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| Plenary programme |
Keynote 1
Tues. July 3 |
Shaping leisure: media and the cultural industries
reviewed |
Sue Thornham, University of Sussex; Sheila
Whiteley, University of Brighton
Chaired by Jayne Caudwell |
Panel 1
Wed. July 4 |
Leisure futures: projections, promises and problems |
Ken Roberts,
University of Liverpool; Ian Henry, Loughborough University;
Jennifer Hargreaves and Neil Ravenscroft, University
of Brighton
Chaired by Alan Tomlinson |
Keynote 2
Wed. July 4 |
Marginal cultures and the dream of leisure |
Anoop Nayak, Newcastle University; Kath
Woodward, The Open University
Chaired by Belinda Wheaton |
Panel 2
Thu. July 5 |
Democratic creativity, the knowledge economy and
cultural change |
Steve Redhead,
University of Brighton; Kate Oakley, London; Chris
Rojek, Brunel University
Chaired by Neil Ravenscroft |
Keynote 3
Thu. July 5 |
Leisure studies and research: global challenges |
Prof. Garry Whannel University
of Bedfordshire; Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
Chaired by Steve Redhead |
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| Keynote speakers |
Prof. Sheila Whiteley
Visiting Professor, University of Brighton |
Sheila Whiteley is Visiting Professor at the University
of Brighton. She was Chair of Popular Music at the University
of Salford until December 2006, and general secretary/publications
officer for the International Association for the Study of Popular
Music (1999-2005). Her publications include Queering the Popular
Pitch (Routledge, 2006), Too Much Too Young: Popular Music,
Age and Identity (Routledge, 2005), Women and Popular
Music (Routledge, 2000), Sexing the Groove: Popular Music
and Gender (Routledge, 1998) and The Space Between the
Notes: Rock and the Counter Culture (Routledge, 1992). She
has also received three European Social Fund awards for research
into women and the cultural industries, women, digitisation and
the cultural industries, and FreeFlowuk.com, a showcase for young
musicians in Manchester. |
Dr. Sue Thornham
Professor of Media and Film Studies, Head of Department of Media
and Film, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK |
Sue Thornham has contributed several
edited, co-authored and single authored books related to feminist
film theory, feminist theory and cultural studies and more recently
television drama: theories and identities. She teaches subjects
such as; British cinema and viewing women, and supervises doctoral
students interested in the application of feminist theory to
film, media and culture. |
Kath Woodward
The Open University,
UK |
Kath Woodward is senior lecturer at the
Open University and a member of the ESRC joint Manchester and
Open University Centre for Research in Social and Cultural Change
(CRESC) where she works on transformations in gendered, racialised
identities in sport. Her most recent book is Boxing, Masculinity
and Identity, The "I" of the Tiger. She has recently
completed research into anti racist organisations in sport for
the AHRC and is working on Sport Across Diasporas on the BBC
World Service for the AHRC Diaspora, Migration, Identities
research porgramme. She also works on other aspects of gendered
identities, including motherhood, and the 'really real of reality
TV'. |
Dr. Anoop Nayak
Reader in Social and Cultural Geography, Geography, Politics
and Sociology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK |
Anoop Nakay's recent research explores
the future of multi-ethnic Britain with regard to recent debates
in the area of migration, ethnicity and asylum. He is currently
investigating 'Race Equality in Tyne and Wear', which is funded
by the 5 Tyne and Wear Local Authorities. His publications include:
Nayak, A. Race, Place and Globalization: Youth Cultures in
a Changing World. Oxford: Berg, 2003; Nayak, A. After Race:
Ethnography, Race and Post-Race Theory. Ethnic and Racial
Studies 2006, 29(3), 411-430; Nayak, A. (2006). Displaced
Masculinities: Chavs, Youth and Class in the Post-industrial
City. Sociology 2006, 40(5), 813-831. |
| Prof. Garry
Whannel, Professor of
Media Cultures, and head of the Centre for International Media
Analysis at the University of Bedfordshire |
Garry Whannel is Professor of Media Cultures,
and head of the Centre for International Media Analysis at the
University of Bedfordshire. He is the author of Culture, Politics
and Sport: Blowing the Whistle revisited (in press)
Media Sport Stars (2001), Understanding Sport
(with John Horne and Alan Tomlinson;1999), Fields in Vision
(Routledge 1992) and Blowing the Whistle: The Politics
of Sport (Pluto 1983). He is convenor of the JOG (Journalism
and the Olympic Games) Group, and the IAMCR Popular Culture Working
Group. His current research interests include celebrity culture
and the vortextuality process, and the growth of commercial sponsorship. |
Prof. Alan
Tomlinson
Professor of Sport and Leisure Studies, Chelsea School, University
of Brighton. Brighton, UK |
Alan Tomlinson's research interests include:
the application of cultural studies to the analysis of sport;
the study of sport as part of a critical sociology of consumption;
challenges of investigative sociology and; sport and spectacle.
He is Head of Research in the Chelsea School and was editor of
the International Review for the Sociology of Sport for
the issues from 2000 through to early 2004. His recent publications
include: Tomlinson, A. (2005) Sport and Leisure Cultures,
Minneapolis , University of Minnesota Press; Tomlinson, A. (2006)
National Identity and Global Sports Events: Culture, Politics
and Spectacle in the Olympics and the Football World Cup
(edited with Young, C.) Albany, State University of New York
Press. |
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