Upfront and Onside: The Women’s Football Conference
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As part of the Hidden Histories project, funded by the Arts Council, the National Football Museum is delighted to be running and hosting the biggest conference on the history and heritage of women’s football. Coinciding with International Women’s Day on 8 March, Upfront & Onside features a programme of influential keynote speakers from around the globe focussing on over 150 years of the women’s game.
Event Programme 8 March
09:00 – 09:30: Registration Tea & Coffee
09:30 – 09:45: Welcome and Opening Remarks Belinda Monkhouse NFM/ Professor Jean Williams,Professor of Sport and Heritage, University of Wolverhampton
09:45 – 10:45: Keynote Speaker Recovered Memories: Art, History and Women’s Football Professor Jennifer Doyle Professor of English, University of California, Riverside USA
11:00 – 11:20: Women and Football in South America 1863 – 1900 Professor Matthew Brown Professor of Latin American History, University of Bristol
11:20 – 11:40: It’s all to play for: tackling the challenges of archiving football on the web Helena Byrne, Curator of Web Archives, British Library
11:40 – 12:00: Women, Gender, and Soccer in Mexico and Costa Rica, 1949-1971 Dr Josh Nadal, Associate Professor of History, North Carolina Central University
12:00 – 12.20: Representing the Nation? Women’s Football in Brazil and Argentina Professor David Wood Professor of Latin American Studies, University of Sheffield
12:20 – 12.35: Questions & Answers ALL
12.35 – 13.35 Lunch (ECR Poster Presentations)
13:35 – 13:55 Rainbow Laces: Representing LGBT footballing communities in England. Dr Jayne Caudwell Associate Professor Bournemouth University
13:55 – 14:15: Manchester City Women – 1988-2018 An Oral History Dr Gary James Steering Committee Hidden Histories of Women’s Football
14:15 – 14:35: Women’s Euro 2005 as a ‘watershed’ for women’s football in England: can major events stimulate a legacy in the game Dr. Barbara Bell Senior Lecturer, Sport Development Manchester Metropolitan University
14:35 – 14:55: Changes in Women’s Leisure Lives, Men’s Professional Football and the Feminization of Sports Fandom Thesis Dr Stacey Pope Associate Professor in the School of Applied Social Sciences, University of Durham
14.55 – 15.10: Questions & Answers ALL
15.10 – 15:30: Break: Tea & Coffee (ECR Poster Presentations)
15:30 – 15:50: Home and Away: Women and the 1966 World CupProfessor John Hughson Director the International Football Institute, University of Central Lancashire
15:50 – 16:10: Girlfans’ a visual ethnographic study of female football fans Jacqui Mc Cassey Senior Lecturer in Fashion, Liverpool School of Art and Design
16:10 – 16:30: Problematic images of female footballers Australia and the United Kingdom: a photographic essay Associate Professor Rob Hess College of Sport & Exercise Science, Victoria University, Australia
16:30 – 16:50: ‘Spaldings Soccer for Women’ and the development of the women’s game in the US up to the 1930s Dr Brian D. Bunk Senior Lecturer in History University of Massachusetts
16:50 – 17:05: Questions & Answers ALL
17.45 – 18.45: Lord Mayor’s Civic Reception, celebrating International Womens’ Day
Manchester Central Library, St Peter’s Square, Manchester, M2 5PD
Event Programme 9 March
09:30 – 10:30: Keynote Speaker (TBC)
10:30 – 11:00: Break: Tea & Coffee (ECR Poster Presentations)
11:00 – 11:20: Early Swedish Women Football seen through different artifacts.Torbjörn Andersson Associate ProfessorMalmö högskola, Malmö
11:20 – 11.40: To be or not to be’: minority athletes’ belongings and choice of national team in women’s and men’s football Dr Sine Agergaard, Associate Professor Aarhus University, Denmark
11.40 – 12:00: Scandinavian women’s football: the importance of male and female pioneers in the development of the sport Dr. Bente Ovedie Skogvang, Associate Professor Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Elverum, Norway
12:00 – 12:15: Questions & Answers ALL
12:15 – 13:15: Lunch (ECR Poster Presentations)
13:15 – 14:05: ‘A lesson in football wisdom’: Media responses to Mexico’s performances in the unofficial women’s world cups of 1970 and 1971 Dr Claire Brewster Senior Lecturer in Latin American History Newcastle University and Dr Keith Brewster Senior Lecturer in Latin American History, Newcastle University
14:05 – 14:25:The Winners, the Losers, the Invisible: Discussing Race and Gender in Brazilian World Cup and Miss Universe Media Coverage of the 1950s and 1960s Dr Courtney Campbell Lecturer in Latin American History, University of Birmingham
14.25 -14.45: Footballer in the Hijab: International Sport as Women’s World Cup France 2019 Approaches Shireen Ahmed Freelance Writer on Women’s Sport Toronto Canada
14:45 – 15.05: Looking forwards to Women’s World Cup France 2019: Developments in French Women’s Football since 2011 Dr Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, Sport & Democratie
15.05-15.30 Questions & Answers ALL
CLOSING CONFERENCE RECEPTION
The Treasures of the Ungar Collection (Overview of Hidden Histories of Women’s Football Project led by NFM Project Lead Belinda Monkhouse, and Academic Lead Prof Jean Williams)
Our thanks to Cafe Football for the provision of refreshments
