Unconfirmed Schedule

Sport, the Media and Regional Identity Symposium (Warrington Campus, University of Chester 19 June 2013)

9am-9.30am: Welcome and Keynote Address (Tony Collins, De Montfort or Stephen Kelly, Huddersfield)

9.30am-11am: Perspectives from the English Regions

Lynne Hibberd, Leeds Metropolitan University:

The role of regionalism in the London 2012 Paralympic Games

David Williams, De Montfort University:

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

Victoria Dawson, De Montfort University:

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

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 on the European Mainland

Wojciech Wozniak, University of Lodz, Poland:

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

Jakob Ostergaard Gentz, University of Southern Denmark:

Odense Boldklub: Football and Regional Identity in Danish newspapers

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

Audiovisual resources and sports prominence in MARCA.com and SPORT.es: analysis of the matches between Real Madrid CF and FC Barcelona (2010-11)

4.30pm-5.00pm: Regional Sport and Identity: An Australian perspective

Peter Lorentzen, Deakin University, Australia:

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

18 June

Dance performance (JL) TV docs (Caroline)

Film festival

Peter’s Warrington/RL contacts

RL historian

Tony Collins , De Montfort (keynote?)