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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.”

On the occasion of the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Other Bodies/Other Games Conference will take place on June 12-14 2024 Paris Cité University, before the start of the Paris Olympics. It will be a unique opportunity to identify the gaps that exist between knowing / saying and practice / doing, between the speeches and the actions in accordance with the principles of Olympism. What do these Olympic principles still mean for the sporting practice of today?

We are particularly interested in submissions around past, present, and future considerations of drug use and enhancement in a sporting context that open new perspectives in research, for example on ethical issues, new competition formats, or challenges for athletes. Our two confirmed keynote speakers will address the conference theme from very different angles: Ines Geipel was a victim of the East German doping regime. Aron D’Souza is the President of the Enhanced Games, sports without drug testing.

The “Bodies in Motion” conference presents an opportunity for scholars and graduate students to collectively explore and rethink the relationship between bodies, materiality, space and time, thereby enriching the intellectual landscape within these fields and fostering a deeper understanding of our rapidly changing world. Keynote lecture to be delivered by: Kirsten Pai Buick, University of New Mexico.

Related to its mission, “To provide students, scholars, and college sport practitioners a public forum to discuss relevant and timely college sport issues,” this conference will feature cutting-edge research in collegiate athletics, various panel discussions on pertinent issues affecting college athletes, and a keynote address by National Labor Relations Board General Council Jennifer Abruzzo.

The aim of the conference is to bring together academics and researchers of all areas of sports. Participants can present on sports topics within broad streams of research areas. This conference has been organized with great success for more than two decades. Since 2000, close to 1,000 researchers have presented their work, coming from 70 different countries.

The Sport&EU 18th annual conference will take place at ESSCA School of Management in Angers, France, on 25 and 26 June 2024. The organizing committee is now open to receiving proposals for individual papers and pre-composed panels. The deadline to submit your proposals is 31 January 2024, decisions on accepted papers and panels will be made no later than 28 February 2024.

Discrimination cuts across traditional academic subjects and the ethos behind this conference is to bring together experts from different subject areas to exchange ideas and explore what we can learn from one another.  We welcome presentations about all forms of discrimination across any sporting context, including popular culture.  As in previous years of Sport and Discrimination events, submissions may approach the conference from a variety of perspectives.

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.

This conference arises from the desire to promote a dynamic, interdisciplinary, and revitalized discussion on football fandom and supporter culture. The objective is not merely to share case studies deepening our understanding of these social practices already outlined into the advocated four key areas of focus, but also to reflect on the intricate ways in which they interact with various aspects of the current world. Shifting our initial analytical focus to fans’ commitment and involvement with their clubs can offer a fresh perspective on what we can perceive as the constitutive processes of contemporary communities.