Scientific Programme

Keynote address Sport: Challenging Boundaries

Professor Roberta Sassatelli
Associate Professor of Cultural Sociology  Dipartimento di Studi Sociali e Politici  Università Degli Studi di Milano

Key Themes

• Body Cultures
• Children, Youth and Sport
• Colonialism and Sport
• Drugs and Doping in Sport
• Gender and Sport
• Globalisation and Sport
• Indigenous Sporting Cultures
• Methods in Sociology of Sport
• Olympism
• Open Papers
• Physical Cultural Studies
• Physical Education and School Sport
• Social Class and Sport
• Sociology of Sport: Future Challenges
• Sport and Consumer Culture
• Sport and Disability
• Sport and Governance
• Sport and Media
• Sport and National Identities
• Sport and the Environment
• Sport and Tourism
• Sport and Racial/Ethnic Identity
• Sport, Business and Management
• Sport, Culture and Advertising
• Sport for All
• Sport, Health and Risk
• Sport Mega-Events
• Sport, Physical Activity and Ageing
• Sport, Politics and Policy
• Sport Spectatorship and Fandom

Programme Schedule

Monday, 16 July

09.00 - 10.15 Plenary lecture:  Prof Roberta Sassatelli
10.15 - 10.30 Break
10.30 - 12.00 parallel sessions
12.00 - 13.30 lunch
13.30 - 15.00 parallel sessions
15.00 - 15.30 Break
15.30 - 17.00 parallel sessions
17:30 - 18:30 ISSA AGM

Tuesday, 17 July

09.00 - 10.20 Parallel sessions (4 papers)
10.20 - 10.50 Break
10.50 - 12.10 Parallel sessions
12.10 - 13.10 Lunch
13.10 - 14.50 Parallel sessions
14.50 - 15.20 Break
15.20 - 17.00 Sub-plenary 1: Sport and Community Engagement
15.20 - 17.00 Sub-plenary 2: Sport and Social Media
15.20 - 17.00 Sub-plenary 3: Latin American Sport
19.00 - 20.00 Civic Reception at Glasgow City Chambers

Wednesday, 18 July

09.00 - 10.20 Parallel sessions
10.20 - 12.10 Parallel sessions
12.10 - 13.10 Lunch
13.10 - 14.50 Parallel sessions
14.50 - 15.20 Break
15.20 - 17.00 Parallel/Open sessions
19.30 - till late Gala Dinner