The Sport and Leisure History Seminar Summer Symposium:
'Sport and Leisure in Suburbs and New Towns: Communities, Identities and Interactions'
21st-22nd July, 2011
Hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, London
Thursday, 21 July
10:00 Centre-Periphery Dynamics and Leisure in London
- Professor Matthew Cragoe (University of Sussex)
The Rise and Fall of the Red House at Battersea: Pigeon-Shooting, Respectability and the Early Victorian Suburb, 1800-1850
- Dr Elizabeth Baigent (University of Oxford)
Experiencing Open Space in Late Victorian Britain: Leisure for the Unleisured Class in Epping Forest
- Dr Mark Clapson (University of Westminster)
City and Suburban: The Leisure and Sporting Culture of Regent Street Polytechnic, 1882-1939
- Dr John Law (Independent Researcher)
Automobility and Leisure in London's Inter-War Suburbia
12:00 LUNCH
13:00 Suburban Leisure and Divided Societies
- Dr Joao Malaia Santos (University of Rio de Janeiro)
Rio de Janeiro and the Football Dynamic: From the Suburbs to the Central City
- Janina Gosseye (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
The Brussels' Belt of Emeralds: The Construction of Leisure Infrastructure and Flemish Cultural Identity, 1950s to 1970s
- Frances Harkin (Queen's University of Belfast)
A Social Evolution: The Gaelic Athletic Association and Gaelic Games in a North Belfast Suburb
14:30 BREAK
15:00 Art, Fashion and Suburban Leisure Lives
- Dr Geraldine Biddle-Perry (London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London)
Fashioning Suburban Aspiration at the Fin de Siecle
- Dr Rebecca Preston (Royal Holloway, University of London)
'The Pastime of the People': Gardens and Photography in Upper Working- and Lower Middle-Class British Suburban Social Life, 1880-1914
- Professor Ann Sumner (University of Birmingham)
Urban Tennis [Title TBC]
- Dr Richard Coopey (Aberystwyth University)
From Quant to Quadrophenia: Interpreting the Mod Movement in Britain in the 1960s
17:00 CLOSE
Friday, 22 July
10:00 Keynote
Professor David Gilbert (Royal Holloway, University of London)
The Vicar's Daughter and the Goddess of Tennis: Sporting Femininity and Bodily Practice in Edwardian Suburbia
11:00 BREAK
11:20 Sport and Society in Contemporary Suburbs and New Developments
- Sean Brown (Northeastern University, Boston)
'I'm here for the Kids': Politics and Drama in a Small-Town/Suburban Little League
- Dr Marco Pasini (University of Roma La Sapienza)
CVN Casal Bernocchi: Qualitative Analysis and Visual Methodology for a Community Study
- Nick Pye (Griffith University, Gold Coast)
International Sports Cities and Social Capital: Is There a Relationship, and Do They Improve Social Capital?
12:50 LUNCH
13:40 Leisure and Space in Suburbs and New Towns
- Dion Georgiou (Queen Mary, University of London)
'The Drab Suburban Streets Were Metamorphosed into a Veritable Fairyland': Space, Spectacle and Social Action in the Ilford Hospital Carnival, 1905-1914
- Anna Dewaele (School for Higher Studies in Social Sciences, Paris)
Invention and Appropriation of the Concept of Leisure in an Emblematic Indian New Town: Evolution of Leisure in Chandigarh since Its Foundation
- Emmanuel Lelore and Muriel Paupardin (National Institute for Sports, Expertise and Performance, Paris)
Access to Sport Practice in Deprived Urban Areas: Spatial Influence through the Exploration of New Territories
15:10 BREAK
15:30 Sport in British Suburbs
- Dr Andrew Hignell (Glamorgan County Cricket Club)
Participants and Providers: A Study of Cricket in the Suburbs of Cardiff during the Late 19th Century
- Catherine Budd (De Montfort University)
Separation and Exclusivity: Sport in Middlesbrough's Suburbs, 1885-1914
- Mark Sampson (Queen Mary, University of London)
Putting Something Back: The Community Trusts Run By Brighton and Hove Albion FC and Charlton Athletic FC
17:00 CLOSE
Registration for both days of the conference is £35; the fee for attending just one day is £25. The deadline for registration is Thursday, 14 July. Please email Dion Georgiou at
leisureinsuburbia@gmail.com to request a registration form.
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