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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.

The 2026 annual conference of the Leisure Studies Association invites scholars, practitioners, and cultural producers to explore how leisure practices—both traditional and emergent—shape and are shaped by creative and connected communities. The conference aims to foster dialogue across disciplines, challenge conventional boundaries, and illuminate the diverse ways leisure is experienced, imagined and enacted within creative and connected communities. We invite abstract submissions for scholarly work that critically engages with the conceptual frameworks and research strategies shaping the study of created and connected communities of/in/with leisure.

What looms on the horizon for cricket in 2026? In England & Wales we are contending with new ownership of The Hundred teams and the threat of player strikes in the Men’s County Championship, while looking forward to hosting a T20 World Cup, and a maiden women’s Test match at Lord’s. Globally, cricket is poised for entry into the Olympics in 2028, while governance issues loom large in the USA and elsewhere. As we come together in Cambridge, it’s important to look at our sport through a critical lens.

Qualitative research in sport and exercise is firmly established and continues to expand at a rapid pace. It is increasingly celebrated for what it can offer within and beyond the academy in terms of understanding people’s perceptions, experiences, and meanings that they attribute to sport, physical activity, exercise and leisure. ​This conference is dedicated to promoting cutting edge empirical inquiry, advancements in qualitative methods, and debates about methods, theory, and practice and as they relate to conducting and learning from qualitative research in sport and exercise. 

The organisers of the International Football History Conference AKA FootyCon are pleased to announce that their 2026 annual conference will take place at Craven Cottage, Fulham Pier, Fulham Football Club, London, England on Friday the 12th & Saturday the 13th of June 2026. The organisers also welcome delegates to join them for a welcome social event on the evening of Thursday the 11th of June 2026. The conference organisers welcome any topic relating to the history of football of all codes.

The CSSOR Program Committee welcomes high quality academic work on sport studies topics such as race, gender, politics, legacy, youth, or disability. Proposed research papers focusing on broader sociocultural topics within sport are welcomed, in addition to research specifically addressing the Olympic Movement. Scholars in the fields of history, philosophy, management, communication, ancient and modern languages, literature, visual and performing arts, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, economics, marketing, and law are encouraged to submit proposals or attend the conference.

To be an athlete (athlētēs) in Ancient Greece meant taking on a challenge (athlos) for the sake of some prize (athlon)—but it extended far beyond sport. Athletic striving was a feature of oratory, politics, jurisprudence, music, drama, education, and even philosophy, which understood moral virtue in terms of excellence (aretē). The purpose of this conference is to explore this athletic ethos in sport and far beyond it by reflecting on the phenomenon of competitive striving in a variety of practices at various times and places in Greco-Roman antiquity.

SVEBI:s årliga konferens kommer att äga rum i Örebro den 26-27 november 2025 med nätverksträffar dagen innan. Konferensen arrangeras av Örebro Universitet på uppdrag av Svensk Förening för Beteende- ochSamhällsvetenskaplig Idrottsforskning (SVEBI). Det är 50-års jubileum för konferensen som arrangerades för första gången just i Örebro 1975.

How sport is organised and practised can influence public health, community well-being, and social mobilisation, making it a fundamental field of study for understanding the complexities of human interaction and social structures. Therefore, it is essential to understand how emotions influence sporting practice and how, in turn, sport impacts our emotions. In this working group, we aim to create a space for critical reflection on these interactions, to promote research that delves into the role of emotions in the construction of sporting identities.

This conference and a prospective follow-up publication seek to bring together original scholarship to elaborate on how sport and physical culture impacted the ways German and American people came into contact with each other, how they perceived each other, how their respective sporting traditions and cultures interacted with each other, and how sport and physical culture changed because of these contacts and encounters. The phrase ‘sport and physical culture’ should be conceived to include a broad variety of sport-oriented activities.