Join us for the RPS Forum 2010
Distinguished speakers reflect on religion, artistic expression, and the line between blasphemy and devotion.
- Jonathan Goldstein – Host of CBC Radio One's WireTap and author of Ladies and Gentleman, The Bible! [see profile...]
- Patricia Rozema – Director and screenwriter, whose works include I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, Mansfield Park and Grey Gardens [see profile...]
- Professor David Morgan – Duke University, Religion/Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies [see profile...]
- Professor Kajri Jain – U of T, Graduate Department of Art and the Centre for Visual and Media Culture [see profile...]
Moderator: Professor Ato Quayson: Professor of English and Director, Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies
Religion has long played the role of both muse and censor for works of art. Music, drama, visual arts, and literature are among the most ancient of media for the staging of aesthetic and moral questions. Newer technologies—radio, film, video, digital media—have multiplied the avenues for artistic expression in public spheres while also fueling religious imaginations. With this proliferation of popular media has come a proliferation of audiences and artists from diverse religious perspectives and communities. The RPS theme for 2009-10 focuses on how the arts, both ancient and modern, have made a space for the public contestation of religious aesthetics, heretical expressions, and secular critique.
Free admission but registration is required: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=8198
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