Program Overview
Section l - Moving Images
Day 1 - Monday 28 July
Ritual, Media, and Conflict in the Santa Fe Fiesta
Ron Grimes (Nijmegen) and Barry Stephenson (Ontario)
Day 2 - Tuesday 29 July
The Visual Toolbox
Ute Hüsken (Oslo) and Erik de Maaker (Leiden)
Day 3 - Wednesday 30 July
Bel Fruit and Loin Cloth: The Initiation of Boys and Girls in Bhaktapur, Nepal (2007)
Niels Gutschow and Axel Michaels (Heidelberg)
Maria Hemmleb and Christian Bau (Hamburg)
Day 4 - Thursday 31 July
Religion, Ritual and Experience: How to Film the Unseen
Marcus Banks (Oxford)
Day 5 - Friday 1 August
Challenging Video as Method to Document/Represent Ritual
Sarah Pink (Loughborough)
Day 6 - Monday 4 August
Spirit and Mind: The Use of Film in the Documentation, Analysis and Explication of Meaning in Yolngu Ritual
Howard Morphy (Canberra)
Day 7 - Tuesday 5 August
Filming Rituals between Theory and Practice
Manfred Krüger (Göttingen)
Section ll - Virtual Worlds - Old Rituals in New Worlds?
Day 8 - Wednesday 6 August
Pop up Performance: How to Research Rituals in Virtual Worlds
Kerstin Radde and Simone Heidbrink (Heidelberg)
Day 9 - Thursday 7 August
Ludic Media Theory and Virtual Worlds
Julian Kücklich (Coleraine)
Day 10 - Session I Friday 8 August
From the Virtual Ark to St Pixels: Online Rituals in a Christian Context
Simon Jenkins (London)
Day 10 - Session II Friday 8 August
A New Research Agenda: Representation of Islam and Islamic Rituals in Digital Games
Vit Sisler (Prague)
