Tag: Conferences

Join us at Breaking Barriers, a transformative conference exploring Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Sports. Unveil the power of equality and sustainability, disrupting norms in the sports industry. Gain insights, forge collaborations, and be part of shaping a more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable future for sports. Break barriers with us! This conference offers not only innovative papers and engaging keynotes but also industry-expert led workshops and discussion panels. It is open to both academics and professionals, creating a unique platform for dialogue and collaboration.

Sport is everywhere in social life, yet for decades it remained marginal in Geography. Early works were mostly descriptive, while only from the 1990s onward did scholars such as John Bale and Gilmar Mascarenhas begin to treat sport as an analytical object. Even today, its full recognition as a legitimate field of geographic inquiry is still emerging. These seminars seek to advance a critical geography of sport. We present contributions that use geographic categories rigorously to analyze sport as a spatial, territorial, scalar, and identity-based phenomenon.

The TechSportLab Workshop explores the intersection between technologies, sports training, and performance optimization; analyzes how emerging technologies, ranging from artificial intelligence to biometric analysis, are revolutionizing training methods, injury prevention, and performance assessment; and emphasizes how the synergy between technology and human movement can drive innovation in sports performance and training methodologies.

Vi er glade for å på nytt kunne invitere til konferanse om kroppsøving og idrettsfag. Hensikten med konferansen er å samles rundt ny forskning, utveksle erfaringer og etablere nye nettverk. Dato for konferansen er 4.-5. juni 2026. Målgruppen for konferansen er ansatte og studenter ved høgskoler og universitet, og lærere som underviser i kroppsøving og idrettsfag. Vi søker bidrag som omhandler forskning på kroppsøving, idrettsfag og lærerutdanning. I programmet er det også satt av tid til praktiske workshops.

Since the 2000s, a growing number of states have been mobilizing their diplomats on sporting issues and sport for diplomatic purposes, to the extent that the concept of ‘sports diplomacy’ has become established in a prescriptive, if not forward-looking, sense in the international public sphere. Unlike the often-speculative analyses of many experts, this conference aims to examine the relationship between diplomats, diplomacies, and sport by analyzing sources (archives, interviews, etc.), with a focus on its forms, practices, and the actors who shape them. 

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.