Thursday, June 14
9am – 9.30 Welcome coffee (IHEAL, 28, rue Saint Guillaume, 75007 Paris)
9.30 – 9.45 Welcome address
Olivier Compagnon (Director, IHEAL)
9.45 – 10.30 Inaugural conference
Paul Dietschy (Professor, Université de Franche Comté) « The World Cup: a historiographical object »*
10.30 – 10.45 Break
10.45 – 1pm Panel 1: The World cup: a showcase for the host country ?
chair : Mario del Pero (Professor, SciencesPo Paris)
- Clément Astruc (PhD candidate, IHEAL) « Showcasing Brazil in the Post Second World War : the 1950 World Cup »
- Axel Elías Jiménez (PhD, King’s College) « Achieving modernity through tradition: State formation and everyday politics during the 1970 World Cup »
- Juan Antonio Simón Sanjurjo (Professor, Universidad Europea de Madrid) « The FIFA World Cup 1982 or the symbolic end of the Democratic Transition process in Spain »
1pm – 2.30 Lunch
2.30 – 5.30 Panel 2 : Organizing the World Cup: local, national and international actors
chair : Julien Sorez (Senior lecturer, University of Picardie)
- Quentin Tonnerre (PhD candidate, ISSUL) « Between tourism and policy. The Swiss state and the 1954 World cup »
- Brenda Elsey (Assistant professor, Hofstra University) « "Because we have nothing". Politics, Gender, and Consumption in the 1962 World Cup »
- Mathew Taylor (Professor, De Montfort University, Leicester) « Welcome to Our England: Local Perspectives in the Making of the 1966 World Cup »
- Nicolas Sbetti (Postdoc, Università di Bologna) « Political stakes of the Italy 90 World Cup. »
8pm Dinner
Friday, June 15
9am – 9.30 Welcome coffee (Maison de la Recherche Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, 4, rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris)
9.30 – 12.30 Panel 3 : Heritage of the World cup
chair : Stefan Rinke (Professor, Freie Universität)
- Lorenzo Jalabert D'Amado PhD candidate, IHEAL) « Montevideo 1930, reassessing the attribution of the first World Cup »
- Daniele Serapiglia (Postdoc, Universidade Nova de Lisboa) « The 1934 World Cup in Italian society : memories of the tournament during and after the fascist period »
- Bernardo Buarque (Professor, Fondation Getúlio Vargas) « The Maracanã and the image of modern Brasil: from 1950 to 2014 »*
- Lívia Gonçalves Magalhães (Assistant Professor, Universidade Federal Fluminense) « 40 years after : memories and heritage of the Argentinian 1978' Mundial »
12.30 – 2pm Lunch
2pm – 4.15 Panel 4 : World Cup organization failures
chair : Frédéric Louault (Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles)
- Lucie Hémeury (PhD candidate, IHEAL) « Argentina's unfortunate applications to host the World cup during Peronism (1938-1954) »
- George Kioussis (Assistant professor, California State University) « “Carrots and Sticks”: The American Bid for the FIFA 1986 World Cup »
- Philippe Vonnard (Postdoc, Institut des sciences de la communication, Paris-Sorbonne) « A “real“ application ? Switzerland and the 1998 World cup »*
4.15 – 4.30 Break
4.30 – 6pm Round table : Conclusions of the congress and contemporary perspective of the the World cup
chair : Grégory Quin (Senior lecturer, Université de Lausanne)
Speakers :
- Fabien Archambault (Senior lecturer, Unilim, Limoges)
- Xavier Breuil (Assistant researcher, Université de Besançon)
- Brenda Elsey (Assistant professor, Hofstra University)onfirmed
- Jürgen Mittag (Professor, Deutsche Sporthochschule, Cologne)
7.30 Closing of the symposium