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Call for Papers | Poetry in motion – creativity and knowledge production in sport, Panel PN16 of the 2024 World Anthropology Union Congress | Johannesburg, South Africa, November 11–15,...

The tension in sport between discipline and creativity, continuity and change, or stasis and invention prompts us to think about knowledge production more generally. We call for anthropologists of sport to consider the dynamics of knowledge production that occur when tensions exist between form and creativity. We particularly invite papers that consider the ramifications of this tension in both their ethnographic interactions and in their own knowledge producing practice.

Call for Participation | ”Sådan skaber vi et Danmark i Bevægelse!” | Brugerkonference den 10. november, 9.30–16.30, på Syddansk Universitet, Odense

Undersøgelsen Danmark i Bevægelse, er med 163.000 besvarelser den hidtil største måling af danskernes bevægelsesvaner, som afdækker og kobler motiver og muligheder for fysisk aktivitet og idræt i den danske befolkning. Dette er suppleret med knap 50 interviews om bevægelsesvaner og motiver for at være fysisk aktiv samt en registrering af knap 1500 borgeres daglige bevægelsesaktivitet i løbet af en uge.

Call for Papers | “Motor-Cognitive Interactions”, the 2020 conference on “Movement: Brain, Body, Cognition” | La Sorbonne, Paris, September 3–5, 2020. Call ends January 15, 2020

The aim of the conference is to share knowledge on the relation of human movement to cognitive function. The focus this year, among other things, will be on the Brain-Gut connection and Movement, Development and Aging, the Neuropsychology of cognitive-motor interaction (evaluation and treatment), Physical Education as a tool for cognitive improvement, Gender issues in Movement and Cognition and other focus areas.