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“The Cultures and Politics of Leisure in the British Isles & the United States” An International... more “The Cultures and Politics of Leisure in the British Isles & the United States”
An International Symposium Organized by the Research Group Histoire et Dynamique des Espaces Anglophones (HDEA), Université Paris-Sorbonne
Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France
November 6-7, 2015
Friday November 6, Université Paris-Sorbonne,
Historical Sorbonne building (1, rue Victor Cousin, 75005 Paris), Room J636
9:00-9:15 am
Registration of participants
9:15-9:30 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks by Pascal Aquien, Vice-President of the Scientific Council, Université Paris-Sorbonne
9:30-10:30 am
Session 1 – Situating and Materializing Leisure (I): The Territories of Leisure [Chair: Aurélie Godet, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7]
Elsa Devienne, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre:
“Building a Beach for the Modern City: Urban Planning and the Making of New York and Los Angeles’ Beaches (1930s-1970s)”
Nicolas Martin-Breteau, Université de Lille 3:
“‘Patient and Tolerant to an Extreme’: The Desegregation of Baltimore's Leisure Areas in the “Long” Civil Rights Movement (1930s-1950s)”
10:30-11:00 am: Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 am
Session 2 – Situating and Materializing Leisure (II): Bodies at Play [Chair: Hélène Quanquin, Université Paris-Sorbonne]
Lawrence McDonnell, Department of History, Iowa State University:
“Dancing Up a Storm: Elite Leisure and Gender Confusion in the Old South (1840-1850)”
Olaf Stieglitz, Dept History, University of Cologne, Germany:
“Debs & Surf Queens – Swimming and Modern Female Bodies in the United States, 1900s – 1930s”
12:00 am -2:00 pm: Conference Lunch
2:00-3:00 pm: Keynote Address [Chair: Laurent Châtel]
Emma Griffin, University of East Anglia:
“Remaking Leisure for the Modern World: Changing Practices 1750-1914”
3:00-4:30 pm:
Session 3 – The Politics of Leisure (I): Engagement, Resistance, Repression [Chair: Paul Schor, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7]
Sarah Pickard, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle:
“Serious Leisure, Serious Pleasure: Applying the Serious Leisure Model to Political Participation Among Young People in Britain”
Michael Stewart Foley, University of Groningen:
“We Are the One: Subcultural Leisure and Politics in Early San Francisco Punk”
Peter Marquis, Université de Rouen:
“The Politics of Leisure: Baseball and Anti-Communist Containment in Cold War Brooklyn”
4:30-5:00 pm: Coffee Break
5:00-6:30 pm:
Session 4 – The Politics of Leisure (II): Boundaries of Nationalism [Chair: Franziska Heimburger, Université Paris-Sorbonne]
Karine Chambefort, Université Paris-Est Créteil:
“Outdoor Leisure Activities in Simon Roberts’s We English Photographic Project: Re-Writing Landscape and Nation”
Kristin Hass, Department of American Culture, University of Michigan:
“Militarism and Tourism in 21st Century Washington: High Stakes Deep Play on the National Mall”
Jeremy R. Kinney, Curator, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum:
“The British Sports Car and American Leisure, 1945-1985”
6:30 pm: Cocktail
Saturday Nov. 7, Petit Amphithéâtre,
Maison de la Recherche (28 rue Serpente, 75005 Paris)
9:00-9:30 am:
Registration
9:30-10:30 am:
Session 5 – Communities of Leisure [Chair: Pierre Lurbe, Université Paris-Sorbonne]
Mathilde Bertrand, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne:
“‘Making the Art of Fun Freely Available’: Leisure Practices as Tools of Emancipation in Community art Experiments in Britain in the 1970s”
Arnaud Page, Université Paris-Sorbonne:
“‘Work or Leisure?’: The Politics of Allotment Gardening in Great Britain”
10:30-11:00 am: Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 am
Session 6 – Institutions of Leisure [Chair: Nathalie Caron, Université Paris-Sorbonne]
Claire Delen, Université Paris-Sorbonne:
“Organised Leisure at Huntley and Palmers’ Biscuit Factory (1841-1976)”
Emmanuel Roudaut, Sciences Po Lille:
“Tote Clubs, Dog Tracks and Newspaper Competitions: Moral Panics and Popular Leisure in Interwar Britain”
Thibaut Clément, Université Paris-Sorbonne:
“‘Adults Are Only Grown Up Kids Anyway’: Play and its Practical Uses at the Happiest Place on Earth”
12:30-2:00 pm: Conference Lunch
2:00-3:00 pm: Keynote Address [Chair: Andrew Diamond, Université Paris-Sorbonne]
Victoria Wolcott, University of Buffalo, New York:
“Dangerous Play: Racial Conflict in Twentieth-Century Urban Amusements”
3:00-4:40 pm
Session 7 – Playing Indian, Indians at Play [Chair: Marine Le Puloch, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7]
Fabrice Delsahut, ESPE Paris 4:
“Du baggataway au Lacrosse. Un exemple de la sportivisation des jeux amérindiens”
Suzanne Berthier-Foglar, Université Stendhal – Grenoble 3:
“Indian ‘Detours’ in New Mexico (19th – 20th century): A Primitivist Pastime or a Tool of Integration?”
Mathieu Charle, EHESS-LIAS
“Public Festivals, Private Rituals: An analysis of Contemporary American Indian Pow-Wows of the Northwest”
4:30-5:00 pm: Coffee Break
5:00-6:30
Session 8 – The Technologies of Leisure [Chair: Divina Frau-Meigs, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle]
Yves Figueiredo, Université Paris-Sorbonne:
“The Uses of Photography and the Definition of Leisure Practices in California and the West (1880s – 1910s)”
Pierre-Louis Patoine, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle:
“Leisure and Technical Milieu in the 21st century: Inhabiting Fantasy Worlds through Video Game Playing and Literary Reading”
Olivier Frayssé, Université Paris-Sorbonne:
“Leisure in the Age of the Internet: Solution and Dissolution”
8:00 pm: Conference Dinner