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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Sport_literature_association <kumailman-bounces@lists.ku.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>joyced1001@cs.com<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 20, 2021 10:17 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> sport_literature_association-owner@lists.ku.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> CFP: Sports and Soccer in Mediterranean Literatures, Arts, and Cultures<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Sports and Soccer in Mediterranean Literatures, Arts, and Cultures</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">NEMLA Conference, Baltimore (MD), 10-13 March 2022</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Francesco Brenna, Towson University (<a href="mailto:fbrenna@towson.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">fbrenna@towson.edu</span></a>)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Erin Twohig, Georgetown University (<a href="mailto:ekt12@georgetown.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">ekt12@georgetown.edu</span></a>)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">This panel examines the presence of soccer/football in Mediterranean cultures—from literature and visual arts, to cinema and history, to music and philosophy.
We welcome papers on soccer in cultural production from any part of the Mediterranean world, including comparative approaches, as well as papers on literary and artistic aspects of the sport in journalism and media.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Examples of topics include (but are not limited to):</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">- Soccer in poetry;</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">- Soccer in visual arts;</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">- Soccer in songs;</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">- Soccer in prison camps during World War II;</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">- Women’s soccer;</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">- Fascism and soccer;</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">- Soccer and (post)colonialism;</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">- Soccer and issues of nationality.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">This panel seeks to explore the gaze that humanistic inquiry provides on soccer. What can the humanities tell us about soccer that social sciences, business,
or sport studies cannot? The panel will contribute to defining how the humanities study a multifaceted and multicultural phenomenon such as soccer, which is deeply connected to several pressing contemporary matters—such as migration, national identities, and
gender equality. By doing so, it will also reveal the pedagogical potential of using soccer to deal with these topics in academia, given the passion of millions of people for this sport in many cultures.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Given the multilingual scope of the panel, we ask for abstracts and papers in English.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Please submit an abstract through the NEMLA website by September 30, 2021:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> ________________________</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Francesco Brenna, PhD</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Assistant Professor of Italian</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Department of Foreign Languages</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Towson University</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">8000 York Rd | Towson, MD 21252 | USA</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;background:white">Joyce Duncan</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Dr. Joyce Duncan<br>
Faculty, ETSU, Ret.<br>
Managing Editor, Sport Literature Association<br>
Box 70270 ETSU, Johnson City, TN 37614<br>
423-202-0937<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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