Conference programme

09.00

Registration/coffee & tea

09:30
09:40
10:00

10:20

11:00

Dean / Director of Research (Erasmus University Rotterdam) - Opening 
Gijsbert Oonk (Erasmus University Rotterdam) - Introduction Sport and Nation
Jacco van Sterkenburg (Erasmus University Rotterdam) - Introduction Sport and Race

‘Introduction Football, racism and media: Current findings and avenues for future research’
Professor Emeritus Kevin Hylton - Key-note lecture "When should the Talking stop?
Tensions between theory and practice in sociology of race, sport and social justice.
Q&a

BREAK 

11:30


11:30

11:45
12:00
12:15

Session: Sport and Race 
Chair: Jacco van Sterkenburg

Carmen Longas Lugue: Discussing football
Discourses about race/ethnicity among Spanish youth
Arne van Lienden: How do Polish audiences react to stereotypes in televised football?
Paul Campbell: White Digital Footballers Can’t Jump’: (Re)constructions of race in FIFA 20'
Q&A

LUNCH

13.30

13.30

13:45
14:00
14:15
14:45

Session: Sport and antisemitisms
Chair: Gijsbert Oonk

Wojciech Woźnaik: “Politics, ideology and hate.
Where is Polish football fandom and where its heading?”
Jasmin Seijbel: #Hastagging Hate: football-related antisemitism on social media.
Q&A
Changing the Chants documentary
Q&A with documentary maker Stefano Di Pietro

15:30

15:30

15:45


16:00
16:15

Session: Sport and History
Chair: Marlou Schrover

Marjet Derks: Dynamics of Belonging: Challenging Imaginaries of Race and Sport in (Post)Colonial Contexts
Ornella Nzindukiyimana:
Global Sport, National Interloper: Towards Locating Soccer/Football in the Canadian
Colonial and Multicultural Context
Gijs van Campenhout: Football: A team of national representatives?
Q&A

09.00

Coffee & tea

09.30
09:30
09:45
10:00
10:15

Session: Sport and Sociology
Arend van Haaften 
Michel van Slobbe (UU; USBO): “Sport as trigger of us-them divisions”
Elçin Istif Inci: Naturalized Athletes in Turkish Media: Ideological Variances and Trends
Q&A

BREAK coffee /tea

11:00



11:45
 

Christian Ungruhre: Book presentation
Book presentation: “African football migration. Aspirations, experiences and trajectories”, a
monograph by Paul Darby, Ulster University; James Esson, Loughborough University;
Christian Ungruhe, Erasmus University Rotterdam/Passau University (Manchester University
Press; Series: Globalizing Sport Studies)
Q&A

LUNCH

13:30

13:30

13:45
14:00

14:15

14:30

Session: Sport and sport-practices

Sandra Meeuwsen: Debunking the prevailing discourses in sport surrounding
race/ethnicity and other dichotomies
Joram Verhoeven (Anne Frank House): “United by a common identity”
Agnes Elling (Mulier institute): Intersections of ethnicity and gender in elite sport
representations and national belonging
Jonathan Even-Zohar: Football as a living heritage community and opportunity for
learning historical sensitivity; the example of Football Makes History|
Q&A