Tag: Conferences

The 2026 NASSS conference in Calgary centers and explores the importance of time to how we imagine, experience, and make sense of sport and physical cultures. We often measure the body’s performance in increments of time, for instance in the seconds of the 100-meter dash or the basket scored just before the shot clock expires. Sport has a duration: the 90 minutes of a soccer match, for example, or the 80 minutes of rugby union. And sport often has a temporal rhythm, unfolding through seasons and off seasons that structure our investments of time, emotion, and (often) money. Here, time is a resource, and the ability to have and use time for sport or physical activity reflects broader structural inequalities of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, age, ability, and social class.

World Players Institute 2026 (WPI 2026) welcomes abstract and research proposal submissions which align with this year’s theme: ‘Where research takes the field: Informing decision making, bargaining, and practice in sport’. The selection process will heavily favour presentations and proposals which have clear pathways for impact through collective bargaining, advocacy, and policy change. Submissions from postgraduate students, early-career researchers, and scholars from the Global South are welcomed and encouraged.

From September 24 to 25, 2026, the international ENSE Forum will take place at the University of Applied Sciences Kufstein Tirol. In times of global challenges – from climate change and social polarization to increasing physical inactivity – sports education is becoming increasingly important as the key to health, wellbeing and connection. The European Network of Sport Education (ENSE) is an international non-profit organization and has been active in the field of sport education in Europe since 1989.

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.