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
Update from program chair Bob Rinehart:
Due to unforeseen circumstances, ORGANIZED assistance for LCD projectors will not be available. If you need to use an LCD projector, please find your own from those who will be bringing them to the conference.
Final 2008 Conference Program
Dear NASSS Members:
We have an exciting and stimulating conference planned for Denver in just under a month. Please find the final program here. If there are any additions, corrections, deletions, or any other changes (which there no doubt will be), they will be either put into an errata sheet or they will be posted as notices at the registration desk at the conference in The Curtis in Denver.
With the theme for this year’s conference revolving around Peace and Social Issues as they deal with sport, many of the papers (and keynotes) deal with incredibly timely and vital issues: please look over the program details carefully, as you won’t want to miss sessions!
Thanks to the members of the 2008 NASSS Conference Committee, for their efforts on behalf of this year’s conference. As you all know, the only way that organizations like NASSS can thrive and remain vital in the 21st Century is by the commitment and contributions of their constituencies. The members of the committee are:
Eric Anderson, University of Bath
Becky Beal, California State University, East Bay
Cheryl Cooky, California State University, Fullerton
Mike Giardina, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Othello Harris, Miami University of Ohio
Joanne Kay, Sport Canada
Vicky Paraschak, University of Windsor
Darcy Plymire, Independent Scholar
Genevieve Rail, University of Ottawa
Gary Sailes, Indiana University
George Sage, Northern Colorado University (emeritus)
Maureen Smith, California State University, Sacramento
Nancy E. Spencer, Bowling Green State University
Stephan Walk, California State University, Fullerton
Melissa C. Wiser, The Ohio State University
I thank them all for their help, and I thank all of you for what looks to be an extremely compelling 2008 NASSS Conference!
Bob Rinehart
University of Waikato
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PROGRAM
NASSS Goes to the Cinema (One)! (WED EVE)
- On Wednesday, November 5 at 7:00 p.m., NASSS will screen Ian McDonald’s film "Brighton Bandits" in the Keep Away Room, followed by Eric Anderson responding, with audience discussion and dialogue facilitated by Jayne Caudwell.
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OPENING RECEPTION (WED EVE)
- Please join us from 9:00 p.m.-12:00 p.m. to open the conference by socializing with other attendees over food and drink (cash bar), held in the Marco Polo Room.
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GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP (THURS MORN)
- Negotiating the Post-PhD Terrain
- The topic of this year’s graduate student seminar at the NASSS conference in Denver will be “Negotiating the Post-Ph.D. Terrain.” ing the Post-Phd Terrain”. Professors from different institutions will speak about and answer questions related to 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 the panelists, who will be able to speak to a number of different experiences of the Post-Ph.D. 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 Ph.D.?
- We are pleased to confirm that the panel this year will be comprised of the following individuals:
- Dr. Mary Louise Adams, Queen’s University
Dr. Eric Anderson, University of Bath
Dr. Ted Butryn, San Jose State University
Dr. Parissa Safai, York University
- Organizers: Janelle Joseph and William Bridel, NASSS Graduate Student Reps
KEYNOTE ADDRESS (THURS MORN)
- Jeffrey Ballinger, Director of Press for Change
- "Marketing the Most Fair, Manufacturing the Most Foul: Sport Shoes and Apparel"
- Social injustice in branding policies and workers’ rights issues today.
- Presider:George H. Sage
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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 SPECIAL SESSION (THUR AFTERNOON)
- I. Engaging the Mainstream Media: Strategies to Inject Sociology of Sport Knowledge Into Public Discourse
- Organizer and Chair: Cheryl Cooky
- II. Technology Review/workshop
- Organizer and Chair: Amy Hribar, University of Minnesota
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NASSS Goes to the Cinema (Two)! (THURS EVE)
- Lori Lewis’ (Director-Producer) and Laura Robinson’s (Writer-Producer) film "Niigaanibatowaad: Front Runners" in the Keep Away Room, followed by audience and director/producers’ discussion and dialogue.
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Thursday Grab Bag/"Lucky Dip" Dinner "mixer"! (THURS EVE)
- After the film, for those of you interested in having dinner with a "random" group of NASSS'ers, please join us in the first Grab Bag Dinner. Your name will go in a hat, and then we will draw 5 names to will go to dinner at a place of their choice. To continue the NASSS mixer, those who'd like to go to the Sports Column at 1930 Blake Ave, we will meet there after dinner, about 9 p.m.
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GRAD STUDENT BREAKFAST (FRI)
Network with other graduate students at a Friday morning breakfast, courtesy of NASSS. New Grad Reps will be elected at this meeting.
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS (FRI MORN)
- C. Richard King, Eastern Washington University
- "Arts of Resistance"
- Presider:
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TAKE A STUDENT TO LUNCH [TaSToL](FRI)
This year’s Take a Student to Lunch event will take place on Friday, 7 November. Take a student to lunch is an annual event and involves faculty members taking graduate students out for lunch (and picking up the tab). We will send an e-mail to NASSS faculty members prior to the conference asking them to volunteer for this year’s lunch, and we would like you to start thinking about who you would like to have lunch with. We will do our best to match you with somebody who shares your (general) interests, but even when this is not possible, you have the opportunity to meet somebody new, and to have a free lunch! Please e-mail us with your faculty requests as the conference nears in September/October. In the meantime, put some thought into who in NASSS is doing work in which you are interested and/or that fits in with your own research agenda.
Organizers: Janelle Joseph and William Bridel, NASSS Graduate Student Reps: grads[at]nasss.org
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BUSINESS MEETING (FRI AFTERNOON)
Join us before the Presidential Reception for NASSS’s 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.
We will be discussing and voting on several amendments to the bylaws and other issues. Please review the following documents before the business meeting:
Bylaw 1: SSJ Editorial Board :: Bylaw 2: Board of Directors :: Member Relations
∗ ∗ 2007 Business Meeting Notes ∗ ∗ to be approved at the 2008 Business Meeting
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FRIDAY SPOTLIGHT SESSIONS (FRI AFTERNOON)
- I. Lisa Simpson versus the University of Colorado: Justice, institutional change, and collateral damage
- Organizer and Chair:Todd Crosset (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
- II. Physical Cultural Studies: Performative Articulations and Political Interventions
- Session Organizers: Michael D. Giardina (University of Illinois), and Joshua I. Newman (Towson University)
- Discussant: Genevieve Rail (University of Ottawa)
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PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION (FRI EVE)
After the business meeting, socialize with other attendees over food and drink (cash bar), located in the Marco Polo Room.
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FRIDAY EVENING SOCIAL
The fun continues after the Presidential Reception at Maloney’s Tavern LoDo, with a DJ playing "the best of the 70s through Today.".
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ALAN INGHAM KEYNOTE ADDRESS (SAT MORN)
- "Summit Meanings: Mt. Everest as Political Territory"
- Susan Birrell, Professor in the Department of Health and Sport Studies, Women’s Studies, and American Studies at the University of Iowa
- An engaging reading of gender, nationalism, and adventure tourism vis a vis Mt. Everest
- Presider: Peter Donnelly
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SATURDAY SPOTLIGHT SESSION (SAT MORNING)
- I. The Impact of Dr. Harry Edwards’ Scholarship and Activism on the Research of Scholars
- Panel Members: Doris Corbett (Howard University), Linda Greene (University of Wisconsin, Law School), Michael Lomax (University of Iowa), Emmett Gill (Rutgers University)
- Moderator: Fritz Polite (University of Tennessee--Knoxville)
- Organizer: Billy Hawkins (University of Georgia)
- II. Intersectionality and Sport Studies
- Panel members:
Abby Ferber (University of Colorado—Colorado Springs)
Kyle Kusz (University of Rhode Island)
Mary McDonald (Miami University (Ohio)
Jeffrey Montez de Oca (Depauw University)
- Organizer & Chair: C. Richard King (Washington State University)
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