10. Juli 2015

Fußball: Wenn der Kommerz dominiert

Gunnar Bartsch Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

FIFA-Skandal, Verschwörungstheorien und Kommerz: Wie groß ist noch der Einfluss der Fans auf den Fußball? Diese Frage steht im Mittelpunkt eines Kolloquiums am Freitag, 10. Juli, am Institut für Sportwissenschaft der Universität Würzburg. Eingeladen sind alle Interessierten.

Die aktuellen Debatten um den Fußball bestätigen es: Der moderne Profi-Fußball ist von monetären Aspekten, den Machenschaften einzelner Funktionärscliquen und von fragwürdigen Kommerzinteressen geprägt, was sich beispielsweise in der Zerstückelung der Bundesliga-Spieltage zeigt.

Das interdisziplinäre Kolloquium

Deshalb stellen das Institut für Sportwissenschaft der Universität Würzburg und das Institut für Fankultur e.V. in ihrem 7. interdisziplinären Kolloquium zur Fankultur die Frage: Welche Rolle spielen die Fans in diesem weltumspannenden Spiel? Sind sie mehr als ein bunter Rahmen? Und wem gehört eigentlich der Fußball? Können sich Fans den Fußball wieder zurückholen?

In diesem Spannungsfeld zwischen fankulturellem Streben nach Mitsprache und aufgedeckten Skandalen und Verschwörungen im Dienste der kontrollierten Steuerung einer immer intensiver verlaufenden Kommerzialisierung der Ligen und Turniere sowie der Wahrung persönlicher Interessen sind die Themen der einzelnen Vorträge angesiedelt.

Das

Professor Harald Lange, Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Sportwissenschaft an der Uni Würzburg, widmet sich in seinem Vortrag aus einer spielphilosophischen Perspektive dem Evergreen fanpolitischen Engagements: “‘Reclaim the Game‘ oder ‚Holen sich Fans das Spiel zurück und wie könnte das vonstattengehen?‘“.

James M. Dorsey legt seinen Fokus auf die aktuellen Geschehnisse und Aufdeckungen rund um die FIFA. Dorsey ist Co-Direktor des Instituts für Fankultur und seit Jahrzehnten als investigativer Journalist in den Krisengebieten des Mittleren Ostens unterwegs mit einem besonderen Blick auf die Ereignisse rund um den Sport dort.

Verschwörungen und Verschwörungstheorien der Bundesliga-Geschichte stehen im Mittelpunkt des Vortrags von Dr. Rudolf Oswald. Der Historiker hat sich schon während seines Studiums der Neuesten Geschichte und der Englischen Literaturwissenschaften auf sporthistorische Fragestellungen spezialisiert; seit dem Frühjahr 2013 ist er Fellow am Institut für Fankultur in Würzburg.

Den künstlerischen Rahmen des Kolloquiums bildet eine Ausstellung mit Werken des Fotografen Przemek Niciejewski. Ursprünglich aus Polen kommend, lebt Niciejewski jetzt in der Nähe von Mönchengladbach und arbeitet in den Niederlanden. Der leidenschaftliche Hobbyfotograf widmet sich bevorzugt dem Fußball und dessen Fans; seine Bilder stellt er auf seiner Internetseite aus: http://www.niciejewskiphotography.eu/

Teilnahme und Anmeldung

Das Kolloquium findet statt am Freitag, 10. Juli, von 13:00 bis 19:30 Uhr. Veranstaltungsort ist das Institut für Sportwissenschaft der Universität Würzburg, Judenbühlweg 11, 97072 Würzburg. Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos. Anmeldung per Mail bei:

Prof. Dr. Harald Lange:

Dr. Gabriel Duttler:

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The graduate students of the Physical Cultural Studies (PCS) program at the University of Maryland, College Park have relaunched their collectively-run blog The Corpus. For years The Corpus has been an online presence dedicated to fostering discussions of physical culture in all its myriad sociocultural, historical forms. This dedication continues.

 

The relaunched blog will be regularly updated with posts by PCS graduate students, alumni, and guest writers on topics including the history and sociology of sport and physical culture, cultural studies of the active body, and discussions of critical social and cultural theories. It is our hope that the The Corpus blog will be an online forum where PCS students can share their work and topics of interest, as well as generate discussion with other scholars and readers in the online community.

 

For more information, please visit The Corpus at http://thecorpus.wordpress.com.
Sincerely,
Sam

 

Sam Clevenger
Physical Cultural Studies
Department of Kinesiology
University of Maryland, College Park

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CFP: Call for Papers: Sport Culture Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH Thursday-Sunday, 1-4 October 2015

by Benjamin Dettmar

Call for Papers:

 

Sport Culture

 

Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH

 

Thursday-Sunday, 1-4 October 2015

 

Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza:

Address: 35 W 5th St, Cincinnati, OH 45202, Phone: (513) 421-9100

 

Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2015

 

We are currently seeking original work and panel suggestions in the area of Sport Culture for the annual Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference. Abstracts can include a wide variety of topics and approaches to sport. Abstracts or panels might include research focused on popular culture and sport in the Midwest; but papers / panels on all topics related to popular culture and sport are welcome and encouraged.

 

Please upload 250 word abstract proposals on any aspect of Sport Culture to the Sport Culture area: http://submissions.mpcaaca.org/.

 

Any questions? Please email Ben Dettmar at

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2-4 September 2015

British Society of Sports History Conference 2015

by Johnes M. Unknown

British Society of Sports History Conference 2015

Organized by the Department of History & Classics, Swansea University

The 2015 BSSH conference takes place at the Singleton Campus of Swansea University in south Wales. It begins at 1pm on Wednesday 2 September and concludes at 2pm on Friday 4 September.

The annual Sir Derek Birley Memorial lecture will be given by Professor Mike Huggins (Cumbria University).

Dr David Snowdon, winner of the society’s 2014 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize, will also give a keynote lecture.

Proposals for twenty-minute papers should be sent to Dr Martin Johnes via email ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) by 30 May 2015. Proposals should be a maximum of 200 words long. The final conference programme will be announced in mid June.

Cost of attendance for bookings made by 30 June 2015

Full package (conference registration; Wednesday: evening, accommodation; Thursday: breakfast, lunch, conference dinner, accommodation; Friday: breakfast, lunch): £200

Full package postgraduate rate: (conference registration; Wednesday: evening, accommodation; Thursday: breakfast, lunch, conference dinner, accommodation; Friday: breakfast, lunch): £160

The society will be making a number of bursaries available to help with postgraduate speakers with costs.

Accommodation is en-suite rooms in a hall of residence on the campus where the conference is taking place. Non-accommodation and one day rates are also available. Please contact Martin Johnes (on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) for details.

Payment is by credit/debit card or by cheque (payable to Swansea University). Download and complete a registration form and send this to Dr Martin Johnes, Department of History & Classics, Swansea University, Swansea, UK, SA2 8PP.

Bookings made after 30 June must add a £20 administration fee.

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11/12 June 2015

Conference Tackling Antisemitism in Professional Football

Thursday 11 June 10.00 AM – 6.00 PM & Friday 12 June 9:00 AM – 1.00 PM

Amsterdam Arena, Arena Boulevard 1, 1101 Amsterdam

Participation fee is € 25 / Students € 7,50

Contact:

Please register at (max. 75 participants) http://www.annefrank.org/footballconference

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15. April 2015

SV Darmstadt 98 Fan- und Förderabteilung organisiert prominent besetzte Podiumsdiskussion

mehr…

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25-29 October

Play the Game 2015

Dear colleagues

The winds of change are sweeping with unseen force through international sport today. Global events are facing skepticism, rejection or revolt. Competitions are watched with suspicions of doping or manipulation. Leaders of sport are seen as corrupt, even in cases where they are not. And in everyday life, millions of people turn their backs on the sports clubs in order to pursue their desire for play and physical activity in parks, private gyms or other settings far from traditional sport.
An increasingly impatient world public demands more transparency, more democracy, more accountability and more sustainability from the international sports organisations.
But is sport able to change from within? If not, how long is the outside world ready to wait?
Play the Game 2015 invites academics, journalists, sports officials and other stakeholders to discuss strategies that can address the multiple challenges inherent to modern sport: Match-fixing, doping, corruption, trafficking, exploitation and sedentary lifestyles, just to mention a few.
We invite you to contribute with your data, experience and opinions at Play the Game 2015 from 25-29 October in Aarhus, Denmark.
Play the Game 2015 addresses a number of current topics under the following headlines:

· The revolt against global events: A perfect storm for sport?

· Governments vs. fixers: Will the rule of law beat the law of the jungle?

· Good governance in sport: Setting standards, raising bars

· A new World Code against doping: Anybody willing to comply?

· The deadly disease of inactivity: Is the world ready for a cure?

· Transfers and trafficking: The human cost of broken dreams

· College sport in the USA: Unprotected amateurs in a billion-dollar business
An Open Forum is also available to speakers:

· who address issues not covered by the main themes

· whose abstracts are not accepted in the peer review process

· who offer interventions/investigations of a more personal character

· who submit last-minute registrations

· In the Open Forum, speakers are given a seven minute timeslot to present their main points.
In the Open Forum, speakers are given a seven minute timeslot to present their main points.

Submit your abstract/storyline
The deadline for abstract/storyline submission is Wednesday 13 May 2015. Please use our online submission page here:http://www.abstractreviewer.com/ptg/
Academic abstracts will be peer reviewed by academics only. Notifications on approval of abstracts will be sent by e-mail no later than 1 July 2015.

You can find information about registration and prices at www.playthegame.org/2015<http://www.playthegame.org/2015>

Please note that the registration price for abstract submitters will be calculated as of the day of the abstract submission, so nobody will miss an early bird discount. Prices start at 550? for a 4-day conference with full conference participation, all social and cultural activities and most meals included.
More information in our Call for Papers<http://www.playthegame.org/news/news-articles/2015/0016_play-the-game-2015-call-for-papers/> and on Play the Game 2015?s website www.playthegame.org/2015<http://www.playthegame.org/2015>

International launch of research projects
If you are preparing a major research project or a campaign, why not use Play the Game 2015 to launch your project internationally?
Play the Game expects the participation of more than 100 journalists representing media across the globe and is an ideal platform for reaching a worldwide audience and building lasting working relations.
Please contact Play the Game?s international director Jens Sejer Andersen (details below) to discuss how coordinated action can be taken.
We thank you in advance for any help in distributing this message to friends, colleagues and others who share the goals of Play the Game: To promote democracy, transparency and freedom of expression in world sport.

Questions and contact
Abstract submission: Communications officer Stine Alvad, [email protected]<[email protected]> or direct office line +45 87 48 20 22.
Programme issues: International director Jens Sejer Andersen, [email protected]<[email protected]> or cell phone +45 20 71 07 01.

Best regards/Bedste hilsner

Jens Sejer Andersen
International director/international chef

[ptg_logo_png_96]<http://www.playthegame.org/>

Play the Game/Danish Institute for Sports Studies
Frederiksgade 78B, 2.
DK-8000 Aarhus C
Denmark

Office +45 70 27 55 77
Cell phone +45 20 71 07 01

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24.-27.6.2015

ANN: 20th annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science - ECSS Malmö 2015 - Malmö, Sweden

by Tuulia Hokkanen

The congress theme is Sustainable Sport which will be highlighted through the scientific programme and the general organization of the congress. As multidisciplinary congress the target group contains sport and exercise as well as sport medicine scientists around the world. The ECSS aims to support the career development of young upcoming scientists and with this in mind a young investigators award is organized every year within the framework of the annual congress. The ECSS YIA is a very prestigious award in the field of sport science.

For more information about the invited scientific programme, please click here.
Please register here.
Follow us in twitter @ECSS2015 and find impressive images here.

The official congress website: http://ecss-congress.eu/2015/15/

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28-29 May 2015

CfP: Sport and Sexuality - IV Congress of History and Sport, Lisbon

by Francisco Pinheiro

IV Congress of History and Sport

May 28 and 29, 2015

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

New University of Lisbon

Lisbon, Portugal

 

Call for papers

 

Organization

Group for History and Sport, from the Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC) of Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX of Universidade de Coimbra – CEIS20.

 

International Congress with papers accepted in Portuguese, English and Spanish.

Proposal submissions until April 27, 2015 to:

Proposals: title, abstract (500 words), 3 key-words and curriculum (200 words)

 

Goals

The Portuguese Group for History and Sport (GHD) gathers researchers from several institutions, with the main goal of promoting cooperation, research and studies in the field of sport history. The GHD also organizes events for History and Sport at the national and international levels. Also organizes an annual congress, whose goal is the discussion and the production of knowledge in the various aspects of the intersection of history and sport. The theme for the 2015 congress is Sport and Sexuality.

 

Topic

The congress will be focus on Sexuality and its intersection with Sport and History, opening space for reflection on issues of Gender, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation.

 

Thematic lines

Sexual harassment, bullying and other forms of violence in sport
Sexual construction of the athletic person’s body (for example: sexual aesthetic; body modification; body-building; etc.)
Sports culture and sexism (for example: athlete sex symbol; advertising sports and gender stereotypes; etc.)
Sexual diversity and cultural transformation in sport
Sexual division of sports (sports and/or teams of men or women; cultural representations and gender roles in sports occupations; etc.)
LGBT sporting events (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender)
Fair play and sexuality (for example: campaigns and good practices in preventing and fighting against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity)
Homophobia and transphobia in sport (for example: transgender and/or intersex athletes; outings; etc.)
Sports journalism and sexuality
Sports language and sexuality
Aesthetic approaches to body in sports
Parenthood, reproductive rights and sports
Sports , body and gender in educational resources
Sex work and sport
Sex tourism and mega-sporting events

 

Call for papers

We seek abstracts of no more than 500 words from persons interested in participating in the II Congress of History and Sport. Please include three key words related to your proposed paper, a brief curriculum vita, academic affiliation and contact information (including email and telephone). Papers can be presented in Portuguese, English and Spanish.

Proposals should be submitted via email to:

 

Important dates

April 27 – Closing deadline for proposals

May 4 – Notification of abstract acceptance

May 11 – Final program announced

Registration form: http://congressodehistoriaedesporto.blogspot.com

 

Fees

Participants with papers: 25 euros and 10 euros (students)

Others: 5 euros

Students: free entrance

 

Organizing and Scientific Committee

Ana Cristina Santos, CES da Universidade de Coimbra

Alcino Pedrosa, GHD-IHC/CEIS20

Carlos Nolasco, CES da Universidade de Coimbra

César Rodrigues, CEIS20 da Universidade de Coimbra

Francisco Pinheiro, CEIS20 da Universidade de Coimbra

João Nuno Coelho, GHD-IHC/CEIS20

João Tiago Lima, CICP/Universidade de Évora

Maria Fernanda Rollo, IHC/FCSH da Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Nuno Miguel Lima, IHC/FCSH da Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Rita Nunes, IHC/FCSH da Universidade Nova de Lisboa

 

More details

http://congressodehistoriaedesporto.blogspot.com

http://www.uc.pt/iii/ceis20

http://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/

http://www.facebook.com/ihc.fcsh.unl

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2015-05-01

One-day Workshop Power and Corruption: Sporting Mega-Events, International Sports Organisations and the Future of Sport

by Francisco Pinheiro

Title: One-day Workshop Power and Corruption: Sporting
Mega-Events, International Sports Organisations and the Future
of Sport
Date: 2015-05-01
Description: One-day Workshop Power and Corruption: Sporting
Mega-Events, International Sports Organisations and the Future
of Sport Wednesday 23rd September 2015 Mansfield College,
Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Participation: In September
2014, Inter-Disciplinary.Nets Sport project held its first
Olympics wor …
Contact:
URL: www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/sport/courses-and-workshops/2015…
Announcement ID: 220939
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=220939

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2015-05-01
Space, Place and Sport / The Sport Project: Probing the Boundaries

by Francisco Pinheiro

Title: Space, Place and Sport / The Sport Project: Probing the
Boundaries
Date: 2015-05-01
Description: Space, Place and Sport The Sport Project: Probing the
Boundaries Thursday 24th September Saturday 26th September 2015
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for
Presentations: Sport is a key space for controversies and
issues over access and power. It is a key space for the
construction of i …
Contact:
URL: www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/sport/call-for-papers/
Announcement ID: 220940
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=220940

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Wednesday 23rd September 2015

Power and Corruption: Sporting Mega-Events, International Sports Organisations and the Future of Sport

One-day Workshop
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Call for Participation:
In September 2014, Inter-Disciplinary.Net’s Sport project held its first Olympics workshop. On 14 July 2015, the project will run a second Olympics workshop that extends the focus to writers, campaigners, practitioners and academics interested in discussing their work on sporting mega-events and international sports organisations more broadly. The explicitly inter-disciplinary scope of the workshop is primed to examine issues arising out of the Olympics and its relationship to the IOC, the World Cup and its relationship to FIFA and any sport event and organisation that operates a global, professional and commercial. We are interested in the Olympics and the IOC, the World Cup and FIFA, but also any sport events and organisations that operate on a global, professional, commercial scale.

The workshop is a space to share work, grapple with ideas and ask questions. Discussions will be driven by two key questions: how does power corrupt international sport and sports mega-events? And how can modern, international sport reform itself? In order to generate a lively, inter-disciplinary dialogue, we welcome the submission of proposals and expressions of interests from people who are working across the subject fields of history, philosophy, sociology, cultural studies, leisure studies, ethics, theology, sports pedagogy, media studies, law, political studies and policy. We are especially keen to involve people involved in sports organisations, sports law, sport psychology, representatives of individual athletes, journalists and other professionals from outside academia, who can provide alternative voices and narratives. Submissions may deal with any aspect of:

- The Professionalization and Commercialization of Sports Governance
- The Globalization of Sports
- The Politics of Sports Mega-Events
- The Ethics of Sports Mega-Events

We invite expressions of interest for people thinking of attending and for them to send a statement of their interest and experience/expertise to the organising chairs by Friday 1st May 2015:

Karl Spraklen: .
Rob Fisher:

Schedule:
The day will begin with registration between 8.30 am and 9.30am Tuesday 14th July 2015 and will be followed by a series of presentation sessions and workshops. Refreshments and a 2 course sit-down lunch will be provided. After the final workshop and summation of the days discussions and the event will end with a wine reception.

Registration Fee: £TBC. This Includes:

~conference registration fee
~discounted rate off any Inter-Disciplinary Press or Fisher Imprints publications ~access to the conference project initiative support materials ~morning coffee break with coffee, tea, fruit juice, fresh fruits, cakes
~2 course waiter served lunch
~afternoon coffee break with coffee, tea, fruit juice, fresh fruits, cakes ~Wine Reception

Organisers:
Workshop Leaders
Karl Spracklen: Leeds Metropolitan University Rob Fisher: Inter-Disciplinary.Net

For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/sport/courses-and-workshops/2015-2/power-and-corruption/

Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

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26-28 october 2015

CFP - ACAPS Congress - Nantes (France)

by Laurent Fournier

Dear colleagues and friends, *On behalf of the Organizing Committee and the laboratory Movement, Interactions, Performance (EA 4334) from the University of Nantes, **we are pleased to invite you to the 16th edition of the ACAPS International Congress **(Association of Researchers in Physical Activities and Sports) which will be held in Nantes (La Cité Nantes Events Center) **from Monday the 26th of October to Wednesday the 28th of October, 2015**.* In 2015, ACAPS is celebrating its 30th anniversary. The congress aims to bring together the French and international scientific community of sports, within the field of physical activity and human motor skills, and to allow for interaction, communication and multidisciplinary scientific exchange at the highest level. We are expecting both Junior and experienced researchers from all scientific disciplines involved in specialized or multidisciplinary laboratories, in human and social sciences (psychology, sociology, history, science of intervention, law), life sciences (physiology, neuroscience, medicine), and / or engineering sciences (biomechanics, mechanical), to be present at this conference in Nantes. Attached you will find the Call for Abstracts, starting from today until April 3rd, 2015 included (deadline for abstract submission). Abstracts should be sent electronically by mail (Microsoft Word-compatible text file: .doc, .docx, …) to the following address: These abstracts must follow the Instructions to Authors, available at the conference website: www.acaps2015.univ-nantes.fr On the website www.acaps2015.univ-nantes.fr you will find further information about the invited speakers, the expected conference program, the committees, as well as some practical information about travel and accommodation in Nantes. We encourage you to forward this email to your respective networks. Thank you! For any information about this conference: We are looking forward to welcoming you in Nantes and send you, dear colleagues and friends, on behalf of the Organizing Committee and the Scientific Committee of the 16th Congress of the ACAPS our warmest greetings. Yours Sincerely Pr. Christophe Cornu, President of the organizing committee. Pr. Jacques Saury, President of the scientific committee and director of the laboratory “Movement, Interactions, Performance”

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1st May 2015

Sport and Discrimination Conference 2015 - Registration now open

Event: Sport and Discrimination Conference 2015

Date: Friday 1st May

Venue: London Campus, University of Sunderland

This is a free event but places are limited so please register if you would like to attend. You can register through the university’s online store.

A variety of forms of discrimination remain real problems for many people watching and participating in sport today. What forms do these discriminations take? And how can they best be understood and tackled? The Sport and Discrimination Conference 2015 aims to provide a forum for a wide ranging discussion of these issues. It will include:

• A panel discussion and Q&A with Kick It Out.
• Key note speeches from Dr Daniel Burdsey and Dr Jayne Caudwell (both University of Brighton)
• Presentations from an international range of experts.

For more information about the conference, including a full conference programme, please visit the conference website at:

https://sportanddiscrimination.wordpress.com

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PhD Studentship in Sport and Citizenship: Sexualities in Sport

Following the establishment of a ‘mini Centre for Doctoral Training’ (mini-CDT) in Sport and Citizenship at Loughborough University, applications are invited for a PhD studentship funded by the University’s Graduate School to start on October 1^st2015. The Sport and Citizenship mini-CDT is a joint initiative of the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences and the School of Social, Political and Geographical Sciences. This mini-CDT seeks to research the diverse ways in which active citizenship is pursued by different individuals and social groups in and through sport.

Sports provide a crucial social field in which recognition and citizenship are pursued by diverse social organizations, actors and groups, notably along the lines of class, gender, ethnicity, region or nationality, and sexuality. This PhD studentship focuses on sexuality in sport and will examine the role of key stakeholders - notably fans, sports officials, clubs and administrators, non-governmental organizations, and pressure groups - with regards to the extent of discrimination, intolerance and prejudice. At the level of policy, sports such as football have recognized these struggles: for example, in its Inclusion and Anti-Discrimination Action Plan, the English Football Association outlined a strategy ‘for addressing incidents of discrimination in English football and encouraging greater inclusion across the game’; likewise, the governing body of European football, UEFA, argues that social responsibility is a key tenet of its anti-discrimination strategy. Despite these policies, however, there is evidence to suggest that forms of exclusion, discrimination and intolerance continue to undermine the full recognition and participation of the LGBT community. The PhD study will substantially advance our knowledge of the politics of citizenship within sport and will benefit substantially from our external links with Stonewall as the non-academic project partner. Moreover, the study will facilitate deeper understandings of the role of sport and other fields of popular culture in shaping the wider politics of citizenship; of the roles of different political and social actors in shaping citizenship struggles; and, of how citizenship struggles over sexuality are occurring in contemporary society.

The studentship is for 3 years and is intended to start on October 1http://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/finance/research/ ^st2015. The studentship provides a tax-free stipend of £13,863 per annum, plus tuition fees at the UK/EU rate, for the duration of the studentship. International (non-EU) students may apply for this studentship, but will need to find the difference in fees between those for a ‘UK/EU’ and ‘international’ student themselves. For more information on fees, please see:

Applicants will normally need to hold at least an upper 2:1 degree (or equivalent) in a social science discipline. A relevant Master’s degree in the social sciences and/or experience in this area will be an advantage. Issued October 2014

General information about the school of Social Sciences can be found at: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/socialsciences/

For informal enquiries about the project, please contact Dr Jamie Cleland:

To apply, please complete the online application using the following link: https://luis.lboro.ac.uk/web_apx/f?p=100:1

The closing date for applications is 27 February 2015

Interviews will take place in March

Please quote the following reference when applying: GS15SSEHS/M5

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9 and 10 June 2015

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS: Philosophy at Play Conference, University of Gloucestershire

by Malcolm MacLean

Following two successful Philosophy at Play conferences, we are pleased to announce the third biennial conference to be held at University of Gloucestershire, UK on 9 and 10 June 2015. A book, arising from papers presented at the 2013 event is to be published in time to be launched at the conference.

The two previous conferences and ensuing publications have opened up dialogue and paradigmatic bridge building between scholars of play and philosophers. This dialogue has extended taken-for-granted concepts of play as the innocent frolicking of children to more complex and challenging areas including aesthetics; alternative and virtual worlds; ideas of evil, of politics, of ethics and productive and non-productive labour. This conference hopes to continue this epistemological and paradigmatic bridge-building. We therefore seek proposals for papers to be presented at the conference. The Academic Committee will consider all proposals and are particularly interested in the following topics:

• The presence of play in the work of particular philosophers ancient, modern and contemporary
• Play, the arts and aesthetic practice
• Play and gaming
• Play and sport
• Philosophical perspectives on play/playing, including ethics, morality, aesthetics, ontology, epistemology, political philosophy
• Play, power, freedom and ideology
• Philosophy as play/play as philosophy
• Play, space and time
• The dialectics of play
• Philosophy and playwork
• Play and pleasure
• Infant, childhood, adolescent, adult and senescent playing
• Animal play
• Play and spirituality
• The world at play and the play of things: posthuman perspectives and materialism

Proposals should be submitted to by 26 February 2015 and should be approximately 400 words in English. The conference language will be English. The Academic Committee will review proposals during December and aims to advise of acceptance or otherwise by the middle of January. Those presenting papers will be eligible for the early bird conference fee.

Further details, including registration, of the conference can be found at: http://insight.glos.ac.uk/faculties/as/latest_news_events/Pages/PhilosophyPlayConference.aspx.

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16 January 2015

CFP: Sport and Diplomacy: Message, Mode and Metaphor? SOAS, University of London July 2015

by J Simon

** Reminder **

Sport and Diplomacy: Message, Mode and Metaphor?

Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS, University of London 3-4 July 2015

Deadline for 400 word paper proposals is Friday 16 January 2015.

Any queries please do not hesitate to be in touch.

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2015-01-20

Bodies That Sell (Graduate Conference at UMass Amherst)

Title: Bodies That Sell (Graduate Conference at UMass Amherst)

Location: Massachusetts

Date: 2015-01-20

Description: Bodies that Sell: Commodification and Cultural MarketplacesApril 4, 2015University of Massachusetts, AmherstSubmissions deadline: January 20, 2015Email: We make assumptions based on bodies all the time: what bodies arenormative, strange, dangerous, fragile, familiar, for … Contact: URL: umassego.com/conference/

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5th-7th May 2015

CFP: URePSSS / INSEP2015 - Workshop Sports, Genders and Sexualities. Social, Ethical and Political Challenges

Title: Call For Papers URePSSS / INSEP2015 - Workshop Sports, genders and sexualities. Social, Ethical and Political Challenges 5th-7th May 2015 University of the Littoral Opal Coast, Dunkirk, France. Date: 2015-02-20.

Description: As expressions of cultural embodiment, sexualities, genders and sports can be analyzed as a mirror of societies transformations and developments. The analysis of sports, gender and sexuality can be a key to analyze changes and persistence’s in social interactions and collective representations. This … Contact:

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2015-04-01

CFP: 16th ISHPES Congress

Title: 16th ISHPES CONGRESS - CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Date: 2015-04-01 Description: 16th ISHPES CONGRESS - CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Coming from the past, working in the present, looking to the future:Aims, topics and results of sport history www.ishpes2015.com August 18th 22nd, 2015SPLIT, CROATIA Dear Friends and Colleagues, On behalf of the host, the Croatian Society for Sport History a … Contact: URL: www.ishpes2015.com Announcement ID: 219178http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=219178

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June 29 - July 1, 2015

CFP: East-African Athletics & Social Sciences International Conference

by Heather Dichter

East-African Athletics & Social Sciences International Conference
June 29 - July 1, 2015
Dept of Sport Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Call for Communications

Although thoroughly studied by live science specialists for the last three decades, East-African athletics has seldom caught attention of social and human scientists. In the meantime, the running phenomenon has locally reached an unprecedented level of development in some areas of Kenya and Ethiopia and is now affecting numerous sectors of social life: economic development, domestic and international migrations, development of sport activities and infrastructures, inter alia. In the regions touched by this phenomenon, gender issues and participation of disabled people have also raised as relevant topics of interest. Studying East-African runners under the social science perspective also represents a break with the tradition of reducing them to their biology (genetics) or their environment (altitude), opening a new field of research on the social determinants of their performances.

Considering that the social sciences, namely history, sociology, anthropology, psychology, economy, political science, etc.have not yet been enough mobilized to study this field of activity and the numerous nexus between athletics and society, the 29th, 30th June and 1st July conference in the Addis Ababa University intends to give the opportunity to junior and senior scientists from either sport sciences or social and human sciences to present communications on any subject related to East-African athletics. Non-academic specialists of East-African athletics are also invited to submit applications, as well of specialists of athletics (especially running) in other parts of the world.

The communications are expected to present research works based on empirical and/or first-hand data. Applications will be assessed by an international scientific committee co-chaired by Dr. Manuel Schotté (Univ. Lille, France) and Dr. Bezabeh Wolde (AAU Sp Sc Dept) and composed of senior scholars with competences in either East-African studies or social and human sciences applied to sport. A selection of the best communications will be published in a collective book.

Communications will last 20 minutes, plus a 10 minute discussion session with audience. Topics to be addressed include, but are not restricted to:
-Athletics and Migrations
-Athletics and Gender
-Athletics-Generated Local Economic Development
-Athletics Institutions and Networks
-Sporting Socialization of Runners
-Athletics and Discriminations
-Psychology and Athletics
-Athletics and Disabilities
-Ethnography of Running
-Local Somatic Cultures and Athletics
-History of East-African Athletics
-Side topics: Running from other parts of the world, others disciplines of East-African athletics (field events), communications from sciences other than social sciences.

Proposals of communication should be submitted in English, on a maximum one page document, by email to and should include the following items: name and affiliation of the applicant, 3 to 5 keywords, title of the communication, abstract of the communication and type of data collected. Communicants employed by or registered in an African institution of higher education are eligible, under conditions, to reimbursement of their airplane ticket to and from Addis Ababa. Women are encouraged to apply.

Deadline for application: January 15, 2015.

Organizing Committee: Dr. Solomon Teka (AAU Sp. Sc Dept), Dr. Bezabeh Wolde (AAU Sp Sc Dept), Dr. Tesfaye Asgedom (AAU Sp Sc Dept), Dr. Benoit Gaudin (IRD-AAU Sp Sc Dept) and Onesmos Amberas (AAU Int Rel).

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April 24, 2015

CFA: Rockford University Sports Studies Symposium

by Shawn Klein

“Sports Studies: The State of the Art”

4th Annual Rockford University Sports Studies Symposium
Date: April 24, 2015
Rockford University
5050 E. State. St.
Rockford, IL 61108

Along with its general popularity, sport as an object of academic study has been steadily growing for decades across disciplinary boundaries. As such, this year’s Sports Studies Symposium seeks to explore the state of the study of sport.

We invite papers that examine the current state of the study of sport; for example:

• High-level descriptions of the current methodologies in a specific discipline as it relates to sport;
  • Analyses of the main active questions on which a specific discipline focuses when looking at sport;
  • Discussions of cross-disciplinary research or approaches to the study of sport.
  • Of course, this is by no means an exhaustive list; a myriad of approaches are welcome and encouraged.

We invite and encourage contributors from any discipline.

Each presenter should plan on 20 minutes for his or her presentation. There will also be time for Q&A.

Abstract Submission:
Abstract should be 300-500 words. Send via email (as PDF) to sklein_at_rockford_dot_edu.

Deadline: 1/23/2015
Notification of Acceptance: No earlier than 2/13/2015

If you have any questions, please contact Shawn Klein: sklein_at_rockford_dot_edu or Michael Perry: mperry_at_rockford_dot_edu.

More information about the conference, including past conferences, can be found at http://www.sportsethicist.com/

Thanks,
Shawn

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July 2015

CFP: Sport and Diplomacy: Message, Mode and Metaphor? SOAS, University of London

Call for Papers

Sport and Diplomacy: Message, Mode and Metaphor?

Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS, University of London

3-4 July 2015

Hosted by Dr J Simon Rofe (SOAS, University of London)

Keynote Presentation by Professor Alan Tomlinson (University of Brighton) author of “FIFA – The Men, The Myths and the Money” (Routledge 2014).

As an enduring and almost ubiquitous part of modern life, sport has a powerful capacity to touch individuals and societies around the world in ways that traditional forms of diplomacy and diplomats rarely can. Sporting competition always carries social and political messages for these audiences; at times these are simple even vulgar, at times complex, subtle and mixed. Sport’s modes of operation - not only as participation and mass entertainment, but as an increasingly global business generating economic benefits for and linkages between a broad range of actors – have deep consequences for the ambitions, practices and outcomes of diplomacy. Sport is also a metaphor for competing identities within polities at all levels. Nowhere has the diffusion and redistribution of political and economic power in our globalizing world had more visibility than in international sport.

After many years of relative neglect, the realm of sport diplomacy is attracting renewed scholarly attention. The colloquium is deliberately aimed at welcoming colleagues and students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds.

The colloquium has the broad aim to explore the relationship between sport and diplomacy at all levels. It does so under the following suggested themes (other suggestions are welcome):

• Sport and Conflict & Conflict Resolution
• Sport and Non-State Actors
• International Organisations and Sporting Federations
• Sport, Development and Diplomacy
• International Sport, Money and Global Media

The leading papers from the colloquium will be published in a Special Edition of Diplomacy and Statecraft in 2016.

The deadline for paper proposals of no more than 400 words is January 16, 2014.

There will be NO registration fees for the invited presenters and a limited amount of funding will be provided also to cover travel and accommodation. Food and incidentals will be provided throughout the event.

Please send all proposals, and any queries, to Dr J Simon Rofe at

Subject to confirmation

Lords: The Home of Cricket. Sunday, July 5 – A trip for interested participants will be organised to Lords Cricket Ground to visit the ground in its 201st year of operation and the MCC Museum; also, subject to fixtures (and the weather), to enjoy some play.

The colloquium will be hosted by Global Diplomacy students from the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS, University of London, who will be welcome delegates to the colloquium, and all discussions will be made available to students as podcasts.

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CFP: History of Women’s Health Conference

Title: Call for Papers, History of Women’s Health Conference
Location: Pennsylvania
Date: 2014-12-05
Description: Save the Date/Call for PapersThe
PennsylvaniaHospital, Philadelphia, will host its Tenth annual
History of Womens Health Conference on Wednesday, April 29,
2015. We invite interested persons to send a one to two page
proposal or abstract of your topic by Friday, December 5, 2014
for consideration. T …
Contact:
URL: www.uphs.upenn.edu/paharc/
Announcement ID: 217774
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=217774

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2015-02-15

Gaming Identity: Sports and Cultures, local and global

Title: Gaming Identity: Sports and Cultures, local and global
Date: 2015-02-15
Description: The current notion of competitive sports involves an
ambiguous attitude towards ones own belonging. On the one hand,
sports have become increasingly globalized, and on the other
the issue of competing in support of ones own nation goes on
being an explicit responsibility of the professional athletes
…
Contact:
URL: riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/index
Announcement ID: 217728
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=217728

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2015-01-20

Conference: Worlds of Football III

Title: Conference: Worlds of Football III

Date: 2015-01-20
Description: Victoria University’s Insitute of Sport, Exercise and
Active Living is pleased to host The Worlds of Football III -
an international, multi-disciplinary, multi-football code
conference in January 2015.The conference will be the ninth in
a series of football studies conferences hosted by the College
…
Contact:
URL: www.vu.edu.au/news-events/events/the-worlds-of-football-iii-football-codes-in-the-asian-ce…
Announcement ID: 217501
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=217501

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CFP: Philosophy at Play 3

Following two successful Philosophy at Play conferences, we are pleased to announce the third biennial conference to be held at University of Gloucestershire, UK on 9 and 10 June 2015. A book, arising from papers presented at the 2013 event is to be published in time to be launched at the conference.

Call for Papers

The two previous conferences and ensuing publications have opened up dialogue and paradigmatic bridge building between scholars of play and philosophers. This dialogue has extended taken-for-granted concepts of play as the innocent frolicking of children to more complex and challenging areas including aesthetics; alternative and virtual worlds; ideas of evil, of politics, of ethics and productive and non-productive labour. This conference hopes to continue this epistemological and paradigmatic bridge-building. We therefore seek proposals for papers to be presented at the conference. The Academic Committee will consider all proposals and are particularly interested in the following topics:

• The presence of play in the work of particular philosophers ancient, modern and contemporary
• Play, the arts and aesthetic practice
• Play and gaming
• Play and sport
• Philosophical perspectives on play/playing, including ethics, morality, aesthetics, ontology, epistemology, political philosophy
• Play, power, freedom and ideology
• Philosophy as play/play as philosophy
• Play, space and time
• The dialectics of play
• Philosophy and playwork
• Play and pleasure
• Infant, childhood, adolescent, adult and senescent playing
• Animal play
• Play and spirituality
• The world at play and the play of things: posthuman perspectives and materialism

Proposals should be submitted to by Monday 1 December 2014 and should be approximately 400 words in English. The conference language will be English. The Academic Committee will review proposals during December and aims to advise of acceptance or otherwise by the middle of January. Those presenting papers will be eligible for the early bird conference fee.

Further details of the conference will be provided at a later date. https://www.facebook.com/events/1484262871856953

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03. November 2014

SportsPRSummit Twitter Chat this Monday, Nov 3, 8-9 p.m. EST (and seeking guest for The Classroom on Saturday)

The Sports PR Summit (@SportsPRSummit), in partnership with the Marist College Center for Sports Communication, will moderate its first monthly Twitter chat on Monday, November 3, from 8 to 9 p.m. EST under the hashtag #SportsPRSummit. These chats, scheduled for the first Monday of each month, will offer a platform for professionals working in and around the sports PR industry to weigh in on topical issues and offer insight and opinions. The discussions will help bring executive, junior, and academic voices together for meaningful dialogue and to address best industry practices, highlight exemplars in the field, and deliberate current dilemmas and opportunities encountered by those in the sports PR field.

Student interns from the Center will moderate the chats, and some top industry leaders in sports public relations (including several from the Sports PR Summit’s advisory board) will be participating. Certainly, we’d love to have your input and voices, as this represents a great opportunity for academics and industry folks to interact on topics in our field. Please let any interested students know about it as well. We’ll be tweeting questions from @SportsPRSummit with the hashtag #SportsPRSummit.

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Call for Papers: Sport and Discrimination

by John Price

CALL FOR PAPERS
Sport and Discrimination Conference
Friday 1 May 2015
A one day conference to be held at University of Sunderland, London Campus

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Dr Daniel Burdsey, University of Brighton
Dr Jayne Caudwell, University of Brighton

Deadline for the submission of proposals: 1 December 2014

Prime Minister David Cameron recently concluded a Downing Street summit on discrimination in football by saying: ‘If everyone plays their role, then we can easily crush and deal with this problem’. Was this simply political spin, or a naïve assessment of the problem?

For as we write this, the Chief Executive of UK football’s Premier League has been in the headlines for sending sexist emails. The case provides a stark and public reminder of how discrimination remains embedded in the heart of sport today.

Consider the facts:

• More than two-thirds of women in football have experienced sexism in the workplace (Women in Football).
• Only seven percent of women with disabilities exercise regularly or participate in sport (RightToPLay).
• Seven out of 10 football fans have witnessed homophobic abuse (YouGov).
• Hundreds of elite athletes are suffering depression in silence (Black Dog Institute).
• African Americans face exclusion from Major League Baseball (MLB) due to socioeconomic constraints, among other barriers (Bailey and Shepherd 2011).
• Racism towards indigenous Australians is almost a weekly occurrence in Aussie Rules Football (Klugman and Osmond 2013).

The Sport and Discrimination Conference 2015 will provide a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary examination of these issues. It aims to explore different forms of discrimination (abuse, stereotyping, prejudice, harassment, exclusion), across a range of sports, drawing on work from a variety of academic fields (including sociology, sports studies, psychology, politics, history, and media and cultural studies).

What is the nature and extent of discrimination in sport today? How does it affect people’s experience of sport and their wider lives? What are the barriers to change? And how can discrimination best be tackled in the future?

We welcome proposals from academics, postgraduates and policy makers, who wish to present papers making empirical, theoretical or personal contributions. Proposals may approach the conference theme from a variety of perspectives, including:

• Empirical findings about the nature and extent of discrimination in sport.
• Research articulating the experiences of those who have suffered discrimination in sport.
• Contributions adding to the theoretical understanding of sport and discrimination.
• Policy recommendations for tackling and reducing discrimination in sport.

Proposals, for 20 minute presentations, should include title, abstract (250 words), the name and institutional affiliation of the presenter and a concise biography (100 words). The submission deadline is 1 December 2014.

The conference organisers plan to compile an edited book, titled Sport and Discrimination, from the best contributions to the conference and have an expression of interest from a leading academic publisher. Please indicate with your submission whether you wish to be considered for inclusion in this publication.

All submissions and enquiries should be sent to:

and/or our new academic conference admin officer

The conference is hosted by the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, and organised by:

Dr John Price
Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for Sports Journalism
University of Sunderland

Dr Daniel Kilvington
Associate Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies
University of Sunderland

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16-17-18 ottobre 2014

Workshop/Seminario: Tempo libero, sport e fascismo

Dipartimento di scienze politiche, sociali e cognitive (DISPOC)
Università degli Studi di Siena
via P. A. Mattioli 10
53100 Siena

con il Centro per lo Studio dei
Regimi Totalitari del XX secolo (CiSReTo)
Università di Siena

Dipartimento Storie culture civiltà
Università di Bologna
Piazza San Giovanni in Monte
Bologna
Workshop/Seminario Tempo libero, sport e fascismo

Giovedì 16 ottobre
14.30

Pierangelo Isernia
(direttore Dipartimento di Scienze politiche, sociali e cognitive
Università di Siena)
Saluti

Introduzione

Paul Corner
(Università di Siena)

Alberto De Bernardi
(Università di Bologna)

Ore 16.00

Prima Sessione
Sport e culto del corpo nell’ideologia del fascismo e del nazismo

Paolo Capuzzo (Università di Bologna): Tra propaganda e culto del corpo le Olimpiadi di Berlino del 1936

Priscila F. Perazzo (Universidade Municipal de São Caetano do Sul- USCS): Esporte e lazer na escola alemã Johannes Keller Schulle: a transmissão da ideologia e da cultura nacional-socialista alemã nos anos de 1930

Luís Reis Torgal (CEIS20-UC): Educação Física, Desporto e «Cultura Popular» na FNAT. Reflexões sobre uma instituição do Estado Novo Corporativo.

Simon Martin (Research Fellow, British School of Rome), Re-branding la Repubblica: Roma 1960 e le Memorie di Mussolini.

Coordina: Paul Corner (Università di Siena)

17.45 Discussione
Venerdì 17 ottobre

Ore 9.30
Prima sessione
Architettura di regime e spazi per lo sport

Heloisa Paulo (CEIS20-UC) Salazar, o “grande árbitro”: a inauguração do Estádio Nacional e a leitura portuguesa da construção do “Homem Novo”

Jorge Pais de Sousa (CEIS20-UC) O controlo disciplinar do corpo no Estado Novo: Representações discursivas e imagéticas entre guerras - Do “Ultimatum Futurista às Gerações Portuguesas do Século XX” de Almada Negreiros (1917) à inauguração do Estádio Nacional (1944)

Marcos Guterman (LEER- Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil): Os ideais autoritários na arquitetura dos estádios do Pacaembu (São Paulo), do Estádio Olímpico (Berlim) e do Foro Itálico (Roma)

Nuno Rosmaninho Rolo (Universidade de Aveiro): O desporto nas termas da Curia

Coordina: Valeria Galimi (Università della Tuscia)

11.45 Discussione

14.30
Seconda sessione
Gli sport all’epoca dei fascismi

Saverio Battente (Università di Siena): Sport e propaganda durante il ventennio fascista: gli sport di squadra

Daniele Serapiglia (Università di Bologna): Alle origini del volley. La palla al volo in epoca fascista

Maria das Graças Andrade Ataíde de Almeida (Universidade Rural Federal de Pernambuco; Pesquisadora LEER-USP): Discurso, fascismo e esporte: o Brasil e a copa de 1938

Federico Croci (Universidade de Genova, Itália; Pesquisador LEER-USP, Brasil) e Fabio Caffarena (Università di Genova): Un’impresa fascista tra sport e propaganda: la trasvolata atlantica Italia-Brasile (1930-1931)

Fernando Tavares Pimenta (CEIS20-UC): Desporto e colonialismo em Moçambique durante o Estado Novo (1930-1960)

Coordina: Matteo Pasetti (Università di Bologna)

17.00 Discussione

18.30 Proiezione del film Il mundial dimenticato - la vera incredibile storia dei Mondiali di Patagonia 1942, film falso documentario (Italia, Argentina, 2011) scritto e diretto da Lorenzo Garzella e Filippo Macelloni.
In collaborazione con «il lavoro culturale» (www.lavoroculturale.org), alla presenza dei registi

 

Sabato 18 ottobre

Ore 10.00
Prima sessione
Sport e propaganda

Ana Luiza Martins (Condephaat, Brasil): Revistas do Estado Novo: dois lados da mesma moeda?

Alberto Pena-Rodríguez (Universidad de Vigo): El intercambio propagandístico del fascismo ibérico: cine, turismo y deporte (1936-1940).

Francisco Pinheiro (CEIS20-UC): Stadium e uma ideia de estética desportiva no fascismo português

Coordina: Marica Tolomelli (Università di Bologna)

11.45 Dibattito

12.30
Conclusioni
P. Corner, A. De Bernardi, L. Torgal

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24-28^th August, 2016.

In light of the dramatic increase in academic research activity and practical initiatives on the topic of sports and Christianity over the last decade, the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at York St John University (YSJU), York, UK are hosting an Inaugural Global Congress on Sports and Christianity (IGCSC), 24-28^th August, 2016. The Bible Society and YSJU are collaborating in the development and delivery of this global event.

Keynote Speakers include academics, practitioners, clergy and athletes, for example: Professors Stanley Hauerwas, Shirl Hoffman, Michael Novak, Graham Daniels (Director of Christians in Sport), Bishop James Jones and Anne-Wafula Strike MBE (paralympian).

York St John University campus is at the heart of the beautiful and historic city of York (see http://www.visityork.org/ ).

A part of the congress is a sport-themed service in York Minster, one of Europe’s finest cathedrals (see http://www.yorkminster.org/home.html ). The Bishop of Leeds, Nick Baines will be delivering a sport-themed sermon.

The attached Pdf. Brochure and website provide further information on the congress: http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/health-life-sciences/faculty-of-hls/faculty-events/igcsc.aspx

If you are interested in receiving further information about this event, email the congress convener, Dr Nick J. Watson ( ), who will add you to an email-contact list.

Best Wishes

Dr Nick J. Watson
Senior Lecturer, Sport, Culture and Religion
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
York St John University
Lord Mayor’s Walk
York, Y031 7EX
England

Telephone: 01904 876833
Email:
Co-Director, Centre for Sport, Spirituality and Religion, University of Gloucestershire

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CfP: SWPACA Stardom and Fandom, February 11 - 14, 2015

Title: CFP: SWPACA Stardom and Fandom, February 11 - 14, 2015
Location: New Mexico
Date: 2014-11-01
Description: Join us for the 36th Annual Southwest Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference, February 11 14, 2015 at the beautiful Hyatt Regency in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Area Chair for Stardom and Fandom invites paper or panel proposals on any aspect of stardom or fandom. Proposal submi …
Contact:
URL: conference2015.southwestpca.org

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March 6-8, 2015 in Charlotte, NC

Call for Papers and Panels
The Eighth Summit on Communication and Sport
March 6-8, 2015 in Charlotte, NC

The International Association for Communication and Sport (IACS) will host the 8th Summit on Communication and Sport. The 8th Summit will be March 6-8, 2015 at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Center City Campus, a new facility located in the heart of downtown Charlotte and within easy walking distance of attractions, sports venues, restaurants, hotels, and public transportation. Charlotte is home to professional sports teams (The Carolina Panthers and Charlotte Hornets), the NASCAR Hall of Fame, The Charlotte Motor Speedway, and major sports media outlets (ESPNU, The Sporting News). Inexpensive flights into Charlotte-Douglas Airport are typically available from multiple departure points, and hotel accommodations in downtown Charlotte are very reasonable.

To learn more about the 2015 Summit or IACS, please visit http://www.communicationandsport.com.

We invite you to consider presenting at the 2015 Summit on Communication and Sport. The IACS Summit is the leading venue for communication researchers interested in exploring sport from diverse critical, methodological, and multi-disciplinary perspectives.

All submissions for the 2015 Summit must be uploaded to the online submission system (http://iacs2015.acamedics.com) by 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time) on Wednesday, November 5th, 2014. All submissions will be evaluated through a blind peer review process and the author(s) of accepted submissions will receive email notification no later than Wednesday, December 10th, 2014. A maximum of two (2) first-authored submissions from a single author will be considered for presentation.

Scholars interested in submitting to the 2015 Summit have three options: (1) an abstract submission; (2) a full-length manuscript submission; or (3) a panel presentation submission.

• Abstract submissions may be up to 500 words in length and should be prepared for blind review (clear of any identifying information about the author(s)).
• Full-length manuscript submissions must be prepared for blind review (clear of any identifying information about the author(s)), limited to 7,500 words (including references and tables/figures), and prepared using a consistent citation style (e.g. APA, Chicago, MLA).
• Panel submissions must include a title, a description of up to 500 words explaining the focus and rationale, a list of all panelists’ institutional or professional affiliations, and (for panels with individual papers) titles and brief descriptions of each presentation. All research sessions are one hour and fifteen minutes long, so please submit panel presentations that allow for at least 15 minutes of discussion.

IACS will recognize the Top Student Paper submitted to the Summit. Only full-length manuscript submissions will be eligible for the Top Student Paper Award. Students should mark full-length manuscript submissions as “Student” submissions in the upper right hand corner of the first page.The Summit on Communication and Sport welcomes submissions from all methodological and theoretical perspectives. Any inquiries regarding conference events should be directed to Dr. Dan Grano (). Any inquires regarding conference submissions should be directed to Dr. Sandra Alspach ().
Additional information and updates regarding 2015 Summit events will be posted to the IACS website (http://www.communicationandsport.com).

ACCOMODATIONS
A small block of rooms will be reserved at one or more hotels within walking distance of the UNC Charlotte Center City Campus building. Please visit the IACS website (http://www.communicationandsport.com) for updates.

ACADEMIC PROGRAM
The academic program will run from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (EST) on March 6^th and 7^th, and from 8:00 am to 12:45 pm on March 8^th. Both breakfast and lunch will be served at the Center City Campus building to all paid conference attendees. The conference will feature panels and presentations from scholars and working professionals alike, and will serve as a space that bridges the diverse theoretical, critical, and applied interests of attendees. It is our hope to create interactions between academics and the wealth of sports professionals working in Charlotte.

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2015-07-15

CFP: Bend it like Europe (1945-­1989). Sports, Politics and the Cold War

by Francisco Pinheiro

Title: Call for Abstracts
Date: 2015-07-15
Description: We are pleased to welcome your abstract for our
upcoming panel which will takes place during the 5th Meeting of
Young Researchers of the Contemporary History Association
(AHC), next July in Barcelona (Spain). Title: BEND IT LIKE
EUROPE (1945-­1989). SPORTS, POLITICS AND THE COLD WAR Our
ambition is to …
Contact:
URL: historiabcn2015eng.wordpress.com/panels/23-bend-it-like-europe-1945-%C2%AD1989-sports-politics-and-the-cold-war/
Announcement ID: 216084
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=216084

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2014-11-01

Body and Culture for Popular Culture Association National Meeting

by Francisco Pinheiro

Title: Body and Culture for Popular Culture Association National
Meeting
Date: 2014-11-01
Description: The Body and Culture Area of the Popular Culture
Association is issuing a call for papers that explore this
broad and interdisciplinary topic. In general, papers should
address issues of the meanings culture writes onto bodies, the
origin of those meanings, and the impact those meanings have on
bodi …
Contact:
Announcement ID: 216268
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=216268

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2nd Paper session CFP (women’s sports)

The Southern Sociological Society is organizing their 2015 annual conference in New Orleans around the theme of ?Stalled Revolutions? Gender Inequality in the 21st Century? with the question mark specifically indicating recognition that it is debatable whether or not the gender revolution has stalled at all and, if so, to what degree.

In conjunction with the conference theme, I am currently devising a session on ?sport and stalled revolutions?. The description of the session is as follows:

SPORT AND STALLED REVOLUTIONS 1: WOMEN?S SPORTS

Sport is a social institution that has gone through a period of tremendous change regarding gender. Title IX increased the presence and profile of female athletes, women?s professional sports leagues have become established and continuous entities, and a number of female athletes have achieved household recognition. Yet, despite these advancements women?s sports continue to suffer from a number of barriers: backlash against Title IX, continued sexualization and trivialization of female athletes and women?s sports; and significant differences in the financial and fan support of male and female athletics.

Therefore this session seeks to query, in conjunction with the conference theme, the role of sport as a social institution in generating a more equal society regarding gender relations. We seek papers that address the following questions either generally or as a part of a more grounded empirical study: In what ways has sport provided a powerful setting for articulating alternative conceptions of the distribution of power via gender? In what ways does it reinforce existing power arrangements? What are the possibilities and problems of attempts to generate social change via sport? How does sport compare to other institutions characterized by stalled revolutions (e.g. work, family)?

If you would like your paper considered for this session, please submit the following to Kylie Parrotta () and Daniel Buffington () by Wednesday, October 15:

1) the title of the paper

2) name, affiliation, and contact information for each author

3) an extended abstract of approximately 450-550 words

***note that at least one author on each paper must be a member of SSS for the paper to be considered (per SSS)

Daniel T. Buffington
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Bear 122
Department of Sociology and Criminology
UNC-Wilmington
Wilmington, NC 28403
910.962.3434

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16th to 18th December 2014
International Sport and Exercise Nutrition Conference (ISENC)

Newcastle, United Kingdom

Sport and Exercise Nutrition conference with two themes; 1) Physical Activity and Health Theme 2) Sports Performance Theme. Three day conference with specialist speakers from all over the world. Celebrity guest speaker; Sir Chris Hoy

Abstracts to be published online in the IJSNEM. Also CPD points have been applied for.

Enquiries: [email protected]
Web address: http://www.isenc.org

Sponsored by: Gatorade GSSI and SIS.
Early Bird discount ends Sept 30th 2014

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Publikationsmöglichkeit für Interessierte (Anmeldung bis 01.12.2014)

Sport in Society Special Issue on ‘Ultras’ - Call for Submissions

by Martin Lieser

Hi all, we are excited to announce a call for submissions to a Sport in Society Special Edition on ‘The Ultras - the global development of a fan phenomenon’

Expression of Interest: 1st December 2014

Deadline for submission: 1st October 2015

Ultras are the most prominent form of football fandom in the 21st century. From their origins in Italy in the 1960s, this style of fandom has spread across Europe and then across the globe. This special edition seeks to bring together new research and theoretically informed papers to contribute to an understanding of the ultras phenomenon and establish a foundation for future scholarship on this form of fandom. This Special Issue invites papers that can contribute to new research agendas on ultras fandom.

Further details can be found here: http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/pgas/sport-society-cfp

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30-31 July 2015 THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPORT AND SOCIETY

Toronto, Canada
University of Toronto
30-31 July 2015

Proposals for paper presentations, workshops, posters or colloquia are invited for the Sixth International Conference on Sport and Society being held at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada, from 30-31 July 2015. We welcome proposals from a variety of disciplines and perspectives that will contribute to the conference discourse. We also encourage faculty and research students to submit joint proposals for paper presentations or colloquia.

2015 CONFERENCE SPECIAL FOCUS:

“Sport in the Americas”

This year’s conference will be held in parallel with the Pan-American Games. Often, “America” is taken to mean the United States, to the neglect of the other countries represented at the games. Accordingly, in addition to the general, international themes for the conference, this year’s area of special focus relates to the rise and development of sport in the Americas, with a particular focus on the Caribbean states, South America, and Central America. This is an under-researched area, which deserves deeper investigation. The Pan-American Games are in Toronto at the same time as the Sport and Society Conference, bringing people from the whole of the Americas to a single event. This provides an opportunity to open up to the rest of the academic world to the vast array of research that is being undertaken by scholars of sport in the Caribbean, South America, and Central America.

CONFERENCE THEMES:

Proposals are invited that address sport through one of the following categories:

Theme 1: Sporting Cultures and Identities
Theme 2: Sport and Health
Theme 3: Sports Education
Theme 4: Sports Management and Commercialization
2015 Special Focus: Sport in the Americas

Presenters may also choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed Sport Collection of journals. If you are unable to attend the conference, you may still become a member of the community and submit your article for peer review and possible publication, upload an online presentation, and enjoy subscriber access to the journal.

Proposals for in-person presentations should be submitted by 9 APRIL 2015 (title and short abstract). Proposals submitted after this day will be accommodated in non-themed sessions at the conference or are eligible for community membership registrations (no attendance at conference required with community membership presentations).

Enquiries: [email protected]
Web address: http://sportandsociety.com/2015-Toronto
Sponsored by: Sport and Society / Common Ground Publishing

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5-6 June, 2015, ETH Zurich

CFP: Conference on Sport and Society in Transnational Contexts, 5-6 June, 2015, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Sport and Society in Transnational Contexts Over the years, academics have widely discussed and written about the critical influence of sports on social formations. Although in most of the works sport has been situated in national/local contexts, the existing and increasing global dynamics of sport have not gone unnoticed. During the 1970s, scholars began thinking about international diffusion of Western sports, and gradually concepts such as sportization, mundialization, Americanization or American capitalist hegemony, and modernization started doing rounds in sport academia. Subsequently scholars pondered looking beyond frameworks of cultural hegemony and explored diffusion and appropriation as interdependent processes ? complex ?local?global nexuses? that tend to produce hybrid sport and broader cultural codes. Quite possibly, sport has become ?so central to our contemporary moment?s blend of transnational cultural industrialisation and textualisation that it does more than reflect the global ? sport is big enough to modify our very use of the term, ?globalization?? (Miller et al., 2001). This is reflected in the recent works on global networks of sport that embrace cultural transfer, sponsorship, migration, mega-event, fandom and media among other issues. This conference aims to bring together academics from a wide range of disciplines to expand our conceptual understanding of sport?s international dimensions, particularly the flows and circulations of historical processes at the sites of production and consumption within a connected space of interaction. We invite papers which focus on, but are not limited to, the following themes:

1. The functions of nation-states and other establishments in initiating and mediating sport codes.
2. New models of analyzing circulation and appropriation of particular sports.
3. The agency of intermediary individuals within or outside institutions that promote transnational sport.
4. The processes of recasting sporting discourses through visual and textual constructions.
5. Transformation of sport through transactions between dispensers and absorbers.
6. Simultaneous multiple production of modern sport across diverse sites, and subsequent configuration of their contemporary forms.

The conference committee welcomes abstracts of 200-250 words for 20 minute presentations. Please send your abstract and a brief biography (not more than 200 words) to Souvik Naha at by 31 October 2014. Female and early career researchers are particularly encouraged to participate. We do not guarantee travel and accommodation bursaries at this stage. Registration information will follow once we learn the outcomes of funding applications. The conference proceedings will be published as a special issue of Sport in Society in 2016.

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08.-12.09.2014 35. Kriminologische Studienwoche zum Thema “Protest, Event-Gewalt und sozialer Unmut” in Hamburg weitere Informationen…

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10.01.2015 CfP: Edited Volume, Pour le sport: Physical Culture in French and Francophone Literature.

Title: Call for Papers: Edited Volume, Pour le sport: Physical Culture in French and Francophone Literature. Date: 2015-10-01 Description: Pioneered by scholars such as Eugen Weber and Richard Holt, the study of sports in French-speaking cultures has dramatically expanded in the last few decades.

Contact: Announcement ID: 215446 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=215446

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01.09.2014 CfP: Historicizing the Politics and Pleasure of Sport, Radical History Review call for papers

Title: CfP: Historicizing the Politics and Pleasure of Sport, Radical History Review call for papers Date: 2014-09-01 Description: Historicizing the Politics and Pleasure of Sport Issue number 125 (Spring 2016) Abstract Deadline: September 1, 2014 The global reach of football (soccer), basketball, cricket, and Olympic sports in the contemporary world can be traced back to European and U.S. imperial and commercial expansion.

Contact: URL: www.radicalhistoryreview.org/call-for-papers/

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19.09.2014 Announcement: Sporting Heritage Conference September 19th, London

There’s still time to book onto the the 2014 Sports Heritage Network (SHN) Conference, 19th September 2014. The event will celebrate and support a greater understanding of the power of sporting heritage as a topic for oral history. The British Library is the inspirational venue to discuss past, present and future activity in this field. The delegate fee is just £30 for the whole event. Research suggests that the sporting past, and specifically tangible and intangible heritage connected with sporting memories, can have profound effects on individuals and communities. The conference aims to understand more about current activity in this field, draw together conclusions about the importance of sporting heritage in supporting oral history activity, and establish future opportunities and partnerships. The event will bring together speakers and delegates from backgrounds including: academia, heritage, health, local authorities, education, and sport. For more information, to view the conference programme, or to book a place, please visit the conference website: http://oralhistoryandsport.wordpress.com/

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06.11.2014 CFP: Junior Colloquium (CIERA): Diversity and Identification mechanisms. Football and Diversity in France and Germany 1950-2014

Junior Colloquium (CIERA): Diversity and Identification mechanisms. Football and Diversity in France and Germany 1950-2014 Since it became an object of mass culture in the 1920s, football has constantly faced the issues of diversity and identity in France and Germany. Exploring positions held and parts played by foreigners and /or nationals with an immigration background in football as a sport activity and an entertainment industry appears very productive in a French-German context, especially because on both sides of the Rhine the respective definition of the Nation was founded on divergent principles. The Colloquium will be structured in two sections. Section 1 will be focussed on diversity in professional football as covered by the media. Section 2 will adress the questions concerning diversity in amateur football. This Junior Colloquium aims to arouse the interest of PhD students, Post-doc Students or Master Students focussing their research on immigrants culture and sport culture (football) in France and/or in Germany. Deadline: 2014-09-21 Language: French & German Jean Christophe MEYER Centre Raymond Poidevin UMR7367 DynamE Misha 5 allée du Général Rouvillois – CS5008 67083 Strasbourg cedex +33 3 68 85 61 39 Email:

Visit the website at http://www.ciera.fr/ciera/diversite_football

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04. 09.2014 Ann: Sporting Females: Past, Present, Future - 04 September 2014, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

The Research Centre for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds UK) is hosting a one day conference to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the publication of Jennifer Hargreaves’ book, Sporting Females: Critical Issues in the History and Sociology of Women’s Sport. Those interested in historical, sociological, philosophical and practitioner issues related to females and/or gender relations in sport are warmly invited to attend this day of celebration and stimulating discussion. In addition to presentations by national and international researchers, Professor Jennifer Hargreaves will be the Keynote Speaker at this event.

Conference fee: £20.00 (waged); £10 (postgrad/unwaged) to include refreshments, lunch and wine reception

See the full programme for Sporting Females on the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Research Centre website: https://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/research/centre-for-diversity-equity-and-inclusion.htm Book your place here: http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/sportingfemales/ Are you coming to Leeds for Sporting Females 04 September? Then you might also be interested in registering for the British Society of Sports History Annual Conference, 05-06 September - also at Leeds Metropolitan University. Keynote Speakers: Professor Elizabeth Wilson; Professor Patricia Vertinsky and Professor Kevin Jefferys.

Full Programme and Registration details for #BSSH2014 are available here: http://tinyurl.com/q39daun

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07.11.-10.11.2014 2nd Global Conference Fandom: Practices and Participatory Cultures Prague, Czech Republic

Call for Presentations: The words ‘fan’ and ‘fandom’ often conjure up images of screaming groupies, sports supporters adorned in the colours of ‘their’ team, die-hard messageboard participants and even stalkers who perpetrate actual violence against the object of their fannish desires. Whether viewed as a positive or negative cultural force, fandoms represent participatory communities that are so thoroughly inscribed within our social fabric, and integral to the way many individuals understand their identity, that it warrants holistic study in an interdisciplinary context.

More information…

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05.09.-06.09.2014 British Society of Sports History (BSSH) Annual Conference 2014

Come to the City of Leeds, UK 5-6 September 2014 and join the #BSSH2014 conversation about the history of sport and recreation at The Rose Bowl, Leeds Metropolitan University. Confirmed Keynote Speakers are Professor Kevin Jefferys (winner of the BSSH Lord Aberdare Book Prize 2013) and Professor Patricia Vertinsky, invited to deliver our annual Sir Derek Birley Memorial Lecture. In addition, we are delighted to welcome Professor Elizabeth Wilson who will open proceedings on Friday, 5 September with a lecture based on her latest book ‘Love Game: A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon’.

Full programme details for both 5 and 6 September are available at: http://www.sportinhistory.org/

To register go to: http://tinyurl.com/q39daun or http://onlinestore.leedsmet.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=4&catid=2&prodid=377

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31.05.2014 Fußball, Politik und teure Stadien: Unbeschwerte Spiele in Brasilien?

15:30 Uhr: “Ekstase und Schock - Die Fußballhauptstadt Buenos Aires”: TV-Dokumentation und Gespräch mit dem Produzenten Jan-Henrik Gruszecki 17:00 Uhr: Podiumsdiskussion: Jan-Henrik Gruszecki (Journalist), Dr. Thomas Stehnken (Brasilienexperte), Dr. Gabriel Duttler (Fanforscher), Moderation: Jonas Friedrich (Sky Deutschland)

Weitere Infos unter folgendem Link.