Tag: phenomenology

Thomas Fuchs will present his latest book In Defence of the Human Being. Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anthropology. He will, for the first time in Norway, present this important contribution to current discussions on artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanist visions and virtual reality and open discussion with the audience on the technological, and cultural tendencies that will influence our society’s development in the 21st century.

For the purposes of this special issue, and keeping in mind the problematic nature of the definition of sport, the editors suggest that, central to all sporting endeavours is the lived experience of the embodied subject: temporally, spatially, and intersubjectively. From an applied (or empirical) phenomenological perspective several traditions have emerged, influenced by key figures within the phenomenological movement: 1) The Pre-transcendental Descriptive method; 2) The Hermeneutic method; and 3) The Existential method.

The outbreak of Covid-19 and the resultant lockdowns have problematised the taken-for-granted notions of ‘space’, ‘place’ and ‘movement’, and thrust them into the foreground of discussions - not only in academic circles but also in popular culture, news media, policy making, and politicking. Potential paper topics might relate to place and space as conceived and constructed through specific forms of movement, such as in soma-aesthetics, performance, theatre, sports, care, community, tourism, etc.

Susanne Ravn is an Associate professor and Head of ‘Movement, Culture and Society’, a research unit at the University of Southern Denmark. In her research, she focuses on phenomenological approaches to skilled movement in dance practice. She is the author of several books in Danish and English and has published her research in journals focusing on phenomenology, qualitative research methods in sport, exercise and health, dance research and sociological analysis of embodied experiences.

Research activities expand within the fields of humanities and social science research. Movement is at the heart of the unit's work involving experiential, bodily, emotional, cultural and social aspects of movement. Thus, the unit’s research ranges from phenomenological and cultural analyses of movement practices of, i.a., parkour, yoga, community dance and improvisational practices, to analyses of different sub-cultures of physical activity and their organization.

The Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics has a strong background in sports science and movement studies. The successful applicant will be expected to take on the responsibility of being the head of MoCS and to develop and lead research projects for and within the research unit. More specifically, the professor will have specific responsibilities in further strengthening research on movement practices – including different forms of dance practices.

Position Professor, Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Department of Health Science in Biała Podlaska, ul. Akademicka 2, PL - 21-500 Biała Podlaska Contact E-mail Research  interest Phenomenology...

Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson is a qualitative sociologist and a graduate of the Universities of Warwick and South Wales. Her principal research interests cohere around the sociology of the body; embodiment and the senses; health and wellbeing; identity and identity work; sociological & feminist phenomenology; autoethnographic & auto-phenomenographic approaches.

Kenneth Aggerholm is professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. His research areas are the philosophy of sport and sport pedagogy, with special attention to human science approaches to experience, Bildung, practising and development in sport, physical education, and adapted physical activity (APA). He is president of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport (IAPS) and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport and Sport Ethics and Philosophy.

I sommaruppdateringen av idrottsforum.org den 6 juni 2007 publicerades sju artiklar inom ramen för ett tema som gavs namnet "Tæt på kroppen: Dansk idrottsforskning...