Programme


Wednesday 26 May 2004
HELLENIC COSMOS - Building 7, Hall 1
 
17:30 Registration
 
19:00 Addresses
 
19:30 Keynote Speech:
Prof. Jean-Pierre Vernant (College de France, France): Jeux anciens, sports modernes
 
20:15 Reception

Thursday 27 Μay 2004
HELLENIC COSMOS - Building 7, Hall 1
 
09:30 - 11:30 1st Session: "On the Threshold of the 21st century"

Prof. Joseph Maguire (Loughborough University, United Kingdom), Sport and Globalisation: Beijing, the Olympics and Civilisational Struggles

Prof. Jeffrey Hill (De Montfort University, United Kingdom), "Describing Cyrano's Nose": Sport, Leisure and Culture in the Twentieth Century

Prof. Maurice Roche (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom), The Olympics and the Development of "Global Society": On Some "Social Legacies" of the Olympic Games in the Contemporary Period

Prof. Konstantina Goggaki (University of Athens, Greece), Sports and Technology Genetics
 
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee break
 
12:00 - 13:30 Prof. Patricia Vertinsky (University of British Columbia, Canada), East, West and Global: Sport, Physical Education and the Making of Gendered Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Hong Kong

Prof. James Riordan (Stirling University, United Kingdom), The Contribution of the Greek Olympic Ideal to the Demise of Communism

Antonia Zervaki (Foundation of the Hellenic World, Greece), Olympic Truce: An Epitome of Ancient and Contemporary Political Culture
 
13:30 - 16:00 LUNCH / Visit of the Exhibition "Tales of the Olympic Games: A Unique Exhibition"
 
16:00 - 17:30 2nd Session: "Athletics, Social Groups and Ideology"

Prof. Thierry Terret (University of Lyon, France), The Tour de France from a Century to Another in a Gendered Perspective: Women's Invisibility and Hegemonic Masculinity

Dr. Dimitrios Paleothodoros (Foundation of the Hellenic World, University of Thessaly, Greece), The Ambiguities of Ancient Greek Boxing

Prof. Henning Eichberg (Research Institute for Sport, Culture and Civil Society, Denmark), Racing in the Labyrinth? About Some Inner Contradictions of Running
 
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee break
 
18:00 - 19:00 Prof. Pantelis Kyprianos (University of Patras, Greece / Dr. Manolis Choumerianos (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece), Football Fans: Every Day Routine and Identities

Prof. Christian Bromberger (University Aix-en-Provence, France), Football, Worldview and Collective Identities

Friday 28 May 2004
HELLENIC COSMOS - Building 7, Hall 1
 
09:30 - 11:30 1st Session: "Athletics, Identity and Gender"

Prof. Eva Cantarella (University of Milan, Italy), Body Culture, Women and Athletics

Prof. Jinxia Dong (University of Beijing, China), Women, Nationalism and the Beijing Olympics: Preparing for Glory

Prof. Cheryl Cole (University of Illinois, USA), Enchanted Sporting Bodies & Sex Testing

Prof. Arnd Krueger (University of Goettingen, Germany), Fraeuleinwunder III: Female Sport Stars in Present-day Germany
 
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee break
 
12:00 - 13:00 Prof. Andrew Stewart (University of California, Berkeley, USA), Nudity, the Olympics and Greek Self-Fashioning

Prof. Manfred Laemmer (Koeln University, Germany), Athens and Jerusalem: Greek Athletics and Jewish Identity
 
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
 
14:30 - 16:00 2st Session: "Athletics, Symbolism and Art"

Dr. Athanasios Sideris (Foundation of the Hellenic World, Greece), The Athletic Body: Image and Power

Prof. James-Anthony Mangan (De Monfort University, United Kingdom), Icon of Monumental Brutality: Art and the Aryan Man

Prof. George Nikolakakis (University of Crete, Greece), Athletics and Politics: Leni Riefenstahl
 
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break
 
16.30 - 17.30 Prof. Gregory Nagy (Harvard University, USA), The Athletic Ordeal of the "Apobates" at the Panathenaia

Prof. Francois Lissarrague (Center "Louis Gernet", Paris, France), Agon, Eikon: Visual and Aesthetic Aspects of Ancient Greek Athletism

Saturday 29 May 2004
ACADEMY OF ATHENS - Eastern Hall
 
09:30 - 10:15 Prof. Christina Koulouri (University of the Peloponnese), Summation and Conclusions
 
10:15 - 11:30 Debate
 
11:30 - 12:00 Concluding Speech:
Prof.Constantinos Despotopoulos (Academy of Athens, Greece), Olympic Games and the Ideology of Athletics in Ancient Greece

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