Tag: football

Lennart K. Persson är professor emeritus i historia vid Göteborgs universitet. Hans långa forskarkarriär spänner över ämnen som äktenskap, syndikalism och dansbanor, men han har också publicerat fyra idrottshistoriska böcker, om bland annat friidrott, fotboll och handboll.

The main question of this joint book-project is: What kind of impacts did the international football-tournaments of the past decades show on local, national and transnational fancultures. Please send your abstract for an article by May 1st 2016.

The issue aims to bring together activist and academic voices in discussing the current ‘state of play’, lessons learned and future possible directions of football fan mobilizations ‘from below’ given the changing political climate in Europe as well as the commercial character of ‘modern football’.

Joakim Glaser disputerar på avhandlingen Fotboll från Mielke till Merkel. Kontinuitet, brott och förändring i supporterkultur i östra Tyskland den 25 september kl. 13:15-15:00 i sal D 138, Nordenskiöldsgatan 10, Malmö högskola. Opponent är Christer Ericsson, prof. em., Örebro universitet.

This is the latest installment of the Malmö Research Seminar Series in Sport Sciences, Malmö University, Fall 2015. The seminars will take place at the Orkanen building (Nordenskiöldsgatan 10) in Room E121c, between 15:15 to 17:00. This seminar is in Swedish.

This congress is a great opportunity to network with experts academics and industrials in the field of Football Sciences. We invite all academics, research students and professionals to join this international congress.

The 9th Irsee Sports Historical Conference on “Soccer as an Instrument of Nation-Building” will discuss, from a contemporary and global history perspective, to what extent the game of soccer with its mass media appeal has become a central element and instrument of nation-building.

Soccer and Society is the first international journal devoted to the world’s most popular game. It covers all aspects of soccer globally from anthropological, cultural, economic, historical, political and sociological perspectives. Special Issue: Mediated football

We are seeking proposals from scholars at all stages of their academic career, including graduate students, who wish to present their original research on a variety of topics dealing with social, political, or economic aspects of different ecosystems of the world of soccer.

The Journal of Sports Sciences publishes articles of a high standard on various aspects of the sports sciences covering a number of disciplinary bases, including anatomy, biochemistry, biomechanics, psychology, sociology, as well as ergonomics, kinanthropometry and other interdisciplinary perspectives. Special Issue: Science and Medicine in Football