Media, Sport and Ireland Symposium 2022

The Media, Sport and Ireland International Symposium will take place on 19 and 20 May 2022. Organised by the Sport & Exercise Research Group, NUIG in association with the Department of Media and Communication Studies, Mary Immaculate College, the venue for this blended event is the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.

On behalf of the Sport & Exercise Research Group, NUIG in association with the Department of Media and Communication Studies, Mary Immaculate College, we are pleased to announce that the final programme for the symposium is now available to view and download here.

The book of abstracts will be available shortly.

Due to the number and quality of abstract submissions, the symposium has been extended to two days. It will be a blended event. The campus venue is G010, Hardiman Research Building/Moore Institute, NUI Galway (number 20 on the campus map).

Registration

Those wishing to attend the symposium either on campus or online should contact the organisers in advance at the following email address: msinuig2022@gmail.com. Links for the panels will be provided to online attendees in advance.

Further Information

This symposium brings together sports scholars from across the humanities and social sciences whose work is variously concerned with the contemporary and historical cultural significance of sport, and which deals with the interplay between sport, the media and cultural industries and the lived experience of sport as popular culture in Ireland and across the Irish diaspora. It extends the ‘Sport, Media and the Cultural Industries in Ireland’ symposium, hosted in Dublin City University in 2018, and the subsequent collection Sport, the Media and Ireland: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (eds. Neil O’Boyle and Marcus Free). Panels will cover a variety of topics of national and international significance, including

• Online hate and sport
• Media and gender inequality in sport
• The impact of Covid-19 on sport and sport media
• Media, migration and sport
• Transnational marketing and the reception of sport
• Media representations of ‘reform’ in sport

Organising Committee:

• Dr Seán Crosson, NUI Galway
• Dr Marcus Free, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick
• Dr Niamh Kitching, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick
• Dr Katie Liston, University of Ulster
• Dr Neil O’Boyle, Dublin City University

The event website is available here: https://www.mic.ul.ie/media-sport-and-ireland-symposium-2022