Dominating and discriminating through sport: a global perspective

Sunday, December 4, 2016

© Council of Europe

Sport brings together nations and cultures, but it also serves to manipulate and divide. From Europe to the colonies, from the Americas to the countries that are now independent, public policies have aimed as much at educating and bringing people together as at discriminating, stigmatizing and serving as a vector for anti-Semitism and racism.

I – Discriminate between bleachers and pitches

9:30 am → Opening
Jacques Fredj, Director, Shoah Memorial
Paul Dietschy, professor of contemporary history, University of Franche-Comté

10 am → The anti-Semitic, racist and totalitarian instrumentalization of sport

Sports performance in Nazi Germany
Johann Chapoutot, Paris 4 University

FIFA facing totalitarian challenges: the football fugitives 1933-1956
Paul Dietschy

The IOC, the Berlin Games and anti-Semitism
Patrick Clastres, University of Lausanne

11:30 → Playing sports in the colonial or racially segregated system
Presidency: Lilian Thuram, Lilian Thuram Foundation, and Paul Dietschy

Rugby and apartheid in South Africa
Dean Allen, Bournemouth University (England)

Australian aborigines and sport
Hélène Joncheray, Paris-Descartes University

Football and colonial domination in Oran (Algeria)
Didier Rey, University of Corsica

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II – Football from the 1930s to today

14:30 → The round ball, proof of hatred
Presidency: Michel Dreyfus, Paris 1 University, CNRS

Football and Peronism in Argentina (1946-1955)
Lucie Hémeury, université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Concentrés

The "cordial racism" and Brazilian football
Clément Astruc, université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Concentrés

Football and police repression in the Portuguese-speaking world
Victor Pereira, University of Pau

16:30 → Ultra supporters and racist violence
Presidency: Yvan Gastaut, University of Nice

Mechanisms of discrimination in contemporary football in Europe
Albrecht Sonntag, ESSCA, management school, Angers

Supportérisme in England
David Ranc, Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Commerciales d'Angers (Essca)

PSG, antisemitism and "ultra"
Patrick Mignon, former head of the sociology laboratory, Insep

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