Schedule

Getting-closer-to-final Schedule

9:00 — Registration, Coffee

9:30 — Greetings

10:00 — Breakout Sessions I & II

Breakout Session I: Media & Memory

Breakout Session II: Northwind Seminary Panel

Michael J Christensen “Making Sacred Sense from the Data Stream”
Michael Dotson on AI
Thomas E. Phillips on Jewish and Christian sacred texts
Lynn Johnson, “Canticle for Leibowitz, Beads, Circuit Diagrams & Diaries: Information retention for every day”

11:15 — Coffee Break

11:30 — David Downing’s Keynote

1:00 — Lunch onsite for everyone, provided by the Archive

2:30 — Plenary Session: Eastgate Creative Presentation on The Forge of Friendship

4:00 — Crystal Downing’s Keynote

5:30 — Dinner onsite for keynote speakers; on your own in the area for registrants. Time to change into costumes!

7:00 — EVENING EXTRAVAGANZA

Costume Contest; Panel Discussion of clips from the Star Wars movies

9:30 — Registration, Coffee

10:00 — Owen A. Barfield’s Keynote

11:15 — Coffee Break

11:30 — Breakout Sessions III & IV

Breakout Session III: Faith & Fiction

Evan Underbrink, “Come l’uom s’etterna: Dante in Comic Books”
Daniel F. Moreno, The Novena de Aguinaldos
Hannah Leach, “Roots, Dragons, and the Lion: Why fanfiction should be considered alongside mainstream media”
Don Gauger, “The Sapphire Keeps” (an original short story)

Breakout Session IV: Influences & Inklings

1:00 — Lunch onsite for keynote speakers; on your own in the area for registrants

2:30 — Breakout Sessions V & VI

Breakout Session V: Owen Barfield’s Core Ideas (Owen & Søri)

Breakout Session VI: Workshop on Researching Mysticism (Crystal & David)

4:00 — Workshop from Eastgate Creative on Adapting your Content to Video

5:30 — Dinner onsite for keynote speakers; on your own in the area for registrants. Time to change into costumes!

7:00 — EVENING EXTRAVAGANZA

Costume Contest; Panel Discussion of clips from the Lord of the Rings movies