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| Friday July 16th, 2010 |
A comprehensive new poll examining religious based attitudes on same sex marriage says only one-in-five Californians agree that Proposition 8 is a "Good Thing" will be released and discussed by a distinguished panel on Wednesday, July 21.
LOS ANGELES - A new survey of over 3,000 Californians being released on Wednesday, July 21, finds only one-in-five Californians believe passage of Prop ... read more |
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| KPCC |
| Thursday April 1st, 2010 |
In a story based on her reporting from Jerusalem during the JOUR585 trip to Israel-Palestine and posted on Southern California Public Radio, USC Annenberg M.A. candidate Meghan McCarty describes how a group of Jewish women who h ... read more |
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| Wednesday February 3rd, 2010 |
| In a time of danger and promise--a man, a family and a generation come of age. New Muslim Cool is Islam as you have never seen it. It is also hip-hop as you have probably never heard it. Join us for a screening of the documentary followed by Q&A with filmmaker Jennifer Maytorena Taylor on Thursday, Feb. 18 in ASC 207 from 5:00 to 7:00pm. ... read more |
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| Wednesday February 3rd, 2010 |
| Filmmaker and human rights advocate Ronit Avni discusses her work and screens portions of her documentary Budrus, the story of a Palestinian-led movement in the West Bank that brings together all Palestinian political factions as well as Israelis to wage an ultimately successful 10-month nonviolent struggle to protect the village of Budrus fro ... read more |
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| Wednesday February 3rd, 2010 |
| Religion Dispatches has enlisted Anthea Butler, Salman Hameed, Henry Jenkins and Diane Winston to produce Capricology, and ongoing blog-conversation about the current SyFy series exploring life on Caprica a half-century before the events depicted in the series Battlestar Galactica. ... read more |
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| Tuesday November 10th, 2009 |
Thursday, November 12, 2009
University of Southern California
University Religious Center
5 - 7 pm
Refreshments will be served ... read more |
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| Tuesday August 4th, 2009 |
| Interest in The Family, the secretive DC fellowship for Christian power politics, continues to grow. Check out Jeff Sharlet, the journalist who wrote the eponymous book about the group, on < ... read more |
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| Religion Dispatches |
| Monday July 27th, 2009 |
| According to Newsweek's Joshua Alston, TV is losing its religion. His proof? The cancellation of Kings, NBC's clever take on the King David story. But for those with eyes to see and ears to hear, religion on television isn't in decline. It's everywhere: in shows from Saving Grace to Supernatural, and from Grey's Anatomy to House. Channel surfers can stumble on stories of euthan ... read more |
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| Monday July 13th, 2009 |
Speaking of Faith will air "TV and Parables of Our Time" nationally on public radio stations July 16 – July 22. In Los Angeles the program will air on KPCC (89.3 FM) Sunday July 19th at 4PM. Check ... read more |
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| Wednesday June 24th, 2009 |
Listen on KPTR-AM 1340 and KSZL-AM 1230 (Saturday, June 27 at 7:00am and Sunday, June 28 at 4:00pm), KYNS-AM 1340 (Sunday, June 28 at 4:00pm) and KTLK-AM 1150 (Sunday, June 28 a ... read more |
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| Visions and Voices: The USC Arts & Humanities Initiative |
| Wednesday February 18th, 2009 |
Religion has been an important point of discussion in the 2008 presidential election. In the Republican primaries, the public debated the qualifications of Mitt Romney, a Mormon, and Mike Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister. Later, the media focused on Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Barack ... read more |
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| Visions and Voices: The USC Arts & Humanities Initiative |
| Wednesday October 29th, 2008 |
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 : 4:00pm to 6:00pm
University Park Campus
Doheny Memorial Library
Room 240
Admission is free.
Experts engage a panel of student leaders on whether the millennials will be an important swing vote in the election.
Religion has been an importan ... read more |
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| Wednesday October 22nd, 2008 |
| The religious and ethical ramifications of 9/11 are evident in multiple cultural sites, not least of all broadcast television. In recent years, a surprising number of popular dramatic series have grappled with questions of ultimate meaning, including the nexus of good and evil, right and wrong. While religion per se is rarely invoked, its shadow is cast across characters, plots and themes cen ... read more |
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| Thursday September 11th, 2008 |
| On September 11-12, the Knight Chair in Media and Religion will hold a two-day conference on television and lived religion. Participants will examine how spirituality, ethics and religion are embedded, embodied, and emplotted in series such as The O.C., House, and Heroes. Pane ... read more |
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| Wednesday September 10th, 2008 |
| The religious and ethical ramifications of 9/11 are evident in multiple cultural sites, not least of all broadcast television. In recent years, a surprising number of popular dramatic series have grappled with questions of ultimate meaning, including the nexus of good and evil, right and wrong. While religion per se is rarely invoked, its shadow is cast across characters, plots and themes central ... read more |
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| Purple State of Mind |
| Monday April 28th, 2008 |
Join us for a Knight Chair "Pizza and a Movie" night! Welcome to a conversation between two old friends. Welcome to a real conversation about the things that divide and unite all of us: our memories, our identities, our beliefs, our choices.
Craig Detweiler and John Marks have known each other for twenty-five years. When they roomed together as sophomores at Davidson College, they were devo ... read more |
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| Friday April 18th, 2008 |
Our daylong event will examine how media coverage shapes the ways in which readers (including politicians, diplomats, public opinion leaders, and members of the public) understand the intersection of religion and politics - and the subsequent impact on public diplomacy.
Speakers and Panel Participants include members from the fields of journalism, academics and public diplomacy:
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| Monday March 10th, 2008 |
J.J. Goldberg, formerly the editor-in-chief of the Jewish Daily Forward takes on the American Election from the point of view of its influence by and impact on the Middle East.
12:00 noon in the University Club Banquet Room
645 W. Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles
Lunch is provided.
RSVP required: bakere@usc.edu
View video of the event ... read more |
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| Wednesday March 5th, 2008 |
Join us for a Knight Chair Forum with E.J. Dionne, Jr., Washington Post columnist and author of Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right.
Wednesday, March 5 at 4:00 p.m. in Annenberg 207 (3502 Watt Way, Los Angeles).
RSVP required to bakere@usc. ... read more |
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| Monday March 3rd, 2008 |
| The Knight Chair in Media and Religion presents a discussion with David Simon, creator and executive producer of the highly-acclaimed HBO series The Wire. On the critically acclaimed series, Simon has tackled problems of contemporary urban life. This season, the former Baltimore Sun reporter takes a hard look at how the news media has to do "more with ... read more |
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| Wednesday February 27th, 2008 |
| Amy Sullivan, national editor for Time Magazine, discusses her new book, The Party Faithful: How and Why Democrats are Closing the God Gap. Sullivan directs political coverage for Time and the magazine's polling operation. Her work has appeared in publications includ ... read more |
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| Wednesday January 30th, 2008 |
| Join us for a Knight Chair Lunch Forum with Dr. Richard Sloan as he discusses the intersection of medicine, religion and the news. Sloan is the author of Blind Faith: The Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine. He is Professor of Behavioral Medicine (in Psychiatry) at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital at the Columbia University Medical Center ... read more |
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| American Academy of Religion |
| Monday November 19th, 2007 |
Diane Winston participates on a panel from 1:00 - 3:30 p.m. with Aminah McCloud (De Paul University), Robert Orsi (Northwestern University), and Steven Prothero (Boston University) at the American Academy of Religion 2007 Annual Meeting in San Diego.
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Panelists will discuss their experiences with the news media and mainstream publishing in order to further our collective reflecti ... read more |
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| American Academy of Religion |
| Saturday November 17th, 2007 |
At the American Academy of Religion's 1007 Annual Meeting in San Diego, Diane Winston will preside over a panel titled "Sleeper Cell: Viewing Religion, Race, and Terrorism in a Post-9/11 World" on Saturday, November 17th from 1:00 - 3:30 pm.
Panelists include:
Kamran Pasha, Santa Monica, CA
Horace Newcomb, University of Georgia
Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University ... read more |
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| Friday November 16th, 2007 |
| Diane Winston will participate on a panel titled "Reporting on Religion: Religious Intolerance in Perspective" as part of Harvard Divinity School's LA Regional Event Luncheon from 11:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. at the Millenium Biltmore Hotel. ... read more |
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| 2007 Reel Spirituality Conference |
| Saturday October 27th, 2007 |
Despite claims that television is merely a 'mindless entertainment' advertisers spend millions of dollars for a few precious moments onscreen. Is it 'just TV' or is it something more? What kind of difference can a TV program make? Can a sitcom cause us to change our attitudes? Can a drama alter public policy? Can a mere television show promote social justice?
Reel Spirituali ... read more |
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| Religion, Identity & Global Governance Project |
| Thursday October 18th, 2007 |
| Distinguished professor Jack Miles will open the Religion, Identity & Global Governance Conference 2007 with a keynote address entitled "The Re-Negotiation of National Identity." Over 25 scholars from 18 universities across the United States and Canada come together to discuss religion, conflict, identity, foreign policy, and global governance. The conference will take place ... read more |
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| What Do You Believe? |
| Wednesday October 17th, 2007 |
| In this award-winning documentary featured on PBS, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, Pagan, Native American, and Jewish Teens share their most personal struggles and beliefs about faith, morality, suffering and death, prayer, the purpose of life and the divine. Without a hint of dogma they candidly discuss everything from hormones to heaven, deflate misperceptions and stereotypes at every turn, and mak ... read more |
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| Tuesday October 16th, 2007 |
Ronald J. Young, Primary Consultant to the National Interreligious Committee for Peace will speak at 4:00 pm in ACB Room 238, West Tower (825 Bloom Walk, Los Angeles). Refreshments will be served.
In 1987, Mr. Young founded the U.S. Interreligous Committee for Peace in the Middle East. The Committee for Peace in the Middle East is a national organization of 2,500 American ... read more |
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| Friday May 4th, 2007 |
| Participants in Northern Ireland peace-building efforts join scholars of public diplomacy and international relations to discuss track two diplomatic initiatives. Examining the limits and lessons of public diplomacy, inter-community cultural work, and related state and NGO initiatives, participants ask whether similar ... read more |
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| Thursday April 26th, 2007 |
Creator and host of American Public Media's Speaking of Faith, radio journalist Krista Tippett discusses spirituality politics, and international relations with Diane Winston.
Watch video of the event. ... read more |
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| Tuesday March 27th, 2007 |
| Speaking about her new book, Former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland and Robert Kennedy's eldest child, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend described how America's churches have forgotten their prophetic political ro ... read more |
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| Wednesday February 28th, 2007 |
What are the political prospects for same-sex marriage in California and around the nation? Kenneth Starr and other experts discuss an upcoming state Supreme Court case and other legal issues related to this hot-button issue.
Co-sponsored by The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, the ... read more |
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| Thursday February 22nd, 2007 |
Whether religion is a private matter or a public concern is a central question for faith traditions in today's world. Leora Batnitzky, Professor of Religion at Princeton University, reviews the Jewish experience as a case study of the relationship among religion, politics, and the modern nation state.
Watch ... read more |
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| Friday February 2nd, 2007 |
| Matt Gainer's photojournalism documents the monthly Marian gatherings in California City, CA. The exhibit was part of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture's Visionaries & Vision-Hunters conference. ... read more |
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| Thursday January 25th, 2007 |
| Jesus Camp, nominated for a Best Documentary Oscar for 2006, follows a group of young children to Pastor Becky Fischer's "Kids on Fire Summer Camp," where kids are taught to be dedicated soldiers in God's army. The film is a first-ever look into an intense training ground that recruits born-again Christian children to become active participants in A ... read more |
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| Saturday December 2nd, 2006 |
At The Museum of Television and Radio, journalists discussed gender, media stereotypes, diversity, and social activism with Muslim community leaders and scholars of islam.
This event was made possible through the generosity of The Al Ameen Foundation, Amina Adaya, Salim and Yasmin Adaya, and Gazala and Masood Shauk.
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| Thursday September 28th, 2006 |
Geneive Abdo reports on post 9/11 Muslim life in the U.S. A former reporter and author of several books on Islam, Ms. Abdo's most recent book focuses on American youth.
Watch video of the event.
Watch an ... read more |
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| Thursday September 14th, 2006 |
| J.J. Goldberg, editor in chief of The Forward, a national newsweekly that covers the politics and culture of the Middle East and the Jewish world, discusses Mideast politics, "the Jewish lobby," and the media ... read more |
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| Wednesday March 22nd, 2006 |
Tanya Erzen, assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University and author of Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement (UC Press, June 2006), discusses media coverage and policy implications of the ex-gay movement.
Co-sponsored by the < ... read more |
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| Thursday March 2nd, 2006 |
Stewart Hoover and Diane Winston convened a national meeting of journalists, communication scholars and American religious historians to discuss re-envisioning religion coverage for the 21st century.
Co-sponsored by the Resource Center for Media, Religion and Culture at the University of Color ... read more |
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| Thursday February 23rd, 2006 |
USC Annenberg School for Communication Dean Geoffrey Cowan hosted a roundtable discussion with Diane Winston, Ben Barber and Shakeel Syed to discuss the Danish editorial cartoons that sparked violent demonstrations across the Muslim .
Watch the ... read more |
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| Sunday November 6th, 2005 |
An in-depth tutorial for journalists from nationwide media outlets, Covering Islam and Muslims in America investigates issues affecting American Muslims today: gender and family, American Islamic law, racial and ethnic diversity in the U.S., political action, human rights and the War on Terror.
Co-sponsors: Western Knight Center for Specialized Jou ... read more |
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| Wednesday October 26th, 2005 |
Laurie Brand, Steve Lamy, and Jack Miles join historians, international relations experts, and theologians to consider the challenges and opportunities that face Pope Benedict XVI in the international arena.
Papers from this conference are being compiled for publication.< ... read more |
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| Monday April 18th, 2005 |
Diane Winston hosted a three-member panel of experts who spoke on the media's portrayal of Muslims and deconstructed the role of religion in movies, using Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven as a springboard for the discussion. .
The event was co-sponsored by the ... read more |
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| Friday April 8th, 2005 |
| Diane Winston was installed as the first USC Annenberg Knight Chair in Media and Religion at a ceremony on April 8, 2005. Dean Geoffrey Cowan and Michael Parks, director of the School of Journalism, invited students, faculty, staff ... read more |
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| Monday October 25th, 2004 |
David Domke, former journalist and Communications professor at the University of Washington, looks at how political leaders use the news media to shape public discourse and the subsequent implications for American public opinion and democracy.
Using Pres. George W. Bush as a case study, Domke shows how religious language permeates political discour ... read more |
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| Monday September 20th, 2004 |
Journalists nationwide attended an in-depth seminar on the impact of religion and politics on voting patterns, diversity issues, science and foreign policy.
The Western Knight Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, in cooperation with the Knight Chair in Media and Religion, sponsored a four-day seminar on covering religion and public l ... read more |
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| Wednesday March 3rd, 2004 |
| Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio film critic; Richard Fox, professor of History, USC and author of Jesus in America: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession; Barbara Ni ... read more |
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