CONFERENCE: The Visual in Sport

Colleagues, though the time limit for abstracts has passed, we have a few vacancies, thanks to the credit crunch, for anyone who just wants to attend:

The Visual in Sport
A Two-Day International Conference at Burwalls, University of Bristol
13-14 June 2009

Organized by
Mike Huggins (University of Cumbria) & Mike O’Mahony (University of Bristol)
Supported by BIRTHA (Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts)


The intersections between visual culture and the history of sport have, until recently, been largely overlooked in academia. The last few years, however, have witnessed a considerable exansion of interest in visual culture amongst sports historians and in the history of sport for scholars whose primary focus is visual culture. This conference seeks to expand further research in this area by bringing together speakers from a wide range of disciplines including sports history, social history, art history, film history, design history, and any other related fields, to present papers addressing the representation of sport in visual media (painting; sculpture; photography; cinema; and mass culture).


Speakers include:

Lynda Nead (London), Doug Booth (Otago), Patrick Clastres (Paris), Paul Dietschy (Besançon), Michel Brousse (Pessac), Sandra Budy (Hamburg), Kenneth Cohen (Delaware), John Fagg (Nottingham), Alison C. Fleming (Winston-Salem), Lorettann D Gascard (New Hampshire), Mark Haywood (Cumbria), Cathal Kilcline (Galway), Fiona Kinsey (Melbourne), Marius Kwint (Portsmouth), Jo Longhurst (London), Fred Mason (New Brunswick), Dylan Miner (Michigan), Gary Osmond (Melbourne), Pat Simpson (Hertfordshire), Rob Steen (Brighton), Jennifer Sterling (Loughborough), Elizabeth Tobey (Virginia), Bernard Vere (London), Paul Wells (Loughborough).


The conference will take place at Burwalls, an outstanding example of Victorian architecture situated in five acres of beautiful grounds and in the shadow of Brunel’s famous Clifton Suspension Bridge.

Full Conference Fee: (incl. two nights basic accomm, breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea and coffee):

£250 for two days
Day Rate (incl. tea, coffee and lunch):

£50 per day


FOR FULL INFORMATION AND TO DOWNLOAD A REGISTRATION FORM VISIT: http://www.bris.ac.uk/arthistory/events/visualinsport.html

Or email art-history@bristol.ac.uk