SACRED MEDIA - CONFERENCE ON MEDIA, RELIGION AND CULTURE

Have you already heard about the most topical SACRED MEDIA conference that will take place in Finland next summer?

The Sacred Media Conference is organized by Helsinki University and Jyvskyl University. Several world famous scholars (e.g., Zygmunt

Bauman, Stewart Hoover, Robert Dannin, Robert White, Anne Foerst) are coming to lecture on these topics:

- Religion and terrorism

- Western media facing otherness

- Sacred technology

- Global media ethics

The topics of the sessions are: - religion as news - visual truth and reality - myths, icons and narratives in media contents - western media facing otherness - religion and technology - global media ethics - theoretical and methodological challenges of research on media and religion For further information, pre-registration and submission of abstract, please check this site: www.sacredmedia.jyu.fi You will find the detailed programme (that is also in the end of this message) and more information about the top scholars that are going to give lectures in the conference. Now it is also time to pre-register to the conference and submit your abstract proposal, if you wish to present a paper in one of the above-mentioned sessions. The instructions for both pre-registration and abstract submission are in the same address: www.sacredmedia.jyu.fi If you have anything to ask, please feel free to contact us. Hopefully we will meet in the conference next summer! best regards, Hannele Koivunen President of the conference Ministry of Education, Science and Culture P.O.Box 29, FIN-00023 Government, Finland mobile: +358 40 5525824 tel: +358 9 16077070 fax: +358 9 16077039 e-mail: hannele.koivunen@minedu.fi Mira Karjalainen Conference secretary Sacred Media Conference University of Helsinki tel: +358 40 743 8313 e-mail: mira.karjalainen@helsinki.fi conference website: www.sacredmedia.jyu.fi Conference Programme Thursday 10 July 16:00 - Arrival and registration 17:00 Reception hosted by the City of Jyvskyl Friday 11 July 8:00 Registration 9:00 Coffee 10:00 Opening Ceremony: Minister of Culture, Archbishop Jukka Paarma, Director General of Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) Arne Wessberg 11:15 Plenary I: Western Media facing Otherness. Robert Dannin: \"Reflections on Islamophobia in post 9/11 America.\" Stewart Hoover: \"Religion in the Media Age\". 12:30 Lunch 14:00 Sessions 15:15 Coffee Break 15:45-17:15 Sessions 18:00- 21.00 Panel Discussion on Religion and Terrorism Saturday 12 July 9:00 Plenary II: Sacred Technology. Anne Foerst: \"Bodies in the Internet\", Michael Pye: \"Electronic projections of Japanese religion\" and Mihly Hoppl: \"Sacred Technologies of Shamanic Rituals: Archetypes of Religious Communication.\" 11:15 Coffee Break 11:45 Sessions 13:00 Lunch 14:30 Sessions 15:45 Coffee Break 16:15-17:30 Sessions 19:00 Reception hosted by University of Jyvskyl, with a special programme by Wimme Saari (\"joiku\" - a special traditional unison Lappish chant) Sunday 13 July 9:00 Sessions 10:45 Coffee Break 11:15 Plenary III: Global Media Ethics. Robert White: \"Is ethical consensus possible or desirable in a global society?\" Zygmunt Bauman: \"We are all bystanders now; Can we be actors? Media in the Era of Globalization\" Janina Bauman: \"The Memory of Holocaust: The Sources\" 13:00 Closing of the conference: Rector Aino Sallinen, The University of Jyvskyl Archbishop Leo 14:00 Lunch