Recent meetings of the biennial ISMRC series

The 13th biennial conference on Media, Religion and Culture was held August 2-5, 2023 at the Center for Religious Studies at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany. See the conference page for more information. 

The 12th biennial conference on Media, Religion and Culture was held online on August 4, 2021. The virtual event, “Rethinking Religion, Media & Secularities” featured panels of select papers and a keynote talk by Professor of Communication Marwan Kraidy, Northwestern University in Qatar. Conference page. 

The Center for Media, Religion and Culture and the College of Media, Communication and Information at the University of Colorado Boulder hosted the 11th biennial conference, August 8-11, 2018. The conference explored the relationship between media, religion and public scholarship and brought together international scholars from various disciplines including media studies, journalism, politics, religious studies, the anthropology and sociology of religion, history, the study of literature and public policy. Keynote and Plenary Speakers included Anthea Butler, University of Pennsylvania, USA. Merlyna Lim Carleton University, Canada. John Durham Peters, Yale University, USA. See Final Program Book.