[eccr] Fwd: Forthcoming Conference Sporting Icons: Media, Celebrity and Popular Culture

>Sporting Icons: Media, Celebrity and Popular Culture
>7th February 2003
>
>As part of the BSA's Sociolgoy of Sport Study Group programme, The Centre
>for Research into Sport and Society at the University of Leicester is
>staging a one-day conference on the nature of sporting celebrities in the
>21st Century.
>
>Papers include:
>The Sporting Icon in Celebrity Culture, Chris Rojek
>Celebrity and Vortextuality in Media Sport, Garry Whannel
>Celebrity, Masculinity and the Soccerati, Andrew Parker and Ellis Cashmore
>Father, Lover, Icon, Hero: sport celebrity, commodification and volatile
>masculinity, Eileen Kennedy
>
>Booking forms and further details are available from
>Dominic Malcolm
>CRSS, University of Leicester
>(dem4 /at/ le.ac.uk)
>0116 252 5939

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Carpentier Nico (Phd)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University Brussels
Studies on Media, Information & Telecommunication (SMIT)
Centre for Media Sociology (CeMeSO)
Office: C0.04
Pleinlaan 2 - B-1050 Brussels - Belgium
T: ++ 32 (0)2-629.18.30
F: ++ 32 (0)2-629.28.61
E-mail: (Nico.Carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
W1: http://www.vub.ac.be/SCOM/smit
W2: http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~ncarpent/
W3: http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~jteurlin/Koccc.html
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