wfn.org | Projected Schedule for RCCongress 2010 - Chicago April 7 - 10

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> Projected Schedule for RCCongress 2010

Online schedule is here:  http://www.rccongress2010.org/program/schedule.shtml

> Schedule is subject to change

> Wednesday, April 7, 2010 8:00 a.m.

> Registration Opens

> 12:00 - 3:00 p.m.
> Pre-Congress Seminar:

Global Media, Global Religion: Research on Popular Media and the
Remaking of Religions led by Stewart M. Hoover and Nabil Echchaibi

> 12:00 - 3:00 p.m.
> Pre-Congress Tour:

Sacred Architecture of Chicago Tour: a walking tour of sacred spaces
in the Chicago Loop led by Deirdre Colgan

> 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.
> Resource Plaza and Exhibits Open

> 6:00 - 10:00 p.m.
> Opening Banquet and Program

Robin Roberts (invited) and a multi-faith comedy team to delight you

> Thursday, April 8, 2010: Social Change

> 7:00 - 8:00 a.m.
> Cooperating Organization Meetings

> 7:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
> Resource Plaza and Exhibits Open

> 8:15 a.m.
> Gathering and Celebrating the Sacred

> 8:45 a.m.
> Plenary: A Society of Change
> A presentation on who we are and the challenges we face

> 10:00 a.m.
> Panel: Changing Society, Changing Media

Moderated by Martin Marty with a panel of distinguished reporters
including Barbara Bradley Hagerty

> 11:45 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
> Lunch: on your own

> Cooperating Organization Meetings
> 12:00 noon

> Roundtable Interest Groups
> 2:15 - 3:30 p.m.

> Workshops
> 3:30 - 3:45 p.m.

> Break

> 3:45 - 5:00 p.m.
> Workshops

> 4:30 - 8:00 p.m.
> Resource Plaza and Exhibits Open

> 5:30 p.m.
> Dinner: on your own
> Cooperating Organization Meetings

> 7:45 p.m.
> Evening Events

> 9:30 p.m.
> Gathering and Celebrating the Sacred

> 10:00 p.m.
> International Film and Video Festival
> Other Events

> Friday, April 9, 2010: Religious Change

> 7:00 - 8:00 a.m.
> Group Meetings

> 7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
> Resource Plaza and Exhibits Open

> 8:15 a.m.
> Gathering and Celebrating the Sacred
> Time TBA

> Plenary: Moving in Faith
> Otis Moss, III
> Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago

> Plenary: Faith Movements
> Ingrid Mattson
> Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations, Director
> of the Islamic Chaplaincy Program at Hartford Seminary, and President
> of the Islamic Society of North America

> Plenary: Pluralism
> Diana Eck
> Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies at Harvard
> University, Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in
> Society at Harvard University, and Director of The Pluralism Project

> 11:45 a.m.
> Lunch: on your own
> Cooperating Organization Meetings
> Roundtable Interest Groups

> 2:15 - 3:30 p.m.
> Workshops

> 3:30 - 3:45 p.m.
> Break

> 3:45 - 5:00 p.m.
> Workshops

> 5:00 p.m.
> Resource Plaza and Exhibits Close

> 5:30 p.m.
> Dinner: on your own
> Cooperating Organization Meetings

6:00 p.m.

Wilbur Awards Reception, Banquet, and Program (requires separate ticket)

> 7:00 p.m.
> Evening Events

> 9:30 p.m.
> Gathering and Celebrating the Sacred

> 10:00 p.m.
> International Film and Video Festival
> Evening Events

Saturday, April 10, 2010: Technological Change

> 7:00 - 8:00 a.m.
> Cooperating Organization Meetings

> 8:15 a.m.
> Gathering and Celebrating the Sacred

> 8:45 a.m.
> Plenary: Surveying the Digital Future

> Jeffrey Cole
> Center for the Digital Future, USC

> 10:00 a.m.
> Plenary: Late Breaking News

> 11:45 a.m.
> Lunch: on your own

> 11:45 a.m.
> Offsite Tours

(Under consideration) Broadcast Museum; Freedom Center at Chicago Tribune

> 2:15 - 3:30 p.m.
> Workshops

> 3:30 - 3:45 p.m.
> Break

> 3:45 - 5:00 p.m.
> Workshops

> 6:30 - 10:00 p.m.
> Closing Banquet: Taking Change Home

> Speakers, entertainment, and good food

Interfaith Youth Core will share a multi-voice, interfaith,
spoken-word performance that illuminates the religious experiences of
young people in contemporary America

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