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Cross-purpose: CMCI conference will explore global rise of religious nationalism聽

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Cross-purpose: CMCI conference will explore global rise of religious nationalism Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/04/2024 - 00:00

By Joe Arney

Typical academic conferences are better known for showcasing new theories than inspiring public conversation.

The Center for Media, Religion and Culture does not put on a typical academic conference.

鈥淲e want to extend these conversations to people who care about these issues鈥攚ho may not be sitting in classrooms or going to conferences, but who want to be part of an intelligent conversation around important ideas,鈥� said Nabil Echchaibi, director of the center and associate dean of scholarly and creative work at the College of Media, Communication and Information at the University of Colorado 51传媒.

鈥淚t鈥檚 important to think about these problems from a media lens. We are in a different media ecology that requires a more sophisticated way of interpreting what鈥檚 going on.鈥�
Nabil Echchaibi, director, Center for Media, Religion and Culture

Expect plenty of discussion from experts, members of the public and the media in January, when the center and CMCI host Fire on the Mountain, a conference on media, religion and nationalism. The conference will explore topics such as the rise of both Christian and Hindu nationalism, xenophobia against refugees, the Jan. 6 insurrection, and the wars in Gaza and Ukraine; uniquely, it will do so with an eye to the media鈥檚 role in reporting these phenomena and how its coverage imbues these topics with different kinds of meanings as the news travels.

鈥淯sually, when you have topics like this, people go to political scientists, sociologists, historians, as opposed to media,鈥� Echchaibi said. 鈥淏ut it鈥檚 important to think about these problems from a media lens. We are in a different media ecology that requires a more sophisticated way of interpreting what鈥檚 going on.鈥�

The conference will include talks from four featured speakers. Each of these discussions is open to the public:

Philip Gorksi, Yale University. Gorksi studies religion and politics in Europe and North America. He is the co-author of 鈥淭he Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy.鈥�
Raka Shome, Villanova University. Shome writes about postcolonial cultures, transnational feminism and nationalism as they intersect with media/communication cultures, especially in Asia.
Ramesh Srinivasan, UCLA. Srinivasan is an expert in the intersection of technology, innovation, politics, business and society.
Reiland Rabaka, University of Colorado 51传媒. Rabaka is a scholar of W.E.B. Du Bois who studies religion and Black nationalism.

Notably, the keynote speakers will offer opportunities to discuss solutions, not just problems created by religion and nationalism.

鈥淚 always say that we live in very dangerous times, and this specter of nationalism is upon us,鈥� Echchaibi said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not enough for us to say, here is this problem. We need to figure out, is there a way out of this? Or are we just going to keep yelling at one another, excluding one another and killing one another?

鈥淚鈥檓 hoping we have an event that really matches the chaos of our time while helping people understand these forces, and find ways to move toward solutions.鈥�

A four-day conference on the rise of religious nationalism鈥攁nd the media鈥檚 role in the spread of news and meaning around these topics鈥攃omes to CU 51传媒 in January.

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CMCI Now: What We're Reading

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:59:02 +0000

CMCI Now: What We're Reading Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 09/13/2021 - 09:59

Our summer reading list is full of new books by CMCI faculty scholars on topics including media and religion, technology and trauma, video activism and citizen-centered journalism.

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CU 51传媒 Center for Media, Religion and Culture to host ninth international conference on Imagined Borders, Epistemic Freedoms

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 23:53:02 +0000

CU 51传媒 Center for Media, Religion and Culture to host ninth international conference on Imagined Borders, Epistemic Freedoms Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/02/2020 - 16:53

In its simplest form, a border is a barrier; a way of letting some things in and keeping others out.

If you go:

Who: All keynotes and the workshop 鈥淥n the Decolonial Hows: Interrogating and Making (Our) Praxis鈥� are free and open to the public. Other events require registration.
What: Imagined Borders, Epistemic Freedoms: The Challenge of Social Imaginaries in Media, Art, Religion and Decoloniality.
When:Jan. 7 through 11
Where:Williams Village Center

Learn more

While we often think of borders in a physical sense鈥撯€揳 line on a map, a concrete wall or a series of checkpoints鈥撯€搕here are also intangible borders that shape the ways we think, learn and teach.

This month, scholars will gather on CU 51传媒鈥檚 campus for the Center for Media, Religion and Culture鈥檚 ninth international conference, Imagined Borders, Epistemic Freedoms: The Challenge of Social Imaginaries in Media, Art, Religion and Decoloniality. The conference will be held from Jan. 7 through 11, with several events that are free and open to the public.

鈥淭his is about trying to challenge people to think about other ways of seeing the world,鈥� says Nabil Echchaibi, the center鈥檚 associate director.

Colonization and dispossession have weakened, misplaced, and destroyed the cultural and intellectual heritage of many people, Echchaibi says. Through this process, many cultures have lost their voices鈥撯€搊r their voices have gone unnoticed.

鈥淔or this conference we want to invest in cultures, histories and civilizations鈥撯€揼roups who have been speaking for quite some time but people have not been paying attention, and modes of knowing that have been silenced,鈥� he says.

Free and public events will include:

Keynote: 鈥淐olonial Diffractions in Illiberal Times,鈥� Ann Laura Stoler
- 鈥�9 to 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 8
Keynote: 鈥淭he Decolonial Everyday: Reflections on Indigenous Education and Land-Centered Praxis,鈥� Leanne Betasamo-Sake Simpson
- 10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 9
Workshop: 鈥淥n the Decolonial Hows: Interrogating and Making (Our) Praxis,鈥� Catherine Walsh
- 9 to 10:30 a.m., Friday, Jan. 10
Keynote: 鈥淥nce Were Maoists: Third World Currents in Fourth World Anti-Colonialism,鈥� Glen Coulthard
- 2 to 3 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 11

Registration for the full conference鈥撯€搃ncluding daily lunch and refreshments鈥撯€搃s $250 for faculty and $150 for non-OECD county residents and students, with a $50 day rate available as well. Visit the conference website to learn more and register.

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CMCI Now: Divine intersection

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 23:17:33 +0000

CMCI Now: Divine intersection Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 12/28/2018 - 16:17

Scholars at the Center for Media, Religion and Culture look back through the decades to examine how media, religion and culture converge, from a 1956 box office record breaker to a confession app.

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Daily Camera: CU 51传媒 leading efforts to understand how social media, digital age shapes religion

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Dec 2018 00:58:18 +0000

Daily Camera: CU 51传媒 leading efforts to understand how social media, digital age shapes religion Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 12/24/2018 - 17:58

University of Colorado researchers are examining how the digital age influences the way people worship and explore their spirituality.

They are finding there is a shift from religion being something located only in houses of worship, and limited to institutions and authorities, to a broader market of media and public and popular culture, said Stewart Hoover, the director of CU's Center for Media, Religion and Culture.

Featuring the director of the Center for Media, Religion and Culture, Stewart Hoover

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Spring at CMCI Now

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 20:06:07 +0000

Spring at CMCI Now Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 04/04/2018 - 14:06

Grad students reporting in the Yukon, alumni at the Olympic Games and honoring CU 51传媒's first black female graduate鈥攁ll of that and more in the Spring 2018 edition of CMCI Now.

Grad students reporting in the Yukon, alumni at the Olympic Games and honoring CU 51传媒's first black female graduate鈥攁ll of that and more in the Spring 2018 edition of CMCI Now.

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