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International Conference

'The Worlds of Football II: Heritage, Communities and Cultures'

Victoria University's Football Studies Unit is pleased to announce the second biennial ‘Worlds of Football’ conference.  Scheduled for 13-15 November 2012, this will be an international multi-disciplinary and multi-code conference bringing together football researchers from all over Australia and around the world to share their research with like-minded colleagues. The conference theme will be ‘Heritage, Communities and Cultures’ and it is anticipated that papers from the conference will be published in Football Studies Review Program features include:

  • A keynote address by Dr Kevin Moore, Director of the National Football Museum, Manchester

  • Presentations and papers by individual scholars

  • Forums, panel sessions and elective workshops

Click here to see the official conference flyer.

Click here for instructions on how to register for the conference.

Click here to see the full conference program, which is based on the schedule below:

 

Day 1: 6.30 pm – 8.00 pm, Tuesday, 13 November 2012, Melbourne Cricket Ground

Day 2: 9.30 am – 5.35 pm, Wednesday, 14 November 2012, Melbourne Cricket Ground

Day 3: 9.30 am – 5.30 pm, Thursday, 15 November 2012, Whitten Oval

 

Click here to see the abstracts for the conference.

 

Inquiries

Please note that all conference inquiries should directed to 2012wof@gmail.com

 

Keynote Speaker

The keynote speaker is confirmed as Dr Kevin Moore.  Kevin has been Director of the National Football Museum, England, since the beginning of the project in 1997. The Museum initially opened in Preston in 2001. The Museum is the permanent home of the world’s greatest football (soccer) collections, including the FIFA Collection. The new National Football Museum opens in Manchester in July 2012. The Museum's Preston site will develop further as the collections storage and research centre.   Kevin has published widely in museum studies and cultural studies, including the books Museums and Popular Culture, Museum Management and Management in Museums. He is one of the editors of the forthcoming book, Sport, History and Heritage: An Investigation into the Public Representation of Sport, the product of an AHRC seminar series. From 2004 to 2007 Kevin was the first Director of the International Football Institute (IFI) at the University of Central Lancashire (uclan). He is a Visiting Fellow at uclan, an honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, and a Fellow of the RSA. He is the Chair of the Sports Heritage Network, the professional organisation of the UK’s sports museums. Please note that Dr Kevin Moore will open the conference by delivering his keynote address on the evening of 13 November 2012.
 

Previous Conferences:

'The Worlds of Football I: Triumphs, Trials and Traumas'

The Football Studies Unit staged the first ‘Worlds of Football’ conference held at the Flinders Street Campus of Victoria University on 27–28 September 2010.  This was an international multi-disciplinary and multi-code conference that brought together football researchers from all over Australia and around the world to share their research with like-minded colleagues. This conference theme was ‘Triumphs, Trials and Traumas’ and it is anticipated that papers from the conference will soon be published in an edited anthology or special issue of a journal.  Click on 'News' at the left of screen to see the conference archive.

 

Football Studies Unit

The Football Studies Unit is one of several discipline groups associated with the Sport and Culture Group in the School of Sport and Exercise Science at Victoria University. The Unit is devoted to research and teaching activities related to football studies.  Full-time staff, current sessional staff, and current postgraduate students involved in football studies at Victoria University make up the membership of the Unit. Alumni of the University with an interest in football studies are also affiliated with the group. Members of the Football Studies Unit (in alphabetical order) are as follows:

 

Dr Jessica Carniel

Lecturer, School of Sport and Exercise Science, Victoria University

Phone: +61 3 9919 4062.  Email: Jessica.Carniel@vu.edu.au

Jessica has an interest in the study of all football codes.

Ms Katherine Haines

Doctoral student, School of Sport and Exercise Science, Victoria University

Email: katherine.haines@live.vu.edu.au

Katherine is completing a PhD on women's Rugby League in Sydney during the 1920s. She was recently awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award and the Victoria University Priscilla Choi Scholarship, and in 2009, the Tom Brock Bequest Scholarship. She also researched, wrote and produced the ABC Radio National Hindsight program, The Greatest Game, which was broadcast in March 2009. 

Dr Rob Hess

Associate Professor, School of Sport and Exercise Science, Victoria University

Phone: +61 3 9919 4062.  Email: Robert.Hess@vu.edu.au

Rob has been a member of the Sport History Unit since 1999.  He serves as the co-academic editor of the International Journal of the History of Sport, executive editor of the Bulletin of Sport and Culture and reviews editor of Sporting Traditions.  He is also the honorary historian of the Mentone and St Bede's Old Collegians Amateur Football Club, and is the current President of the Australian Society for Sports History.  Click on 'Home' at the left of screen to see more details of Rob's research and teaching interests, and a full list of his publications, including the award-winning A National Game, published by Penguin/Viking in 2008.

Dr Matthew Klugman

Lecturer, School of Sport and Exercise Science, Victoria University

Phone: +61 3 9919 5979.  Email: Matthew.Klugman@vu.edu.au

Matthew began teaching sports studies at Victoria University in 2008. He has published a number of articles on the passions of Aussie Rules football fans, and is also working collaboratively on a number of projects, including: the history of images of the indigenous Australian Football League (AFL) player Nicky Winmar pointing to his skin; establishing a sustainable membership base for the Western Bulldogs; straight-identifying footy fans who eroticise footy players; and a comparison of AFL fans in Melbourne and soccer fans in Rome. Other research interests include sport and religion, sport and emotions, psychoanalytic understandings of sporting excess, and the cultural history of blood exchange and gift relationships.  Click here to see recent publicity for Matthew's new book, Passion Play: Love, Hope, and Heartbreak at the Footy, published by Hunter Publishers in 2009.

Dr Bob Stewart

Associate Professor, School of Sport and Exercise Science, Victoria University

Email:  Bob.Stewart@vu.edu.au

Bob Stewart has a long-term interest in the study of all football codes.

Dr Brent McDonald

Lecturer, School of Sport and Exercise Science, Victoria University

Email:  Brent.McDonald@vu.edu.au

Brent McDonald has a long-term interest in the study of all football codes.

Ms Melissa Walsh

Associate Lecturer, School of Sport and Exercise Science, Victoria University

Phone: +61 3 9919 4062.  Email: Melissa.Walsh@vu.edu.au

Melissa has an interest in the study of all football codes.

This website page was last updated on 13 November 2012