Open House:

• This open house will display sports-related materials from the University of Iowa Libraries' Special Collections and the Iowa Women's Archive.

Keynote Address:

• Samantha N. Sheppard (Cornell University), Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor: "Just 'Bout That Action, Boss: The Televisual Politics and Pleasures of Marshawn Lynch"

Screening of Lynch: A History, followed by discussion

This film is a kaleidoscopic look at newly retired NFL star Marshawn Lynch and his use of silence as a form of protest.

Welcomes and Panel #1: Imagining Belonging

• Michael Butterworth (University of Texas, Austin): "The Team That United a City: On Sports Documentaries and the Rhetorical Construction of Unity"
• Theresa Runstedtler (American University): "Black vs. White Ball: Race and the 1974 NBA Finals"
• Abraham Kahn (University of Arkansas): “Sundays and Saturdays: Brian Flores, The Epistemology of Ignorance, and the Racial Politics of Labor in the National Football League”
• Moderated by Ashley Loup (University of Iowa)

Welcome:

• Dean Sara Sanders, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Keynote Address:

• Victoria E. Johnson (University of California, Irvine), Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor: "'I Was Raised on this Sport': Football and Female Expertise” 
  Note: This speaker will be joining us via Zoom.

Publishing Fair and Reception:

• In addition to snacks and drinks, this informal reception will include booths from university presses that publish work on sport.

Panel #2: Athletes and Resistance 

• Adrian Burgos (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): "In Clemente's Wake: Afro-Latino Ballplayers and the Quest for Respect"
• Noah Cohan (Washington University in St. Louis): “Raising a Glass Helmet: How Black Athletes and Artists Resist Football’s Head Gear”
• Jaime Schultz (Penn State University): "Consumed: On Women, Distance Running, Disordered Eating, and Illness Narratives"
• Moderated by Glenn Houlihan (University of Iowa)

Panel #3: Political Activism

• Travers (Simon Fraser University): “Trans Participation in Sport: The Fight to Include Us in Public Life”
• Douglas Hartmann (University of Minnesota): "Documenting and Rethinking the Impact of Protest through Sport: The Case of WNBA Activism in the 2020 Georgia Senate Race"
• Jason Kido Lopez (University of Wisconsin–Madison): "Constructing Crisis in Women’s Sports: Outkick’s 'Anti-Woke' Sports Media Brand"
• Moderated by Janeanne Levenstein (University of Iowa)