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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.

This panel seeks to examine specifically how the representation of sporting bodies throughout the ages has contributed to the development and gendered understanding of particular sports cultures. The panel organisers therefore invite proposals exploring the representation of gender, its construction and/or contestation in a range of representational practices, including but not limited to: art, cinema, journalism, literature marketing, photography, print media, and social media. Proposals exploring any period of history, sport or geographic region are welcome.

Scholars, researchers, students and professionals interested in the sociocultural study of the modern Olympic and Paralympic Games are invited to submit abstracts for conterence presentations. Papers in the areas of history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, political science, cultural studies and sport 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.

We invite researchers and scholars to the congress to discuss and analyze the many perspectives of the history of sports. The thematic is free and we happily receive presentation offers. It is also possible to participate as audience. The congress language is English. The speeches are expected to be twenty minutes, and ten minutes are reserved for public discussion.

It is clear that all major scholarly works on sports history in Ghana are skewed heavily toward Azumah Nelson and boxing, to the neglect of other boxing greats, and with little or no attention to all the other sports in Ghana. Consequently, this project seeks to highlight and document the history of sports in Ghana and its contribution to economics, nationalism, and national development. Contributions must all be original research work following the strict rubric of research. We invite original research contributions to this project.

Organised by the Sports Media Identity Network, this one-day conference will take place on Friday, 30th June 2023 at Sheffield Hallam University and will provide a platform for the mutual exchange of knowledge and insights between scholars from a range of disciplines and media and sport practitioners and stakeholders. The event is FREE but you must register as places are limited.

For some time, we have been discussing questions of power and marginalization and of a relative absence in the conferences regarding the philosophical perspectives of the disempowered. This Conference therefore aims to offer a space for dialogue around and across relations of oppression, marginalization and erasure that we hope can get us beyond the dangers of appropriation and exploitation.