The Studies of Sport conference, sponsored by the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University, gathers scholars to consider sport as a site of significant cultural, political, and economic investments. The critical examination of sport spans disciplines, geographies, and audiences, making it all the more important to provide this space for reflection and the collective production of knowledge.
The event will showcase emerging research on sport in Africa, debate the place of the stadium in society, highlight the labor of sporting economies, and assess the role of the university and its students in North American sport.
Our goal for the conference is that participants, through new and renewed connections, leave with a refreshed sense of the coherence of sport studies as an intellectual project and the relevance of serious sporting analysis, developed in collaboration and shared in community, for a range of policy problems and social questions.
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Advance registration is required. Registered guests not affiliated with Columbia University will receive a QR code by email before the event. Current policies require external guests to display this code and photo ID to access campus.
Conference Program
9 a.m. | Coffee and Welcome
9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. | Sport in Africa
Emmanuel Ankomahene (Michigan State University), Lorna Kimaiyo (Columbia University), Chepchirchir Tirop (Stanford University) with comments from Dawson McCall (Loyola University New Orleans)
11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | The Stadium
Priscilla Leiva (Loyola Marymount University), Seth Tannenbaum (Manhattanville University) with comments from Frank Guridy (Columbia University)
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. | Lunch
2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. | Labor in Sports
Evan Brown (Columbia University), Brendan O’Connor (CUNY Graduate Center), Theresa Runstedtler (American University) with comments from Brenda Elsey (Hofstra University)
3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Students, Athletes, and the University
Cameron Black (CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies), Heather Chen (Columbia University), Victoria Jackson (Arizona State University) in conversation with Amy Bass (Manhattanville University)
5:00 p.m. | Reception
