Second Annual New York University/The American University of Paris Symposium
sponsored by
NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication The Steinhardt School
of Culture, Education, and Human Development and the Department of Global
Communications The American University of Paris
Organizers: Marita Sturken, Waddick Doyle, Ben Kafka
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MEDIA AND BELIEF: RELIGION, AUTHORITY, VISION
June 19, 2009
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AUP
Grand Salon
31, avenue Bosquet
75007 Paris
Following last year?s successful symposium on media and ethics, New York
University?s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and The
American University of Paris? Department of Global Communications are
pleased to announce a second day-long conference on problems of common
interest. This year?s focus will be on believing believing in national
memory, believing in the sacred, believing our own eyes. How is cultural
memory produced and reproduced? How is visual culture constructed around
structures of belief and skepticism? How are religious practices and
traditions sustained through media?
PROGRAM
09H15 INTRODUCTIONS
Ted Magder (NYU), Marita Sturken (NYU), Waddick Doyle (AUP)
09H30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Nick Mirzoeff (MCC, NYU) ?THE MYSTICAL AUTHORITY
OF VISUALITY?
Respondent Waddick Doyle (AUP)
11H00 COFFEE BREAK
11H15 PANEL 1 - TECHNOLOGIES OF THE REAL
Chair: John Downing, Director,
Global Media Center, Southern Illinois
University
Susan Murray (MCC, NYU)
?Vernacular Video, Commercial Logics, and the
New Real?
Marcelo Fiorini (DGC, AUP)
?Rituals as Media and Belief: Musée Quai
Branly and the Wauja Indians?
Respondent Mark Hayward (DGC, AUP)
12H45 LUNCH
14H00 PANEL 2 - MEDIA MILITANCY
Chair: Darrin Hicks, Human
Communication Studies, University of Denver
Matt Powers (MCC, NYU),
?Strange Bedfellows?: International religious
activism and domestic media reform?
Nadja Millner-Larsen (MCC, NYU), "Tribal Export:
The persistent belief in the
Native American Image"
Respondent: Brett Gary (MCC, NYU)
15H30 PANEL 3 - TECHNOLOGIES OF THE SACRED
Chair: Marita Sturken, Media, Culture and
Communication, New York University
Erica Robles (MCC, NYU) ?The Crystal
Cathedral: Faith and Visual Culture
Within a Megachurch?
Deborah Kapchan (Performance Studies, NYU)
?Learning to Listen: The Sound
of Sufism in France?
Respondent: Yudhishthir Raj Isar (DGC, AUP)
17H00 PANEL 4 - SUSPENSIONS OF DISBELIEF
Chair: Ted Magder,
Chair Department of Media, Culture and
Communication, New York University
Jayson Harsin (DGC, AUP) ?Obama Rumor Bombs?
Charles Talcott, (DGC, AUP), ?Materializing Belief: Nicolas
Sarkozy?s Sovereign Wager?
Respondent: Ben Kafka (MCC, NYU)
18H30 Concluding Remarks
For information please contact (plair /at/ aup.fr)
PROGRAM MAY BE SUBJECT TO MODIFICATION
