CONFERENCE

Canada's Game? Critical Perspectives on Ice Hockey and Identity. An Interdisciplinary Conference

Bridgewater State College
Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA (c. 30 miles south of Boston)
April 15-16, 2005

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The Bridgewater State Canadian Studies Program is hosting a two-day conference on hockey, nationalism and identities, focusing on the meanings of Canada's national winter game in Canada, the United States and other countries. The conference will focus on six selected topics that reflect current popular and scholarly concerns with the game:

  1. Hockey and Nation;
  2. Myth, Invented Tradition, and the Commemoration of Hockey;
  3. Violence;
  4. Spectacle and Spectatorship;
  5. the Gender of Hockey;
  6. Nicknames, Trash Talk and the Meanings of On-Ice Culture.
Conference co-sponsors include the Gorsebrook Research Institute at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Questions regarding the conference should be directed to Andrew Holman by email or by telephone:

Andrew Holman
Department of History
236 Tillinghast Hall
Bridgewater State College
Bridgewater, MA 02325, USA
(508) 531-2688
a2holman@bridgew.edu

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Last Modified: April 11, 2005