30 June
09.00-09.30 Registration
09.30-09.45 Introduction and Welcome
09.45-11.00 Keynote Address: David Conn (The Guardian)
11.00-11.20 Break
11.20-12.35 Research Panel 1: Towards a Common Debate on EU Sport Politics –
Chair: Karen Petry
- Jürgen Mittag – Germany: Heterogenous Debates in a Complex Sport System
- Jolanta Żyśko – Poland: A vision from central and eastern Europe
- Ian Henry – The future of sports policy in the UK post new labour
12.35-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.15 Research panel 2: Member states and EU sports policy
Chair: Geoff Pearson
- An Vermeersch and Ivana Petričević – The Role of the EU Presidency after Lisbon: Reflections from Belgium
- Simona Kustec Lipicer and Renata Slabe Erker – Effective State Support for the Citizens Sport Activities in the Light of the Lisbon Treaty: A Comparative State Insight
- Jutta Prochaska – Language Matters: A discourse analysis of EU sports policy development
15.15-15.30 Break
15.30-16.45 Research panel 3: Challenges of modern sport and the Lisbon Treaty–
Chair: An Vermeersch
- Daniel Geey – The Winners and Losers in the Football Pubcasting Cases: Some Interesting Implications
- Katrien Lefever and Daniel Geey – The ‘List of Major Events’ Mechanism and Article 165 TFEU
- Jean-PatrickVilleneuve, Madalina Diaconu and Jean-Loup Chappelet – Cheating to Win / Cheating to Lose – Structural Responses to Match-Fixing: Lessons Learned in the Fight against Doping
17.00 Close
19.30 Conference Dinner – Le Mistral, Nottingham City Centre
1st July
09.30-11.45 Research panel 4: The regulation of the players market
Chair: Richard Parrish
- Gareth Farrelly – FIFA Rules on Player Registration and the Lisbon Treaty.
- Yann Haffner – Sporting Nationality and EU Law: Towards the next Bosman? The Issue of Naturalised Athletes in National Teams
- Antoine Duval – What Bernard tells you about Bosman.
10.45-11.00 Break
11.00-12.30 Research panel 5: The Europeanisation of football
Chair: David Allen
- Wyn Grant – England, a liberal model under challenge?
- Borja García – Spain, parochialism or innovation?
- Richard Parrish – Europe, the transformation of football’
- Borja Garcia and Wyn Grant – Football, a Europeanised game?
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.45 Research panel 6– The societal role of sport
Chair: Simona Kusted Lipicer
- Matthias Guett – All for Sport for All: Perspectives of Sport for People with a Disability in Europe
- Steven Bradbury – ‘It’s Just an Old Boy’s Club’: The Under-Representation of Women and Institutional Discrimination in Football Governance in Europe
- Seema Patel - The European dimension of sport as a medium for enhancing participation and inclusion
14.45-15.00 Summary and Closing Address
15.00 Close
