Program |
Keynotes | Diversity | Pres Address | Lawther Lecture | Movie |
Spotlight | Roundtable | Seminars | Grad Workshop | TASToL | Meet 'n' Eat | Grad Breakfast
| Business Meeting
PROGRAM
The final version of the conference program schedule can be found below. Please address any questions to Program Chair Steve Walk: swalk [at] fullerton.edu.
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KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
- Yao Now: The New Racism in the Age of Globalization (Friday, 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.)
- Grant Farred is Associate Professor of Literature at Duke University. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 1997 and has taught at the University of Michigan and Williams College. Professor Farred is the author of Midfielder’s Moment: Coloured Literature in Contemporary South Africa (Westview Press, 1999) and What’s My Name? Organic and Vernacular Intellectuals (University of Minnesota Press, 2003). He is also editor of Rethinking C.L.R. James (Basil Blackwell Publishers, 1996). His latest project is on South Asian women’s diasporic fiction, entitled, “Good Girls, Bad Girls.” His Friday keynote will focus on new forms of racism in a globalized sport culture, as symbolized by an incident involving Yao Ming in the 2005 NBA Playoffs.
- Globalization, Sport Participation, and Environment (Saturday, 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.)
- Rose Chepyator-Thomson is Associate Professor of Physical Education and Sport Studies at the University of Georgia. Her address will deconstruct and explain the ways in which globalization impacts global capitalism, promotes displacement of sports bodies/participants, and determines who journeys temporarily or permanently to take part in transnational sports competitions for personal and social development goals. She will show how these processes operate through information technology to influence market forces in the packaging and selling of movement codes in global environments, and function via internet technology to produce identities that oscillate between the real and imagined in sports participation in the cyberspace game environment.
- College Sport Reform (Saturday, 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.)
- A Conversation with Amy Perko, Executive Director, Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. Moderated by Ellen Staurowsky, this is a plenary session involving discussion of reform efforts in college sports in the United States.
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RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY IN NASSS
- Can Any Organization Serve its Membership and Achieve Excellence Without Being Inclusive and Diverse? (Saturday, 1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.)
- This dialogue between NASSS and facilitator Alma R. Clayton-Pedersen, Vice-President for Education and Institutional Renewal, American Association of Colleges & Universities will address the benefits of a diverse organization and the strengthening effects of inclusive practices. We will discuss the reasons for NASSS current state and examine possible solutions. We will emerge from this conversation with evidence of past practices that have worked against diversifying the membership and have a clearer understanding of the steps needed for the organization to achieve its goals for diversity. The session is intended to draw on members' knowledge and experiences with NASSS to develop strategies for NASSS work. Clayton-Pederson's vita.
- Sponsored by the Department of Physical Education, Health, and Sports Studies, Miami University.
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
- (Re)Visioning Feminism and Sport in an Age of Globalization and Empires (Thursday, 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.)
- Mary G. McDonald, Miami University.
- Much as with the dominant tendency of women's movements nationally in the West/North, the bulk of North American feminist sport studies scholarship fails to adequately address the multiple effects of global restructuring upon women locally and internationally. In a similar way feminist sport studies scholarship as a whole has yet to sufficiently incorporate transnational feminist perspectives that would challenge persistent and false dualisms around such concepts as "First World/North" and "Third World/South," and theory and practice. In this Presidential Address I first outline key ideas from transnational feminist thought. I then apply these concepts to interrogate the role of sport in international development by critiquing the rhetoric of the 2005 International Year of Sport and Physical Education campaign, an initiative connected to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. A central aim of this critique is to encourage sport scholars to engage the productive possibilities of transnational feminist thought.
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UNCG Tour and Lawther Lecture (Thursday)
University of North Carolina Greensboro Alumni Social and Lawther Lecture. Sponsored by the School of Health and Human Performance at UNCG, this event features a tour of the UNCG campus, and dinner for UNCG Alumni, and a lecture by Mary Jo Kane, University of Minnesota. Transportation to the UNCG campus for alums only is at 4 p.m., tour at 4:30, dinner at 5:30, and the Lawther lecture beginning at 7:30 p.m. Contact Kathy Jamieson at kmjamies [at] uncg.edu for more information.
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NASSS GOES TO THE MOVIES
On Wednesday, October 26 at 7 p.m. NASSS will screen Murderball, winner of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, followed by opportunities for discussion and reflection.
| Documentary Feature
ThinkFilm
Directed by Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro
Rated R; 86 minutes; 2005 |
© ThinkFilm Inc. |
This amazing documentary follows the lives of rough and tumble rugby players who also happen to be quadriplegics. We follow the hard-hitting action on the court where players smash each other with reinforced wheelchairs and off the court where these amazing men will make you think differently about the word “disabled”.
© Copyright 2005 Swank Motion Pictures, Inc. |
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SATURDAY SPOTLIGHT SESSION
- Interdisciplinary Dialogues: Thinking Through Race, Nation, and Sport II (Saturday, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.)
- This panel is a continuation of the Saturday Spotlight Session begun at the 2004 NASSS Conference in Tuscon. It will feature young scholars whose work engages the latest thinking in critical race theory and who have not previously attended NASSS.
- Panelists: Damion Thomas, University of Illinois and Kevin M. Foster, University of Texas.
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ROUNDTABLE SESSION
- This year's topic is Collaborative Research, (Saturday, 2:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.).
- Developing Collaborative Research Projects
Hosted by Carl Stempel, of California State University, East Bay, the goal of this roundtable is to explore the possibilities of developing collaborative research projects. Some of the questions it will address include: What larger, more comprehensive studies could be achieved through greater collaboration? What are some recent or ongoing successful models of collaboration within and outside the field of sport sociology and what can we learn from them? What obstacles and problems must be addressed and overcome to develop a successful collaborative project? Please contact Carl if you would like to be part of this session: carl.stempel [at] csueastbay.edu.
- Moderator:Carl Stempel, California State University, East Bay
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SEMINAR SESSION (Position papers on key issues)
- Subcultures in Sport (Session 9G, Corpening Room, Friday 3:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.)
- Mainstream Subcultures, or What’s So Alternative About Snowboarding Camps
Michele Donnelly, McMaster University
Theorizing Subcultures and Mainstreams: Economies of Exchange
Donald Meckiffe, University of Wisconsin, Fox Valley
If You Build Sport Subcultures, They Will Come . . . and Stay
Terese M. P. Stratta, Winston Salem State University
- Session Organizers and Presiders: Becky Beal, University of the Pacific and Belinda Wheaton,
Chelsea School, University of Brighton
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GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP
- Negotiating the Post-PhD Terrain (Thursday, 2:30 - 4p.m., Session 4)
- The annual NASSS conference in Winston-Salem is fast approaching, and we hope your preparations are going well. We have finalised the panellists for this year’s graduate student workshop, “Negotiating the Post-Phd Terrain”. We are pleased to announce that Dr. Mary Louise Adams (Queen’s University), Dr. Michael Atkinson (McMaster University), Dr. Amy Hribar (Montana State University), and Dr. Kim Schimmel (Kent State University) have agreed to speak – and, more importantly, answer questions – about their varied experiences searching, applying, and hiring for positions both within and outside of academia.
- It is your attendance and participation that will make this session a success. We strongly recommend that you take advantage of this opportunity to have your questions answered by our excellent panellists, who are able to speak to a number of different experiences of the Post-PhD world (including applying for jobs and/or working at teaching versus research focused institutions, searching for and working at jobs outside of academia, etc.). What do you want to know about life after a PhD?
- Organizers: Emma Wensing and Michele Donnelly
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TAKE A STUDENT TO LUNCH (FRIDAY)
This year we have decided to start organizing ‘take a student to lunch’ early. If you are interested in taking a student to lunch on Friday, 28 October, please reply to Michele (michelekdonnelly [at] hotmail.com). Starting now will allow us to more effectively match up faculty and students based on interests and specific requests. In order to make ‘take a student to lunch’ the best experience possible for both faculty and graduate students at
NASSS, we have some suggestions:
- If you do sign up to take a student out to lunch, we guarantee that there will be a student who would like to be taken out to lunch, and your generosity will be greatly appreciated.
- We understand that many faculty members enjoy the social aspect of NASSS, and that you often have plans to meet with other faculty members over lunch. You are more than welcome to organize with another faculty member (or two) to take two or three graduate students to lunch – this allows for more interaction between faculty and students (and there is less pressure on everyone involved).
- Finally, have fun! ‘Take a student to lunch’ is intended to contribute to a positive experience of the annual conference for both faculty and graduate students, and we hope that as many of you as possible will agree to participate.
We look forward to hearing from you (and to seeing you in October)!
Michele Donnelly and Emma Wensing
2005 NASSS Graduate Student Representatives
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MEET 'N' EAT LUNCH (THURSDAY)
Join us for NASSS's inagural Thursday Meet 'n' Eat Lunch, an opportunity to for old and new members to socialize and network. Participants will meet in the hotel lobby and lunch at a restaraunt(s) of their choice. (This is a pay for yourself event.)
GRAD STUDENT BREAKFAST (FRIDAY)
Network with other graduate students at a Friday morning breakfast, courtesy of NASSS. Location TBA.
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