Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture: September News Roundup

Professor Steve Greenfield gave a conference paper entitled ‘Failed Infrastructure(s) – The Historical Legacy, Competition Requirements and Lost Chance at Réseau d’Etudes des Relations Internationales Sportives Réseau d’Etudes des Relations Internationales Sportives at Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education, Warsaw, Poland in August. The conference theme was ‘Beyond the Failing. The non – existent history of international sport and its real impact on sport and non-sports world’. He was also an External Evaluator of TRADE Research Entity at North-West University South Africa in late September.

Professor Pippa Catterall was interviewed by the BBC and CBS News, among others, on the demise of the Crown and the accession of Charles III.

Professor Andrew Smith and Professor Guy Osborn represented Westminster and the FESTSPACE project at the HERA-funded Humanities in Crisis Conference in Wroclaw.

Also, carrying on their commitment to open access and freely available outputs wherever they can, see last month’s news item regarding Festivals and the City, the Centre is delighted to announce another recent publication is also open access – ‘Private Events in a Public Park: Contested Music Festivals and Environmental Justice in Finsbury Park, London’.

Finally, it was great to see the Soho Poly project being flagged up in The Stage and mentioned as the headline highlight in the Times University Guide.