Tag: boxing

The relationship between postwar television broadcast and the Civil Rights Movement is complex. In an effort to untangle some of this fraught history, this talk examines the entanglements between live television broadcasts and interracial prizefighting in the 1950s and 1960s. Looking at the history of live prizefight broadcast as well as the TV and film versions of Rod Serling’s Requiem for a Heavyweight (produced in 1956 and 1962, respectively), the talk analyzes the ways live broadcast technology was shaped by (and shaped in turn) the post-segregation racial regime.

Joseph D Lewandowski is a writer, researcher, educator, and avid pugilist. He currently serves as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Missouri (USA), and as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport. Lewandowski is also an Expert Advisor at the Legatum Institute, a globally oriented London-based think tank devoted to lifting people out of poverty by creating pathways to prosperity.

Boxing is understood through a set of pervasive and powerful narratives that are insufficiently challenged in popular and academic encounters with the sport. We ask contributors to this collection to critically examine the narrative misconceptions and tropes of boxing, to expand the narrative resources of the sport by drawing upon diverse disciplinary perspectives on the sport. We invite multidisciplinary approaches where boxing is considered in the broadest sense.

The symposium will explore the ways in which Muhammad Ali appears in un/expected spaces, beyond conventional readings. We are seeking to explore such questions as: What is Ali’s twenty-first century significance? How do we interpret the global meanings of Ali? Is sport central or peripheral to understanding Ali?

Anne Tjønndal in an Associate Professor at Nord University, Bodø, with a Ph.D. in sociology (2018). She is also employed at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology as an associate professor II, which is where she earned a Master’s degree in Sports science (2014). Her research interests include sport sociology, innovation and sports coaching, including areas such as social inequality, social inclusion and exclusion, technology and digitalization in sport, the role of the coach, coach-athlete relationships, sustainability and gender perspectives on sport. Anne is also a boxer.

The editors of this anthology invite previously unpublished papers on women’s boxing in Canada, the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. We are seeking...

Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle, LS, vid Malmö högskola håller internationell vecka. Seminarier, workshops med mera riktar sig till alla studenter och all personal...

Fighting Women: A Symposium on Women's Boxing June 21-22, 2013 The Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel Toronto, Ontario, Canada Hosted by Brock University The legacy of women’s boxing, including women...