Yesterday was the last day of our international conference on Islam and the Media organized by our Center for Media, Religion and Culture. Some amazing research is being done in many countries around the world about an interesting and vibrant Muslim media culture (broadcast, print, and digital) that is evolving with its new (mixed with old)  production aesthetics, its own political economy, and certainly its own religious authority. We had stimulating discussions about these and many other topics. You can read the twitter feed here and we will be posting video and audio feeds for all plenaries and paper panel presentations shortly on the conference website. Thank you to all those who made the trip to Boulder from Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North and South America, and neighboring Denver) to present great research papers and I'm grateful to our plenary speakers (Mona Eltahawy, Naif Al-Mutawa, Zarqa Nawaz, Charles Hirschkind, Gary Bunt and the New Muslim Cool Team) for making this conference original and thought provoking. I'm confident research in this area (more ethnographic and analytical) will continue to thrive in journal and book publications. We're planning an edited volume on the themes addressed in this conference and will be posting more information on that soon.