[OPLINLIST] Conference on Information & Religion - registration now open

[Cunningham, Flo]

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Registration is now open for the 2015 Conference on Information and Religion, scheduled for June 5 at Kent State University. The conference theme is "New Technologies and Religious Communities." For details, including a link to registration, information on transportation and housing, visit http://www.kent.edu/slis/csir-annual-conference-information-religion.

Our keynote speaker this year is David H. Michels, Ph.D., Head of Public Services, Sir James Dunn Law Library, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, author of the blog "Informing Faith." Dr. Michels will speak on "Transforming Religion in the Information Age": New information technologies are increasingly being adopted by religious organizations to support worship, instruction, communication, and engagement with the wider community. How does their use transform the nature of social interactions and religious community - "koinonia" - and where are these changes taking us in the information age?

The schedule features 23 academic presentations<http://digitalcommons.kent.edu/acir/2015/> in three tracks: technology (8), religious communities (12) and librarianship (3).



Best regards,

Flo

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Flo Cunningham
Marketing Communications and Public Relations Specialist
School of Library and Information Science
Kent State University
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges

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