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[ Image: 2015 Women’s World Cup Official Poster ]
The Futures of Women’s Soccer
A One-Day Symposium
The Futures of Women’s Soccer brings together scholars, journalists, and former players to discuss the past and future of women’s soccer, exploring how history can help to understand the institutional barriers and models for development that have surrounded women’s participation in the game, and discuss the best strategies for cultivating full and equal participation. The symposium examines the role of sexism in the media and how it influences the coverage of women’s soccer, as well as the upcoming Women’s World Cup in Canada, and what can be expected from this tournament both on and off the pitch. The conference was co-organized by Laurent Dubois and Joshua Nadel of North Carolina Central University.
Opening Plenary: “Women and Soccer: Research Agendas and Policy Debates”
Jean Williams, DeMontfort University
10 am – 11:30 am
Panel 1: Institutional Impediments and Models of Development
12 – 2 pm (A light lunch will be available for all attendees)
How does an understanding of the history of women’s soccer help us understand its current configuration and challenges? What are the best strategies for developing women’s soccer: incorporation into powerful sporting institutions, or cultivating alternative institutions? If we could create the ideal institutional contexts for supporting women’s soccer today, what would they look like?
Brenda Elsey, Hofstra University
Carla Overbeck, Former Captain, U.S. Natl. Team, Asst. Coach, Duke Women’s Soccer
Cindy Parlow Cone, Former player of U.S. National Team and Coach
Jen Schaefer, Emory University
Moderator: Jennifer Doyle, University of California, Riverside
Panel 2: The Role of Media
2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
How does sexism in the media operate with regards to the representation and coverage of women’s soccer? How has media coverage evolved in the past decades? What kind of role can today’s media – both mainstream outlets and alternative spheres, including social media – play in supporting women’s soccer?
Shireen Ahmed, Writer and Blogger
Jennifer Doyle, University of California, Riverside
Sarah Gehrke, Media Relations and Social Media, Washington Spirit
Mónica González, Former player of Mexican National Team and ESPN Analyst
Moderator: Jean Williams, De Montfort University
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The Futures of Women’s Soccer by Shireen Ahmed, Tales From a Hijabi Footballer
Jean Williams at the Soccer Symposium by Anthony Russo, Soccer Politics Blog
Speakers
Shireen Ahmed
Shireen Ahmed is a writer, public speaker and sports activist focusing on Muslim women in Sports. She is an athlete, advocate, community organizer, and works with Youth of Colour on empowerment projects and is an avid sports coach and mentor. She is a regular contributor to Muslimah Media Watch, a…...
Read MoreCindy Parlow Cone
Cindy Parlow Cone is the former head coach for Portland Thorns FC in the National Women's Soccer League, and a retired American professional soccer player and two-time Olympic Gold medalist. Parlow Cone played college soccer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a four-time All-American…...
Read MoreJennifer Doyle
University of California, Riverside
Jennifer Doyle is a Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. Her most recent book, Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art (Duke University Press, 2013) explores the idea of difficulty in art, ideologies of emotion, and how emotion circulates in and around art in flows that are…...
Read MoreBrenda Elsey
Hofstra University
Brenda J. Elsey studies the history of popular culture and politics in 20th-century Latin America, in addition to gender, social theory, and Pan-Americanism. She is a senior editor for Oxford University Press’s Research Essays in Latin American History: Southern Cone. She is co-author of Futbolera: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in…...
Read MoreMónica González
ESPN
Mónica González has been an ESPN soccer commentator since 2011 as a soccer commentator, when she covered the FIFA Women’s World Cup Germany 2011. González serves as a sideline reporter for select events, including the U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Teams on ESPN, studio and match analyst for the Longhorn…...
Read MoreCarla Overbeck
Duke University
Carla Overbeck is a retired American soccer player and longtime member and captain of the United States women's national soccer team. She is currently an assistant coach of Duke University's women's soccer team, where she has been coaching since 1992, overseeing Duke's defensive unit principally. She was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in…...
Read MoreJennifer L. Schaefer
Emory University
Jennifer L. Schaefer is a doctoral candidate in Latin American History at Emory University. Her dissertation, “Rebels, Martyrs, Heroes: Authoritarianism and Youth Culture in Argentina, 1966-1983,” analyzes how young people mobilized the symbolic power of these archetypes through public acts of commemoration. She earned a MA in Latin American Studies…...
Read MoreJean Williams
University of Wolverhampton/JJHeritage Consultancy
Jean Williams is the leading global scholar of women's football. She is Professor of Sport and Athena Swan Academic Lead at the University of Wolverhampton and consults with museums, arts and heritage organizations, including Silverstone motor racing circuit and Notts County Football Club Football in the Community. Jean is the…...
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