Relevant Events & Conferences
From Studying Religion and New Media
2009
3rd Annual International Doctoral Symposium on Arab & Muslim Media Research
25th April 2009 in London, England. This symposium is directed by CAMMRO (Centre for Arab and Muslim Media Research),an independent international scholarly research institution based in London and has associates in the UK and beyond. Call for papers: until 25th March 2009. More information: forum@cammro.com
4-9 April in Boston, Mass. ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (http://www.chi2009.org/)
How Virtual is reality? Summer School
10-19 July 2009 in University of Bremen The course is mainly addressed to graduate and postgraduate students like Master students and PhD candidates Summer School participants will engage into interdisciplinary study of practical methods and theoretical approaches for the scientific handling of ritual and media. Summer School Web site
2010
Call for Papers - Religion and Spirituality in Cyberspace
Thematic issue to explore some of the methodological and theoretical issues raised by the coming together of Internet, religion and spirituality and to provide interesting case studies. Completed articles should not exceed 7,000 words. Submission deadline is February 2010. Early submissions are most welcomed. For more information, contact Guest editor, Roxanne Marcotte (r.marcotte@uq.edu.au) or visit Australian Religion Studies Review.
Islam and the Media.
7-10 January 2010 in Boulder, Colorado. This conference directed by the Center for Media, Religion & Culture at the University of Colorado-Boulder. CFP can be found at: http://www.colorado.edu/journalism/cmrc/IslamandtheMediaCFP.htm
Church in Cyberspace
27-29 January 2010 in Aarhus, Denmark. "Church in Cyberspace" is one of the subthemes of the international conference Church and Mission in a Multireligious Third Millennium which is hosted by Aarhus University. This section welcomes all papers examining the relationship between church, mission and the new media, especially the Internet. How do the new media affect the ways in which the church operates? What impact do secularization, globalization and multireligiosity have on the church in cyberspace? Does the Internet offer new alternatives to traditional approaches to mission? Can church and congregational communities be built in cyberspace? Both theoretical and empirical approaches are most welcome. Website: http://www.teo.au.dk/churchandmission
7th International Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture
10-13 August 2010 in Toronto, Ontario This conference will be hosted by Ryerson University, Toronto, and directed by Dr. Joyce Smith. More information will be posted in early 2009.
