Marshall McLuhan: Social Media Between Faith & Culture – An International Conference
MARSHALL McLUHAN: SOCIAL MEDIA BETWEEN FAITH AND CULTURE
An International Conference
Dates: September 21-22, 2012
Location: Charbonnel Lounge, Elmsley Hall, 81 St. Mary Street, ( http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/maps/default.asp)
The University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto
Friday, September 21 - Admission Free
9:00 Welcome
9:30 to 12:30 Session A - Chair: TBA
Timothy Madigan, St. John Fisher College - Saint John Fisher College & Marshall McLuhan
Michael O’Connor, St Michael’s College - Microphones in Church
10:30 Break (15 minutes)
Timothy J. Buell - Spiritual Symmetries: Blake and McLuhan
Reid Locklin, St. Michael’s College - Sacred Orality, Sacred Dialogue: Walter J. Ong & the Practice of Hindu-Christian Studies
Pouneh Saeedi, USMC - Semiotics of Simultaneity: Religious Reflections in McLuhan’s Mass (Age)
12:30 to 1:30 Lunch
1:30 to 4:15 Session B - Chair: TBA
Ruthanne Wrobel, Havergal College, Independent Scholar - The Trials of Susanna Told Through Tetrads
Peter Nesselroth, University of Toronto - ’In the beginning was the Pun’: McLuhan’s Word-play as Faith-in-practice”
Michael Giobbe, Boston, Independent scholar - Loving The Lord With Your Whole Mind: Reflections on Theology, Church History, Neuroscience & Media Ecology
Derrick de Kerckhove, University of Toronto - Perception & the Senses in the Faith of Marshall McLuhan
4:15 Break (15 minutes)
4:30 Keynote address - Elena Lamberti, University of Bologna - When New Technologies are Old: Re-Thinking about Electric Communi(on)cation in the Age of Social Media
5:30 Reception
Saturday, 22 September
9:30 – 12:30 Session Chair: TBA
Adam D’Arcy Niven, Perth Bible College - The Cruciform Medium of the Church
Nadia Delicata, University of Malta - McLuhan & the Christian Life Today
10:30 Break (15 minutes)
Dan Browne, Filmmaker & Multimedia Artist - McLuhan as Mystic: The Role of the Artist
Paolo Granata, University of Bologna – A Return to Magic: the (Go) Spell of Technology in Marshall McLuhan’s Thought
12:30 to 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 3:30 Session - Chair: TBA
Derek Robinson, Independent Scholar - Divine Inversions – Marshall McLuhan’s Visionary Recital Meets the Book at the End of its Trope
Malcom Dean, Brain Research Institute, UCLA - Physics & McLuhan’s Theology of Information
Jenna Sunkenberg, St. Michael’s College - McLuhan as Pedagogy: Waking up Narcissus.
3:30 Break (15 minutes)
3:45 – 5:00 Session E
Round-table discussion on Curriculum implications of conference themes
Moderator: Mark McGowan, St. Michael’s College
3 speakers: John Pungente, Regis College; Yannick Portebois, University of Toronto; Francesco Guardiani, University of Toronto
5: 00 Closing lecture - Robert Logan, University of Toronto - McLuhan’s Roman Catholic Background & the Catholic Purview of Social Media
5:30 Conclusion: Domenico Pietropaolo, St Michael’s College
Organizing Committee: Domenico Pietropaolo – Convener, Jenna Sunkenberg, Robert Logan, Monica Phonsavatdy
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