Second Footnotes date confirmed

Attendees at a Footnotes event

Following on from Friday's successful first Foonotes event, details of the second seminar in the series are now confirmed...

In a joint project between the University of Cambridge and Cambridge United FC, Footnotes: The Writing of Football seminar series, will bring four speakers to the city in the first months of 2025 to explore, examine and dissect the writing behind the beautiful game.

Spanning non-fiction, journalism and academic writing forms, each speaker will offer a unique perspective from their personal and professional experiences on how writing around football functions, and what it seeks to do in each specific space it finds itself in. 

Joining us second time round is Professor Joseph Webster, Professor of the Anthropology of Religion in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. 

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Graphic promoting Footnotes event

Professor Webster has written extensively on protestant groups with a focus on Scotland through ethnographic fieldwork, with 2013's 'The Anthropology of Protestantism' and 2020's 'The Religion of Orange Politics' focusing on Exclusive Brethren and Orange Order communities respectively. 

Through these projects he has encountered football as it surrounds Scottish Protestantism in certain contexts, and was invited to contribute as an expert witness in support of the repeal of the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012.

Professor Webster joins us to consider what it means to observe and engage with football anthropologically, with reflections from across his research career.

The event takes place on Tuesday 11 February (6pm) at the Faculty of Divinity, 25 West Road Cambridge CB3 9DP. Tickets are free and can be bought by clicking here.