Boxing Debacle in Paris 2024 Challenging Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Tings claim to womanhood - FR

Event date(s): November 29, 2024
Time(s): 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
Category: Both Campuses
Location: Fredericton

The Olympic boxing match in the welterweight category between Italy’s Angela Carini and Algeria’s Imane Khelif lasted less than one minute. This match sparked a firestorm, leading to misinformation and erroneous commentary regarding Khelif’s sex and gender. Various celebrities and online critics alleged falsely that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had allowed a man to compete in women’s boxing. However, these claims were unfounded. Imane Khelif is a cisgender woman, a fact clearly affirmed by both her and the IOC. After Khelif’s initial match, Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting faced similar scrutiny fueled by misconceptions about her gender identity. Both women won gold medals in their respective categories.
       The panelists will examine these controversial incidents in today’s climate of rising global fascism and discuss their political implications, as well as the impact on the experiences of transgender individuals.
 
Moderator
·        Fred Mason, PhD: Associate Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology, University of New Brunswick where he teaches the sociology and history of sport. His research interests include sport in/and the media, literature, and film; media construction of gender, ethnicity and disability; the history of disability sports, with links to medical history, and running (ultrarunning) as sporting community and cultural practice
 
Panelists
·        Celeste E. Orr, PhD: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Wendy J. Robbins Professor in Gender & Women's Studies, University of New Brunswick. Their research focuses on intersex studies, disability studies, and queer studies, among other broad areas, and they are the author of the 2022 book, Cripping Intersex, with UBC Press.
·        Kristi Allain, PhD: Professor of Sociology and Canada Research Chair in Physical Culture and Social Life at St. Thomas University. Her research focuses on the dynamics of power at play in sport and Canadian national identities.
·        Nathan Kalman-Lamb, PhD: Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick, where he teaches on social theory and sport. He is co-author of the forthcoming book The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game and author of Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport. He is co-host of The End of Sport podcast.

Building: Currie Centre

Room Number: Long Hall, 4th Floor