A conference on the history of women footballers will be held on Thursday February 13 from 6pm in building 4E on the Bourget-du-Lac campus.
About the conference
In 1919, the first French women's soccer championship, with just a few dozen players. One hundred years later, in 2019, France will host the Women's World Cup, broadcast to millions of viewers worldwide. A historic victory! But the referee asks for a replay. Because very often, in soccer as in history, the result does not reflect the face of the match. The victory must be qualified. Is sexism really behind us? The history of women's soccer is an opportunity to look back at the history of the 20th century through the history of soccer, women, geopolitics and economics. Personal stories are added to the mix. Anecdotes and emotions function as clues, keys to a poetic analysis of the problem. Hortence BelHôte's performed lecture plays on the pleasure of trapping our own culture with its interstices, from a deliberately feminist, queer and libertarian perspective.
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Contact: Fabienne Gillonnier, Vice-President in charge of Culture and Equality at USMB