SEEKING THE SACRED IN THE DIGITAL AGE
(All sessions will be held in Hemmingson 312-4)
Saturday, February 18th:
9:00-10:15: “Virtual Religion and the Rise of a New Axial Age”
by Fr Tim Clancy SJ, Gonzaga University
10:30-12:00: Virtual Ritual: Dr. Greg Orofino, Dr. Joe Mudd, (the prospects for sacraments and devotions online) Francis Xu SJ (power of virtual music);
12:15-1:30 Lunch at Hemmingson
1:30-3:00 Virtual religious experience: Bill Woody SJ, Dr. Dan Bradley (experience of the sacred in oral presence, literate absence (ie negative theology), and virtual telepresence; Corwin Bryan (religious experience in virtual reality)
3:15-4:30: Virtual symbolism: Matt Yim SJ . Dr. Roisin Lally, David Nguyen
4:45-6:00: “Technologies of transcendence: on the technological mediation of the sacred” by Dr. Peter-Paul Verbeek, Professor of the Philosophy of Technology, University of Twente, the Netherlands
6:30 Mass (Jesuit House Chapel)
7:30 Dinner (Pizza party at Jesuit House)
Sunday, February 19th:
9:00-10:00: “Guarding Against Teleopathy: Organizational Leadership Towards Ultimate Ends” by L. Kim, VP at a high tech firm
10:15-11:45 Virtual Evangelization: Fr. Michael Rossman SJ (Jesuit Post), Fr. Wojciech Moranski SJ (DEON.pl), Tucker Redding SJ (social media)
12:00: Brunch at Jesuit House
1:30-3:00 Virtual Politics: Macklen Scribner (Vocation in a virtual post wage labor
economy): Dr. Joan Braune (Occupy Wall Street as a case study in enlisting social media in political organizing) Michael Martinez SJ (digital community organizing)
4:30-5:00 On Avatars: Fr. Tim Clancy SJ (Avatar Christology) , Dr. Krista Sajber (radicalizing the networked self), Dr. Kirk Besmer, respondent.
5:30: Wrap up and next steps