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Papers & Lectures Papers & Lectures Dean Allen www.deanallen.co.za 2014 ------------------------------------------------------ 2013 ------------------------------------------------------ “Sport and City Branding’. European Association of Sports ‘Sports Management Examined – The Case of the 2010 FIFA Management Annual Conference. Coventry University, UK. World Cup’ Invited Lecture. The South Africa Washington September 2014. International Program (SAWIP). Washington, D.C. USA, July ‘Cricket and Corruption in Colonial South Africa’. British 2013. Society of Sports History Annual Conference. Leeds ‘The FIFA 2010 World Cup – Lessons Learnt’ Invited lecture, Metropolitan University, UK. September 2014. Department of Sport Studies, University of Stirling, Scotland. ‘English Equestrianism and Hunting in Rural Virginia’. The April 2013. AHRC ‘Global English’ Conference. Northumbria University, ‘South African Cricket and Colonial Identity’ Invited seminar UK. July 2014. paper, African Studies Centre, Leiden, Netherlands. April ‘Sporting Mega Events: A Case Study of South Africa 2010’ 2013. Invited Seminar. Coventry University, UK. June 2014. ‘Session Chairman – ‘Sport and Innovation’. Inaugural ‘Futures ‘Sport and Corruption in Colonial South Africa’. ‘Negotiating in Sport Business’ Conference. CPUT and Western Cape Integrity’ ERC-funded International Conference, Department Government, Cape Town, March 2013. of Anthropology, Goldsmith’s, University of London, UK. April 2014. 2011 ------------------------------------------------------ 2012 ------------------------------------------------------ ‘Effective Teaching and Research in South African Sport’. Re- search and Innovation in Teaching and Learning Conference, ‘The Politics of South African Sport’ Invited Paper. Research Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Seminar Series, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Africa, December 2011. South Africa. October 2012. ‘The Race for Supremacy’. Invited Lecture for the Sport and ‘The 2010 FIFA World Cup’. Invited Seminar, School of History Leisure Series, UK Universities. Senate House, Univer- Kinesiology, University of Georgia, Georgia, USA, September sity of London, UK, October 2011. 2012. ‘Sport, Africa and the Archive’. Invited Paper for SCOLMA (the ‘Sport and Culture in South Africa’. Invited Lecture. College of UK Libraries and Archive Group on Africa) Annual Conference, Health and Human Sciences, Georgia Southern University, The National Archives, London. June 2011. Georgia, USA, September 2012. ‘Women, Sport and Afrikaner Mythology’. Invited Paper for ‘Successes and Challenges of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in ‘Women’s Sport in Africa’ Conference, Oxford University, South Africa’. Invited Seminar, Academy of International March 2011 Sport, George Mason University, Virginia, USA, September 2012. 2010 ------------------------------------------------------ ‘Re-branding South Africa – The 2010 FIFA World Cup’. British Society of Sports History Annual Conference, University of Glasgow, UK, September 2012. ‘Logan of Matjiesfontein’. Invited Seminar for the Department ‘Cricket and English Colonial Identity in South Africa, 1880- of History, Stellenbosch University. October 2010. 1910’. The ‘Cricket, Migration and Diasporic Communities in a ‘The White Man’s Game? Cricket, Race and Identity in pre- Global Context’ Conference, Carnegie Research Institute, apartheid South Africa’. ‘Beyond Boundaries’: Sport, Race and Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, July 2012. Ethnicity Conference. University of the West Indies, Barbados, ‘Issues and Controversies in Hosting the 2010 FIFA World July 2010. Cup’. The 4th International Sport, Race and Ethnicity ‘Soccer in Higher Education as a Catalyst for Cultural Conference, University of Ulster, Belfast, UK, June 2012. Exchange’. Invited Lecture for UNISA and VU University, ‘Politics, Sport and Colonial Identity in South Africa’. Invited Amsterdam World Cup 2010 Seminar Series. UNISA, Cape Lecture for the Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport and Town, South Africa, June 2010. the Western Cape Sports Association, Athlone Stadium, Cape ‘Cricket, War and Empire in South Africa’. Invited Seminar for Town, February 2012. the Department of History, University of Cape Town. June ‘The Politics of Sport in South Africa, 1890-1910’. Invited 2010. Seminar for the Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport, Provincial Government of the Western Cape, Cape Town, January 2012. 2006-2007 ------------------------------------------------ 2008-2009 ------------------------------------------------ ‘Craven and Churchill’, Invited Lecture. The Danie Craven Bursary Fund Dinner, House of Commons, London. November 2006. ‘The Global Development and Spread of Modern Sport’. ‘The 1906 Springboks’, Invited Lecture, International Invited Visit and Lecture Series, Taiwan, December 2008: Conference on South African Rugby. Rugby and Empire. Department of Sport and leisure Studies, National Dong Hwa England RFU, Museum of Rugby, Twickenham Stadium, University, Hualian City; College of Sports and Recreation, London. September 2006. National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei; Departments of Sport Science, National Taiwan Sports University, National ‘South African Cricket and the Expansion of Empire, 1888- Taichung University and National Chung Hsing University, 1910’, British Society of Sports History conference, St Martin’s Taichung City. College, Lancaster. September 2006. ‘The Race for Supremacy: The Politics of White Sport in South ‘Rebuilding a Nation’, International Conference on Social th Africa’. Sport, Race and Ethnicity Conference. School of Science in Sport. 8 ISHPES Seminar. Sport, Nation, Leisure, Sport and Tourism, University of Technology, Sydney, Nationalism. Faculty of Sport Ljubljana, Slovenia. August 2006. Australia. December 2008. ‘Rugby and South African Politics’, Political Studies Association ‘South African Cricket and the Expansion of Empire, 1850- Annual Conference. Liberty, Security and Challenge of 1910’. South African Sports History Conference. Stellenbosch Government. University of Reading. UK, April 2006. University, South Africa. June 2008. ‘Rugby and Afrikaner Nationalism pre Apartheid’. Invited ‘Studying South African Sports History: A Current Perspective’. Lecture, International Conference on Rugby: ‘From Local to South African Sports History Conference. Stellenbosch Global’. The Historical Research Centre, Paris, France. October University, South Africa. June 2008. 2007. ‘South African Politics and Cricket, 1890-1910’. Political Session Chairman at British Society of Sports History Studies Association Sport and Politics Group Annual Conference, University of Stirling, UK, August 2007. Conference. Liverpool Hope University, UK, February 2008. ‘Cricket and Empire in South Africa’. Seminar on International ‘South African Sports History: Issues and Controversies’. 11th Cricket. Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of ISHPES International Congress: Sport in History: Promises and London, UK, March 2007. Problems. University of Stirling, UK, July 2009. 2004-2005 ------------------------------------------------ 2001-2003 ------------------------------------------------ ‘PhD Methodology’, International Summer School: Sport, ‘Beating Them at Their Own Game’, War and Society in Africa Socialisation and Education, University of Copenhagen, conference, South African Military Academy, Western Cape, Denmark, August 2004. South Africa, Sept 2001 ‘Rugby, War and Reconstruction in South Africa’, North ‘Rugby and Nationalism’, Sport and Politics conference, American Society of Sports History conference, Monterey, University College Northampton, UK, Feb 2002. USA, May 2004. ‘Cricket and the Anglo-Boer War’, The State of Play ‘Tours of Reconciliation’, British Society of Sports History international conference, University of Ulster, Northern conference, University of Leicester, UK, April 2004. Ireland, Nov 2003. Session Chairman at British Society of Sports History ‘Cricket and Imperialism’, PhD seminar, De Montfort conference, University of Glamorgan, UK, Sept. 2005. University, Leicester, UK, Oct 2003. ‘Sport and the South African War’, Sport and War conference, Chairman at VIIIth Congress of the International Society for International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De the History of Physical Education and Sport, Urbino, Italy, July Montfort University, Leicester, UK, June 2005. 2003. 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