2008 Media Gallery

Diversity Week 2008 Design Competition Winners
Vice-Chancellor's Equity and Diversity Awards
Held: 4.30-7.00pm Wednesday 14 May, 2008

Video & Audio Covers:
Panel discussion: 
   "Wired for warfare? Packaged for peace? Does spirituality divide more than it unites?"
Panel Members:
   Facilitated by Mr Phillip Adams AO, broadcaster, writer and social commentator 
   Professor Hûrriyet Babaçan - Professor of Social and Cultural Development, Institute for Community, Ethnicity and Policy Alternatives, Victoria University. 
   Ms Mary Graham - Community development/research consultant for the Kummara Association and consultant in Aboriginal community development. 
   Dr Virginia F. Cawagas - Senior Fellow, University for Peace, Costa Rica and Project Coordinator, Multi-Faith Centre, Griffith University.
Presentation of Awards:
   The Vice-Chancellor’s Equity and Diversity Awards
   The Vice-Chancellor's Inaugural Alumni Equity and Diversity Award
   Diversity Week 2008 Design Competition
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Peter Horsefield’s seminar

With the re-emergence of religion as a significant cultural and political factor in the last decade, this presentation will examine why crucial developments in religion have been largely overlooked by practitioners within news and media industries and academics researching the fields. It outlines some of the rethinking and new directions in research that have been taking place in recent decades, arguing that the theoretical and practical separation of media, news studies and religion studies can no longer be justified. 

Dr. Peter Horsfield is Associate Professor of Communication and Director of Learning and Teaching in the School of Applied Communication at RMIT University in Melbourne. He was a core group member of the International Study Commission on Media Religion and Culture (1997-2005) and is a member of the board of the Media Religion and Culture Project, a non-profit corporation based in Houston promoting research in the area of media and religion. He is Chair of the International Management Committee of the Porticus Fellowship Program for Research in Media Religion and Culture and directs the Fellowship program from RMIT. He has been researching media and religion since the early 1980s and has published extensively in the field. His early work on American televangelism, Religious Television: The American Experience (Sage, 1984) has been named as one of the twelve most influential books in the history of media and religion. More recently he wrote and co-produced the research-based CRRom The Mediated Spirit (Redfish-Bluefish Creative, 2002) and was co-editor of Belief in Media: Cultural Perspectives on Media and Christianity (Ashgate, 2005).

Diversity Week Broadcasts

CamelTrade
4ZZZ Announcer Alex Oliver speaks with the Secular Freethinker’s Society President Maria Proctor about the roles minority groups play in society, with particular reference to the time before the motor car

MultiFaith at the University of Queensland
Further information about Multi-faith Chaplaincy at St Lucia.

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