We want the conference to be our intelectual input into European Football Championship EURO 2012 that will take place in Poland (also in Gdansk) and Ukraine next year. Participants of the conference will investigate presence of football in the area of different fields of art: literature, film, theatre and widely perceived culture. We will host the finest Polish specialist dealing with the issue.
The conference will be accompanied by an exhibition of theatrical and film posters connected with football, an exhibition of books about football as well as with a presentation of a film Piłkarski poker (Football Poker) and a meeting with its creators.

PROGRAMME

6 October
venue: Baltic Sea Cultural Centre (Old Tow Hall, 33/35 Korzenna Str.)

9:30-11:30 am

• official opening of the conference: Lawrence Okey Ugwu (Director of BSCC), prof. Bernard Lammek (University of Gdansk), prof. Waldemar Moska (Academy of Physical Education and Sport in Gdansk)
• prof. Jolanta Maćkiewicz (UG), Politics is football. How the football metaphore interprets world?
• dr Zbigniew Benedyktowicz (Konteksty), The world is not football?
• prof. Marek Andrzejewski (UG), National and footbal anthems
• dr Tomasz Sahaj (AWF, Poznań), Sport event as a kind of narration and social communication
• dr Tomasz Tomasik (AP, Słupsk), Football as a male ritual
• discussion
• opening of an exhibition Football in theatrical and film poster

12:00-2:00 pm

• prof. Dariusz Kosiński (UJ), Open/closed. Acting in a football game
• dr Dariusz Sikorski (AP, Słupsk), Tribes and idolatia – thoughts about the football „culture”
• MA Paweł Lisowski (AWF, Poznań), Hawbek, absztos, rempel. The forgotten language of football
• Wojciech Majcherek (TVP Kultura, Warsaw), Thoughts about football
• discussion

3:30-6:00 pm

• Tomasz Wołek, Football players as actors. Phenomenon of celebrities in football
• dr Beata Popczyk-Szczęsna (UŚ, Katowice), Football in the Polish theatre and plays
• Mieczysław Abramowicz (Muzeum Narodowe, Gdańsk), Football game as a spectacle
• MA Łukasz Zaremba (UW, Warsaw), An eye focused on a ball. About watching/showing football games
• dr Anna Reglińska – Jemioł (UG), Football in balet productions and about the relations between football and dance
• MA Łukasz Bieszke (UG), The image of world and values in supporters anthems and other tribal songs
• discussion

7 October
venue: Main Library of the University of Gdansk (Gdańsk, 53 Wita Stwosza Str.), Hall 024

9:30-11:30 am

• dr Dariusz Czaja (UJ), A ball size of a human head
• dr Sylwia Karpowicz-Słowikowska (UG), From „The Blacks” to FC „Danzig” – about football of the Bolesław Prus era
• dr Przemysław Strożek (Arts Institute of PAN, Warsaw), Football of all saints. Avantgarde images of football: from Boccioni to Baumeister
• dr Izabela Kępka (UG), Linguistic creation of a friend and enemy in the songs of Arka Gdynia and Lechia Gdansk
• discussion
• opening of an exhibition Football in literature

12:00-2:00 pm

• prof. Tadeusz Lubelski(UJ), Football in the Polish film
• dr Krzysztof Kornacki (UG), Play it once again or anthems of the Polish representation (and their video clips)
• dr Paweł Sitkiewicz (UG), Why do the creators of animated movies laugh at football?
• MA Kasper Bajon (writer, poet), The Italian sentimental journey – phenomenon of calcio
• Tomasz Szerszeń (Konteksty, Warsaw), Zidane’s melancholy
• dr Marina Noske (SWPS, Sopot), The strategy of keeping self-assessment or how to sooth the pain of loosing
• discussion

3:30-6:00 pm

• prof. Zbigniew Majchrowski, Football as an introduction to the gender studies
• dr Tomasz Swoboda (UG), One hundred years ago in the land of Platini: archeology of a certain myth
• dr Przemysław Kaniecki (UW), Dygat, Konwicki and Holoubek as commentators of 1974 Mundial
• MA Magdalena Rytlewska (UG), Sport as a saving. Thoughts about Stanisław Dygat’s football
• MA Maja Dziedzic (UG), Tadeusz Różewicz thoughts about football
• prof. Marek Bieńczyk (IBL, Warsaw), Football as a space for dreams
• discussion

6:30 pm
venue: Hall 1.43, Department of Philology UG, 55 Wita Stwosza Str.

• show of a film Piłkarski poker (dir. Janusz Zaorski, 1988, 101’) and a meeting with a director (admission free)

8 October
venue: Academy of Physical Education and Sport (Gdańsk, 1 Kazimierza Górskiego Str.), Kongresowa Hall

9:00-11:30 am

• prof. Waldemar Moska (AWFiS, Gdańsk), Semantics of a football event
• prof. Ludwik Stomma (Sorbon, Paris), 1:O – Men as Gods
• dr Wojciech Baluch (UJ), Between a passion of belonging and a pleasure of watching
• prof. Mariusz Lipowski (AWFiS), Football player – idol or narcis? Psychological perspective
• MA Małgorzata Turska (UŚ, Katowice), Penalty throw spectacle from the psychological perspective
• dr Agnieszka Tomasik, Metamorphosis of manhood – examples of a few football heros
• discussion

12:00-3:00 pm

• prof. Jerzy Szyłak (UG), Football comic version
• dr Mariusz Kraska (UG), FIFA: it’s not a game? About the phenomenon of football video games
• MA Janusz Bohdziewicz (AP, Słupsk), The ball is round and there are a lot of gates. How physical culture changed into audiovisual culture
• MA Marek Średniawa (UG), Football game as a phenomenon of beauty
• dr Magdalena Horodecka (UG), Football from the perspective f a reporter-antropologist: „Football War” of Ryszard Kapuściński
• prof. Jan Ciechowicz (UG), Football in literature: Jerzy Pilch and Wojciech Kuczok
• Dagmara Łuba (UJ), Sport choir. mass performance of the supporters of Lech Poznań
• discussion

Organisers: Baltic Sea Cultural Centre, University of Gdansk, Academy of Physical Education and Sport in Gdansk
Partner: City of Gdansk
Honorary patronage: Polish Football Association
Media: trójmiasto.pl, wrota-pomorza.pl, Trójmiejska Szkoła Fotografii