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From: Kathryn McPherson, York University [socfoot@yorku.ca]
List Editor: Ioana Teodorescu <ioanat20@GMAIL.COM>
Editor's Subject: Global Football Conference: December 3-5, York University
Author's Subject: Global Football Conference: December 3-5, York University
Date Written: Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Date Posted: Sat, 20 Nov 2009 10:12:44 -0500



“GLOBAL FOOTBALL: HISTORY, GENDER, NATION”
www.yorku.ca/uhistory/globalfootball

DECEMBER 3-5, 2009 YORK UNIVERSITY

York University’s international and interdisciplinary conference “Global
Football: History, Gender and Nation” is rapidly approaching. Inspired by
the
upcoming 2010 World Cup – to be held on the African continent for the first
time –this conference offers an excellent opportunity for critical and
scholarly reflection on global football. A game played around the world by
males and females of all ages. Football (known to North Americans as soccer)
is
also a multi-million dollar business, a site of nationalism, a reflection of
gender inequality in sport, the inspiration for ethnic and class violence,
and
the subject of rich scholarly analyses. Our conference brings together
scholars
working in a range of interdisciplinary contexts, who offer critical
appraisal
of how football shapes and has shaped social, political and economic
relations,
in Canada and globally. “Global Football” features scholars who offer
historical
analyses or the game, who interrogate the gendered dynamics of it, and who
explore how football engages nation-states and transnational flows of
players
and capital. The conference also recognizes the key role journalists have
played in asking difficult and controversial questions about how football
relates to and reflects wider social forces.

“Global Football” begins on Thursday December 3 at 7:30 p.m. with the Avie
Bennett Historica Chair in Canadian History annual event – a panel
discussion
on “Football North of 49: Canada and the Global Game.” Presentations of
scholarly papers continues on Friday, December 4 and Saturday December 5,
with
panels on themes such as “Football Cultures” and “Toward the World Cup:
Soccer
and Africa”. On Friday at 4:30, noted football author Simon Kuper (Soccer
Against the Enemy and Soccernomics) will present the keynote address. On
Saturday at 4 a panel of internationally-recognized journalists – including
David Goldblatt and Sid Lowe – will wrap up the conference with a panel on
“State of Play: Football Journalists and the Global Game.”

There is no conference fee for this event.
To register for the conference please see our website:
www.yorku.ca/uhistory/globalfootball

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