International Conference on Sports in Malmö, Sweden
April 8–12, 2010
Keynote Speakers (confirmed)


  • Richard Guilianotti, Durham University
    “Football and Globalization”
  • Simon Gardiner & Roger Welch, “Nationality and Protectionism in Football: Why are FIFA’s 6+5 Rule and UEFA’s ‘Home Grown Player Rule’ on the Agenda”
  • Hans Hognestad, Telemark University College
    “The Development of Football in Scandinavia: Identity and Commercialisation”
  • Pia Sundhage, Head Coach, US Women's National Soccer Team
    “Developing Women Football: Problems and Challenges”
  • Marion Keim Lees, University of Western Cape
    “Football as Social Development in South Africa”
  • Kari Fasting, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
    “Sport, Gender and Sexual Harassment”
  • Celia Brackenridge, Brunel University
    “Children’s rights in football: welfare and work”
  • Pirkko Markula, University of Alberta
    “Performing Bodies: Discursive Construction of the Women Athletes' Identity”
  • Sigmund Loland, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
    “Rethinking fairness: Genetics, sex and gender in competitive sport”
  • Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney
    “Sport, Gender and Globalisation”
  • Martin Polley, University of Southampton
    “Sweaters and Swimsuits: knitting patterns as sources for the history of sport and gender”
  • Jorid Hovden, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
    “When Difference means Inequality. Discourses and Strategies for the Inclusion of Women in Sport”
  • Gertrud Pfister, University of Copenhagen
    “Muslim women and sports”


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