Tag: CfP Webinar

Research webinar featuring Raymond Boyle, Professor of Communications and Director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research at the University of Glasgow, and Richard Haynes, Professor of Media Sport at the Division of Communications, Media and Culture at the University of Stirling (Scotland). Taking the global sport of Formula 1 (F1) motor racing as a sustained case study, Boyle & Haynes’ recent book Streaming the Formula 1 Rivalry: Sport and the Media in the Platform Age examines how the relationship between the sport and the media has evolved in this new digital environment.

Name Image and Likeness (NIL) has been a point of contention for college athletes for over a century. In the earliest days, athletes had complete control of their image. Within a few decades, athletes lost this control. Lawsuits and new laws about the rights of publicity ultimately returned NIL rights to athletes generally, but the NCAA restrictions lasted until recently. While college athletes should have control over their NIL rights as individuals, the complications of media rights as addressed in the House settlement make things very challenging.

Sport is everywhere in social life, yet for decades it remained marginal in Geography. Early works were mostly descriptive, while only from the 1990s onward did scholars such as John Bale and Gilmar Mascarenhas begin to treat sport as an analytical object. Even today, its full recognition as a legitimate field of geographic inquiry is still emerging. This call seeks to advance a critical geography of sport. We invite contributions that use geographic categories rigorously to analyze sport as a spatial, territorial, scalar, and identity-based phenomenon.

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.