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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?

Discrimination cuts across traditional academic subjects and the ethos behind this conference is to bring together experts from different subject areas in an opportunity for knowledge exchange. We welcome presentations relating to all forms of discrimination across any sporting context, including popular culture. As in previous years of Sport and Discrimination events, submissions may approach the conference from a variety of perspectives.

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.

The 2025 International Football History Conference will take place at the National Football Stadium at Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland and will be held over two days (Friday the 13th & Saturday the 14thof June 2025). This is a call for papers for those who wish to present at the conference. There will be an opportunity to present on any topic relating to the history of football of all codes. This includes, but is not limited to: Association Football, Rugby Union & Rugby League, Gaelic Football and Aussie Rules.

Den 3 oktober på Bosön genomförs spridningskonferensen för ”Sätt bollen i rullning”. Projektet inleddes år 2019, och har intervjuat män och kvinnor som är ordförande inom handbollen, basketen och fotbollen om hur de upplever sina möjligheter till makt och inflytande. Tidigare idrottsminister Anders Ygeman beskrev resultatet som deprimerande. I vårt tidigare arbete framkommer en stark önskan/strävan efter jämställda styrelser, men att ytterst lite görs för att åstadkomma detta i praktiken.

The 40-year history of the Island Games and the International Island Games Association (IIGA) has featured a variety of non-sovereign polities, territories, dependencies, autonomous regions, council areas, and even formerly (in the case of Iceland and Malta) independent nations. These are places which sit at peripheries of national and international governance – and often supranational imagination. The neglect within media of th Games is reflected by academic literature: sport, politics, and the histories of sport in these places are rarely discussed.

The body is an intensely personal site for creativity and self-expression, yet even the most unique styles of dress reflect larger communities—people, places, and legacies that we care about and draw inspiration from. Whether we understand them as ‘imagined communities’, ‘communities of practice’, or something else, we as artists, designers, activists, educators, and scholars give to and take from communities. We often make our connections visible through material culture such as clothing, jewelry, headwear, footwear, and body modifications.

The theme of the Paris 2024 conference is “Sport Management and Social Inclusion”. Submissions that relate specifically, but not exclusively, to the conference theme are strongly encouraged. Participants also have the opportunity to submit contributions that are not specifically related to the conference theme in parallel sessions during the conference. The main objective of all conference sessions is to encourage participants from related fields to share their knowledge, provide new insights and inspire the future of sport management.