Sport, Leisure and the Creative Industries: Historical Perspectives

Sport, Leisure and the Creative Industries: Historical Perspectives

Friday 9^th September, 2011: 10.00-16.30

International Centre for Sports History and Culture,

De Montfort University, Leicester

Sport, leisure – especially tourism – and the creative industries make an increasingly important contribution to Britain’s economy. The capacity to produce experiential goods in the form of sporting events, leisure opportunities, tourist attractions, cultural experiences and popular entertainments is a key resource. Yet this resource and the economic activities to which it relates are often undervalued.

One reason for this is the absence of an historical perspective. The histories of sport, leisure and the creative industries have developed along separate lines to date with few shared insights and little cross-fertilisation of ideas. This workshop – the first of a projected series - seeks to address this deficiency by bringing together historians working in the three separate fields. Though the emphasis will be on sport, leisure and the creative industries as business, this is a day for being speculative, for testing boundaries, exploring synergies and making new academic relationships.

Dilwyn Porter, Richard Coopey, Peter Lyth

Programme:

09.30-10.10: Registration and welcome

10.00-10.15: ‘Setting the agenda’ - Tony Collins (Director, ICSHC, De Montfort University)

10.15-10-45: ‘The business of sport and the sport of business’ – Dilwyn Porter (De Montfort University)

10.45-11.15: ‘Sport as a branch of the entertainment industry’ – Matthew Taylor (De Montfort University)

11-15-11.45: COFFEE

11.45- 12.30: ‘Perspectives on the history of tourism’ – John Walton (University of the Basque Country, Bilbao)

12.30-13.45: LUNCH

13.45-14.15: ‘The development of winter tourism in Switzerland’ - Su Barton (De Monfort University)

14.15-14.45: ‘Consumer culture and the history of tourism’ - Peter Lyth (Nottingham University Business School)

14.45-15.00: TEA

15.00-15.30: ‘Film: an economic perspective on a creative industry:’ Gerben Bakker (London School of Economics)

15.30-16.00: ‘The business of art and the art of business’ - Richard Coopey (Aberystwyth University)

16.00-16.30: Open discussion (chair Tony Collins)

Workshop registration fee £10 – (includes coffee and tea); postgraduate students free

To register and for further details please contact:

James Panter, International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

0116 250 6486

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