Society & Culture
Play the Game 2017 - Professional sport: Fair game for profiteers Tuesday 28 November 2017 14.15-16.00 Chair: Christian Gjersing Nielsen, Speakers: Steve Menary, Freelance journalist, Freelance, United Kingdom Peter Prowse, Professor, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom Madison Steenson & Karen Perry, Law students, Thompson Rivers University Faculty of Law , Canada Christian Müller, Dean, Hochschule Fresenius Köln, Germany Alessandro Moretti, Statistical Officer, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Tariq Panja, Journalist, New York Times, United Kingdom Discussion, Q&A Play the Game 2017 operated under the subtitle “Riding waves of change" and gathered around 400 journalists, scientists and sport officials on the 26-30th of November in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Play the Game is an international conference and communication initiative aiming to strengthen the ethical foundation of sport and promote democracy, transparency and freedom of expression in sport. It is run by the Danish Institute for Sports Studies (Idan), an independent institution set up by the Danish Ministry of Culture. The task of Idan is to create overview over and insight into the field of sport nationally and internationally. http://www.playthegame.org