One-Day International Cricket Seminar
Friday 2 March
at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies
This seminar focused on key issues surrounding the growth and development of international cricket – from colonial roots to the modern game and beyond.
Programme | Speakers and participants | Location | Further information | Thanks
Beyond Boundaries: An exhibition of cricket art by Wendy Nanan
All images shown here are by Wendy Nanan. They are reproduced with her kind permission, and they remain her copyright.
This event, unique in its broad focus and multidisciplinary nature, drew together a diverse group of international cricket experts, commentators and administrators.
A selection of presentations from the programme:
Cricket as Merrie England
South African Cricket and the Expansion of Empire
A New England? Cricket and English national identities
Different Hats, Different Thinking: Cricket technocracy and Indian cricket
Wunderkidz in a Blunderland: Tensions and tales from Sri Lankan cricketCricket, Race and National Identity in the Caribbean
Rebellion, Race and Rhodesia: Cricket under UDI
Reading Race in Cricket: Race and the reporting of scandals in South African cricket
Breaking Boundaries: Indian cricket and transnational identities
From Kerry Packer to the Sky Monopoly: Cricket and the Media, 1977-2007
Cricket and Global Warming: The impact of climate change on the global game
All images shown here are by Wendy Nanan. They are reproduced with her kind permission, and they remain her copyright.
Speakers and participants include:
Dean Allen, Lecturer in Social Science of Sport, University of Ulster
John Bale, Professor of Sports Geography, Keele University
Peter Frawley, CEO, The International Cricket Group
Nick Gandon, Director, Cricket Foundation
Jon Gemmell, cricket writer
Andrew Hignell, Archivist, Glamorgan Cricket
Charles Little, Senior Lecturer, London Metropolitan University
Malcolm MacLean, Senior Lecturer in Sport & Culture, University of Gloucestershire
Boria Majumdar, Research Fellow, La Trobe University, Australia
Dominic Malcolm, Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport, Loughborough University
Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Chief Cricket Correspondent for The Times and BBC commentator
Nalin Mehta, La Trobe University, Australia
John Nauright, Professor of Sport Management, Georgia Southern University, USA
Michael Roberts, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Adelaide, Australia
Rob Steen, Senior Lecturer, University of Brighton
Philippa Velija, York St John University
Stephen Wagg, Reader in Sport and Society, Leeds Metropolitan University
Claire Westall, University of Warwick
Jack Williams, sports historian
All images shown here are by Wendy Nanan. They are reproduced with her kind permission, and they remain her copyright.
Beyond Boundaries: An exhibition of cricket art
During March 2007, London will host an exhibition of cricket work by the contemporary Trinidad and Tobagan artist Wendy Nanan. The exhibition, Beyond Boundaries, runs from 1 - 30 March at the Art Worker’s Guild in London’s Bloomsbury. The exhibition is organised by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies of the UNIVERSITY OF LONDON and provides a textual approach to the multiple influences in cricket from a predominantly West Indian perspective.
All images shown here are by Wendy Nanan. They are reproduced with her kind permission, and they remain her copyright.Wendy Nanan first started making cricket drawings in the nineties. It evolved into a yearly exercise done during play, in the West Indian cricket season, mainly at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port of Spain,Trinidad.
Nanan creates her work through a unique working process, the Zen Buddhist method of zenga, a meditative discipline of allowing intuition and the body to lead the brush, while quieting the mind’s control. The end result of this annual drawing ritual are the simple and stunning artworks displayed in this exhibition; the paper is marked with a flowing calligraphy of cricket language and captures in minimalist imagery the distilled essence of the game. No scenic panoramas, no personality portraits, just that quick movement, or expectant stillness, that we instantly recognize as cricket.
Wendy Nanan, BFA, painter, printmaker and sculptor, lives and works in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (w_m_nanan@yahoo.com)Exhibition
1 - 30 March 2007 at the Art Workers Guild, London 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR (nearest tube: Russell Square)
http://www.artworkersguild.org/
Private Preview (by invitation only): 28 February 2007
Exhibition: 1 - 30 March 2007
If you would like to be added to the mailing list for this exhibition, please contact Dee Burn
Ishara Bhasi, Commonwealth Business Council: www.cbcglobelink.org
Richard Bourne, Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit (CPSU): www.cpsu.org.uk
Terry Mitchell, Chapman & Mitchell Covers: www.bletchleycovers.com/chapmanandmitchell.asp
Wendy Nanan, artist, Trinidad and Tobago
Roderick Roy
Mary Sanver
Daniela Wettstein
Please contact Dee Burn, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, 28 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DS, by email at dee.burn@sas.ac.uk or by telephone on 020 7862 8570 for further information on the seminar and the art exhibition.
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