Media, Gender & Religion Conference 2016.01.07-10

Non-CAS Event

Thursday, January 7-Sunday, January 10, 2016
C4C, CU-Boulder

This week, the Center for Media, Religion and Culture (CMRC) is holding their annual conference, and the theme this year is "Media, Gender and Religion." Every day there are plenary sessions open to the public. Please visit their website for further information: https://mediagenderreligion.wordpress.com/. Additional panels are available to registered participants.

Conference highlights that are free and open to the public:

Thursday, January 7

• Sarah Banet-Weiser will discuss “Empowering the Gendered Body: Purity, Abstinence, and Reproductive Rights” at 6:30 p.m. in Old Main Chapel. Banet-Weiser is a professor and the director of the School of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.

Friday, January 8

• Monica R. Miller, a prominent expert on religion and hip-hop, will discuss “Chariots of the (Black) Godz? Virtual Omnipresence, Digital Demagoguery, and New OnLines of Flight” at 9 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 8, in the Flatirons Room at the Center for Community. Miller is an assistant professor of religion and Africana studies at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Saturday, January 9

• Screening and panel discussion of the film Tales of the Waria about transgender women in Indonesia. The film will be shown at 9 a.m. in the Flatirons Room at the Center for Community.
• Kathryn Lofton, chair of religious studies at Yale University, will speak on “Kardashian Nation: Race and Empire in the American Family” at 6:30 p.m. in the Flatirons Room at the Center for Community.