Tag: sports culture

The conference and the follow-up anthology seek to bring together original scholarship to elaborate on how sport and physical culture impacted the ways German and American people came into contact with each other, how they perceived each other, how their respective sporting traditions and cultures interacted with each other, and how sport and physical culture changed because of these contacts and encounters.

The International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK presents the second series of Sports History and Culture Webinars in October 2021. We are delighted to announce the second year of our research webinars, which will bring together established and early career scholars and freelance experts from around the world for live research presentations which will be open to all.

The International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK launches its new series of Sports History and Culture Webinars in September 2020. We are delighted to announce the inaugural year of our research webinars, which will bring together established and early career scholars and freelance experts from around the world for live research presentations which will be open to all.

The aim of the course is to advance student interest in, and understanding of, the social and cultural aspects of sport, with particular reference to broader issues of culture, cultural production and cultural politics. The course will feature a mix of lectures, seminars and workshops on these themes. Lectures and seminars will be given by leading academics from European universities.

At this year’s conference, we want to focus on exploring strategies to improve health pathways, grounded in the social dimensions and cultural settings of physical activity. This includes the organizational strategies of national and international governing bodies of sport that regulate a large deal of participation in leisure and elite sport on the local, national and international levels.

Tidsskriftet Forum for Idræt er en online publikation, der udgiver forskning, formidling og debat om idræt inden for det samfundsvidenskabelige og humanistiske fagområde. Foreningen bag tidsskriftet, Forum for Idræt, Historie og Samfund (FIHS), har eksisteret siden 1985. Indtil en navneændring i 2007 var foreningen kendt under navnet Dansk Idrætshistorisk Forening – Krop og Kultur.

This anthology represents a consciously interdisciplinary approach to sport that accounts for its centrality and multiplicity of meaning in contemporary society. To that end, the collection reflects the many corollaries of sport studies (sport philosophy, history, sociology, literature, etc.) by inviting treatments of the topic from diverse critical viewpoints.

At the centre of both sport and cultural performance are bodies. In the spectacles of professional or amateur sport, plays, musicals, dance, and opera, bodies are made to transcend their fleshly existence by the mise-en-scène and the audience contract. The (sport) spectacle transforms the embodied subject of the athlete/actor into a representation of human potential and possibility.

Rob Lake, Stephen Wagg and Carol Osborne are pleased to announce that contractual arrangements have been made with Routledge for publication of The Routledge Handbook of Tennis: History, Culture and Politics. Due to be released in mid/late 2017, it is an edited collection aimed at providing a comprehensive critical study of tennis, its history, culture and politics.

Presented by the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies and the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies. All lectures are held at LUX room B336, Lund University, LUND.