Register for Tales of Discovery, Provenance and Goats Gone Missing: Dead Sea Scrolls and the Media
Zoom registration is live for the 4–6 May conference, "Tales of Discovery, Provenance and Goats Gone Missing: Dead Sea Scrolls and the Media." This conference will broaden the discussions surrounding the media history of the Dead Sea Scrolls, religious journalism/journalism on religion, public scholarship and media ethics—with a particular focus on media dissemination of find- and provenance narratives, as well as reporting on manuscript forgeries. The conference is organized by the Lying Pen of Scribes project and chaired by Dana Ryan Lande and Liv Ingeborg Lied.
Register free at bit.ly/TalesOfDiscovery.
Conference schedule:
All times in CET (Norwegian time).
Wednesday 4 May
15:00 Welcome
15:10-16:00 Keynote 1, Jodi Magness, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Reflections on the State of the Field and Media Engagement
16-16:15 Short Break
16:15-16:45 Tupá Guerra, Universidade de Brasília
Between Indiana Jones and Neon Genesis Evangelion: the challenges of building public scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls
16:45- 17:15 Francis Borchardt, NLA University College
The “Conquest" of the Temple Scroll and the Creation of the Scholarly Object
17:15-17:30 Short Break
17:30-18:20 Keynote 2, Anne Kreps, University of Oregon
American Scriptures: The Dead Sea Scrolls in Modern Religious Communities
Thursday 5 May
15:00 Welcome
15:10-16:00 Keynote 3, Mia Lövheim, Uppsala University
Mediatization of religion: frames of news and entertainment in reporting on the Dead Sea Scrolls
16-16:15 Short Break
16:15-16:45 Ingrid B. Gimse, University of Agder
Tale as old as time: Discovery and Provenance in Dead Sea Scrolls publications
16:45-17:15 Dana Ryan Lande, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society
Edmund Wilson and the Narrative Beginnings of Dead Sea Scroll Reporting
17:15-17:30 Short Break
17:30-18:20 Keynote 4, Nikolaj Melamed Kleivan and Anders Firing Lunde, Morgenbladet
How to convince your editors to forget Tintin: Experiences of two journalists covering the fake fragments
Friday 6 May
15:00 Welcome
15:10-16:00 Keynote 5, Matthew Collins, University of Chester, UK
The Sensational and the Simplistic: Rewriting the Story of the Scrolls in Adult and Children’s Media
16-16:15 Short Break
16:15-16:45 Hanna Liljefors, Uppsala University
A mediatized Bible? Discourses about “the Old Testament” in Swedish media debates 1985-2017.
16:45-17:00 Concluding Remarks
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