Program |
Keynote | Pres Address | Ingham Address | Keynote Panels | Spotlight1 | Spotlight2 |
Dialogues | Grad Workshop | Meet 'n' Eat | Grad Breakfast | TASToL |
Opening Reception | Post-Presidential Reception | Friday Social | Business Meeting
PROGRAM
Please address any questions to Program Chair Richard King: crking[at]wsu.edu.
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OPENING RECEPTION (WED EVE)
- Join us 9pm to midnight open the conference by socializing with other attendees over food and drink (cash bar).
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS (THURS MORN)
- Fifteen minutes of fame: Billie Jean King, the “Battle of the Sexes,” and the Politics of Community
- Nancy Spencer, Bowling Green State University
- Presider: Toni Bruce, University of Waikato
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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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THURSDAY SPOTLIGHT SESSION (THUR AFTERNOON)
New Media and the Future of Academic Publishing
his panel discussion describes the global open access movement that librarians initiated to resist monopoly publishers who have set unreasonably high prices for journals and other research publications. Panelists will discuss from their career vantage points the pros and cons of open access publishing. Discussion will also focus on the tools that authors can use to retain rights to their published work, and the ways that students and scholars in developing regions of the world are being marginalized in the process of creating and distributing knowledge. The goal of the session is twofold: (1) to show that future growth in the sociology of sport depends on making knowledge in the field more accessible to those concerned with issues related to sports in society, and (2) to initiate social action that will help scholars in the field regain control of the products of their academic labor.
Panelists:
Jay Coakley, Independent Scholar, jcoakley[at]uccs.edu
Kevin Young, University of Calgary, kyoung[at]ucalgary.ca
Amy S. Hribar, University of Minnesota, amsbar2002[at]hotmail.com
Jane Stangl, Smith College, jstangl[at]email.smith.edu
Michele Donnelly, McMaster University, michelekdonnelly[at]hotmail.com
John Sugden, Brighton University, J.Sugden[at]bton.ac.uk (not yet confirmed)
Organizers:
Jay Coakley, Independent Scholar, jcoakley[at]uccs.edu
Kevin Young, University of Calgary, kyoung[at]ucalgary.ca
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NASSS DIALOGUES (THURS AFTERNOON)
- Diversity and Climate Conversation
- 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.
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS (FRI MORN)
- "The Terrordome": Sports in the 21st Century
- Dave Zirin, The Edge of Sports
- The 21st Century has been a time taxing the faith of the sports fans.
We have scandals du jour and pit bulls a plenty. Hip hop has become the
new devil music and publicly funded stadiums drain people's innocence
as quickly as a community's funds.
- Presider: Samantha King, Queens University
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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 the Publication Terrain
- Publish or perish is a common, and often accurate rhetoric among most university institutions. Grants, scholarships, productivity, job applications, and tenure are often evaluated upon one's ability to publish. For those just entering the already-challenging world of academia, the "p" word can be both frightening and intimidating. Designed for, but not restricted to, graduate students this round table will be driven by attendee participation and questions directed to a range of panelists that have agreed to speak to their varied publication experiences. What is the publication process and how does one begin? How much ‘assistance’ should one’s supervisor provide? What kinds of journals are available for those who study sociology and cultural studies of health, physical activity, recreation, and sport? Which non-refereed sources should also be considered? What are some of the dos and dont's of written submissions? If you have any concerns or curiosities about the publication process, this seminar will provide a non-threatening and informative environment where graduate students can learn to negotiate the ever-important publication terrain. As always, the graduate student workshop is informal and interactive, and all are encouraged to attend and participate.
- In order to help the panelists prepare, we are asking you, as NASSS graduate student members, to submit questions in advance of the Pittsburgh conference. Please contact us (your graduate student representatives) at grads[at]nasss.org with any questions related to this year's workshop topic that you would like us to pass along to the panelists. In order to give the panelists adequate time to prepare, please send your questions by 1 October.
- Panelists: Michelle Donnelly (McMaster University), Michael Giardina (University of Illinois), and others.
- Workshop Organizers and Presiders: Jen Sterling, University of Maryland, Janelle Joseph, University of Toronto, NASSS Graduate Student Reps
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TAKE A STUDENT TO LUNCH [TaSToL](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, 2 November, please reply to Jen or Janelle (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)!
Jennifer Sterling and Janelle Joseph
2007 NASSS Graduate Student Representatives
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BUSINESS MEETING (FRI AFTERNOON)
Join us before the Presidential Reception for NASSS' year-in-review, also known as the Business Meeting. All attendees and only attendees of the business meeting will receive tickets for the book raffle. After the meeting is over, you can write your name on the tickets and deposit them in containers representing each book you want to take a chance on.
∗ ∗ 2006 Business Meeting Notes ∗ ∗ Please Read! To be approved at the 2007 Business Meeting
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PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION (FRI EVE)
Join us 7-9pm after the business meeting to socialize with other attendees over food and drink (cash bar).
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FRIDAY EVENING SOCIAL
The socializing continues after the Presidential Reception at the Firehouse Lounge (location tentative).
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ALAN INGHAM KEYNOTE ADDRESS (SAT MORN)
- To Interpose a Little Ease: Making Sense of Sport and Intellectual Labor in CLR James's Beyond A Boundary And His Other Works.
- Cameron McCarthy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- In Beyond a Boundary, James offered a radically contextual and relational methodology and theory of sport that situated sport organically in the evolving social relations of class and race in the emergent Caribbean and the broader global scheme of the social integration of modern subjects into modern life. He systematically addressed the problem of theodicy and meaning of sport (cricket) as both a partisan and cosmopolitan set of practices in which the fate of the working class seemed centrally at stake. Sport provided the basis for James to explore the subaltern intellectual types emerging out of the colonial context and from this vantage point to track, map and check empire as he did all his intellectual life. His now revered study of the aesthetic and social dimensions of the life world of the cricket ground and pitch in Tunapuna, Trinidad in the early part of the last century is of enormous scholarly significance in the study of postcolonial thought.
- In this presentation, I will try to make sense of the labor of sport in dynamic and complex relation to intellectual labor and as a form of meaning production linked especially, in the time that James was writing, to the fortunes of the downtrodden peoples of the Caribbean. It was James’s central claim that in sport (cricket) was articulated not only to the social stratification of class and race distinction but the very tissues and sinews of culture, values, mores, prejudices, needs, interests, desires and capacities of these emergent societies evolving towards independence. It is these same societies that are now, in the new millennium caught in the cross-hairs of the processes of globalization, NAFTA, and quixotic American late-capital imperialism. The great value of Beyond a Boundary is its presentation of the neocolonial relationship as a complex tissue of articulations between metropole and periphery and its reworking of the center periphery thesis. Sport was integral to this story. And, James saw it as organically connected to the weave, the warp and woof, of the social fabric of societies that were then, as well as now, caught in a grand sweep of global change.
- Presider: Michael Giardina
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SATURDAY SPOTLIGHT SESSION (SAT AFTERNOON)
Art of the Board
Featuring Rich Moorhead
This panel welcomes artist Rich Moorhead and his work to stimulate an
examination of the possibilities for interdisciplinary study and community
interaction inherent in boundary crossing between sport, physical culture,
and art. Moorhead incorporates broken skateboards into intricate mosaic
works of art which act as representative compilations of individual skaters
and their boards. The Art of Board is a defining work of art for Moorhead
that details stories of boards once ridden and embodies the skaters who
identify with each hand-selected mosaic piece. This piece will provide a
centerpiece for discussion of both Moorhead's work and its intersections
with the sociology of sport. Panelists will accompany Moorhead's
presentation on his skateboard art with discussion about the
interconnections between art and sport, and subcultures, style, and
aesthetics, with the goal of prompting conversations about articulations
between cultural practices and the role of interdisciplinary approaches more
generally. Ample time for open discussion, questions, and viewing Moorhead's
art will be provided.
Discussants: Michelle Donnelly, Jennifer Sterling, and others
Presider: Jennifer Sterling
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