J.J. Goldberg, editor in chief of The Forward, a national newsweekly that covers the politics and culture of the Middle East and the Jewish world, discusses Mideast politics, “the Jewish lobby,” and the media

During the centennial celebration of the birth of Pentecostalism in Los Angeles, academic experts briefed the press on the social and political implications of believers worldwide “moved by the spirit.”

Co-sponsored by The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and The USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture.

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Transcript and more information available here.

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Two dozen African and Asian journalists, participating in the Edward R. Murrow Journalism Fellows Program, convened at the Masjid Omar ibn Al-Khattab to hear about the coverage of religion and public life in the United States.

Organized with help from The Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism and co-sponsored by The Religion Communicators Council.  

Tanya Erzen, assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University and author of Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement (UC Press, June 2006), discusses media coverage and policy implications of the ex-gay movement.  

Co-sponsored by the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture and the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics.  

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Stewart Hoover and Diane Winston convened a national meeting of journalists, communication scholars and American religious historians to discuss re-envisioning religion coverage for the 21st century.

Co-sponsored by the Resource Center for Media, Religion and Culture at the University of Colorado's Center for Mass Media Research.

Read a brief summary of the discussion.

USC Annenberg School for Communication Dean Geoffrey Cowan hosted a roundtable discussion with Diane Winston, Ben Barber and Shakeel Syed to discuss the Danish editorial cartoons that sparked violent demonstrations across the Muslim .

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An in-depth tutorial for journalists from nationwide media outlets, Covering Islam and Muslims in America investigates issues affecting American Muslims today: gender and family, American Islamic law, racial and ethnic diversity in the U.S., political action, human rights and the War on Terror.  

Co-sponsors: Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, USC Annenberg School for Communication, Social Science Research Council, New York Times Company Foundation.

A complete list of presenters, participants, and other resource materials. 

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Articles by participants after attending this event:
“Enemies within or ragtag radicals?”
“Immigrants' lives in limbo as U.S. sifts applications”
“Islamic Center reaches out with welcome mat”

Laurie Brand, Steve Lamy, and Jack Miles join historians, international relations experts, and theologians to consider the challenges and opportunities that face Pope Benedict XVI in the international arena.

Papers from this conference are being compiled for publication.

Co-sponsors: USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, Loyola Marymount Department of Theological Studies, Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies.

Watch three video segments of the event sequentially or individually:
The Pope segment
The New Century segment
The Keynote 

The roundtable discussion featured one of Egypt's foremost human rights activists, Saad Eddin Ibrahim of the American University in Cairo, discussing U.S. engagement with Islamism as a potential path toward greater democratization in the Middle East.

Co-sponsors: the Pacific Council on International Policy and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

Event summary can be found here. 

Diane Winston hosted a three-member panel of experts who spoke on the media's portrayal of Muslims and deconstructed the role of religion in movies, using Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven as a springboard for the discussion.  .

The event was co-sponsored by the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, the Office of Religious Life, the School of Cinema-Television, the School of Religion, the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture and the TriBeCa Film Festival.

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