the 2007 sla conference program:
skidmore college
saratoga springs, new york
dan nathan and jeff segrave, hosts
craig riordan, program chair
Dikaia Chatziefstathiou, Frank Fury, Michelle Sanders, and Mark Bresnan in Saratoga Springs
thurs 6.21 fri 6.22 sat 6.23 sun 6.24
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON/THURSDAY MORNING
REGISTRATION
Case Center Information Desk
Note: All breakfast is on your own
THURSDAY, June 21, 2007
Greetings and Opening Remarks
08:30-09:00
Dan Nathan and Jeff Segrave, Skidmore
Session 1 9:00-10:15 a.m.
Race, Gender and Attitudes
Charlotte and Sylvester Frazier in Saratoga Springs
Chair: Susan Bandy
Sylvester Frazier, University of Texas, Arlington, "The NFL Combine and the Black Male Body"
Dikaia Chatziefstathiou, Canterbury Christ Church University, "Reading Baron Pierre de Coubertin: The Contested Nature of Olympism in Terms of Race and Gender"
Brad McDuffie, Nyack College, "Some Girls Just Don't Know When to Go Home: Infield Chatter and Rite of Passage in J.D. Salinger's 'The Laughing Man'"
Session 2 10:30 a.m.-Noon
Age and Wisdom
Chair: Eric Solomon
H.R. Stoneback, State University of New York, "Walking, Hiking, Fishing: 'Moving' In the Modernist Landscape with Pound and Hemingway."
Gregg Neikirk, Westfield State College, "The Bad Boxers of Hemingway: Passion in the Wrong Places."
Douglas McLaughlin, California State University, Northridge, "A Tale of Two Creatures: Grasshopper from Aesop to Updike."
Matthew Nickel, State University of New York at New Paltz, "Sporting with Sharp Eyes: Adventures with John Burroughs in the Hudson Valley."
LUNCH 12:00-1:30, Murray-Aikins Dining Hall
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Jay D'Arcy explains; John Morefield is skeptical
Session 3 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Sport and Celluloid
Chair: Neil Nakadate
Michele Schiavone, Marshall University, "We Are Marshall: What is the True Story?"
Craig Riordan, Humboldt State University, "The Race Goes On: Victory, Faith, and Fulfillment of Judah Ben-Hur."
Damian Carpenter, Queensbury, New York, "Slap Shots and Miracles: Hockey's Quintessential Portrayals and Representations on Film."
David Kilpatrick, Mercy College, "Kick Flicks: The Resurgence of Soccer Cinema."
Session 4 3:15-4:45 p.m.
Art and Games
Chair: Dick Stull
Lorna Jackson, University of Victoria, "Hockey Owl: Todd Bertuzzi and the Game Through Art."
Jeff Segrave, Skidmore College, "The Legacy of Pietro Metastasio's L'Olimpiade in Music, Music and Literary History of the Olympic Games."
Joseph Stanton, University of Hawaii, "The Cardinals in the World Series: A Chronicle In Verse."
Eric Solomon, San Francisco State University, "Baseball . . ."
Barbeque Dinner
6:00-7:15
Porter Plaza
Cash Bar
Session 5 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Poetry Reading
Chair: Mark Noe
H.R. Stoneback, State University of New York
Neil Nakadate, Iowa State University
Ron Smith, St. Christopher's School
Dale Ritterbusch, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Dick Stull, Humboldt State University
Brad McDuffie, Nyack College
Joseph Stanton, University of Hawaii
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FRIDAY, June 22, 2007
Session 6 8:30-10:00 a.m.
On the Gridiron
Chair: Ron Smith
Mark Bresnan, University of Iowa, "The Savage Commands of Unreasonable Men: Sport Academies in End Zone and Infinite Jest."
Julian Meldon D'Arcy, University of Iceland, "Red Badge of the Running Back: Stephen Crane and Football."
Michael Oriard, Oregon State University, "Telling Stories, Selling the NFL."
Paul Verrette, Lee, New Hampshire, "The Year the Clock Ran Out: The 1967 NFL Championship Game as Metaphor."
Session 7 10:15 a.m.-Noon
Original Fiction, Part 1
Chair: Craig Riordan
David Zang, Towson University, "All the Marbles."
Dick Stull, Humboldt State University (with Tim Randles music), "Body Shots in A Minor"
Duncan Jamieson, Ashland University, "The Boy."
FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FREE FOR VARIOUS ACTIVITIES
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SATURDAY, June 23, 2007
Session 8 8:30-10:15 a.m.
International Perspectives
"Do not lead; we may not follow." Michele Schiavone, Program Chair Craig Riordan, and Jay D'Arcy
Chair: Julian D'Arcy
Wendy Varney, University of Wollongong, "Batting Average Takes Center Stage in Australian Cricket Comedy."
Susan Bandy and Vicki Bjerre, Semmelweis University, "Scandinavian Sport Literature: Idraet, Kropskultur, and Life Stories."
Jeff Hill, De Montfort University, "A Novel Approach to Scottish Football: Robin Jenkins, Scottish Identity, and The Thistle and the Grail."
John Morefield, East Tennessee State University, "Capoeira Angola in the Novels of Jorge Amado."
Session 9 10:30 a.m.--noon
Sport and Creativity in the Water and on Dry Land
Chair: Scott Peterson
Michelle Sanders, Abilene Christian University, "Down and Back Again."
Zachary Jack, North Central College, "Cry Me a River: Narrative Art and Artifice and the Great American Float."
Frank Fury, Farmingdale, New Jersey, "The Playful Text and the World of Play: Male Homosocial Adventuring in Don Quixote and Fight Club."
Fred Mason, University of New Brunswick, "Sports as the Opiate of the Masses in Dystopian Science Fiction."
Noon-1:30 p.m.: Lunch and Business Meeting: Murray-Aikins Dining Hall
Session 10 1:30-3:00 p.m.
The View from Here: Unique Perspectives
Chair: Dick Crepeau
Dennis Gildea, Springfield College, "Reading Bee, Liking Bee, Making No Apologies."
Tim Morris, University of Texas, Arlington, "Orientation to History in the Juvenile Baseball Time-Travel Novels of Dan Gutman."
Don Johnson, East Tennessee State University, "A Ball as Big as the Moon: Sport in the Fiction of Richard Ford"
David Dowling, University of Iowa, "Grounded In the Basics."
Session 11 3:15-4:15 p.m.
Original Fiction, Part 2
Chair: Michele Schiavone
Dave Barney, Albuquerque Academy, "My Friend Fritz & the 'Egghead,' a Fictional Memoir."
John Morefield, East Tennessee State University, "Wildlife of Brazil."
Scott Peterson, University of Maine, "Reeling In the Corn."
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Tim Morris and Karen Vanderwerken toast SLA's 24th Banquet
BANQUET 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Guest Speaker: Eliot Asinof
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SUNDAY, June 24, 2007
9:00-10:00 a.m. Brunch
Session 12 10:00-11:30 a.m.
Readings, Recovery, Ideas and Possibilities
Chair: Joyce Duncan
David Vanderwerken, Texas Christian University, "Friday Night Lights: The Movie"
Wendy Varney, University of Wollongong
Joseph Stanton, University of Hawaii
Craig Riordan and Dick Stull, Humboldt State University
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