Tag: CfP Conference

Transnational Body and Movement Cultures From a Gender Perspective 13 – 15 November 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark The term ‘transnational’ refers to “sustained ties of persons, networks and organizations across the borders, across multiple nation-states ranging from little to highly institutionalized forms” (Faist, 2000, 189). This perspective includes economic and cultural relations as well as networks and organizations that are not formed...

"Sport, Unity ​& Conflict” | Call for Abstracts Annual Conference of the European Association for Sociology of Sport Dublin, Ireland 10–13 June 2015 Keynote speakers Professor Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania, USA Professor Anthony King, University of Exeter, England Professor Roberta Sassatelli, University of Milan, Italy We invite abstracts for the twelfth EASS conference to be hosted at the historic building of the Royal College of Surgeons of...

15th Annual International Conference on Sports: Economic, Management, Marketing & Social Aspects is arranged in collaboration with the Pan-Hellenic Association of Sport Economists & Managers (PASEM) The The Sports Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) organizes its 15th Annual International Conference on Sports: Economic, Management, Marketing & Social Aspects, 11-14 May 2015, Athens, Greece. The conference website is: http://www.atiner.com/sports.htm. The aim of the conference is...

Faculty of Physical education and Sports, University of Banja Luka, on 6-7 November 2014, will hold 6th International scientific congress “Anthropological aspects of sports, physical education and recreation”. We are using this opportunity to invite you to attend the Congress and participate in its work. By the opinion of participants the past four Congresses were successful, and we hope,...

Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Chicago, April 21-25 2015 Exercise and environment: New geographies of the exercise experience Session organizers: Alan Latham and Russell Hitchings, UCL Geography Physical fitness practices are part of the background of contemporary life. Jogging, cycling, walking, swimming, weight training, roller blading, dancing, playing and training for all kinds of sports animate people’s everyday worlds in all sorts...

The International Association for Communication and Sport (IACS) will host the 8th Summit on Communication and Sport.  The 8th Summit will be March 6-8, 2015 at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Center City Campus, a new facility located in the heart of downtown Charlotte and within easy walking distance of attractions, sports venues, restaurants, hotels, and public...

The overall theme of the 50th Anniversary Congress is The Sociological Lens and the Wellbeing of Sport In June 2015, the International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA) will celebrate its 50th anniversary. Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité university's "Techniques et Enjeux du Corps" (EA 3625) team has the honour of organising this ISSA congress, which will have as its theme The...

Just the other day, Sweden secured a place in the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada in 2015. Women Deliver, a global organization advocating for the health and well-being of girls and women, will be holding a groundbreaking symposium titled Girl Power in Play in conjunction with the World Cup, in Ottawa, Canada on June 18 and 19, 2015. This symposium will focus on the...

We are pleased to welcome your abstract for our upcoming panel which will takes place during the 5th Meeting of Young Researchers of the Contemporary History Association (AHC), next July in Barcelona (Spain). Our ambition is to propose a panel that could enable a meeting between Sport and International relations young historians around the development of European sports between 1945 and...

Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 23-25, 2015: Modern Bodies: Corporeality in Spanish Silver Age Literature and Culture The advent of modernity and the processes of modernization in early twentieth-century Spain, during the so-called Silver Age (1900-1936), radically changed the existing representations of the human body.  The advancement of science and technology, the rise and consolidation of disciplines like sexology, eugenics, and...