Program |
Keynote | Pres Address | Ingham Address | Keynote Panels | Spotlight |
Dialogues | Movie | Grad Workshop | Meet 'n' Eat | Grad Breakfast | TASToL |
Retiree Breakfast | Opening Reception | Post-Presidential Reception
PROGRAM
A PRELIMINARY version of the conference program schedule can be found below.
Please address any questions to Program Chair Nancy Spencer: nspencr[at]bgnet.bgsu.edu.
∗ ∗ 2005 Business Meeting Notes ∗ ∗ Please Read!
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OPENING RECEPTION (WED EVE)
- Welcoming Reception/Co-Sponsored by Routledge Publishers
- On Wednesday, November 1 from 9:00 p.m. until midnight, NASSS and Routledge will co-sponsor the Welcoming Reception. Routledge Publishers is launching a new book series entitled ‘Routledge Critical Studies in Sport’ that is edited by Jennifer Hargreaves, Visiting Professor of Sport and Gender Politics, Brighton University, UK and Ian McDonald, Senior Lecturer, Brighton University, UK. Other Series Authors include Rob Beamish, Andy Billings, Daniel Burdsey, Ben Carrington, Jayne Caudwell, Jennifer Hargreaves, William J. Morgan, Ian Ritchie, Patricia Vertinsky, Belinda Wheaton.
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS (THURS MORN)
- Painography, Risk Voyeurism, and the Near-Life Experience
- Stephan Walk, California State University-Fullerton
- Presider: Robert Rinehart, Washington State University
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MEET 'N' EAT LUNCH (THURS)
Join us for NASSS's Thursday Meet 'n' Eat Lunch, an opportunity for old and new members to socialize and network. Participants will meet in the hotel lobby and lunch at a restaurant(s) of their choice. (This is a pay for yourself event.)
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NASSS DIALOGUES (THURS EVE)
- Continuing the momentum begun in the dialogues with Dr. Alma Clayton-Pedersen at the annual NASSS Conference in 2005, we will discuss ongoing issues related to the social and academic climate at NASSS. Please read the Summary and Potential Action Items and Full Final Report from Alma-Clayton-Pedersen.
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NASSS GOES TO THE MOVIES (THURS EVE)
- RIDING THE WAVE
- Surfing, with its historic and contemporary roots in Hawaii, has become a
world wide marketing magnet. How has surfing, an activity traditionally
associated with a counter culture ethos, exploded into a multinational
billion dollar industry with cultural influence almost beyond measure? Surf
clothing and other paraphernalia have blanketed the cultural landscape in
this country and around the world. With commentaries from Steve Pezman of
the Surfers Journal, Bob Mcknight, CEO of Quiksilver, Paul Naude, President
of Billabong, Dave Parmenter, Mickey Munoz and many others, we discover the
tensions surrounding this movement and its affect on the sport.
- Discussants: Becky Beal,University of the Pacific
Robert Rinehart, Washington State University
Christopher Cutri, Producer/Director
- Department of Communications at BYU in association with Stake Dance Films
A film by Christopher Cutri: RIDING THE WAVE
Executive Producer: Ed Adams
Editors: Tim Irwin and Christopher Cutri
Director of Photography: Cammon Randle and Christopher Cutri
Music by Tyler Norton
Directed by Christopher Cutri
Length: 38 min
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KEYNOTE PANEL I (FRI MORN)
- Re(En)Visioning Sport: Dialogues Across/Between Communities
- In keeping with this year’s theme of “Re-Imagining Community/Re(En)Visioning Sport,” NASSS will feature three distinguished speakers for the Friday Keynote Panel.
- The first Keynote speaker is Yasmin Jiwani, who received a B.A. in Psychology from the University of British Columbia; an M.A. in Sociology from Simon Fraser University; and a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from Simon Fraser University, where she examined issues of 'race' and representation in Canadian television news. Dr. Jiwani is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University, in Montreal. Prior to moving to Montreal, she was the Executive Coordinator of the BC/Yukon FREDA Centre for Research on Violence against Women and Children. Yasmin's main interests lie in mapping the intersections of intimate and systemic forms of violence, identifying viable points of intervention, and uncovering the multiple ways in which violence is understood in everyday thought and talk as represented by the mass media. Her current research focuses on gendered and racialized narratives of war in print media. Her recent publications include: Discourses of Denial: Mediations of Race, Gender and Violence (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2006); and an edited collection with Candice Steenbergen and Claudia Mitchell titled: Girlhood, Redefining the Limits (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2006). Her work has appeared in Canadian Women Studies, Violence Against Women, Journal of Popular Film & Television, and in the International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics. She serves on the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law; Simile, and is now a co-editor of the International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics. She also serves as a board member for the Überculture Collective and Media Watch, and is a steering committee member of RACE (Researchers and Academics of Colour for Equality).
- Rinaldo Walcott, our second Keynote speaker, is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, where he also holds the Canada Research Chair in Social Justice and Cultural Studies. His teaching and research has been largely in the area of cultural studies and postcolonial studies with an emphasis on black diaspora studies. He has published on music, film, queer theory, literature and theatre. His most recent scholarship branches out from black studies to engage with other forms of marginalized difference in the Canadian nation making project. Rinaldo is the author of Black Like Who:? Writing Black Canada (1997, Insomniac Press); and he is the editor of Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism (2000, Insomniac Press). He was a member of the former Borderlines editorial collective and a former editorial board member of Fuse Magazine.
- Handel Wright is the third member of the Keynote Panel. Professor Wright holds numerous titles including: Canada Research Chair - Cultural Studies, David Lam Chair - Multicultural Education, Director - Centre for Culture, Identity & Education and member of the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Wright is an expert in comparative cultural studies. As a Canada Research Chair in Comparative Cultural Studies, he is establishing the Culture, Identity and Education Centre, an international cultural studies centre at the University of British Columbia. In his research, Dr. Wright is employing cultural studies to compare multiculturalism in Canada with that of the United States. He focuses on the new youth identities that are sometimes described as mixed-raced, multilingual, immigrant, culturally hybrid, or multiethnic identities. His research includes theoretical comparisons of multicultural discourse with alternative discourses such as European cosmopolitanism, as well as a study of how students at two high schools (one in Canada, the other in the United States) identify themselves.
- Presider: Delia D. Douglas, Independent Scholar and Research Affiliate, University of Manitoba
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KEYNOTE PANEL II (FRI AFTERNOON)
- White Men in the Sports Newsroom: Implications and Formulas for Change
- Richard Lapchick, Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport
- John Cherwa, Tribune Sports Coordinator
- Garry Howard, Assistant Managing Editor/ Sports, Milwaukee Sentinel
- Our second keynote panel will be held Friday afternoon from 4:30-5:30 and focuses on the continuing dominance of white men in Sports Newsrooms. The focus of this keynote panel is on race and gender in the media and is based on a first-ever study of 303 Associated Press papers in the US and Canada. The Panel includes Richard Lapchick, Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, John Cherwa, Tribune Sports Coordinator, and Garry Howard, Assistant Managing Editor/ Sports, Milwaukee Sentinel. For two decades, Richard Lapchick, the Institute’s Director and primary author of this report, has published Racial and Gender Report Cards on the NBA, NFL, MLB, WNBA, MLS, and college sport. The first of its kind, the 2006 Racial and Gender Report Card of the Associated Press Sports Editors, covers more than 300 Associated Press newspapers, and was recently released at the APSE Annual Conference in Las Vegas and establishes a set of baseline data for the industry. The report was published by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida. It was requested by the Associated Press Sports Editors, representing the first time the Institute was asked by an organization to review the data of its own staff.
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POST-PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION (FRI EVE)
- Co-Sponsored by Duke University Press at Steamworks
- Following the Presidential Reception that is held after Friday’s Business meeting, NASSS and Duke University Press will co-sponsor a post-Presidential Reception at Steamworks in Vancouver to celebrate the launching of a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly that focuses on sport (i.e., "The Pleasure Principle: Sport for the Sake of Pleasure") that was guest edited by David L. Andrews.
- Date: Friday, November 3
Time: 10:00 pm
Where: Steamworks Brewing Co., 375 Water Street
(This will be a private party for NASSS members. Please ask staff for directions to the room. The reservation is under the name: NASSS)
- Directions: It is about a 10-15 minute walk from the conference hotel. Walk East on Hastings. Turn North (left toward the water front) on Richard Street. This street becomes Water Street and turns to the right.
- Check this map from Mapquest for locations of the hotel, Hastings St. and the beginning of Water St.
- For more info, contact Christine Dallaire: christine.dallaire[at]uottawa.ca.
GRAD STUDENT BREAKFAST (FRI)
Network with other graduate students at a Friday morning breakfast, courtesy of NASSS. Location TBA. New Grad Reps will be elected at this meeting.
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GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP (FRI)
- Negotiating Academic Relationships
- Completing the three-year cycle of graduate student workshop topics (negotiating the publication terrain, negotiating the post-PhD terrain), this year’s graduate student-oriented session focuses on the experiences of being a graduate student and the many important relationships that are initiated, developed, and managed during the years that students spend in graduate school. Among the academic relationships that will be addressed are relationships with supervisors and supervisory committees, relationships with peers/colleagues, and relationships with administration/employers. This session is organized for, but not restricted to, graduate students (at all stages of their graduate study), and the active participation of graduate students and faculty (both new and more experienced) is necessary to the session’s success. NASSS member ‘panelists’ will facilitate three separate small group discussions - driven primarily by questions from attendees - following which all of the panelists and participants will have the opportunity to share the questions/topics/issues raised in each small group. As always, the graduate student workshop is informal and interactive, and all are encouraged to attend and participate.
- Panelists: Susan Birrell, University of Iowa
Michael Messner, University of Southern California
Brian Wilson, University of British Columbia
Joy Griffin, University of New Mexico
- Workshop Organizers and Presiders: Michele Donnelly, McMaster University, Jen Sterling, University of Maryland, NASSS Graduate Student Reps
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TAKE A STUDENT TO LUNCH (FRI)
As in the past, we have decided to start organizing ‘take a student to lunch’ early. If you are interested in taking a student to lunch on Friday, 3 November, please reply to Michele (grads [at] nasss.org). 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 November)!
Michele Donnelly and Jennifer Sterling
2006 NASSS Graduate Student Representatives
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RETIREES' BREAKFAST (SAT MORN)
- On Saturday morning, November 4th at the NASSS Conference in Vancouver, B.C. there will be a continental breakfast for NASSS retirees. Although there will not be an "official" program, there will be a discussion of ways and means for encouraging and attracting NASSS retirees to attend the annual NASSS conferences.
ALAN INGHAM KEYNOTE ADDRESS (SAT MORN)
- David Andrews, University of Maryland: Toward a Physical Cultural Studies
- The first annual Alan Ingham Keynote Address will be presented by David L. Andrews (PhD, University of Illinois–Champaign). Dr. Andrews is an Associate Professor in the Physical Cultural Studies Program at the University of Maryland–College Park. Informed by the theories, methods, and politics of contemporary cultural studies, his teaching and research interests are prefigured on a critical understanding of sport as a fluid and relational space within and through, which particular understandings of the social order and social subjectivity become authorized and/or contested.
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SATURDAY SPOTLIGHT SESSION (SAT AFTERNOON)
- Youth Culture, Race and Sport
- Panelists:
- Halifu Osumare, University of California-Davis, has been involved with dance and African American culture internationally for over thirty years as a choreographer and scholar. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, and has a BA in Dance and a MA in The Ethnology of Dance. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at University of California, Davis, and was a member of the dance faculty of Stanford University from 1981-1993. She has published extensively on global hip-hop, including her forthcoming book The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip Hop: Power Moves (2007), published by Palgrave Macmillan.
- Marcelo Diversi, Washington State University Vancouver
- Presider: Damion Thomas, University of Maryland
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