Football Codes in the Asian Century panel discussion
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Victoria University's College of Sport and Exercise Science will host a free public panel discussion on ‘Football Codes in the Asian Century’.
This event will be the opening session of The Worlds of Football III - an international, multi-disciplinary, multi-code conference in January 2015 – the ninth in a series of football studies conferences hosted by the College.
The topic of the panel discussion is ‘Football Codes in the Asian Century: Understanding the Past and Predicting the Future for Players, Teams, Clubs, Officials and Fans.'
Panel members
Professor Satoshi Shimizu
Professor Satoshi Shimizu
Satoshi Shimizu is a Professor at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. He is the current Chair of the Master’s program in Health and Sport Sciences and Vice-Chair of the Tsukuba International Academy for Sport Studies. Professor Shimizu is a leading scholar in Japan in the Sociology of Sport and Body Culture Studies. His research includes work on the cultural politics of baseball and football, cultural understandings of the body, and Olympic studies.
Associate Professor Jennifer Curtin
Associate Professor Jennifer Curtin
Jennifer Curtin is an Associate Professor in Comparative Politics and Public Policy at the University of Auckland. One of her interests is gender and the politics of sport, and she is currently writing a book on women and rugby in New Zealand from the 1860s to the present, tentatively titled "More than a Man's Game". The research explores women's engagement with the game as spectators, fans, mothers, players, administrators and critics.
Dr Matthew Klugman
Dr Matthew Klugman
Dr Matthew Klugman is a Senior Lecturer in Victoria University’s College of Sport & Exercise Science, researching and teaching in the history of sport. His research interests include those who love and hate sport, and the intersections of sport, passions, bodies, gender, sexuality, religion, migration and race. In 2013 Matthew received the Vice-Chancellor's Peak Award for Excellence in Research and Research Training (Early Career Researcher).
Professor Seongsik Cho
Professor Seongsik Cho
Seongsik Cho is a Professor at Hanyang University, teaching the Sociology of Sport. In 2009, he received the Best Paper Award in Olympic Council of Asia Congress. His past experience includes being on the senior research fellow of Korean Institute of Sports Science. In addition to teaching, he currently serves as an executive board member and an editorial board member for Korean Society for the Sociology of Sport.
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