Fire on the Mountain: Media, Religion, and Nationalism - Conference Videos

Jan. 19, 2024

Conference Information Philip Gorski: Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at Yale University. He writes on religion and politics in early modern and modern Western Europe and North America from a comparative historical perspective. His current work focuses on the history and politics of White Christian Nationalism and American Civil...

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Fire on the Mountain: Media, Religion, and Nationalism

Feb. 13, 2023

The Center for Media, Religion, and Culture University of Colorado Boulder January 10-13, 2024 Program Videos Jump to: Call for Proposals | Logistics | Featured Speakers The title of this conference is not a mere play on words or a dramatic ploy to get your attention. Nor is a reference...

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Rhythms Launch: Why Do You Write?

Oct. 30, 2022

On 11/30/2022, the Center for Media, Religion and Culture will host an event at Ice Overlook in the CU Rec Center to celebrate the launch of our new publication, Rhythms . Last year, the fellows of the Center for Media, Religion and Culture, challenged themselves with a provocative question: Why...

Religion & Media in the 2020 Election Webinar

Oct. 7, 2020

Religion & Media in the 2020 Election: Faith, Fraud, and Fear 5pm EST, 4pm CST, 3pm MST, 2pm PST The Center for Media, Religion, and Culture hosted a webinar on religion and media in the 2020 U.S. election. Our four panelists will discuss the place of religion in the so-called...

Spring 2020 Workshop: Call for Applications

Feb. 1, 2020

Call for Junior Scholar Applications 2020 Spring Workshop, “Public Scholarship of Religion in an Age of Hypermediation” May 6-10, 2020, Boulder, Colorado, USA The research project "Religion and Public Scholarship in the Media Age,” announces a call for applications from Junior Scholars (early-career faculty, post-docs, or dissertation-level doctoral students) to...

2020 Imagined Borders, Epistemic Freedoms

June 12, 2019

Announcing a CMRC conference in collaboration with SIMAGINE January 7-11, 2020 Registration Fees (Including lunch & refreshments daily): $250/ faculty; $150/ non-OECD Country Residents & Students; Day rate of $50 available The question of borders and the practice of bordering persist in a world destined for encounters and confrontations. This...

2018 ISMRC

Feb. 12, 2018

The center hosted the 11th biennial conference of the International Society for Media, Religion, and Culture (ISMRC), which explored the relationship between media, religion and public scholarship. This conference was held August 8-11, 2018 and brought together international scholars from various disciplines including media studies, journalism, politics, religious studies, the...

The Crisis of Religion In A Media Age

Oct. 29, 2017

Dr. Stewart M. Hoover presents "The Crisis of Religion In A Media Age" on January 26, 2018 at the 18th Annual MacKenzie Lectureship, sponsored by the First Congregational Church in Boulder, Colorado. Four Center Fellows, along with Deborah Whitehead and Stewart Hoover, led a workshop featuring their work on various...

2016 International Conference on Media, Gender & Religion

Jan. 11, 2016

The Center's conference on Media, Gender and Religion was held at the University of Colorado Boulder on January 7-10, 2016. Invited speakers included Sarah Banet-Weiser, USC Annenberg; Carla Jones, CU-Boulder; Kathryn Lofton, Yale University; Mia Lovheim, Uppsala University; and Monica Miller, Lehigh University.

2014 International Conference on Media and Religion: The Global View

July 12, 2013

The Center's conference: Media and Religion: The Global View was held at the University of Colorado Boulder on January 9-12, 2014. This was the fifth in a series of successful international conferences held by the Center. This conference brought together an interdisciplinary community of scholars for focused conversations on emerging...

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