CONFERENCE: 7th Annual Donald Macintosh Memorial Lecture

7th ANNUAL DONALD MACINTOSH MEMORIAL LECTURE AND
SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT CONFERENCE

Saturday 7 February 2009, Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario

The School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen's University would
like to invite all those interested in socio-cultural studies of sport
to a day conference that will be held in the memory of our colleague Dr.
Don Macintosh. The conference will be held at Queen's University in
Kingston, Ontario on Saturday 7th February 2009. Registration, available
at the door, will be $30 for faculty and $15 for
students.

The conference program (below) will consist of graduate student
presentations, a catered lunch, and the annual Donald Macintosh Memorial
Lecture which will be given this year by Dr. David Howe of the School of
Sport and Exercise Sciences at Loughborough University in England. Dr.
Howe is the Deputy Director of the Peter Harrison Centre for Disability
Sport. He is the author of The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic
Movement: Through an Anthropological Lens (Routledge 2008) and Sport,
Professionalism and Pain: Ethnographies of Injury and Risk (Routledge
2004). He is the co-editor, with John Bale, of Historical and Cultural
Interpretations of a Sporting Barrier: The Four Minute Mile (Routledge
2008). Dr. Howe will speak on "Social Justice and Paralympic Sport:
Towards Happy Marriage or Difficult Separation?"

Dr. Howe's lecture is free and all are welcome to attend. It will be
held in the McLaughlin Room, JDUC (John Deutsch Univesity Centre),
Queen's University at 11:30.

If you would like further information about the conference please
contact Karima Dorney, 7kjd1@queensu.ca


Conference Program:

9:15 Registration and Coffee
9:40 Welcome

9:45
Understanding the Experiences of Tom Longboat Award Recipients
Vanessa Lodge, University of Ottawa

10:15
Proposed Cross-cultural Study of the Relationship between Masculine
Habitus and Male Rugby Culture – and the Exclusion/inclusion of Females
Ashley Norton, McMaster University

10:45
A Hull of a Day: An Investigation of Civic Identity and Pro Hockey in
Winnipeg, 1972
Marty Clark, Queen's University
11:15-11:30 Break

11:30-12:30
Macintosh Memorial Lecture
Social Justice and Paralympic Sport: Towards Happy Marriage or Difficult
Separation?
Dr. P. David Howe, Loughborough University

12:30-1:30 Catered lunch

1:30
Breaking Borders or Building a Brand? Sport for Development and the
NBA’s Basketball Without Borders Program
Robbie Millington, Queen's University

2:00
Understanding Identity: Aboriginal Recipients of the Tom Longboat Award
Melanie R. Kornacki University of Ottawa

2:30
Mary, Mary, Why Ya’ Bulgin’: Power, Privilege and the Construction of
the Gay Muscle Body
Patrick Keleher, York University

3:00-3:15 Break

3:15
Fairy Tales, Sport and The Problem of Puer Aeturnus
Megan Popovic, The University of Western Ontario

3:45
Options and Opportunities for Leisure: Examining Those Available to
Single Mothers
of a Child with a Disability
Hannah Irving, University of Ottawa

4:15 Retire to local pub


--
Mary Louise Adams, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies
and Department of Sociology
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6
Canada
613-533-6000, ext. 74723

Please note new email address: MLA1@queensu.ca