Quarterly Guest Lectures 2009/10

University of Huddersfield Cricket Research Centre
Quarterly Guest Lectures 2009/10

All lectures 5.15-7.15, Room W2/43 (2nd Floor, West Building)

Including light refreshments, bookstall and exhibition displays (refreshments will be served on arrival, with the lecture starting at 5.45pm)

Admission free - no need to book in advance; just come along! ALL WELCOME

Wednesday 21 October 2009 - David Frith, 'Yorkshire Cricketers I Have Known: From Wilfred Rhodes to Fred Trueman'

David is a leading cricket writer and historian. He founded Wisden Cricket Monthly in 1979 and edited the magazine until 1996. He has written numerous books and specialises in Ashes history. Also, in association with the National Film and Television Archive, he has presented an annual Archive Cricket Film Evening at the National Film Theatre in London since 1981. In 2003 he became the first author to win the Cricket Society's Book of the Year award three times, and his Bodyline Autopsy won Wisden's book of the year.

Wednesday 9 December 2009 - Professor Jeff Hill, 'Joseph O'Neill's Netherland and Cricket in America'

Jeff has worked at Leicester De Montfort University since 2001. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of British Columbia (1994) and Visiting Professor in European Studies at Columbus State University, Georgia, USA (2006). His academic interests are in the areas of sport and recreation. His most recent publications are Sport and the Literary Imagination and Sport, Leisure and Culture in Twentieth-century Britain. He has written about many aspects of cricket history.

Wednesday 24 February 2010 - Dr Philippa Velija, 'Women's Cricket, the Women's Cricket Association and the ECB'

Philippa is Lecturer in Sociology of Sport at York St. John’s University. Her research interests include gender and sport, sport and social exclusion, and sport and social theory. Her publications include, ‘'Look it’s a Girl: Cricket and Gender Relations in the UK’ (Sport in Society) and ‘Female Incursions into Cricket’s “Male Preserve”’ in Tribal Play: Sport Subcultures and Countercultures. She has also given papers at the Commonwealth Cricket Conference in London and in Montreal, Buenos Aires and Thessaloniki.

Wednesday 19 May 2010 - Dr Dan Burdsey, 'From Ranji to Ravi: The Emergence of the British Asian Cricket Star'

Dan teaches on a wide range of undergraduate modules related to the sociology of sport, leisure and popular culture at the University of Brighton, and is supervising doctoral students in the area of sport, race and ethnicity. During the late 1990s he was an original member of the Leicester City FC Anti-Racist Task Force which initiated the Foxes Against Racism scheme and is currently undertaking consultancy work with the Premier League and Asian Football Network regarding British Asian football fans.

Confirmed for 2010/11:

Dr Jack Williams – Cricket and Broadcasting
Prof Hugh McLeod – Cricket and Religion