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Nov
15
2022

The FIFA Men’s World Cup Qatar 2022: Who gets to talk, who gets to watch? Perspectives on Media and Sports from the Global South

When: Tuesday, November 15, 2022
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM CT

Where: Norris University Center, Lake Room, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Kayla Atkins   (847) 491-4131

Group: Office of the Provost

Category: Academic

Description:

The FIFA Men’s World Cup Qatar 2022: Who gets to talk, who gets to watch? Perspectives on Media and Sports from the Global South

Five days before the historic kickoff of the first FIFA Men’s World Cup held in the Middle East, this panel explores critical issues surrounding Qatar 2022. As the world’s most watched sports mega-event, the World Cup is crucial to nation-branding efforts. The panel considers key questions such as global social media responses to Qatar’s host nation status, the issue of sports and gender in non-Western contexts, the economics of sports broadcasting and media piracy in the Middle East, the use of sports as a strategy of political communication and soft power in the Global South, and soccer as a proxy for international battles and social change. Bringing together media scholars who have witnessed unfolding events on the ground, this panel provides a firsthand account of key themes surrounding the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

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Panelists

J.A. Adande is the Director of Sports Journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. He has worked in sports media for over two and a half decades, including multiple roles at ESPN and 10 years as a sports columnist at the Los Angeles Times, in addition to jobs at The Washington Post and Chicago Sun-Times. Adande has covered a broad array of sports and events, including 20 NBA Finals, Super Bowls, the World Series, the Stanley Cup finals, the Olympics, the World Cup, Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the Masters. He covered the 2006 World Cup in Germany for The Los Angeles Times. He continues to appear on ESPN’s “Around The Horn,” where he has been a panelist since the show’s beginning in 2002.

Susan Dun is an associate professor in residence at Northwestern University in Qatar. She holds a joint appointment as a senior lecturer in the School of Communication at Northwestern University. Her research program investigates the intersection between globalization and attempts to develop soft power via sports and health initiatives in the Arab world. Her research focuses on assessing and understanding how the changes brought by globalization and soft power grabs have affected sports activities and health behaviors as well as advanced nations’ agendas.

Claudia Kozman is an assistant professor in residence in the Journalism and Strategic Communication program at Northwestern University in Qatar. She conducts research on sport journalism, focusing on media coverage of issues that go beyond the entertainment value that sports bring. In particular, she examines media sourcing and framing of sports issues in relation to politics and health. As a former sports journalist, Kozman has worked 13 years in sports, and in football as the press secretary of the president of the Asian Football Confederation.

Craig LaMay is professor of journalism at Medill and is currently professor in residence and director of the journalism program at Northwestern University in Qatar, where he has served in roles from acting dean to women’s basketball coach. He teaches comparative communications law and courses on sports media history. He is a contributor to "Sports, Politics and Society in the Middle East" (2018) and "Football in the Middle East" (2022), both from Oxford, and recently published an essay in Foreign Policy. He is the former Middle East editor of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Moderated by Zachary Wright, associate dean for faculty affairs, Northwestern University in Qatar.

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