19 June: While We’re Waiting for Kick Off: The Aesthetics of Football

Programme

  • 09.00- 10.00: Graham McFee, University of Brighton/California State University, Fullerton
    — The Not-So-Beautiful Game
  • 10.00 -10.15: Coffee
  • 10.15-11.15: Steffen Borge, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
    — This is Anfield: The Fictional Character of Football
  • 11.15-11.30: Coffee
  • 11.30-12.30: Stephen Mumford, University of Nottingham
    — A Beautiful Game? The Aesthetics of Football
  • 12.30-14.00: Lunch
  • 14.00-15.00: Emily Ryall, University of Gloucestershire
    — Good Games and Penalty Shoot-Outs
  • 15.00-15.15: Coffee
  • 15.15-16.15: David Papineau, King’s College London
    — The Perspective of a Football Supporter
  • 17.00: Dinner on campus
  • 20.00 – approximately 22.30: England vs. Uruguay

Organisers

Margrethe Bruun Vaage, Murray Smith, Aesthetics Research Centre, School of Arts, University of Kent

Steffen Borge, USE Understanding Sport Engagement Project, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Sponsors

British Society for Aesthetics

Aesthetics Research Centre, School of Arts, University of Kent