Representing Sport: Europe, Tradition and Modernity
Tuesday 2nd & Wednesday 3rd June 2009
SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME
An International Symposium hosted by the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI, Galway. Supported by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS), NUI, Galway's Millennium Fund, and the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, NUI, Galway.
All events, unless otherwise stated, take place in the Main Room of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media
Tuesday 2nd June
9.00am Welcome
Dr Edward Herring, FSA, Dean of the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies, NUI, Galway
9.15am Opening reflections on tradition and modernity in European sport Dr Philip Dine,School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, NUI, Galway & Dr Seán Crosson, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI, Galway
9.30am Session 1: Diffusion and Representation
9.30am The European Origins of the Global Sports System
Professor Sébastien Darbon, Institut d’ethnologie méditerranéenne et comparative, Aix-en-Provence, France (visit co-funded by French Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures).
10.15am Europeans Writing the African "Olympian"
Professor John Bale, Visiting Professor of Sports Studies, University of Aarhus, Denmark and Professor of Sports Geography, Keele University, UK
11.00am Coffee
11.15am Session 2: Modernizing National Sporting Traditions
11.15am Sport and Identity in Germany since Reunification
Professor Arnd Krüger, Institut für Sportwissenschaften, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
12.00pm Antihero as National Icon? The Contrariness of Roy Keane as Fantasy Embodiment of the "New Ireland"
Dr Marcus Free, Department of Media and Communication Studies, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick
1.00pm Lunch
2.00pm Session 3: Broadcasting the Volvo Ocean Race: The Inmarsat Film Lecture
Venue: Hospitality Pavilion, Galway Volvo Ocean Race Village, Dock Road, Galway City.
NB Prior Registration Essential for this event.Contact dee.quinn@nuigalway.ie
2.00pm Broadcasting the Volvo Ocean Race: The Inmarsat Film Lecture
Inmarsat, the official technology sponsor for the 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race, demonstrates how HDTV will change the sponsorship of international sailing events for ever.
With Inmarsat Fleetbroadband, the clarity of HDTV is about as close as you can get to the race action without being on a competing yacht. It's what the international broadcasters want and it's essential for raising the profile of the race and its sponsors globally. The 2008-09 race coming to Galway in May-June 2009 is the first in its 35-year history to have videographers onboard sending back high-definition television and rich multimedia content. Ian Walker, skipper of Green Dragon, will be joined by media crew members from PUMA (Rick Deppe) , ERICSSON 3 (Gustav Morin) and TELFONICA BLACK (Anton Paz) to talk about reporting the race to an estimated two billion followers.
3.45pm Question and Answer session
Led by Dr Seán Crosson, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI, Galway
8.00pm Symposium Dinner [venue: Tamarind Restaurant, Spanish Arch, Galway City]
Wednesday 3rd June
9.30am Session 4: Community and Governance
9.30am Surfin' USA, Surf en Méditerranée: The Myths and Realities of Mediterranean Surfing Culture
Cathal Kilcline, IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar, NUI, Galway
10.15am The Governance of Sport in Europe
Dr Borja García, School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Loughborough University, UK
11.00am Coffee
11.15am Session 5: Football without Frontiers?
11.15am From Grassroots to Global Goals - Sport Against Racism Ireland
Ken McCue, Founder and International Officer of Sport Against Racism Ireland (SARI), visiting lecturer at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Shooting Millennium Development Goals - Documenting Sport and Development
Professor Brendan Ward, Professor of Film, Columbia University, New York, USA
'Play-it', Barcelona FC and Education through Sport
Silvia Gonzalez Moreno, Course Mediator on Family Education, SARI & Barcelona FC Education through Sport programme
Hailuu Netsiyanwa, Director of Sport with Insaka-Ireland, the all-Africa Youth Movement, and currently studying at the National College of Ireland
1.00pm Lunch & Close
This event is free and open to all.
For further information please contact:
Seán Crosson at +353 (0) 91 495687 or sean.crosson@nuigalway.ie
Phil Dine at +353 (0) 91 492391 or philip.dine@nuigalway.ie
N.B. To register for the Inmarsat Film School Lecture on Tuesday at 2pm, please contact dee.quinn@nuigalway.ie
