We are adding a special section from World Literature Today on women’s football to our meeting on Monday April 18 at 4pm EST. The section includes pieces from fellow forumers John Turnbull and Jennifer Doyle, download it here.
Author: galarza1
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FSF April 18: Women’s Football
Change of date: The date for our next session is Monday April 18 at 4pm Eastern Time.
- Longman, Jere. The Girls of Summer: the U.S. women’s soccer team and how it changed the world. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
- Pelak, Cynthia. “Women and gender in South African soccer: A brief history,” Soccer and Society 11, no. 1-2 (2010): 63-78.
- Williams, Jean. A Beautiful Game: international perspectives on women’s football. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2007.
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Fútbol, Historia, y Política – triunfo en español
Our first bilingual session was a great success. After some initial audio issues, we had just over 90 minutes of fantastic discussion regarding Fútbol, Historia, y Política. The three chapter authors in attendance were Julio Frydenberg, Rodrigo Daskal, and Mariano Gruschetsky.
Our conversation revolved around one of the central themes of the book: the tensions between public and private logics in Argentine football clubs. We also discussed possibilities of comparative research in Argentine football when the conversation turned towards parallels with Chilean and English football.
The audio for the meeting is available here (for educational/personal use only).
In attendance:
Julio Frydenberg
Rodrigo Daskal
Mariano Gruschetsky
Marcela Mora y Araujo
James Dorsey
Rwany Sibaja
Edward Murphy
Alejandro González
Ben Sawyer
Peter Alegi
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Football Panel at American Studies Association – Baltimore
via Jennifer Doyle:
The call for papers just came out – the conference in the fall (Oct 20-23), and is in Baltimore. I’d like to put together a football panel for this – papers need to fit within the flexible framework of the ASA. There are rarely panels that take on sports generally at this conference, never mind a specific sport – I think a proposal from footie scholars would fare well in the selection process. Deadline is January 26th… This is purely selfish, as I’m eager to present my own work on sports in this context (it’s a great conference).
The conference website and proposal criteria are here. Jennifer Doyle can be reached at jennifer.doyle@ucr.edu.
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Fall Season Ends with Soccer Empire
The first year of FSF ended today in inspiring fashion with a discussion of Laurent Dubois’ Soccer Empire.Participants: Laurent Dubois, Peter Alegi, Alex Galarza, Andrew Guest, Steven Apostolov, and David Roberts.
The audio of the discussion is available here. (For educational/personal use only.)
Stay tuned for updates on the Spring lineup! We have had an excellent discussion over email about a session on the women’s game and will decide soon on materials and a date. We will also be doing our first FSF session en español when we discuss Frydenberg and Daskal’s Fútbol, Historia, y Política.
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Halloween and Dubois
Happy Halloween! This means that November is upon us and with it, Laurent Dubois’s Soccer Empire. Last month’s meeting was a spectacular success so I am looking forward to closing the Fall season with Laurent’s excellent book. The meeting is now Tuesday November 16th at 2pm, it was moved so that I can attend THATCamp in Chicago.
THATCamp is a digital humanities ‘unconference’ where I will be discussing our group and how to best foster its growing presence to aid our own research and provide a place to share ideas. I am happy to share that I received a $500 fellowship from the organizers to attend as well as participate in several ‘Bootcamps’ where I will learn a few new ‘hard tech skills’ in web design and coding.
Be sure to acquire Laurent’s book ASAP as the third week of November is not too far away!
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Packed House for Goldblatt’s The Ball is Round
David Goldblatt—the Garrincha of Fútbology—attracted the largest crowd yet at the Football Scholars Forum.The event, the first of two dedicated to Goldblatt’s encyclopedic The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer, included discussion on globalization, politics and capital, and the role of the working class in football’s history. [Episode two is here.]
Thanks are in order to David Goldblatt for sharing his insights and to everyone who participated, including Ben Dettmar, Gordon Stewart, Alejandro Gonzalez, Andrew Guest, Tom McCabe, Tim Vickery, Steven Apostolov, Laurent Dubois, Peter Alegi, and Alex Galarza.
Listen to an audio recording of the conversation below (for educational/personal use only):
