Tag: CfP Webinar

In this talk, Theresa Walton-Fisette will outline two different lines of current research examining data related to collegiate athletics. One line focuses on the Mid-American Conference, examining the economic realities of mid-major conferences, with more than 50% of athletic department budgets supported by student fees or direct institutional support. The other line of research examines the impact of conference realignment and football success on enrollment. Preliminary findings demonstrate that neither conference realignment nor football success has a statistically significant impact on enrollment.

Practitioners will take the stage as the main speakers for the webinar. The primary aim is to amplify local voices of practitioners to present their first-hand experiences and invaluable insights. Speakers will delve into three themes: storytelling with positive and authentic emotions in Sport for Development and Peace (SDP), effective and sustainable community ownership, and entrepreneurial mindset and pathways in/through SDP. Additionally, one speaker will share the story of their unique journey from being a SDP participant to a SDP practitioner.

This talk examines some of the multifaceted aspects of the Negro league baseball renaissance. It documents the Negro league revival, which has been expressed in myriad, sometimes surprising forms, and considers some of its cultural and historical sources. My comments, however, are just a prelude to a public conversation I want to have with people attending the Colloquium. What do people think it means that so many people are now (relatively) knowledgeable about long forgotten or neglected Black baseball teams and players?

This webinar aims to expand understandings of how sound in its many forms can provide novel sites for interdisciplinary analysis of sports and the moving body while harnessing creative methods for multimedia knowledge sharing and social activism. The webinar will consist of presentations from invited speakers discussing their explorations into sound and sport across research, media, and artistic domains. Presenters will also answer questions about their experiences working within the sport/sound nexus.

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.

In this talk, I examine the implications of social media platforms in relation to agenda diversity during the Olympic Games. I overview recent datapoints on representations of sport, gender, and national identity from multiple contexts (e.g., United States, Australia, Slovenia, Croatia, and Hungary) to illustrate that nationalism continues to be a driving force in coverage, albeit with local particularities. I problematize notions of “gender equality” in media representations that obscure gendered nationalism and perpetuate “us versus them” divisions.

The POLIS Network aims at a closer cooperation of academics who work in the field of sport politics or who deal with political issues related to sport. After a 1st workshop in Cologne in 2017, followed by several meetings at EASS conferences, workshops in Papendal, Utrecht and Cologne, we want to pick up where we left off in 2020: Renew and deepen our discussions on polity, politics and policies in the field of sport. The workshop will offer the opportunity to present ongoing research, discuss new ideas about collaborative research and identify topics and agendas. 

Neyond the realm of professional sports, doping is common in gyms and recreational sports, spreading among amateur athletes. These amateur athletes are rarely subjected to anti-doping polices and controls, less even to prevention and information sessions. Their medical supervision cannot be compared either to the support that professional athletes get. We invite you to join our next webinar, co-hosted with the Human Enhancement Drugs Network (HEDN), on amateur athletes and doping.

On this occasion, we are delighted to welcome the first two published authors in our series. Dr. Luiz Burlamaqui (Universidade de São Paulo) will present on his book, The Making of Global FIFA. Cold War Politics and the Rise of João Havelange to the FIFA Presidency, 1950–1974, and Dr. Rahul Kumar (Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra) will present on his soon-to-be-released book, Football and Fascism. The Politics of Popular Culture in Portugal.

In this presentation, we will share elements of our work-in-progress about the history and culture of women’s mountain biking. One of the goals of this book project is to make visible the historical experiences of women in mountain biking, but to go beyond simply adding women’s experiences to the broader history of mountain biking. Rather, we seek to examine the ways in which women’s participation alters the stories/narratives that are told about mountain biking history and fundamentally changes the space of mountain biking.