The international Sacred Media Conference will be held on 10-13, July 2003
in Jyväskylä, Finland. The topics of the conference are:
- 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, please check this site:
www.sacredmedia.jyu.fi
Programme
Thursday 10 July
16:00 - Arrival and registration
17:00 Reception hosted by the City of Jyväskylä
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, giving lecture on "Islamophobia: made in the USA" and Mihály Hoppál
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, Michael Pye, Stewart Hoover
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 Jyväskylä, 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, Zygmunt Bauman, Janina Bauman, giving lecture on "The Memory of Holocaust: The Sources"
13:00 Closing of the conference: Rector Aino Sallinen, The University of Jyväskylä, Archbishop Leo
14:00 Lunch
