[Gesth-l] FW: Austria: Gender and Soccer, last minute CFP

[Johanna Laakso]

Kedves Kollégák,

itt még a last-minute meghívó egy érdekes konferenciára, ide a szomszédba
;-) !

üdv. JL
-- 
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Johanna Laakso
Institut für Europäische und Vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Abteilung für Finno-Ugristik
Universitätscampus AAKH, Spitalgasse 2-4 Hof 7, A-1090 Wien
Tel. +43 1 4277 43019, (VoIP) +43 599664 43019 | Fax +43 1 4277 9430
johanna.laakso at univie.ac.at | http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Johanna.Laakso/

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FEMALE MATCHES. MALE PITCH.
Location:
Austria
Call for Papers Date:
2007-07-05

On the occasion of the European Soccer
Championship 2008, the Referat Genderforschung
(Gender Research Office, University of Vienna)
and the Kompetenzzentrum für Soziale Arbeit
(Center of Competence in Social Work, FH Campus
Vienna) are organizing a conference on the
construction of gender in soccer, which will take
place in April 2008.

A highly popular sport, soccer entered the
elitist fields of science and art a long time
ago. One of the probably most prominent examples
of the last few years is political scientist Eva
Kreisky: she edited the book /Arena der
Männlichkeit/ (Arena of Masculinity, 2006), which
deals with the most important topics of critical
research on soccer. An early example is the
sociologist Norbert Elias, who saw sports and
games as indicators of the civilization process.
In the 1950s, Elias frequented the games of his
soccer team Leicester City. There he met Eric
Dunning, a former soccer player who later became
a sociologist.

*Combining science and praxis*, these two men
produced many scientific analyses of soccer.
Originating from this initial research, a
problematic red thread ran through early soccer
research: androcentrism and blindness to gender.
Moreover, a systematic incorporation of
gender-relevant topics in soccer, which are
*tackled by practicians and scholars together* is
still missing until today.

This conference which takes place in Vienna April
15-16, 2008, wants to offer precisely this
platform to initiate an intensive interchange
between the actors of the field of soccer (clubs,
police, social workers, active players) and
scholars. The topics to be included are open as
well as manifold. However, strong focus should be
placed on the special gender of soccer (cf.
Kreisky 2006). We welcome papers addressing the
following topics:

1. *Interaction on the field *
Soccer as the production of masculinity and femininity
Soccer as bodily practice
The soccer pitch as space of negotiation between the genders
Soccer as exclusively male space
2. *The construction of gender outside the field *
Fan culture
Gender and nationalism in soccer
Soccer and prostitution
Soccer and violence
3. *Institutionalization of soccer *
Commercialization of soccer
Club cultures
Lacking institutionalization of women's soccer
Nation-forming and soccer
4. *Discourses on soccer*
Media coverage
Soccer and reception
Narrations on soccer in the media
Representation of the players' partners

We would kindly ask you to submit your proposals
including a working title and an abstract (app.
3000 characters), as well as a short CV (1 page)
to Katharina Miko (katharina.miko at univie.ac.at)
or Marlen Bidwell-Steiner
(marlen.bidwell-steiner at univie.ac.at, Referat
Genderforschung, Universitaetscampus Hof 7,
Spitalgasse 2, A-1090 Vienna
Phone: ++43-1-4277-18454

Email: marlen.bidwell-steiner at univie.ac.at
Visit the website at http://www.univie.ac.at/gender

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