| Friday March 5, 2010 |
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. -
Walter Hall, Room 135
Welcome Address: Dr. Steve Howard, Director Institute for the African Child
Opening remarks: Dr Randy Leite, Interim Dean College of Health and Human services
Homage to Dennis Brutus
Dr. Ghirmai Negash
Dr. Zakes Mda
Siphokazi Magadla (Poem)
Keynote introduction: Dr. Andrew Kreutzer - Sports Administration
Keynote Address:Mr. Hugh Bartis,Neslon Mandela Metropolitan University (South Africa)
2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa: Planning and Expectations |
4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Grover Center Atrium
Opening Reception
Poster Presentation - Sport and Development Students' projects |
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m - Grover Center W115
Round Table – Discussion
Practices of Sport and Development - Practitionners' share experience
Introduction: Justin Jones, Ohio University |
Soccer for Education and Cultural Exchange - Play Soccer and Ohio University Partnership
Mike Raskys - Play Soccer Nonprofit International
YES with Africa
Jemadari Kamara - YES with Africa/Massachussett University
Patrick de Souza - YES with Africa Senegal
Ousseynou Ndiaga Diop - Senegal Basketball Federation, Technical Director
OA Projects in Uganda
Gaving Hollet
- OA Projects |
| Saturday March 6, 2010 |
8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. - Grover Center W115
The media, technology, communication and sports
Facilitator: Ali Zyati |
The use of communications technology among commercial sex workers in Johannesburg: Influences of the FIFA World Cup
Andrew Carlson - Ohio University
Imag(ining) ing Africa: Taking the politics out of sports
Fletcher Ziwoya - Ohio University
Web 2.0 as a motivational tool for runners in Africa: A textual analysis of nikerunning.com.
Musonda Kapatamoyo - Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville
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10:00 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. - Grover Center W115
Sport, development and social change
Facilitator: Francis Godwyll |
Global and Political dimensions in Ghana’s sport development
Virginia Bunker - Indiana University- Bloomington
Two "holistic" worlds meet: Lessons learned during my trip to South Africa
Sheri Huckleberry - Ohio University
Globalization and the African soccer manager: A lesson of failure for the leadership in African Sport
Kwabena Owusu-Kwarteng - Ohio University
State, Society, and the Olympic Games in Rhodesia: Domestic and International Responses
Andrew Novak - Boston University |
11-50 p.m. – 12:50 p.m. - Grover Center W115
Brown Bag Movie Session
Zanzibar Soccer Queens A film by Florence Ayisi |
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1:00p.m. – 2:40 - Grover Center W115
Sports and Politics
Facilitator: Yegan Pillay |
‘Its Africa’s turn’: Putting symbolic politics into perspective with South Africa 2010
Bose Maposa - Ohio University
The Super-diplomat: Thabo Mbeki’s African Renaissance and South Africa FIFA World Cup 2010
Siphokazi Magadla - Ohio University
Soccer, culture, the vuvuzela and the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Douglas Mpondi - Columbus State Community College
The political economy of Al Jazeera sports in North Africa.
Ali Zyati - Marietta College |
2:50 p.m. – 4:05 p.m. - Grover Center W115
Sports and Gender
Facilitator: Athena Yamounianis |
The significance of 800 meters and African female athletes
Martha Saavedra - University of California Berkeley
Gender Empowerment through Sport: Some Considerations
Jennifer McArdle - Ohio University |
4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. - Grover Center W115
Round Table: Sport, Arts and Literature
Facilitator: Arthur Hughes |
Reading Invictus and Brutus: An exploration of the politics of heroism and globalization in sport
Simon Akindes - University of Wisconsin Parkside
Akon as a transnational agent for the 2010 World Cup
Kristofer Olsen - Ohio University
Representing sports in contemporary African art: Global flows through Pan-Africanism, Transnationalism, and Colonialism
Andrea Frohne - Ohio University |
5:30 p.m.
Closing Remarks |
From 7:00 p.m
Ghana Independance Day Celebration
Ohio University African Student Union from Ghana
Banquet - Music - Dance |
