Hockey Speaker Series
Men's Elite-Level Hockey Culture: Context, Challenge and Change
Scholars and practitioners with expertise in the critical analysis of ice hockey and identity will share their insights in one Wednesday a month in this free online speaker series in order to open up a conversation about what we can learn from the current state of men's elite-level ice hockey as well as the different forms that the sport could take moving forward. Our intention is to eventually have a roundtable discussion and create recommendations for administrators and policy-makers after the series.
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| Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023 |
7:00pm (Atlantic) |
Commodification and neoliberalism |
Shannon Moore and Teresa Fowler |
| Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023 | 7:00pm (Atlantic) | Psychological experience of a Black parahockey athlete | Kieran Block |
| Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024 | 7:00pm (Atlantic) | Women and sexism | Charlene Weaving |
| Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024 | 7:00pm (Atlantic) | Fostering anti-racism in the rink | Courtney Szto |
| Wednesday, Mar. 27, 2024 | 3:00pm (Atlantic) | Perspectives from Sweden | Daniel Alsarve |
| Wednesday, Apr. 24, 2024 | 7:00pm (Atlantic) | Indigenous perspectives | Janice Forsyth and Taylor McKee |
| Wednesday, May 22, 2024 | 7:00pm (Atlantic) | Cultural backlash in a polarized world? | Daniel Sailofsky |
Speaker Series Organized By:
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Cheryl MacDonald is Director of the Scott McCain & Leslie McLean Centre for Sport, Business and Health at Saint Mary’s University. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on athlete support and development as well as gender and sexuality in ice hockey. |
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Kristi Allain holds a Canada Research Chair in Physical Culture and Social Life and is a professor of sociology at St. Thomas University. Her work engages with themes associated with constructions of Canadian national identity, race, gender, and sport. |
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Teresa Anne Fowler is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Concordia University of Edmonton. Her research focuses on the cultural reproduction of masculinity and its impact on men and boys. |
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Shannon D.M. Moore is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at The University of Manitoba. Moore’s research interests include media and digital literacies, the impacts of neoliberalism on public education, and hockey culture. |
Speaker Biographies:
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Kieran Block is a World Champion in the sport of sledge hockey, who is currently teaching in Edmonton, AB. As the first black sledge hockey player in the country, he is using his experiences to guide his career shift as he studies to become a psychologist. |
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Charlene Weaving is a Professor and current Chair of the Human Kinetics Department at St. Francis Xavier University. Weaving is a past President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport (IAPS). Weaving’s research involves feminist sport philosophical analyses of gender in sport and, has published research on objectification (i.e. athletes posing nude, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, & ESPN Body Issue), and equity (i.e. women body checking in hockey, USports lack of women coaches, uniform regulations & pregnant athletes). Weaving was awarded the Faculty of Science Outstanding Teaching Award in 2007; and the Heather Reid Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Contributions in the service of Philosophy of Sport in 2013. |
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Courtney Szto is an Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen's University. She has published widely on racism in hockey, including her award-winning book "Changing on the Fly: Hockey through the voices of South Asian Canadians," and the publicly available "Policy Paper for Anti-Racism in Canadian Hockey." |
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Daniel Alsarve is a certified upper secondary school teacher in Swedish and history and a Ph.D in history with a postdoc in sports science from Örebro University. His research interests are mainly focused on issues related to sports, gender, violence, democracy and power from the early 20th century onwards. His project ‘Ice hockey in change: masculinity ideals and violence norms in Swedish hockey, from ca. 1965 up until today’ was funded by the Swedish Research Council for Sport Science. Alsarve is also a member of the project ‘Education for sustainable sport management’, which seeks to develop a competence-oriented sport management program. |
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Janice Forsyth, member of the Fisher River Cree Nation, is a Professor in the Faculty of Education, School of Kinesiology, at UBC. Her research focuses on Indigenous sport in Canada. She is co-editor of the recently released Decolonizing Sport (2023) and author of Reclaiming Tom Longboat (2020). |
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Taylor McKee is an researcher committed to analyzing the sociocultural intersections of sport and society. He is dedicated to nurturing his students' sense of intellectual curiosity, while helping them develop the academic skillset needed for success in Sport Management. Taylor has published on topics including Olympic History, Sport and Residential Schools, Hockey History, Monuments and Historical Memory, and Masculinity in Hockey. He is a versatile researcher with a passion for sport, education, and collaboration. |
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Daniel Sailofsky is an Assistant Professor in Kinesiology at the University of Toronto, studying violence, gender, harm, and the political economy of sport. He has published in a variety of sport, sociology, and criminology journals, and his writings and voice have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, and CNN, among others. |
