International transdisciplinary seminar on Sport and Protest

National University of Ireland, Galway The Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies

International transdisciplinary seminar on

Sport and Protest

31 October – 1 November 2014 Venue : G010, Hardiman Building, NUI Galway

If you are interested in attending and for further information, contact the seminar organiser: Cathal Kilcline: cathalkilcline@gmail.com Or consult the seminar website: www.nuigalway.ie/postcolonialsport/seminarseries.html

With the support of the Irish Research Council With the support of the French Embassy in Ireland www.ambafrance-ie.org With the support of the Embassy of Switzerland in Ireland

PROGRAMME

Friday, 31 October

8.30 – 9.00 : Registration

9.00 – 9.30: Welcome address

Dan Carey, Moore Institute (NUI Galway)

9.30 – 11.00 : Session 1 – Histories and Perspectives

Chair: Cathal Kilcline (NUI Galway)

John Nauright (University of Brighton) – Nostalgia and Resistance, Field of Dreams and Social Justice in Sports

Nicolas Bancel (Universit̩ de Lausanne) – Title TBC

11.00 – 11.20 : Coffee

11.20 – 12.50 : Session 2 – Traditions and Institutions

Chair: SeÌÁn Crosson (NUI Galway)

Mike Cronin (Boston College) – Loss and Protest as Corporate Heritage: Liverpool FC and Fenway Sports Group

RuadhÌÁn Cooke (NUI Galway) – IRF You! Connacht Rugby’s Fight for Survival in the Professional Era

12.50 – 14.00 : Lunch

14.00 – 15.30 : Session 3 – Gender, Sexuality and Mega-events

Chair: Hugh Dauncey (Newcastle University)

Philippe Liotard (Universit̩ Lyon 1) – Innovate to combat vulnerability : The Gay Games and the genesis of a rights movement (Mexico 1968-Paris 2018)

Lynne Hibberd (Leeds Beckett University) – A Woman’s Place in Protest: The London 2012 Paralympic Games

15.30 – 15.50 : Break

15.50 – 17.20 : Session 6 – Ethnicities, Identities and Representations

Chair: Marcus Free (MIC Limerick)

Jonathan Ervine (University of Bangor) – Nicolas Anelka and the quenelle: a confusing tale of English football’s reaction to a controversial protest gesture

Philip Dine (NUI Galway) – From Ben Sadok to Yamaha: Football, violence and the struggle for the self in the fiction of Rachid Boudjedra

Saturday

9.00 – 9.30 : Opening remarks

9.30 – 11.00 : Session 5 – Fandom and Globalization

Chair: Philip Dine

Mark Doidge (University of Brighton) – The ultras and protest in Italian football

Marcus Free (MIC Limerick) – ‘The voice of the voiceless’: Diego Maradona as a Contradictory Figure of Personal and Political Resistance and Renewal in International Cinema

11.00 – 11.20 : Break

11.20 – 12.50 : Session 4 – Nations and Nationalism

Chair: Cathal Kilcline (NUI Galway)

Pascal Charitas (Universit̩ Paris X) – The African boycott in the Olympics of Montreal (1976) through the prism of the French-African relations

DÌ_nal McAnallen (University of Ulster) – The Nationalist Party of Northern Ireland and Political Opposition through Sport, 1925-72

12.50 – 13.30 : Closing remarks and future plans

— Dr. Cathal Kilcline Irish Research Council / Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures National University of Ireland, Galway t: (+353)868067587 e: cathalkilcline@gmail.com www.nuigalway.ie/postcolonialsport/people.html