8:00 a.m.

Registration Opens

12:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Pre-Congress Seminar:

Global Media, Global Religion: Research on Popular Media and the Remaking of Religions led by Stewart M. Hoover and Nabil Echchaibi

12:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Pre-Congress Tour:

Sacred Architecture of Chicago Tour: a walking tour of sacred spaces in the Chicago Loop led by Suzanne Morgan

2:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Resource Plaza and Exhibits Open

6:00 - 10:00 p.m.

Opening Banquet and Program

Robin Roberts (invited) and a multi-faith comedy team to delight you

7:00 - 8:00 a.m.

Cooperating Organization Meetings

7:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Resource Plaza and Exhibits Open

8:15 a.m.

Gathering and Celebrating the Sacred

8:45 a.m.

Plenary: A Society of Change

A presentation on who we are and the challenges we face

10:00 a.m.

Panel: Changing Society, Changing Media

Moderated by Martin Marty with a panel of distinguished reporters including Barbara Bradley Hagerty

11:45 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Lunch: on your own

Cooperating Organization Meetings

12:00 noon

Roundtable Interest Groups

2:15 - 3:30 p.m.

Workshops

3:30 - 3:45 p.m.

Break

3:45 - 5:00 p.m.

Workshops

4:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Resource Plaza and Exhibits Open

5:30 p.m.

Dinner: on your own

Cooperating Organization Meetings

7:45 p.m.

Evening Events

9:30 p.m.

Gathering and Celebrating the Sacred

10:00 p.m.

Midnight Matinee

Other Events

7:00 - 8:00 a.m.

Group Meetings

7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Resource Plaza and Exhibits Open

8:15 a.m.

Gathering and Celebrating the Sacred

Time TBA

Plenary: Moving in Faith

Otis Moss, III
Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago

Time TBA

Plenary: Faith Movements

Ingrid Mattson
Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations, Director of the Islamic Chaplaincy Program at Hartford Seminary, and President of the Islamic Society of North America

Time TBA

Plenary: Pluralism

Diana Eck
Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies at Harvard University, Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University, and Director of The Pluralism Project

11:45 a.m.

Lunch: on your own

Cooperating Organization Meetings

Roundtable Interest Groups

2:15 - 3:30 p.m.

Workshops

3:30 - 3:45 p.m.

Break

3:45 - 5:00 p.m.

Workshops

5:00 p.m.

Resource Plaza and Exhibits Close

5:30 p.m.

Dinner: on your own

Cooperating Organization Meetings

6:00 p.m.

Wilbur Awards Reception, Banquet, and Program (requires separate ticket)

7:00 p.m.

Evening Events

9:30 p.m.

Gathering and Celebrating the Sacred

10:00 p.m.

Midnight Matinee

Evening Events

7:00 - 8:00 a.m.

Cooperating Organization Meetings

8:15 a.m.

Gathering and Celebrating the Sacred

8:45 a.m.

Plenary: Surveying the Digital Future

Jeffrey Cole
Center for the Digital Future, USC

10:00 a.m.

Plenary: Late Breaking News

11:45 a.m.

Lunch: on your own

11:45 a.m.

Offsite Tours

(Under consideration) Broadcast Museum; Sacred Space International; Freedom Center at Chicago Tribune

2:15 - 3:30 p.m.

Workshops

3:30 - 3:45 p.m.

Break

3:45 - 5:00 p.m.

Workshops

6:30 - 10:00 p.m.

Closing Banquet: Taking Change Home

Speakers, entertainment, and good food

Interfaith Youth Core will share a multi-voice, interfaith, spoken-word performance that illuminates the religious experiences of young people in contemporary America