K-12 Public School Outreach (cont.)

.... IES invites school teachers to this conference and hosts a luncheon that also serves as a discussion session, during which we ask for input on ways we might adapt the conference papers into materials that will be useful to them and their students. This gives us an opportunity to nurture our relations with regional teachers and expand our educator networks.

Soccer Great David Beckham Argues with Opposing Team

In 2007-08, UC Berkeley Sociology Ph.D. candidate Jennifer Snow adapted proceedings from IES’ conference, Sports and the Formation of Modern European Identities. Her project comprises five chapters, each departing from and expanding upon issues raised in selected conference papers. Chapter One discusses the challenges inherent in trying to formulate a definition of sports. Chapter Two examines sport from the player’s perspective , and, drawing upon Kerwin Klein’s discussion of modern alpinism, demonstrates that participants can attach diverse meanings to single sports over time. Chapter Three analyses sport from the spectator’s perspective; Chapter Four explores the interconnection of sports and politics, using conference papers on Stalinist Soviet Union and Nazi Germany as case studies; and Chapter Five presents critical arguments for changing the way sports are organized, so as to grant them more positive societal roles. You may view and utilize the packet here.

— Noga Wizansky