Religious Communication - Draft Program
The conference will focus on religious communication and religious aesthetic forms. The underlying impulse is to bring into dialogue scholarly work undertaken in religious studies and theology with debates and research in the fields of communications and cultural studies, including performance, literary, visual and aesthetic analyses. The premise of the conference is that communication and aesthetic forms play an active role in shaping a religious culture’s sensibility rather than merely reflecting that religious community’s ideology, logic or worldview. In short, religious communication makes religious experience meaningful, possible and effective.
The conference will have a wide interpretation of ‘religious communication’, including, but extending religious communication beyond ‘communication studies’ understood as ‘mass media’, to include religious modes of communication such as prayer, sermons, revelation, art, theatre and ritual, as well as religious uses of mass media. We invite papers from the perspectives across the humanities and social sciences, including literature, music, performance, film and television, anthropology, sociology and history, as well as religious studies and theology. We also invite papers from all religious perspectives.
Date
26 - 27 November 2009
Venue
- Monash University Conference Centre
Level 7, 30 Collins Street
Melbourne
Program
Download religious communication program (pdf, 82.8kb)
Keynote speakers
- Professor Massimo Leone (Research Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Torino, Italy)
- Professor Lori Beaman (Canadian Research Chair, Department of Religious Studies and Classics, University of Ottawa, Canada)
Invited presenters
- Mr Ibrahim Abraham (PhD Student, Sociology Department, University of Bristol)
- Ms Charlotte Baines (Phd Student, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University)
- Mr Lori G. Beaman (Canada Research Chair, Contextualization of Religion in a Diverse Canada, University of Ottawa)
- Mr Thor Beowulf (PhD student, Research School of Humanities (RSH), Australian National University)
- Ms Rose-Marié Bezuidenhout (School of Arts, Communication and Media Studies, Monash South Africa)
- Veronica Brady (Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of English and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia)
- Ms Rachel Buchanan (Doctoral Candidate, School of Education, University of Newcastle)
- Professor John Caroll (Sociology, La Trobe University)
- Dr Karen Crinall (Lecturer, Social and Community Welfare, Monash University)
- Ruth Deller (Associate Lecturer and AHRC-funded PhD candidate, Sheffield Hallam University)
- Bishop Allan Ewing (Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn)
- Marie-Suzette, Fernandes-Dias (Assistant Director of the UN, International and Regional Organisations Section of the Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Citizenship)
- Dr Eduardo De La Fuente (Lecturer, Communications, Monash University)
- Dr Joseph Gelfer (Adjunct Research Associate, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University)
- Associate Professor Gil-Soo Han (Communications, Monash University)
- Mr Kerrin Hancock (PhD Student, School of Music Conservatorium, Monash University)
- Mr Lorenzo Leucio Domenico Incardona (PhD student, University of Bologna/SUM-Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane)
- Ms Danielle Kirby (PhD Student, University of Queensland)
- Professor Massimo Leone (Department of Philosophy, University of Torino)
- Professor Ron S. Laura (Education, University of Newcastle)
- Dr David Manning (Visiting Lecturer, University of Chester)
- Ms Elisha McIntyre (Doctoral Student, Department of Studies in Religion, University of Sydney)
- Mr Julian Millie (School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, Monash University)
- Mr Michael Mullins (M.Phil Student, Department of Media and Communications,University of Sydney)
- Associate Professor Peter Murphy (Communication, Monash University)
- Ms Angelique Nairn (PhD student with Auckland University of Technology)
- Mr Edwin Ng (PhD Student, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University)
- Dr William Peterson (Head of Drama and Theatre Studies, Monash University)
- Dr Tamara Prosic (School of Historical Studies, Centre for Studies of Religion and Theology, Monash University)
- Dr Zakir Hossain Raju (Senior Lecturer, Communication and Cultural Studies, Monash University)
- Dr Eric Repphun (Lecturer, Religious Studies at the University of Otago)
- Mr Johann Rossouw (PhD Student, Politics Department, Monash University)
- Associate Professor David, Tacey (Reader in Arts, La Trobe University)
- Professor Claudia Terstappen (Fine Arts, Monash University)
- Mr Paul Emerson Teusner (PhD student in the School of Applied Communication at RMIT University)
- Mr Simon Theobald (Postgraduate Student, University of Sydney)
- Ms Julie Willems (School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Monash University)
Contact
Religious communication enquiries
Convenors
Dr Elizabeth Burns Coleman
Associate Professor Gil-Soo Han