this theme is conceptualized and received in contemporary halakhic rulings concerning the use of reproductive biotechnologies.
