Sport: Probing the Boundaries
Saturday 2nd December – Sunday 3rd December 2017
Vienna, Austria
Final Conference Programme
Saturday 2nd December 2017
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:30-10:00 Ice breakers led by Phil Crisp
10:00 -11:15
Session 1 – The Business of Sport
Chair: Andrea Talentino
Commercialisation of Indian Sports—a Sea Change
Suresh Lau
Taking stock and making sense of match-fixing: new directions for interdisciplinary research
Andy Harvey
11:15-11:30 Tea and Coffee
11:30-12:30
Session 2 – Sport, Community and Experience
Chair: Sofia Rizzo
Leadership, bridging, and group-game engineering: best practice in community sport
Phil Crisp
Consuming health and sport in tourism retreats: examining relations between customer experience, satisfaction, subjective well-being, and loyalty
Timo Derriks
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:15
Session 4 Sports, Culture and Values
Chair: Blynne Olivieri
Power play at the Indian Mughal Court: An introspection of physical culture
Parul Gaur
What Has Sports Values-Themed Learning Ever Done for US?
Derek Peaple
15:15-15:30 Tea and Coffee
15:30-16:45
Session 3 – Gendered Experiences in Sport
Chair: Andy Harvey
Women in the Wilderness
Blynne Olivieri
Gendered Experience at the Gym
Sofia Rizzo
CrossFit: My Journey to Healing from Sexual Violence
Sherrie-Lee Petrie
16:45 – 17:45 Review of the first day and group discussion
18:00 Wine Reception
Sunday 3 December, 2017
9:00-10:00
Session 5 – Analyzing Sporting Trends
Chair: Derek Peaple
Big Data Analytics in Sport: Importance and Implications
Lidija Petrovic
A Different Point of View of Pay for Play
Kevin Brown and Antonio Williams
10:00-11:15 Group Discussion
11:15-11:30 Tea and Coffee
11:30-12:30
Session 6 – Power dynamics in Sports Mega-events
Chair: Phil Crisp
The Qatar World Cup: A quest for soft power like no other
James Dorsey
Sovereignty, Recognition, and Participation at the Olympic Games
Andrea Talentino
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:15
Round table discussion: Main challenges and opportunities in present-day sport
Moderator: Larry Olmsted
15:15-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:30 Final Wrap up and Call to Action