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Page Contents: Conference organisers | ASSH ACT | Centre for Sports Studies, University of Canberra Conference organisersSporting Traditions XVI will be hosted by the Centre for Sports Studies, University of Canberra (UC),* with the able support of the ACT Chapter of the Australian Society for Sports History (ASSH).** Manager: Committee: Treasurer: Registration Officer: Marketing: Media liaison:
**ASSH ACTThe ACT Chapter of ASSH was founded in Sept 2003 by a Canberra-based group of sports history enthusiasts. Since that time ASSH ACT has hosted regular Chapter meetings at Eastlake Football Club, featuring guest speakers who have addressed a range of historical and contemporary topics in sport. A highlight of ASSH ACT’s development came in April 2004, when the Chapter staged its inaugural conference – ‘Beyond the Torch: Olympics and Australian Culture’. Selected papers from that symposium have since been reworked as book chapters in D. Adair, B. Coe, and N. Guoth (eds), Beyond the Torch: Olympics and Australian Culture, ASSH Studies 17, Melbourne, 2005. ASSH ACT presently has around 20 active contributors, and has established solid links with key bodies such as the Australian Sports Commission, Australian Olympic Movement, the Australian War Memorial, the National Museum of Australia, and the National Capital Authority.
*CENTRE FOR SPORTS STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRAIn 1991 the University of Canberra had the honour of hosting Sporting Traditions VIII. Sixteen years hence, we are delighted to be staging Sporting Traditions XVI in Australia's national capital. The city of Canberra has made a significant contribution to Australian sport, particularly since both the Australian Sports Commission and the Australian Institute of Sport were established there in the early 1980s. In terms of historical inquiry, Canberra is an important site for sports history research. Scholars have ready access to an array of sources in the National Sport Information Centre at the ASC, the National Library of Australia, the National Archives, the National Museum of Australia, ScreenSound Australia, and the Australian War Memorial. From an educational perspective, the University of Canberra has played a key role in the provision of tertiary education in the ACT sports industry, with the Centre for Sports Studies offering degrees in Sports Management, Sports Media and Coaching Science since 1981. Sports history has flourished among academics at UC, and with scholars who began their careers at the Centre for Sports Studies. A pioneer of academic sports history in Australia, Prof Bill Mandle, led the Faculty of Communication during the 1980s. His seminal studies included “The professional cricketer in England in the nineteeth century”, Labour History, no. 23, Nov. 1972, pp.1-16; “Games people played: cricket and football in England and Victoria in the late Nineteenth Century”, Historical Studies, vol. 15, no. 60, April 1973, pp.511-35; and “Cricket and Australian nationalism in the nineteenth century”, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. 59, no. 4, Sept. 1973, pp.225-46. Prof Mandle has been retired for several years, and now resides in the sleepy coastal New South Wales town of Moruya. Just as influential was UC's Prof Brian Stoddart (UWA), who headed the Centre for Sports Studies and led the Faculty of Communication and Education for much of the 1980s and 1990s. Among his array of early publications was the path-breaking study Saturday Night Fever: Sport in the Australian Culture, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1986. Important later additions to Stoddart’s portfolio include (with Hilary Beckles) Liberation Cricket: West Indies Cricket Culture, Palgrave, London, 1995; and (with Keith Sandiford) The Imperial Game: Cricket, Culture and Society, Manchester Univ Press, Manhester, 1998. Prof Stoddart is currently Vice Chancellor and President of La Trobe University, Melbourne. Joining Stoddart at the CSS in the late 1980s was Philip Mosely (Univ of Sydney), who is best known for two major studies in the 1990s: Ethnic Involvement in Australian Soccer: A History, 1950-1990, National Sports Research Centre, Belconnen ACT, 1995; and the multi-edited volume Sporting Immigrants: Sport and Ethnicity in Australia, Walla Walla Press, Crows Nest NSW, 1997. Dr Mosely is presently Vice Master of Queen’s College, University of Melbourne. Succeeding Mosely in the early 1990s was Dr Murray Phillips (University of Queensland), who taught sports humanities at UC for seven years. He is now a Senior Lecturer in the School of Human Movement Studies at the University of Queensland and is one of Australia's leading sports historians. Among Phillips' long list of publications is a pioneering historical study of the coaching profession – From Sidelines to Centre Field: A History of Sports Coaching in Australia, Univ of NSW Press, Sydney, 2000. He is also editor of a seminal work on sports historiography - Sport History into the New Millennium: A Postmodern Analysis. SUNY Press, New York, 2005. In the mid 1990s, Brett Hutchins completed a Masters thesis at UC; he then completed a Doctorate at the University of Queensland under the supervision of Murray Phillips. Hutchins has since worked as a lecturer in sociology lecturer at the University of Tasmania, and a lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University. He has written numerous articles in sports history and sociology, but is best known as the author of the acclaimed biography Don Bradman: Behind the Myth, Cambridge Univ Press, Melbourne 2002. Finally, in 1998 Dr Daryl Adair left the School of Human Movement Studies, Univ of Queensland, to join UC. He became Senior Lecturer in Humanities in 2002 and served as Head of the Centre for Sports Studies until 2005. Adair is the author of various publications in sports history and cognate areas, including (with Wray Vamplew) the introductory thematic text Sport in Australian History, Oxford Univ Press, Melbourne, 1997. Adair’s latest book (with Brent Ritchie) is Sport Tourism: Interrelationships, Impacts and Issues, Channel View Publications, London, 2004.
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