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| Thursday September 11th, 2008 |
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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. Panels will focus on gender, lived religion, HBO, spirituality and race and gender.
Speakers include: Thomas Beaudoin (Fordham University); S. Elizabeth Bird (University of South Florida), John Caldwell (UCLA), Craig Detweiler (Co-director of Fuller Seminary Brehm Center Reel Spirituality Institute), Heather Hendershot (Queens College, Editor of Cinema Journal), Curtis Marez (USC, Editor of American Quarterly); Horace Newcomb (Lambdin Kay Chair for the Peabody Awards, University of Georgia), and Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa)
For a complete agenda, click here.
For a flyer you can print out or fwd, click here.
For panelist bios, click here.
For Respondent/Moderator bios click here.
Watch the videos here:
Religion, Gender and TV
Lived Religion
HBO: New Twists on Old Turns
Spiritual But Not Religious
Race and Ethnicity
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