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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.

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.

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.

Scholars, researchers, students and professionals interested in the sociocultural study of the modern Olympic and Paralympic Games are invited to submit abstracts for conference presentations. Papers in the areas of history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, political science, cultural studies and sports management. as well as other disciplines that contribute to the cultural understanding of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, are particularly encouraged. Proposals for thematic sessions are also invited.

This conference invites scholars, practitioners, coaches, creatives, psychologists, cultural critics, and sports researchers to explore Ted Lasso as a springboard for wider questions about how we lead, learn, care, and create connection — both on screen and beyond it. This conference welcomes 15-minute academic and/or creative presentations, performance, and multimedia work. We invite perspectives from media studies, psychology, sports studies, arts-based research, cultural theory, performance, pedagogy, and beyond.

The 2025 NYC Sport Management Symposium will be held at St. John’s University Manhattan campus in NYC's vibrant NOHO neighborhood on May 15-16, 2025. Hosted by St. John’s University, Division of Sport Management, in conjunction with COSMA and local university partners Farmingdale State College, University of Mount Saint Vincent, and Wagner College, the symposium will offer attendees the opportunity to present and discuss scholarly research on a diverse array of topics related to the sport industry.

This one-day conference is an event that brings together professionals and scholars in the fields of health and fitness to share ideas on the challenges and opportunities we face a quarter way through the 21st century. With new dynamics at play and issues to navigate, those working in health and fitness fields need to work together to share best practices and ideas at the forefront of our community.

The Stark Center defines physical culture as “the various activities people have employed over the centuries to strengthen their bodies, enhance their physiques, increase their endurance, improve their health, fight against aging, and become better athletes”. Our focus remains on historical and other humanities-based approaches to the study of exercise, strength, sport training, strength athletes, competitive lifting, the healthful benefits of exercise, and all other aspects of what we call “physical culture” across the millennia.

This conference aims to create conversations around body vulnerability through critical discourses from literature and culture. It aims to examine vulnerabilities experienced by the human body through multiple perspectives such as caste and race-based discrimination and violence, bodies moving through public spaces and the violence they encounter, disabled bodies vis-à-vis discourses of ableism, queer bodies and the violence of othering, hegemonic perceptions of body image and body shaming, issues of maternal bodies and ageing bodies, among others.

Hockey continues to experience reckonings. While some incidents have garnered more media attention than others, questions about hockey’s deeper purpose abound: How might we, individually and collectively, reckon with a history of hockey that has contributed to acts of misogyny, violence, racism, homophobia, classism, and ableism? How might we reckon with realizing our entanglements and vulnerabilities in the context of hockey culture? In what ways are we implicated in narratives of hockey culture?