“Representing Sport” – Exploring the literary turn in sport history
Saturday 5 May 2007
10:30am – 5:00pm
£20 (students £10) includes a buffet lunch
International Centre for Sport History and Culture
De Montfort University, Leicester
Building upon the success of the 2006 ‘Sport and Literature’ conference, the International Centre for Sport History and Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester, will be hosting a conference to explore the literary turn in sport history. The treatment of sport in text and media will be considered.
Speakers include:
Prof. Jeff Hill, Director of ICSHC, De Montfort University, ‘Sport, Literature, and History; directions and methods’.
Dr. Iain Adams, University of Central Lancashire, ‘American Sport through the eyes of Ernie Barnes’
Dr Alan Bairner, Loughborough University, 'Football, Locality and Community in Scotland: the case of Robin Jenkins's Drumsagart Thistle.'
Dr Mike Huggins, St Martins College, ‘Romanticism, Bardic Regionalism, and its Sporting Representation: Robert Anderson, the Cumbrian Bard 1770-1833.’
Dr. Brian Griffin, Bath Spa University, ‘Fiction and Cycling in Victorian Ireland.’
Dr. Seán Crosson, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI, Galway ‘Science and Sock … Pete Smith reveals in hurling a scientific form of mass murder’: Representing Hurling in American Narrative Cinema.
Dr Andy Martin, University of Cambridge, 'Surfing and the Anxiety of Influence: the agon of Ken Bradshaw and Mark Foo'.
Claire Westall, University of Warwick, ‘The Poetry of Brian Lara: Tradition and the individual talent or the ME/WE Problem?’
Dr Jon Dart, Leeds Trinity and All Saints, ‘Soccer Travelogues: Football Fan’s fictions?’
Hilary Young, University of Warwick, ‘”Hooligans” and “Supermen”: Representing and Reading sporting Masculinities in Rover and Wizard c1930-1955.’
Places will be limited so if you would like to attend please contact the International Centre for Sport History and Culture to reserve your place.
International Centre for Sport History and Culture
Clephan Building
De Montfort University
Leicester, LE1 9BH
UK
Tel; +44 (0) 116 250 6486
Fax; +44 (0) 116 250 6130
Email; ICSHC@dmu.ac.uk