Tag: Conferences: Sport history

The British Society of Sports History exists to promote the study of the history of sport. The annual conference 2024 will be an open-themed conference. Submissions based on original research are welcomed by UK and overseas scholars and can relate to any aspect of sport, physical recreation, education and culture, as considered from a historical perspective. This year, the BSSH is also offering a small number of bursaries of up to £100 to contribute towards the costs of childcare, or other caring responsibilities.

What is the sport scholar’s role today? Overall, we believe it is necessary to reflect on how scholars of sport and adjacent fields tell what Fields calls “‘good stories’” to the public. We open this workshop to individuals who have gone beyond academic journals to critically examine recreation, sport, and/or leisure through teaching, museums, public policy, activism, new media (podcasts, social media, documentary), or any number of alternatives. Overall, the idea is to reflect, share, and write about their responsibility to the public and their efforts to provide “good stories.”

The aim of this congress is to improve our understanding of the interactions between individuals and groups that shape more or less interdependent worlds, the dynamics of which set the pace for the globalization of sport and Olympism. Thus, the analytical approach favoured by this congress will pay particular attention to the multiple ways, situations and (re)configurations of making (worlds) of sport and Olympism - be they cultural, political, social or geographical.

The 2024 annual International Football History Conference will take place at Cardiff City Football Club, Cardiff, Wales and will be held over two days (June 7–8, 2024). This is a call for papers to be presented at the conference. There will be an opportunity to present on any topic relating to the history of football of all codes. Keynote speaker is Florence Ayisi, a Professor of International Documentary Film at the Faculty of Creative Industries, University of South Wales, best known for films on women playing soccer in Zanzibar.

The Finnish Society for Sports History and the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä jointly organize Nordic–Baltic Sports History Congress at the University of Jyväskylä, in Finland, 8th–9th of December 2023. The Congress will be arranged in hybrid form, so it will be possible to attend the Congress in face-to-face manner or remotely by Zoom. The congress language is English. The speeches are expected to be twenty minutes, and ten minutes are reserved for public discussion.

We invite researchers and scholars to the congress to discuss and analyze the many perspectives of the history of sports. The thematic is free and we happily receive presentation offers. It is also possible to participate as audience. The congress language is English. The speeches are expected to be twenty minutes, and ten minutes are reserved for public discussion.

The 2023 annual International Football History Conference will take place at Hampden Park, Glasgow, G42 9BA and will be held over two days (30 June and 1 July 2023). This is a call for papers to be presented at the conference. There will be an opportunity to present on any topic relating to the history of football of all codes. Abstracts for the following presentation styles are welcomed: Short Form (7 minutes); Twenty Minutes; Panels.

This one day event, a special conference on the history of the League of Ireland, will mark the publication of The League of Ireland: An Historical and Contemporary Assessment by Routledge. This has developed from a special edition of Soccer and Society published in December 2021. The conference will take place on Saturday, 14th of January 2023 from 9.30 a.m. until 4.15 p.m at Dalymount Park.

Offering an opportunity to all the international community of the sport historians to gather in Switzerland, the organization committee also want to address several epistemological issues, such as a “biographical turn”, a new interest for the institutions that are governing (inter)national sport or also beyond some new (trans)national way of analysing the sporting modernity, all of them being discussed within sport history communities all over the world.

The inaugural International Football History Conference was staged in 2017 and proved popular with leading academics, early career researchers, football historians and students. That was followed in 2018 & 2019 by further enjoyable conferences. Due to Covid we had to cancel our 2020 & 2021 conferences but now we're back. This year the conference promises to be significant, with world leading research presented, while also providing networking opportunities, as well as the potential for collaborations.