Programme

The tentative programme of the conference

Download the detailed schedule here.

Wednesday 27 August

19:00-                       Metal Mass at Rock Church (Temppeliaukio Church) by Helsingin seurakuntayhtymä

 

Thursday 28 August

Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki University

08:15–09:00            Registration and morning coffee

09:00–10:15

Opening and keynote address
Carolyn Marvin: Youth and the Temptations of the Sacred

10:30–12:00

 

 

Parallel sessions

Institutions and Traditions: Islam
Media and Practices: Film and Television
Rituals and Politics: Rituals

12:00–13:30 Lunch

13:30–15:00 

 

 

Parallel sessions

Institutions and Traditions: Secularisation and Diversity
Media and Practices: Musical Innovations
Rituals and Politics: High and Low

 15:15–16:45

 

 

Parallel sessions

Institutions and Traditions: Young Sikhs in Norden
Media and Practices: Virtual Worlds
Rituals and Politics: Gender and Sexuality

16:45–17:30 Coffee

17:30–18:30

 

Keynote address

Clive Marsh: Sonic Piety: Why theology has to pay attention to what popular music is doing (and vice versa)

 19:00–21:00 University of Helsinki Reception

 

Friday 29 August

Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki University

09:00–10:00           

 

Keynote address

Matt Hills: Keeping Faith(s): Liquid Modernity and Multiple Rituals of Media Fandom

10:00–10:30 Morning coffee

10:30–12:00

 

 

Parallel sessions

Media and Practices: Cultural Industries
Rituals and Politics: Politics

12:00–13:30 Lunch

13:30–15:00

 

 

Parallel sessions

Institutions and Traditions: Christianity
Media and Practices: Religious Meanings in Film and TV
Rituals and Politics: Post-Socialist Context

15:00-15:30 Coffee
15:30–17:00 Concluding discussion


You can download here the abstacts of presentations in parallel sessions (pdf). Please notice that the paper abstracts are at the form presented in applications and have not been edited by conference organizers.

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