Call for Papers (CfP): 'European Football and Collective Memory: Transnational Media Events’
The Call for Papers for the FREE (Football Research in an Enlarged Europe) research conference on the memory of European football competitions is now available.
The contribution of popular culture, and especially of football, to collective memory has been under-explored by the social sciences. It is only beginning to raise academic interest, but remains for the time being very much limited to national case studies. This conference tries to overcome this perspective and focuses on the extent to which football may have contributed to build a European collective memory.
Paper proposals from a variety of historical, theoretical, interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives are most welcome. They should consider the nexus of football and the media and the way these contribute (or not) to a collective memory on the European level.
The conference is organised by Prof. Wolfram Pyta and takes place at the Universität Stuttgart in Germany on 22-23 February 2013. The language of the conference will be English.
For more information see:
http://www.free-project.eu/events/Pages/memory-2013.aspx
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