Representing Sport: Evolving Identities in Europe
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 Department of French, NUI, Galway.
All events, unless otherwise stated, take place in the Main Room of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media
Friday December 5 th
9.30am Welcome / Opening reflections on evolving identities in European sport
Dr Philip Dine, Department of French, NUI, Galway
10.00am Alf Tupper and post-war English identity: from Attlee to Thatcher
Professor Jeffrey Hill, International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
11.00am Coffee
11.15am Film showing: TBC
1.00pm Lunch
1.30pm Film Debate and Symposium Interventions
Led by Dr Seán Crosson, Huston School of Film and Digital Media, NUI, Galway
3.00pm Sport and identity in Greece
Dr Eleni Theodoraki, Napier Business School, Napier University, Edinbugh, UK
4.00pm Tea
4.15pm Football and an evolving Italian national
identity
Paddy Agnew, Rome Correspondent, The Irish Times,
9.30am Re-discovering Hungarianness: the case of elite Hungarian footballers
Dr Gyozo Molnar, Institute of Sport and Exercise Science, University of Worcester, UK
10.30am Coffee
10.45am Film representations of sporting identity in Spain
Dr Álvaro Rodríguez Díaz, Departamento de Sociología, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
11.45am “Peerless” Jim Driscoll and other cultural icons: Welsh boxers and the complexities of identity
Professor Gareth Williams, Centre for Modern and Contemporary Wales, University of Glamorgan, UK
1.00pm Close
This event is free and open to all academics and postgraduate students.
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