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We are delighted to invite you to the Sport, Gender and Media conference on 10th March 2012 at the University of York. The Sport, Gender and Media conference schedule and poster are now available. You can view them on the conference blog: http://sportgendermedia.blogspot.com/. We've also included the flyer as an attachment, and the schedule can be seen below. If you haven't already, you can register via the website above. The £15 registration fee includes lunch, refreshments and a wonderful day of presentations on sport, gender and media. We look forward to seeing you all soon! * Please circulate widely * Best regards, Amy and Geneva Sport, Gender and Media Conference University of York, UK Centre for Women’s Studies Berrick Saul Building 10th March, 9.00-18.00 9.00 – 9.30: Registration/Coffee/Welcome 9.35-10.35: Spectatorship/Fandom Football Dr. Stacey Pope, University of Bedfordshire, ‘Who Could Name an England Women’s Footballer?’: Views and Perceptions of Women’s Football Carrie Dunn, Sheffield Hallam University, Female football fans and their perception of the gendered nature of football media 10.45 – 12.15: Femininities: How Some Women are Positioned within Sport Irene Dioli, University of Bologna, ‘Nation, family, and the swimming pool’. Self-portrait of sports star Federica Pellegrini in the year of Italy’s patriotic spree Dr. Meredith Nash, University of Tasmania, ‘You don’t train for a marathon sitting on the couch’: A critical look at Australian performances of pregnancy ‘fitness’, ‘good’ motherhood Somayyeh Mottaghi and Tina Amirhosein, University of York, Media and Women’s Sports: An Iranian case study 12.15 – 13.00: Lunch 13.00 – 13.45 Roundtable Katherine Chan, University of York, Media, (Dis)-ability and Gender 14.00 – 15.00 Masculinities: Gender Portrayal, Perception and Rethinking in Sport Gordon Tait, University of Newcastle, Weekend Warriors: Football hooliganism, the carnival, and a zone of remasculinization Peter Gavigan, University of Sussex, Masculinity, Femininity and Performing Gender in the (Sub)Culture of Bodybuilding 14.00 – 15.00 Critical Readings Dr. Philippa Velija, University of York Saint John, “The batting is fragile and uncertain”: Print Media Representations of Female Cricketers from 1998-2008 Helen Spandler and Mick Mckeown, University of Central Lancashire, A Critical Exploration of Using Football in Health and Welfare Programs 15.15 – 16.45 Avoiding Cliches Christiana Schallholm, University of Augsburg, Who bears the blame for the drop out of the Women’s World Cup? A content analysis about the apportionment of blame for the defeat of Germany’s soccer ladies Laura Gubby, Canterbury Christ Church University, Current discussions on the pressures for, and the potential impacts of, korfball being awarded entry into the sport-gender-media nexus Maddie Breeze, University of Edinburgh, Becoming-Legitimate: Roller Derby, Gender and Skater-Produced Media 17.00 – 18.00 Gendered Displays in Swimming Keith Myerscough, Blackpool University Centre, Nymphs, Naiads and Natation Lucretia Knapp, Smith College, ‘Swim Suit’