All day

BCA Office, Lounge

6th floor – Great America Room

All day

BCA Office, Lounge

6th floor – Great America Room

10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

RCCongress Planning Committee

5th floor – Denver / Houston Room

1:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

WACC North America Executive Board

5th floor – Los Angeles / Miami Room

All day

BCA Office, Lounge

6th floor – Great America Room

7:00 - 9:00 a.m.

BCA Breakfast

4th floor – Halsted Room

8:00 a.m.

Registration Opens

9:00 - 11:30 a.m.

UCC Editors Meeting

6th floor – Ohio State Room

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

BCA Conference

4th floor

12:00 - 2:00 p.m.

BCA Lunch

4th floor – Halsted Room

12:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Pre-Congress Seminar

Global Media, Global Religion: Research on Popular Media and the Remaking of Religions with Stewart M. Hoover and Nabil Echchaibi

6th floor – Indiana / Iowa / Michigan / Michigan State Room

Pre-Congress Tour

Sacred Architecture of Chicago Tour with Deirdre Colgan

Chicago Loop

2:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Resource Plaza and Exhibits Open

3:00 - 5:30 p.m.

WACC Honorary Awards

6th floor – Ohio State / Purdue / Wisconsin Room

3:00 - 5:40 p.m.

Odyssey Members Meeting

6th floor – Lincolnshire Room

6:00 - 10:00 p.m.

Opening Banquet and Program

Mitch Albom

Robin Roberts (invited)

Multi-faith comedy team: A Rabbi, a Baptist minister and a Muslim lawyer walk into RCCongress...

• Bob Alper
• Susan Sparks
• Azhar Usman

7th floor – Grand Ballroom

All day

BCA Office, Lounge

6th floor – Great America Room

7:00 - 8:15 a.m.

BCA Breakfast

4th floor – Halsted Room

7:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Resource Plaza and Exhibits Open

8:15 a.m.

Gathering and Celebrating the Sacred

7th floor – Grand Ballroom

8:45 a.m.

Plenary: A Society of Change

A presentation on who we are and the challenges we face

7th floor – Grand Ballroom

10:00 a.m.

Plenary: Changing Society, Changing Media – A panel discussion

• Martin Marty, Moderator
• Barbara Bradley Hagerty
• Kevin Eckstrom
• Bryan Monroe (invited)

7th floor – Grand Ballroom

11:45 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Lunch: on your own

ELCA Communicators Lunch

6th floor – Lincolnshire Room

12:00 noon

Roundtable Interest Groups

12:00 - 2:00 p.m.

BCA Lunch

4th floor – Halsted Room

2:15 - 3:30 p.m.

Workshops Session 1

Various rooms

3:30 - 3:45 p.m.

Break

3:45 - 5:00 p.m.

Workshops Session 2

Various rooms

4:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Resource Plaza and Exhibits Open

5:30 p.m.

Dinner: on your own

5:30 - 7:00 p.m.

RCC Meeting and DeRose-Hinkhouse Awards

7th floor – Salon I

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

BCA Dinner

4th floor – Belmont Room

7:45 - 10:00 p.m.

Feature Film: Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma

9:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.

NASBWACC Reunion

4th floor – Armitage Room

9:30 p.m.

Gathering and Celebrating the Sacred

10:00 p.m.

International Film and Video Festival

All day

BCA Office, Lounge

6th floor – Great America Room

7:00 - 8:15 a.m.

BCA Breakfast

4th floor – Halsted Room

7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Resource Plaza and Exhibits Open

8:15 a.m.

Gathering and Celebrating the Sacred

7th floor – Grand Ballroom

8:45 a.m.

Morning Plenary Session hosted by Joan Brown Campbell

• Moving in Faith with Otis Moss, III
• Faith Movements with Ingrid Mattson
• Pluralism with Diana Eck

7th floor – Grand Ballroom

11:45 a.m.

Lunch: on your own

Roundtable Interest Groups

12:00 - 2:00 p.m.

UCC - OC, Inc. Lunch

4th floor – Armitage Room

2:15 - 3:30 p.m.

Workshops Session 3

Various rooms

3:30 - 3:45 p.m.

Break

3:45 - 5:00 p.m.

Workshops Session 4

Various rooms

5:00 p.m.

Resource Plaza and Exhibits Close

5:30 p.m.

Dinner: on your own

6:00 p.m.

Wilbur Awards Reception, Banquet, and Program (requires separate ticket)

7:00 p.m.

Evening Events

9:30 p.m.

Gathering and Celebrating the Sacred

10:00 p.m.

International Film and Video Festival

8:15 a.m.

Gathering and Celebrating the Sacred

7th floor – Grand Ballroom

8:45 a.m.

Plenary: Surveying the Digital Future with Jeffrey Cole

7th floor – Grand Ballroom

10:00 a.m.

Plenary: Communicating Globally – A Conversation with our Global Parnters

7th floor – Grand Ballroom

11:45 a.m.

Lunch: on your own

Offsite Tours

Confirmed:

• Bahá’í House of Worship

Under consideration

• Broadcast Museum

• Freedom Center at Chicago Tribune

2:15 - 3:30 p.m.

Workshops Session 5

Various rooms

3:30 - 3:45 p.m.

Break

3:45 - 5:00 p.m.

Workshops Session 6

Various rooms

6:30 - 10:00 p.m.

Closing Banquet: Taking Change Home

Speakers, entertainment, and good food

Interfaith Youth Core will share a multi-voice, interfaith, spoken-word performance that illuminates the religious experiences of young people in contemporary America

7th floor – Grand Ballroom

8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

RCC Board Meeting

6th floor – Great America Room