Soccer Con I: The Atlanta Conference on Soccer & Social Innovation

Join the Georgia Institute of Technology for their inaugural Soccer Con which examines a wide range of innovation in soccer, including social innovation. Soccer Con is a biennial conference, with new themes every two years. This will be like no other conference, incorporating scholars, journalists, coaches, activists, fans, youth leaders, players, alumni, emerging scholars and Georgia Tech students. Students from the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, the Global Development program, the Ivan Allen College, the Honors Program, the Minor in Sports, Technology, and Society, and the Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) on Soccer, Community, Innovation & Politics (SCIP) will participate in all aspects of the conference.

Current list of participants: 

• Felipe Arocena, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

• Kirk Bowman, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Tech

• Dan Breznitz, University of Toronto, Canada (author of Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World)

• Brenda Elsey, Hofstra University (Author of Citizens and Sportsmen: Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile and co-author of Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America

• Alberto Fuentes, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Tech

• Jasmin Jalali-Yazdi, Eastside Program Manager at Soccer in the Streets

• Matt Lawrey, Academy Director, Atlanta United

• Cas Mudde, host of podcast Radikaal, Stanley Wade Shelton Professor, University of Georgia

• Sanjay Patel, Soccer in the Streets, Atlanta, Georgia (Developer of Station Soccer)

• Luísa Turbino Torres, Florida Atlantic University (Author of The Politics of Being a Soccer Fan: An Ethnographic Perspective on Feminist Action Around Soccer in Brazil)