HISTORIANS ON SPORT 2007
Saturday 27 October
10:30am – 4:30pm
Clephan Building
De Montfort University, Leicester
The International Centre for Sport History and Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester, will hold their seventh ‘Historians on Sport’ conference on Saturday 27 October 2007. We continue the successful tradition of inviting a mixture of distinguished mainstream historians to reflect on the wider significance of sport and sports history specialists who have made a notable contribution to the subject. As usual the papers will be broad in focus and there will be plenty of opportunity for questions.
Speakers include:
Prof. Ian Talbot, Dept. of History, Southampton University – ‘Cricket, Identity and India’
Prof. Peter Cain, Sheffield Hallam University – ‘Character, the British Empire and Sport: Some Reflections on 1870-1914’.
Dr Keith Brewster, Dept. of History, University of Newcastle – ‘Recent trends in the study of Mexican sports history’
Dr Emma Griffin, Dept. of History, University of East Anglia – ‘Sport in the long Eighteenth Century’
Dr Adrian Smith, Dept. of History, University of Southampton – ‘Sport, Speed and the Technological Imperative – dealing with declinists’
Prof. Dave Russell, Leeds Metropolitan University – ‘Sporting honours. The rise and rise of the sporting award’
£30 (students £10) includes a buffet lunchTo register and for further information about this conference please contact:
International Centre for Sport History and Culture
De Montfort University
Clephan Building
Leicester
LE1 9BH
UK
T: +44 (0) 116 250 6486
E: ICSHC@dmu.ac.uk