Tag: Conferences

The School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University invites all those interested in socio-cultural studies of sport and exercise to join our day conference, held in memory of our colleague Dr. Donald Macintosh (1931–1994). The conference will be held in person with COVID precautions in place. The programme will consist of several sessions of graduate student presentations, a catered lunch, and the annual Donald Macintosh Memorial Lecture, given by Dr. Danielle Peers.

This symposium focuses attention on various attempts to use sport as a means of persuasion in pursuit of political objectives. Sport communication research cuts across a wide range of disciplines. This symposium will provide a common ground to host interdisciplinary discussions around key issues related to sport media’s role in the pursuit of political aims, and how they might be reimagined.

The International Network for Doping Research (INDR) will host its 2026 conference at the Department of Public Health at Aarhus University, Denmark, on 20 and 21 August 2026. The conference welcomes scholars who examine doping, enhancement, and anti-doping in their varied cultural, social, political, ethical, and scientific dimensions. INDR supports research that contributes to more informed public debate and a stronger evidence base for sport organisations and policy makers.

Our proposed session explores how the bicycle as an unassuming yet transformative technology, reshaped mobility, governance, and everyday life across diverse Asian contexts. We invite contributions that investigate the social and cultural dimensions of cycling, from its regulation and circulation to its roles in shaping class, gender, and aspiration.

Recent scholarship in sport and media has highlighted a range of ways that mediated sport has been appropriated for the exercise of soft power: a set of tactics for securing consent for various aims using persuasion rather than force. Sport for development and peace examines efforts undertaken by the United Nations and NGOs to leverage sport as means to foster humanitarian concerns. Others have studied how nations use sport to advance diplomatic efforts and foster international cooperation.

The 2026 annual conference of the Leisure Studies Association invites scholars, practitioners, and cultural producers to explore how leisure practices—both traditional and emergent—shape and are shaped by creative and connected communities. The conference aims to foster dialogue across disciplines, challenge conventional boundaries, and illuminate the diverse ways leisure is experienced, imagined and enacted within creative and connected communities. We invite abstract submissions for scholarly work that critically engages with the conceptual frameworks and research strategies shaping the study of created and connected communities of/in/with leisure.

What looms on the horizon for cricket in 2026? In England & Wales we are contending with new ownership of The Hundred teams and the threat of player strikes in the Men’s County Championship, while looking forward to hosting a T20 World Cup, and a maiden women’s Test match at Lord’s. Globally, cricket is poised for entry into the Olympics in 2028, while governance issues loom large in the USA and elsewhere. As we come together in Cambridge, it’s important to look at our sport through a critical lens.

Qualitative research in sport and exercise is firmly established and continues to expand at a rapid pace. It is increasingly celebrated for what it can offer within and beyond the academy in terms of understanding people’s perceptions, experiences, and meanings that they attribute to sport, physical activity, exercise and leisure. ​This conference is dedicated to promoting cutting edge empirical inquiry, advancements in qualitative methods, and debates about methods, theory, and practice and as they relate to conducting and learning from qualitative research in sport and exercise. 

The organisers of the International Football History Conference AKA FootyCon are pleased to announce that their 2026 annual conference will take place at Craven Cottage, Fulham Pier, Fulham Football Club, London, England on Friday the 12th & Saturday the 13th of June 2026. The organisers also welcome delegates to join them for a welcome social event on the evening of Thursday the 11th of June 2026. The conference organisers welcome any topic relating to the history of football of all codes.

As one of the largest, most important sporting events in the world, football’s World Cup has a complicated history. It has transformed from a small 13-team event into a commercial enterprise.. The aim of this symposium is to bring researchers together to present on different topics relating to the history of the World Cup to further understand the significance of the tournament in a contemporary setting, and to address and challenge controversies surrounding the modern-day event. Submissions are welcomed from both the UK and further afield.