CARNEGIE SEMINAR SERIES (Leeds Metropolitan University)
 
Thursday November 7th
2.00 – 3.30   Cavendish G04 (Headingley Campus, Beckett Park)
 
Fields of Vision Network Exchange: reflections and prospects.
 
[A forum discussion on the possibility of setting up a Fields of Vision network to continue academic, practical
projects, events and network information etc. on the arts in sport – the sport in arts].
 
Chair Doug Sandle (Leeds Rugby Arts)
 
Followed by:  4.00 – 5.30 Priestley G05
Dr. Jennifer Doyle*   (University of California, Riverside)
 
The Sex of a Star and Other Sport Problems: Marta's Pink Star, Caster Semenya's Velocity
 
Chair Professor Jonathan Long (Research Institute of Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure)
 
All welcome – but please book a place in advance for the Jennifer Doyle session by emailing Leonie O’Dwyer ([log in to unmask])
 
[*Dr. Jennifer Doyle is a current Fulbright Scholar. Her project, The Athletic Turn, explores the recent turn toward sport in contemporary art and performance, tracking relationships between contemporary art, popular culture and mass media.  She is also the author of Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art (Duke University Press), which explores how emotion circulates in and around art in flows that are directed by both personal and political histories. She is also the author of Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (University of Minnesota Press) and writes From A Left Wing, a blog about the cultural politics of soccer, and the Sport Spectacle blog. Her work has appeared in Qui Parle, X-TRA: Contemporary Art Quarterly, Representations, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and in anthologies such as The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader and The Art of Art History].