About the Event:
International Conference on Media, Spiritualities and Social Change Join scholars, activists, journalists and businesspeople in an international and interdisciplinary conference exploring the global shifts in thinking toward social change. Learn about the ways in which media culture, civic engagement and spiritualities intersect to form practices, discourses and the material expressions of social change. How Images and Stories Influence our Future as a Global Citizenry: Renewing Relationship to Nature and Culture With OSPREY ORIELLE LAKE, Founder/artist, International Cheemah and Mari Monument. Ms. Lake is one of the world's few female allegorical monument makers. This provocative multimedia presentation is an educational and inspirational journey exploring the ways in which narrative and visual communication affect the way we think and act. Ms. Lake will explore cultural and environmental stories in modern media and the importance of advancing positive messages at this critical time in history. The presentation will focus on how the use of symbol, image and language in the public sphere either enhances, or distances, the relationships that humans share with the living Earth and with diverse cultures. Explore how we can create meaningful and positive images and narratives that help open the portal to exploring and renewing our individual and societal dreams in relationship to the places we dwell. What people see and experience on a daily basis in their communities influences our societal direction and cultural well-being. Incorporating meaningful nature-themed images and symbols into public spaces is one of the challenges she addresses in her international art projects and presentations. This conference session is free and open to the public To register for the full conference (deadline is June 1) and to view the complete program, visit The Center for Media, Religion and Culture website. When Friday, June 6, 2008, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Where University Memorial Center, 235 (get campus parking information)
