Communicating faith in India
New trends in digital and audiovisual resources
12 & 13 September 2019
Venue
Animation centre, Vellayambalam, Trivandrum - 695 003
Kerala, India.
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Recipient
School of Church Communications, Holy Cross University, Roma
Official host and organizer in India
Media Commission Trivandrum
Introduction
The School of Church Communications of the Pontifical University of Holy Cross (Rome) convenes a two-day conference for the Alumni students in India, on “Communicating faith in India. New trends in digital and audiovisual resources”. It is indeed, the first venture in any of the Asian countries in the history of the pontifical University of Holy Cross.
In India, University of Holy Cross has 45 Alumni students from different parts of the region, respectively belong to various dioceses and congregations. University of Holy Cross assumes it as a time of great joy of reunion remembering the legacy of Santa Croce.
In World Day of Social Communications message 2019, Pope Francis says; the internet provides the “opportunity to share stories and experiences of beauty or suffering that are physically distant from us, in order to pray together and together seek out the good to rediscover what unites us,”. He explaines, “the Church herself is a network woven together by Eucharistic communion, where unity is based not on ‘likes,’ but on the truth, on the ‘Amen,’ by which each one clings to the Body of Christ, and welcomes others,”. Pope Francis was emphasizing that social media does not replace the need in the human heart for authentic human community.
Finally, recalling the words of Pope Francis to the Catholic Journalists, that ‘in an age when technology is ever-evolving, Catholic news organizations must be willing to adapt to proclaim the Gospel to all effectively, and authentic servants of tradition are those who, while keeping memory alive, know how to discern the signs of the times and open new path’. Pope summons us to evangelise the world through encounters in the ‘digital world’, updating ourselves in the field of media.
Thus, this Alumni Conference has a couple of aims connected with the School of Church Communications and refresh our minds with sharing of our experiences and challenges that we face during the mission, and of course with some inputs in the field of Digital and Audiovisual communication.
Sessions
This two-day conference has ten sessions, following five sessions each day. Among these 11 sessions, 2 sessions will be presentations by two alumni students on their respective topics, 2 sessions by press and visual media persons from India, and 1 session will be a chat with a local Bishop. Other six sessions will be dealt by two professors from the School of Church Communications of the Pontifical University of Holy Cross, Rome.
Speakers
Jorge Milán, professor of Audio-Visual Communication at the Pontifical University of Holy Cross. Former contributor to the Rome Reports news agency and author of articles on Documentaries and Corporate Videos.
Juan Narbona, professor of Digital Communication at the Pontifical University of Holy Cross. Consultant to various non-profit organizations and author of articles on Digital Strategy and Communication.
Biju Alappat, Trichur Archdiocesan Media in Charge. HOD-Department of Media Studies at St. Thomas College (Autonomous) Trichur and Visiting Faculty at St. Joseph Pontifical Major Seminary and Institute, Aluva.
Joshan Rodrigues, the Managing Editor of The Examiner Newsweekly, the official newsletter magazine of the Archdiocese of Bombay.
Ignatius Gonsalves, Journalist, media trainer, social historian, author, orator and activist - Mr. Ignatius Gonsalves is indeed a multi faceted personality, widely accepted, acclaimed and respected. Presently he is the president of ICPA (Indian Catholic Press Association) and Chief News Director of Shekinah Television.
Dr. Antony Lazer, Guest faculty to C-DIT (Centre for Development of Imaging Technology, An Institute for Media and Communication Studies under the Government of Kerala) and in the department of Art and Performance, Kerala University, from 2013 to 2017; Invited to UK by the Department of Film Studies to Introduce Malayalam Directors; Goes to UAE and Mauritius as guest faculty on ‘Tutor-Sharing-Basis’ for the academic year 2019-2020, also teach in Kerala.
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