SPORT & CULTURAL DISTINCTIVENESS SYMPOSIUM
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, MAY 28-30, 1999
Schedule [as of 10 May 1999]
Supported with a grant from the Iowa Arts & Humanities Initiative [with
co-sponsorship from the University Lecture Committee, UI Center for Asian &
Pacific Studies, UI International Programs and UI Obermann Center for Advanced
Studies.
details and bios of participants at
http://www.uiowa.edu/~sportcul
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THURSDAY, MAY 27
8-9 pm, pre-conference event at Prairie Lights Bookstore, 15 S. Dubuque St.
"Live from Prairie Lights" with Murray Sperber reading from Onward to Victory:
The Crises that Shaped College Sports (1998)
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FRIDAY, MAY 28
Daytime sessions at W401 Pappajohn Business Building
8-8:40 Registration and coffee
8:45-9 Introductions and acknowledgments
* 9-9:25
o Audio-visual presentation: "Gentleman athlete: Joe
DiMaggio and the celebration and submergence of
ethnicity" - Michael Altimore
* 9:30-11:00 Session I - John Erickson, Chair and commentator
o "Girls in the Dugout: Gender, Law and Baseball" - Sarah
Fields
o "The Black and Gold: African Americans and athletics at
the University of Iowa" - David McMahon
o "The good, the bad and the beautiful: Women's
representations of women in sports prose" - Teri Bostian
o "Characters on ice: The TV packaging of Winter Olympics
sports" - Bettina Fabos
* 11:15-12:45 Session II - Stephen Wieting, Chair and
commentator
o "Born with skis on our feet: National identity, sports
and media in Norway" -Roel Puijk
o "Whose game is it?: Transformations in gender, ice
hockey and Canadian identity" - Nancy Theberge
o "The whole world isn't watching (but we thought they
were): The Super Bowl and American solipsism" - Chris
Martin
o "Claiming Everest: National identity and ideology at
29,000 feet" - Susan Birrell
* 2:15-2:55
o Audio-visual presentation "Nike's commercial solution" -
o "Steve Prefontaine: From Rebel with a Cause to Bourgeois
Hero" - Theresa Walton"
o "Girls, Sneakers and Salvation" - Shelley Lucas"
* 3-5 p.m. Session III - Judy Polumbaum, Chair and commentator
o "Playing to live or living to play? Functions and
fundamentals of Iowa sports" - James Kramer
o "Negotiating cultures: How some of the best sports
journalists do some of their best work - Jill Agostino
o "Two sports worlds: (1) America and (2) everyone else -
Ian Thomsen
* 7:30-9:30 PM KEYNOTE ADDRESS - Jim Harris, Emcee - Response,
Michael Katovich
o "The myths of big-time college sports" - Murray Sperber
* SATURDAY, MAY 29 - 9-9:25
o Audio-visual presentation "Tobacco, health and the
sports metaphor" - Christopher Squier with Micaela
Schuneman
* 9:30-11:00 Session IV - John Njue, Chair and commentator
o "Of place and men, and women: Topophilia and gender in
the 'Haxey Hood" - Catriona Parratt
o "Tutsi-as-Rwanda: 'Imaginative sports' and
'mythico-athletes" - John Bale
o "Tradition vs. marketing in 20th century martial arts" -
Drew Herman
o "The clash of body cultures in China: Imagining the
nation through martial arts and Olympic sports" - Susan
Brownell
* 11:15-12:45 Session V - Susan Birrell. Chair and commentator
o "Meaning and joy in Latin American sports" - Joseph
Arbena
o "Cricket and calypso: Cultural representation and social
history in the West Indies" - Douglas Midgett
o "The internationalization of sports: The case of
Iceland" - Gudmundur Magnusson
o "Heroes and villains of the Tour de France" - Stephen
Wieting
* 2:15-3:15 Session VI - Mark Sidel. Chair and commentator
o "Nationalism and amusement in Korean sumo wrestling" -
Soon Hee Whang
o "American hopes for Asian hoops" - Judy Polumbaum
o "Playing around the world" - Ray Kelly
* 3:30-5 Session VII - Liz Pearce, Chair and commentator
o "Soccer in the news: Chinese perspectives on the global
game" - Huang Jianxiang
o "A tale of two elections: politics, power and corruption
in the governance of world football" - John Sugden
o "Staging the Olympics for national and international
consumption" - Alan Tomlinson
details at http://www.uiowa.edu/~sportcul
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