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Reno, NV.  Please find below the full conference program.  This event is organized annually by the Center for Basque Studies, at the University of Nevada Reno, focusing on the area of study of that year’s William Douglass Distinguished Scholar named for the founder and supporter of the Center who retired Professor Emeritus in 1999. 

11th Annual Conference of the Center for Basque Studies

Play, Games and Sport: Bodies of Practice, Communities of Desire

April 19-21, 2012

Conference Organizers:
-Joseba Etxebeste, William Douglass Scholar, Center for Basque Studies; Professor, University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU)
-Clara Urdangarin, William Douglass Scholar, Center for Basque Studies; Professor, University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU)
-Mariann Vaczi, PhD Candidate, Center for Basque Studies
-Joseba Zulaika, Professor, Co-Director, Center for Basque Studies, Center for Basque Studies

2012 Play, Games and Sport: Bodies of Practice, 3 Communities of Desire

THURSDAY, APRIL 19

8:45-9am Opening Remarks: Scott Casper, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts; and Joseba Zulaika, Co-Director of the Center for Basque Studies
9 - 10am Pierre Parlebas: A New Scientific Paradigm Motor Praxiology
10 - 11am Jennifer Hargreaves: A Life in Sport: Memory, Narrative and Politics
11 - 12pm Bertrand During: Action, Technique and Communication
12 - 1pm Richard Giulianotti: Globalization and Sport: A Sociological Analysis of the Critical Themes and Issues
1 - 2pm Lunch
2 - 3pm Gary Armstrong: Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City
3 - 4pm Patricia Vertinsky: Examining Fairness and Gender Justice in Elite Sport
4 - 5pm Michael Messner: Gender Trouble in an Age of Soft Essentialism

FRIDAY, APRIL 20

9 -10am David Brent: The Concept of a Perfect Game
10 - 11am Joseba Etxebeste: Basque Games and Emotions: A Matter of Time
11 - 12pm Mariann Vaczi: Bilbao Catch-22: Passions and Double Binds in Soccer
12 -1pm Pere Lavega: Cooperative Games, Emotions and Gender from a Social Perspective
1 - 2pm Lunch
2 - 3pm Clara Urdangarin: Playing Basque in the Far West: Udaleku
3 - 4pm Jeremy MacClancy: Goitiberas: Going Where?
4 - 5pm Luc Collard: A Taste for Risk in Sports: How Do They Play a “Chickie Run” Game?

SATURDAY, APRIL 21

9 - 10am Olatz Gonzalez: Hand Ball Pelota: Identities, Affections and Contradictions in the Basque Arena
10 - 11am Richard O. Davies: Duel in the Reno Sun: The Heavy Weight Clash Between Maxie Baer and Paulino Uzcudun, July 3, 1931
11:30am Excursion to Lake Tahoe and Virginia City