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Football and Urban Development workshop

keynote speaker: George Ferguson

Half-day workshop supported by the Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts, and the Centre for the Study of Colonial and Postcolonial Societies, University of Bristol

Lecture Theatre 1, 3-5 Woodland Road, Faculty of Arts, University of Bristol

An interdisciplinary interrogation of the development of football stadia looking at critical discussions around social and economic issues on urban regeneration, cultural identities, material and non-material heritage and public realm.

Programme

13.30 WELCOME AND REGISTRATION, LT 1

14.00 Dr. Gloria Lanci and Dr. Matthew Brown (University of Bristol): ‘Football and Urban Development: The British Heritage in Sao Paulo’

14.30 Dr. Flávio de Campos (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil) Via Video Link: ‘New Developments in Football Stadia Developments in Brazil’

15.00 HALF-TIME BREAK FOR TEA. COFFEE, BOVRIL AND CAKES

15.30 Dr. Steve Millington (Manchester Metropolitan University): ‘Going to the Match’

16.00 Dr. Larissa Davies (Sheffield Hallam University): ‘The Regeneration Game: Football stadia and urban development’

16.30 BREAK

17.00. KEYNOTE LECTURE: in Lecture Theatre 3, 17 Woodland Road
George Ferguson: ‘Football and Urban Development, title tbc’

18.00 ROUND-TABLE DEBATE: ‘Football and Urban Development’, also in Lecture Theatre 3 (featuring Ferguson, paper presenters and Professor Derek Offord, director of BIRTHA, and John Barrow, Senior Principal of Populous, Stadium Architects for Bristol City Football Club)

18.45 WINE RECEPTION

Further information from Matthew Brown matthew.brown@bris.ac.uk