April 2011 'Cricket & Community' Conference

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‘Cricket and Community’ Conference at the University of Huddersfield, April 2011

The University of Huddersfield will be hosting an international conference on cricket history in April 2011.
'Cricket and Community’ will be the major theme – and speakers and delegates will be attending from around the world.
The conference is being organised by the university’s Cricket Research Centre - which was established last year.
It is the first such body at a UK university.
Conference organiser Dr Peter Davies said: ‘It will be a very exciting event for us to host.
'Our keynote speaker, Dr Boria Majundar, is coming from Bombay and we also have contributors coming from America.’
Other speakers include Dr Dean Allen (Cricket in Colonial South Africa), Dr Tony Bateman (James Joyce and Cricket), Dr Rob Ellis (Cricket and Madness) and Dr Jack Williams (Cricket and Community in the North of England 1900-39).
The conference is a two-day event with study sessions on a variety of themes including race, society, village institutions, cricket overseas and cricket literature.
It will also investigate the nature of cricket in Yorkshire, in the North and South of England, and in Wales and Ireland.
The event will take place on Thursday 14th & Friday 15th April 2011 in the Castle Hill Suite at the University of Huddersfield.
It will be officially opened by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield, Professor Bob Cryan.
At the end of proceedings on Thursday 14th, delegates will be taken on a special visit to the historic Lascelles Hall CC, Huddersfield - a famous club that supplied many Yorkshire and England cricketers in the nineteenth century.
The conference fee is £50 (institutional) and £25 (individuals/concessions).
For more details contact event organiser Dr Peter Davies on 01484 472405 or via p.j.davies@hud.ac.uk.