Sports Studies Symposium: Speakers and Topics

3^rd Annual Sports Studies Symposium:

Defining Sport

 Grace Roper Lounge, Burpee Center, 

Rockford University

April 25, 2014; 1-5 pm

Panel One: Borderline Cases

“From the Boarders: Skateboarding at the Fringe of Sport”
– Brian Glenney, Ph.D. (Gordon College) and Steve Mull (Gordon College)

“Is NASCAR a Sport? Are Drivers Athletes?”
– P. Huston Ladner, M.A (University of Hawaii)

“Sport, Seriousness, and Hopscotch Dreams”
– Major Kevin Schieman, M.A. (United States Military Academy)

Panel Two: Sport in the Culture

“The Modern Literature of Ring Sport: A Cultural Phenomenon and Its Literary Forms”
– Carl Robinson, Ph.D. (Ashford University)

“The Role of Athletics in American Higher Education Institutions”
– Chris Croft, Ph.D. (University of Southern Indiana)

Reserved for RU Student Contest Winner