[ecrea] Sport, Media and Regional Identity Symposium (University of Chester, 19 June)

Sport, Media and Regional Identity Symposium Schedule (North West Media 
Centre, Warrington Campus, University of Chester, 19 June 2013)


The relationship between sport, the media and national identity has 
featured in numerous academic and political debates in recent years: in 
contrast, the links between sports media and regional identity have 
received relatively little attention. This seems a curious oversight, 
when one considers the centrality and cultural significance of 
particular sports, or clubs, to numerous regional or sub-national 
identities across Europe and beyond: for example, Rugby Union in the 
South Wales Valleys, Cycling in Flanders, Pelota in the Basque Country, 
Australian Rules Football in Melbourne, FC Barcelona in Catalonia, 
Shinty in Highland Scotland.



This one-day symposium intends to explore and develop these themes at 
the University of Chester's Warrington campus, which is located in the 
heartland of one of the most distinctive regional sporting subcultures 
in Europe: the Rugby League traditions of Northern England. The 
symposium will celebrate these traditions alongside the 2013 Rugby 
League World Cup, which comes to Warrington in October 2013.


All welcome. There is no charge. For further details, or to book a 
place, contact: (simon.roberts /at/ chester.ac.uk)


19 June


9am-9.30am: Keynote Address (Stephen Kelly, Freelance Writer and 
Broadcaster)


9.30-9.45am: Rugby League and Warrington Identity (Janice Hayes, Culture 
Warrington/Warrington Museum)


9.45am-11am: Perspectives from the English Regions



Victoria Dawson, De Montfort University:

Cheerleaders for Masculinity? Female Journalists in the Northern, 
Hypermasculine Sphere of Rugby League Media


Brianna Harvey, Liverpool Hope University:

Shaping a City: The relationship between sport and media in Liverpool


David Williams, De Montfort University:

Sport and the Undergrowth: Newspapers and the resurgence of local sport 
after WWII



11am-12.30pm: Cricket coverage and regional English identity



Charles Lambert, University of East London:

Bat and Trap and the persistence of traditional cricket-like games in 
South-East England



Duncan Stone, University of Huddersfield:

Regional Cricket Identities – The construction of class narratives and 
their relationship to contemporary supporters



Mark Rowe, Journalist and Independent Researcher:

County and other identities in cricket



12.30pm-1.30pm: Lunch



1.30pm-3.00pm: The Celtic Nations



Daryl Leeworthy, Oxford University:

Breaking the isolation of the valley: Sport, Regional Identity and the 
BBC in Inter-War South Wales



Emer Connolly, University of Limerick, Ireland:

Gaelic Games and Regional Identity in the Irish Sports Press



Catriona Parratt, University of Iowa, USA:

Putting on the Tartan: An unquiet American, the Noble Savage, and the 
Highland Laird in Compton Mankenzie’s The Monarch of the Glen 
(Fieldsports and Scottish identity)



3.00pm-4.30pm: Football and Regional Identity Narratives in Mainland Europe



Wojciech Wozniak, University of Lodz, Poland:

Coal Mines, ‘familoks’ and ‘fusbal’ – On the role of the ‘beautiful 
game’ in Silesians’ national and regional identity



Martin Oller Alonso, University of Rey Juan Carlos, Spain:

The digital Spanish sport press: sports prominence and multimedia 
resources in the matches between Real Madrid C. F. and F. C. Barcelona 
(2010-11)



Øyvind Økland, University of Agder, Norway:

Norwegian-Somali youth as global soccer fans



4.30pm-6.00pm: Regional Sport and Identity: Additional perspectives



Peter Lorentzen, Deakin University, Australia:

An Exercise in Inclusion: A content analysis of regional Victorian 
newspapers’ sports articles



Paul Clark, University of Chester:

Can football journalists satisfy the demands of their communities in an 
age of citizen journalism and social media?



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