[ecrea] Sport, Gender and Media conference 10th March

We are delighted to invite members of the Association for Cultural 
Studies to the Sport, Gender and Media conference on 10th March 2012 at 
the University of York.

We are excited to announce that the Sport, Gender and Media conference 
schedule and poster are now available. You can view them on the 
conference blog: http://sportgendermedia.blogspot.com/. We've also 
included the flyer as an attachment, and the schedule can be seen below.

If you haven't already, you can register via the website above. The £15 
registration fee (or £10 for the University of York students) includes 
lunch, refreshments and a wonderful day of presentations on sport, 
gender and media. We look forward to seeing you all soon!

* Please circulate widely *

Best regards,

Amy and Geneva




Sport, Gender and Media Conference

University of York, UK

Centre for Women’s Studies

Berrick Saul Building

10^th March, 9.00-18.00

*9.00 – 9.30: Registration/Coffee/Welcome*

*9.35-10.35: Spectatorship/Fandom Football*

Dr. Stacey Pope, University of Bedfordshire, /‘Who Could Name an England 
Women’s Footballer?’/: Views and Perceptions of Women’s Football

Carrie Dunn, Sheffield Hallam University, Female football fans and their 
perception of the gendered nature of football media

*10.45 – 12.15: Femininities: How Some Women are Positioned within Sport*

Irene Dioli, University of Bologna, ‘Nation, family, and the swimming 
pool’. Self-portrait of sports star Federica Pellegrini in the year of 
Italy’s patriotic spree

Dr. Meredith Nash, University of Tasmania, ‘You don’t train for a 
marathon sitting on the couch’: A critical look at Australian 
performances of pregnancy ‘fitness’, ‘good’ motherhood

Somayyeh Mottaghi and Tina Amirhosein, University of York, Media and 
Women’s Sports: An Iranian case study

*12.15 – 13.00: Lunch*

*13.00 – 13.45 Roundtable*

Katherine Chan, University of York, Media, (Dis)-ability and Gender

* *

*14.00 – 15.00 Masculinities: Gender Portrayal, Perception and 
Rethinking in Sport*

Gordon Tait, University of Newcastle, Weekend Warriors: Football 
hooliganism, the carnival, and a zone of remasculinization

Peter Gavigan, University of Sussex, Masculinity, Femininity and 
Performing Gender in the (Sub)Culture of Bodybuilding

* *

*14.00 – 15.00 Critical Readings*

Dr. Philippa Velija, University of York Saint John, /“The batting is 
fragile and uncertain”/: Print Media Representations of Female 
Cricketers from 1998-2008

Helen Spandler and Mick Mckeown, University of Central Lancashire, A 
Critical Exploration of Using Football in Health and Welfare Programs

* *

*15.15 – 16.45 Avoiding Cliches*

Christiana Schallholm, University of Augsburg, Who bears the blame for 
the drop out of the Women’s World Cup? A content analysis about the 
apportionment of blame for the defeat of Germany’s soccer ladies

Laura Gubby, Canterbury Christ Church University, Current discussions on 
the pressures for, and the potential impacts of, korfball being awarded 
entry into the sport-gender-media nexus

Maddie Breeze, University of Edinburgh, Becoming-Legitimate: Roller 
Derby, Gender and Skater-Produced Media

* *

*17.00 – 18.00 Gendered Displays in Swimming*

Keith Myerscough, Blackpool University Centre, Nymphs, Naiads and Natation

Lucretia Knapp, Smith College, ‘Swim Suit’