Sport and the Environment: Philosophical Dimensions

June 22-25 2011

Conference Program as of May 24. 2011

All sessions will take place in the Keating Millennium Centre www.keatingcentre.com

Thursday, June 23

BREAKFAST (Morrison Hall) 7am - 8am

Welcome at 8:30am

Time

Presenter

Title

8:30am – 9:00am

Amir Ben-Porat

Keep Our Neighborhood Clean: Jews vs. Arabs in the Football Stadiums in Israel

9:00am – 9:30am

Natalie Szudy

Soccer Teams and Garbage Dreams

BREAK 9:30am – 9:45am

Time

Presenter

Title

9:45am – 10:15am

Mark Stoddart

Kayaks, Puffins and Oil Rigs: Shifting Society-Environment Interactions in Coastal Newfoundland

10:15am – 10:45am

Pearl Ann Reichwein

Stop Paving Paradise: Mountaineering, Environmentalism, and the Four Mountain Park Planning Era  in the Canadian Rockies, 1968-1974

BREAK 10:45am – 11:00am

Keynote 11:00am – 12:00pm

Leslie Howe: Different Kinds of Perfect: The Pursuit of Excellence in Nature Based Sports"

LUNCH (Morrison Hall) 12pm – 1pm

Time

Presenter

Title

1:30pm – 2:00pm

Joan Forry

Intercollegiate Sports and Environmental Sustainability

2:00pm – 2:30pm

Greg Ramshaw

Sport, Heritage and Performance: Constructing Tradition and Ritual on the Bank of America Stadium Tour

 

 

 

2:30pm – 3:00pm

Pam R. Sailors

Humans 1, Earth 0: The High Cost of Getting Healthy

 

 

 

Friday, June 24

BREAKFAST (Morrison Hall) 7am – 8am

Time

Presenter

Title

8:30am – 9:00am

Danny Rosenberg

Light Green Ethics and the Olympic Games Movement

9:00am – 9:30am

Charlene Weaving

Mother Nature: the problematic discourse of feminizing the great outdoors

BREAK 9:30am – 9:45am

Time

Presenter

Title

9:45am – 10:15am

Clare Fawcett

 The self, anthropology and the environment

10:15am – 10:45am

Deb Vossen

Seeing the Field: The Existential Environment of Real Life as Sport

BREAK 10:45am – 11:00am

Keynote 11:00am – 12:00pm

Kevin KreinUnderstanding Nature Through Sport”

LUNCH (Morrison Hall) 12pm – 1pm

Time

Presenter

Title

1:30pm – 2:00pm

Sarah Teetzel

The Uses and Abuses of Animals in Sport

2:00pm – 2:30pm

Gabriela Tymowski

Hunting as sport: The virtuous do not kill for pleasure 

BREAK 2:30pm – 2:45 pm

Time

Presenter

Title

2:45pm – 3:15pm

Natalie Deibel

On the Right Track?: Sports, Authority, and the Environment in Early Virginia

3:15pm – 3:45pm

Chuck List

Field Sports and Environmental Conservation: The Ethical Link

Saturday, June 25

BREAKFAST (Morrison Hall) 7am – 8am

Time

Presenter

Title

8:30am – 9:00am

Tara Kilmchuk 

Should schools offer extreme sports as part of their extracurricular activities

9:00am – 9:30am

Jennifer Charters

Moral Concerns in Coaching One’s Own Child

BREAK 9:30am – 9:45am

Time

Presenter

Title

9:45am – 10:15am

Olivia Durst

Booing the TV, Cheering from Armchairs and Ridiculing the Ref: Sport Fans and their Environments

10:15am – 10:45am

James Greening

A Fresh Perspective: Parkour and the Infinite Potentiality of the Environment

BREAK 10:45am – 11:00am

Keynote 11:00am – 12:00pm

Scott Tinley “Outing the Dream Merchants: Geo-social Costs of Myth-selling the Surf Culture”

LUNCH (Morrison Hall) 12pm – 1pm

 Organized group activity--specific details to follow shortly

  • Conference Banquet 6pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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