2016 ISMRC Seoul Conference Time Table (This program is subject to change, if necessary) Day 1 (Aug 1st) Hanyang University/Hotel Samjung Time Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 9:00-12:30 Doctoral colloquium/pre- conference Registration begins (Hotel Samjung) (Hanyang University) 12:30-14:00 SB 523 SB 415 SB 353 SB 350 1. Remembering Sewol Ferry 2. Investigating religious 3. Religion and film 4. Diaspora and digital disaster: Media Rituals for publics in digital religion Chair: Jeffrey Mahan, Iliff School activism Mourning Death and Coping studies of Theology Chair: Camila Arêas, IFP and with Public Trauma Chair: Tim Hutchings, Stockholm - Yam Chi-Keung, The Chinese Chair: Dong Hoo Lee, Incheon University University of Hong-Kong: CARISM (France): National University - Heidi Campbell, Texas A&M Cinematic Dystopia, Public - Jasjit Singh, University of - Jin-Woo Park, Konkuk University: An Open Source Discourse and Religious Leeds: The emergence of British 14:00-15:30 University: Media Ritual of ‘Walk Gospel? Negotiating Religious Subtext: The Case of Ten Years Sikh media and its impact on the Together’: Politics and Authority & Ownership of Sacred in the Context of Post-Umbrella- Sikh public sphere Compassion of the March of Texts Movement Hong Kong - Kimberly Casteline, Fordham Bereaved Families of Sewol - Ruth Tsuria, Texas A&M - Tomas Axelson, Dalarna University Afropolitan Ferry Disaster University: Religious Jewish University College: Audiovisual Pentecostals in Diaspora - Minkyu Sung, Ulsan National Public(s) (Re)defined Storytelling and Ideological - Anna Halalfoff, Deakin Institute of Science and - Nesrine Mansour, Texas A&M Horizons: Audiences, Cultural University, with Emma Tomalin, Technology: The Rhetoric of University: The Ambiance Contexts and Extra-textual Caroline Starkey: Cybersisters: “Eat-ins”: The Body in Pain in Perception of Light in Virtual Meaning Making Countering Gender Inequality in Post-Sewol Ferry Liberal Sacred Architecture - Suria Hani A.Rahman, Global Buddhism Democratic South Korea - Wendi Bellar, Texas A&M Loughborough University: Tales - Suk Jin Chae, University of University: Exploring Religious of the ‘lost and found’: The Sussex: The Construction of Mobile Application Audiences representation of Islam in Media Rituals by the Victimized with User Experience Methods Malaysian comedy films Families of Sewol Ferry Disaster - Clive Marsh, University of - Hae Won Kim, Ewha Leicester: Salvation in Public: Womans University and Jaewon The Possibility (or Lack) of Lie, Ewha Womans University: Redemption in Breaking Bad Creating ‘Digital Ritual’: On the SNS Memorial of Ferry Sewol Respondent: Kee Hyung Lee, Kyung Hee University 15:30-16:00 Coffee break SB 415 SB 523 SB 353 SB 350 1. Korean Buddhism beyond 2.Evangelical groups and 3. Media, death and suffering 4. Religion, media, space post-modernism: Buddhist media Chair: Tomas Axelson, Dalarna Chair: Xenia Zeiler, Helsinki Truth, Media and Publics Chair: Alessandra Vitullo, University College. University. Chair: Kyung-Joon Park, University of Rome Tor Vergata - Sam Han, Nanyang - Ann Hardy, University of Dongguk University - Alanna Miller, Fayetteville State Technological University: Death Waikato: Reflecting the Stars: - Doheum Lee, Hanyang University: Throwing and the post-secular: Heroism Museums and the Production of University: Buddhist alternative Themselves into the Arms of and aura in the mourning of Culture in Aotearoa/New 16:00-17:30 for the crisis of representations God in the World. How celebrities Zealand - Gil-Am Seok, Dongguk Evangelicals Navigate the - Sangduck Kim, Edinburg - Seung Soo Kim, University of University: The Digital Principle Uncertainty of Everyday Life University: Photographic Colorado at Boulder: and the Public in View of the Through Media Representation of Suffering and Templestay, Digital Media, and Hwayen Buddhism - Gavin Feller, University of Compassion: A Case of the Authenticity in Neo-liberal Brand - Byung Kee Pak, Korea Iowa: Points of Contact: Kwangju Massacre Culture National University of Education: Materiality, Mediation, and - Tim Hutchings, Stockholm - Oren Golan & Michele Martini, Buddhist contemplation about Exchange in Brazilian Neo- University: Death, Media and the Haifa University: Ethics of the press in 21st Pentecostal Authority Study of Religion: Making Sense Re-creating Holy Spaces and Century - Andrew Hudson, University of of the New Digital Afterlife Authority through Online Videos: Pennsylvania: The airplane is - Enqi Weng, RMIT University: Video Production among the voice of prophecy even if Lee Kuan Yew: From Statesman Monastic Catholic Activists in the doesn’t speak English, Greek or to Secular Sacred Figure Holy Land Hebrew…” - Jung Soo Jo, Handong Global - Jong In Chang, University of University: When religious space Iowa: Branding a church: When becomes contentious: a church meets the market place Myeongdong Cathedral and the representation of democracy in South Korean social movements of the 1980s 17:30-18:00 Break 18:00-19:00 Keynote Lecture 1: Chin-Hong Chung, Seoul National University, Korea (Convention Room, 6th Fl. HIT) 19:00- 21:00 Welcome Reception (H Club, HIT) Day 2 (Aug 2nd) Hotel Samjung Time Rosemary 1 Rosemary 2 Lavendar Kara 3. Religious broadcasting 2. Religious counterpublics Chair: Peter Horsfield, RMIT and communities University Chair: Fazlul Rahman, - Nur Kareelawati Abd. Karim, 1. Media, Conflicts and Values Indonesian Consortium for Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia 4. Making news: religion, in Religious Education Religious Studies Conceptualising the Production politics and American civil Chair: Mona Abdel-Fadil, - Ryan Bartlett, University of Culture of Religious Television: society University of Oslo Colorado at Boulder: Popular an Ethnographic approach to Chair/respondent: Leora - Maximilian Broberg, Uppsala Culture and Counterpublics: Islamic Television in London Batnitzky, Princeton University University: Engaging with Opposition and Resistance - Francis Arackal Thummy, Amity - Anthea Butler, University of Mediatized Representations of Movements in Early and University: The Beginning, Pennsylvania: Black Twitter, Religion in the Classroom Contemporary Mormonism Expansion, and Impact of Politics and Public Theology - Audun Toft, Norwegian School - Adam Copeland, Luther Shalom Religious Media: A Case - Rachel Lindsey, Washington 9:00-10:30 of Theology: Islam and Media in Seminary: The Not-So-Simple Study University in St. Louis: Religion the Classroom Way: Examining the Disparate - Sungmin Lee, Korea Culture & and the Birth of American - Rachel Hanemann, University Rationale of Two Leaders in the Tourism Institute: History of Photopolitics of Kent: Media, Religion and Simplicity Movement Religious Broadcasting in Korea - Diane Winston, University of Values: The Problem of Catholic - Seung Min Hong, University of from a Religious Politics Southern California: Heartland Education Iowa: Reformation from within: Standpoint: the Period of a Religion: Or How and Why the - Grace Chiou, Gordon College: Critical Christian Media in South Protestant Broadcasting New York Times Made Possible Doubling Down on Privacy: Korea Monopoly Donald Trump’s Presidential Teens and Social Media - Dal Yong Jin, Simon Fraser - Myung-Sahm Suh, University Campaign University: The Mediatization of of Chicago: Broadcasting the Uisang’s Hwaom Philosophy in Good News through the Contemporary Films ‘Bamboo Curtain: FEBC and Its Imagined Audiences under Communist Rule 10:30-11:00 Coffee break Rosemary 1 Kara Lavendar Rosemary 2 3. Hyper-mediation of religion in the current media moment Chair: Lynn Schofield Clark, 4. Journalism and religion University of Denver Chair: Teemu Taira, University of 2. Religion and music - Kristin Peterson, University of Helsinki Chair: Nesrine Mansour, Texas Colorado at Boulder: - Marta Axner Ims, Uppsala 1. Author meets critics: From A&M University #MuslimLivesMatter: Using University: Is the Journalistic Jesus to the Internet by Peter - Daniel Thornton, Alphacrucis Hyper-Mediation to Honor the Mechanism of News Value Horsfield College:The Rise of Global Lives of Young Muslim Stereotyping Minorities Chair: Mia Lövheim, Uppsala Contemporary Congregational Americans - Yoel Cohen, Ariel University: University Songs - Giulia Evolvi, University of Religious Holidays & Media - Jin Kyu Park, Seoul Women’s - Sunny Yoon, Hanyang Colorado at Boulder: The Hyper- Events: Judaism & the Israeli University University: Youth culture and mediation of Italian Conservative Press 11:00-12:30 - Stefan Gelfgren, Umeå contemporary Christian music Catholic Action - Oren Golan & Nakhi Mishol, University - Nabil Echchaibi, University of - Seung Soo Kim, University of Haifa University: Fundamentalist - Kwabena Asamoah Gyadu, Colorado at Boulder: Religious Colorado at Boulder: Hyper- Knowledge Brokers: New Media Trinity Theological Seminary Digitopias and Islamopolitanism mediation and the U.S. Journalism in the Jewish ultra- - Gavin Feller, University of Iowa - Bo kyung Blenda Im, Protestant Establishment Orthodox Community Respondent: Peter Horsfield, Pennsylvania University: - William Ramsey, University of - Henrik Christensen, Aarhus RMIT University. Dancing in the Son: Musical Colorado at Boulder: Cosplay as University: “In Denmark You Can Mediation and Christian a Hyper-mediation of the Fan Make Fun of Almost Everything”: Counterpublics in South Korea Experience The Use of Christian Symbols in - Samira Rajabi, University of Magazine Advertising Colorado at Boulder: Hyper- mediation