Religious Communication - Draft Program
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Thursday 26 November
| 8.30-9.10 am | Registration | |
| 9.15-9.30 am | Conference Opening - Seminar Room 2 & 3
Welcome Acknowledgement of country Launch of conference – Professor Rae Frances, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Monash University |
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| 9.30-10.30 am | Keynote Lecture - Seminar Room 2 & 3 Lori G. Beaman – Religious clothing and appearance as performative statements |
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| 10.30–10.50am | Morning Tea | |
| 10.50am–12.30pm | Parallel Session - Board Room Rachel Bucchannen and Ron Laura – Religious interpretation through affective mediums Johann Rosouw – Communication or community? The liturgical heart of religious practice Danielle Kirby – Mediated spirituality: Experiencing the numinous through and in contemporary media |
Parallel Session - Seminar Room 2 and 3 Edwin Ng – The cybersangha and its place in contemporary Buddhist scholarship: A look at DhammaWheel.com
Angelique Nairn – Finding God, losing self: Homogenised identity in church communication Paul Teusner – The spiritual cyborg: A case study of Australian Christian bloggers |
| 12.30–1.30pm | Lunch | |
| 1.30–3.10pm | Parallel Session - Board Room Karen Crinall – Iconic illusions: Mapping lines of flight through and between mother/child iconography Thor Beowulf – The silent narrative of trees in the cultural/religious landscape Rose Marie Bezuidenhout – Fracals on the rocks: San rock art and symbolic spiritual representation |
Parallel Session - Seminar Room 2 and 3 Eduardo de la Fuente – Beyond the opposition between art and religion: From Max Weber to contemporary faith and art programs Claudia Terstappen – Screens for projections William Peterson – The Santa Nino likes to come out and play: Partying so hard it hurts at Ati-Atihan |
| 3.10–3.30pm | Afternoon Tea | |
| 3.30 – 5.10pm | Parallel Session - Board Room Lorenzo Leucio Domenico Incardona – Fractures in continuity: Christian literature as interpretative revolution David Manning – Theological communication: Representations of piety in post-Reformation English media Michael Mullins – The good story as story for good |
Parallel Session - Seminar Room 2 and 3 Zakir Hossain Raju – The wicked and the sacred in popular culture: Cinematic myth and memory in between Islam and globalisation in post 9/11 Bangladesh Allan Ewing – Telling our story: Autobiography and the changing belief of Australians Veronica Brady – ‘But play you must…’ The dilemma of attempting religious communication |
| 5.30 – 6.30pm | Book Launch – Sacred Australia | |
| 7.30pm | Conference Dinner | |
Friday 27 November
| 9.00-9.30am | Registration | |
| 9.30-10.30 am | Keynote Lecture - Seminar Room 2 & 3 Massimo Leone – Communication and Revelation |
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| 10.30–10.50am | Morning Tea | |
| 10.50am–12.30pm | Parallel Session - Seminar Room 1 Tamara Prosic – The circular dance and the spirit of orthodox Christianity Maria-Suzette Fernandes Dias – Reconciling the pagan and the sacred: A Bakhtinian study of some Goan Catholic traditions Gil-Soo Han – Foolish Jesus: An analysis of the material Korean church in Australia |
Parallel Session - Seminar Room 2 and 3 Julian Millie – Women enjoy preaching more than males: A Bandung case study Joseph Gelfer – Home spun and studio-made: Aesthetic differences in the websites of Catholic and Evangelical men’s ministries Charlotte Bains – Communicating to religious voters in twenty-first century national elections Elisha McIntyre – What’s so funny about faith? Christian stand-up comedy and religious values |
| 12.30–1.30pm | Lunch | |
| 1.30–3.10pm | Parallel Session - Seminar Room 1 Kerrin Hancock – Choral synagogue music: The transplantation in Melbourne by South African Jews of a distinctive liturgical music Julie Williams – Fortunatus in concert: The juxtaposition of the sacred and secular music of the middle ages Ibrahim Abraham – Thirty years of Christian punk: Style over substance? |
Parallel Session - Seminar Room 2 and 3 Ruth Deller – Representing the religious other: Orientalism in British television discourse Eric Repphun – ‘You can’t hide from the things that you’ve done anymore’: 'Battlestar Galactica' and the ‘clash of civilisations’ Simon Theobald – Faith interfaith and YouTube: Dialogue or derision? |
| 3.10–3.30pm | Afternoon Tea | |
| 3.30 – 4.50pm | Single Session - Seminar Room 2 and 3 John Carroll, Peter Murphy and David Tacey – A conversation about religion and culture |
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| 4.50pm | Conference Close | |