Tag: CfP Conference

Under the Researcher Links scheme offered within the Newton Fund, the British Council and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo - FAPESP (2004/50504-8) will be holding a workshop on the above theme in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil on 10-13th March, 2015. The workshop is being coordinated by Prof. Simone Fullagar and A/Prof. Ricardo Uvinha,...

One day Colloquium: May 16th 2015, Institute of Historical Research, London Many historians have pointed out that “the body” is a worryingly broad historical theme, covering topics as diverse as medicine, dancing, gesture, clothing, sexuality, gender, childhood, animals, ageing, class, death, food, race, sport, and spirituality. This one day colloquium asks if any broader approaches and directions hold these themes together....

Are we living in a decade dominated by an underestimation of forms of violence causing a lack of investment in prevention and intervention? The international Conference on “Violent Conflicts 2015: The violent decade?! Recent Domains of Violent Conflicts and Counteracting” in Bielefeld provides a state-of-the-art description and analyses of current inner-societal forms of violence which have the potential to...

To celebrate the launch of a new Sport Policy Centre, within the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, a graduate conference on the theme of ‘Sport Politics, Policy and Society’ will take place on 4 December 2014 followed by an invited guest speaker. The conference objective is to provide postgraduate students the opportunity to share their research expertise on sport with...

Call for Papers Proposal Submission deadline is November 19, 2014. We invite research projects among a broad spectrum of topics. Employment of traditional ethnographic and qualitative research projects provides the common thread for conference papers. Proposals will be peer-reviewed among three strands: Results of qualitative and ethnographic research studies, qualitative research methods, and pedagogical issues in qualitative research. Formats include lecture presentations and...

Sport, as a cultural phenomenon, shapes politics, drives economies, highlights inequalities and contributes to our sense of identity and to our local and national pride. Governments and international sports federations bid to host sports mega- events amidst allegations of corrupt practices, yet not all citizens want public money invested in sport at the expense of other services. Rising levels of obesity...

This announcement serves to ‘raise awareness’ of the Inaugural Global Congress on Sports and Christianity (IGCSC), York St John University, 24-28th August, 2016, thus, allowing interested parties to plan their attendance well in advance. Individuals who are interested in receiving further information with regard to the IGCSC, such as, the ‘Call for Papers’ and ‘Booking Forms’ (to be distributed March/April 2015), should email...

British Philosophy of Sport Association 2015 Conference, University of Sunderland, April 13th–15th 2015 Announcement and Call for Abstracts Venue: National Glass Centre, St. Peter’s Campus, University of Sunderland, SL6 0GL. Guidelines for Abstract Submission: Abstract (200-300 words) final submission date - 12th Jan 2015 Accepted abstracts will receive notification by 9th Feb 2015 Required format is MS Word, Times New Roman 12pt, single spacing, with indicative bibliography; all...

The Getulio Vargas Foundation Graduate School of Economics (FGV/EPGE) and the International Association of Sports Economists (IASE) are pleased to invite you to submit a paper for presentation at the XVIth International Conference in Sport Economics. The Conference will take place from December 3rd to 5th, 2014 at the FGV/EPGE in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event will be...

The Christmas Sport Scientific Conference is a unique event, having the aim of providing an informal forum for the presentation of research, projects and proposals by postgraduate students or inexperienced researchers. It hopes to provide an opportunity for young researchers to present their ideas in English, a daunting task to most of us, and begin their career path in...