Third Symposium: Summaries

Summaries are available on this page, overall reactions to the symposium on the responses page.

The 1948 Olympics: the eve of Europe’s reconstruction
Daphne Bolz
Department of Sports Studies, University of Rouen, France

Football and media: new sport paradigms in the global area
Miquel de Moragas, Christopher Kennett, Xavier Ginesta
Department of Media, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

Sport and Soviet television
Robert Edelman
Department of History, University of California, San Diego, USA

The cultural politics of recreational access in North West Europe
Paul Gilchrist
Research & Graduate College of Sport, Chelsea School, University of Brighton

Soviet physical culture and sport – a European legacy?
Nikolaus Katzer
Department of History, Helmut-Schmidt-University, Hamburg, Germany

Regulatory regimes in European sport
Anthony King
Department of Sociology, Exeter University, UK

Reviewing the globalisation of football on television
Toby Miller
Department of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside, USA

European integration and ‘Europeanisation’: The case of football in Germany and Austria
Arnie Niemann
Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

The World Festival of Youth: East German sport and communist culture
Kay Schiller
Department of History, University of Durham, UK

East beats West: Ice hockey and the Cold War
John Soares
Department of History, University of Notre Dame, USA

‘Jeux avec Frontieres’: Television markets and European sport
Stefan Szymanski
Cass Business School, City University, London, UK

Dealing with the past and planning the future: The Olympic Games of Rome and Barcelona
Guiseppe Telesca
Department of History, University of Florence, Italy

Sporting formations and cultures: Europe versus the USA?
Maarten van Bottenburg
Department of Social Science, University of Utrecht, Netherlands

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