From Habermas to Fanblogs: Exploring the Public Sphere of European Football
Thursday 24 April 2014 11h00-12h30 Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Seminar James Dorsey (Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University; and co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Fan Culture) The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer 12h30-14h00 Lunch 14h00-15h00 Round table Discussing Football: Public Sphere & Alternative Media (in Turkish) Participants: Daghan Irak, Bagis Erten, Tanil Bora, Ilker Yilmaz, Ugur Karacullukcu, Salih Demirci (Noat Samisa)
Friday 25 April 2014 9h00-09h30 Welcome & Introduction Ahmet Acar (President, Middle East Technical University) Atila Eralp (Director, Centre for European Studies, Middle East Technical Univ.) 09h30-09h45 Opening Address Başak Alpan/ Özgehan Şenyuva (Middle East Technical University) 09h45-10h30 Introductory Lecture Albrecht Sonntag (ESSCA School of Management) Public Spheres and Public Spaces – Undue Concept Stretching or Exploring New Territories? 10h30-10h45 Coffee break 10h45-12h45 Parallel Sessions 1 & 2 Session 1: Supporters’ perception of their public sphere 10h45-11h15 John McManus (University of Oxford) The Unanticipated Cosmopolitanism of the European Football Fan 11h15-11h45 Emir Guney (Kadir Has University) Football Supporters Europe: From Local Fan Groups to a Pan-European Network 11h45-12h15 Özgür Dirim Özkan (Virtua Research and Consultancy) Who Cares About Bosnia in Brazil in 2014? Lack of Constructing a Collective Identity Through Football in Bosnia Session 2: Solidarity and its limits 10h45-11h15 Nazım Sinan Odabaşı (Istanbul Bilgi University) Can solidarity among football fans form a public sphere? 11h15-11h45 Daniel Ziesche (German Sport University) “...And You’re Destroying Our Game”: RB Leipzig in Public Football Discourse 11h45-12h15 Sébastien Louis (University of Luxembourg) Mentalita Ultras: The Perspective of the Ultras Domination on European Football Fans 12h45-14h00 Lunch 14h00-14h45 Keynote Lecture 1 Arne Niemann and Alexander Brand (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz) ECJ rulings or Wayne Ronney's hair: Issues, non-issues and hidden issues in online football fan discourse 14h45-16h15 Session 3: New Media, New Rules 14h45-15h15 Okan Yılmaz (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne-EPFL) Ekin Can Göksoy (Istanbul Bilgi University) New Media, New Supporters: An Example of Transnationalism in Twitter 15h15-15h45 Fabien Wille (University of Lille North of France) Sport et European Public Sphere, A New Media Responsibility 16h00-16h30 Coffee break 16h30-17h15 Keynote Lecture 2 Roger Besson (CIES Football Observatory, Neuchâtel) The geography of the Europe of football 17h15-18h00 Closing Lecture, Day 1 Özgehan Şenyuva (Middle East Technical University) Ramon Llopis-Goig (University of Valencia) How European is the Public Sphere of Football? Preliminary Findings from the FREE surveys
Saturday 26 April 2014 09h00-10h30 Parallel Sessions 4 & 5 Session 4: Politics in and around the stadium 10h45-11h15 Timm Beichelt (European University Viadrina) Linking Public and Political Spheres: The Field of Football Politics 11h15-11h45 Ömer Turan (Istanbul Bilgi University) & Burak Özçetin (Akdeniz University) Football Fans at Gezi: Counterpublic in the Making 11h45-12h15 Bezen Balamir Coşkun (Zirve University), Gülçin Balamir Coşkun (Kemerburgaz University) From the Stadium to the Streets: The Political Activism of Çarşı Session 5: Gendered Spaces? 09h00-09h30 Martine Prange (Leiden University) Changing the Landscape of European Football Woman Football’s Transformative Effect on Europe’s Public Sphere 09h30-10h00 Nathanja van den Heuvel (Leiden University) Heterotopia & Women’s Football : Public Space in BeneLeague Football Clubs 10h00-10h30 Gertrud Pfister, Svenja Mintert, Verena Lenneis, Marianne Brandt-Hansen (University of Copenhagen) The football stadium still a men's space? – Staging masculinity in the fan zone 10h30-10h45 Coffee break
10h45-12h15 Parallel Sessions 6 & 7 Session 6: Economic Spaces? 10h45-11h15 Bülent Anıl (Bahcesehir University) The Economics of Space: Are Football Stadia Commercial or Public Spaces? 11h15-11h45 Chris Stone (Football Unites Racism Divides) European Football and Everyday Consumption 11h45-12h15 Mark Reeson (MR Project Solutions) P5 in Action – Is Modern Day Football a Sustainable Sport? Session 7: Local Case Studies 10h45-11h15 Sevecen Tunç (Boğaziçi University) Football, Space and the Social Construction of Istanbul as a Modern City 1945-60 11h15-11h45 Yağmur Nuhrat (Sabancı University) Discourses of nostalgia in making spaces of football in Istanbul 11h45-12h15 Seweryn Dmowski (University of Warsaw) “We, the yobbas, will overthrow your government!” Polish Football Stadiums as Spaces of Political Expression 2011-2013 12:15-12:45 Olga Chepurnaya (St. Petersburg State University) The Adventures of a Stadium in Wonderland A Case Study of the Project of a New Football Stadium in St. Petersburg, Russia
12h45-14:00 Lunch 14h00-14h30 “Our stadium, our space” – Fan Group Presentations 14h00-14h15 Presentation on Cebeci Stadium in Ankara 14h15-14h30 Presentation on Alsancak Stadium in Izmir
14h30-15h30 Closing Lecture, Day 2: James Dorsey (Nanyang Technological University/University of Würzburg) Concluding Thoughts on the Stadium as a Space of Political Expression
15h30-16h30 6th FREE General Assembly FREE consortium members only 16h30-19h30 FREE WP5 Workshop FREE consortium members only
Sunday 27 April 2014
11h00-12h30 WP8 coordination meeting (Part 1)
12h30-13h30 Lunch
13h30-15h00 WP8 coordination meeting (Part 2)
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The FREE – Football Research in an Enlarged Europe – project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 290805.