Tag: Conferences

This one day event, a special conference on the history of the League of Ireland, will mark the publication of The League of Ireland: An Historical and Contemporary Assessment by Routledge. This has developed from a special edition of Soccer and Society published in December 2021. The conference will take place on Saturday, 14th of January 2023 from 9.30 a.m. until 4.15 p.m at Dalymount Park.

Offering an opportunity to all the international community of the sport historians to gather in Switzerland, the organization committee also want to address several epistemological issues, such as a “biographical turn”, a new interest for the institutions that are governing (inter)national sport or also beyond some new (trans)national way of analysing the sporting modernity, all of them being discussed within sport history communities all over the world.

Human leisure entangles with animal life in multifarious non-structured ways. This session will explore these unstructured entanglements. It aims to continue knowledge creation on the role, experience, treatment, welfare, and rights of animals in human leisure. By addressing this vast array of unstructured entanglements, humans will continue to learn about their role in animal lives and vice versa, which will assist people and animals to live well together.

Emerging Horizons is a call for AIESEP members to share how our complex and interdisciplinary research is being taken up by all of those people who have a vested interest in physical education (PE), physical activity (PA), health, physical education teacher education (PETE) and sport pedagogy. While each theme offers a distinct area of interest, we also see each theme offering an opportunity to explore the holistic nature of our work and invites all to consider how their presentations may fit within one or more themes.

The theme of the Congress is ‘Leisure: Learn well, live well. As the world continues to deal with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on well-being leisure in our lives is of crucial importance to help us learn and live well. It is within this context that “Learn Well” reflects how we learn through leisure and the strong education focus in Dunedin, which is home to one of the world’s leading universities’. “Live Well” reflects how leisure contributes to individual and community wellbeing at local, regional, and international levels.

We are extremely pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the 2023 Sport&EU Annual Conference is now open. We invite Sport&EU members to submit paper and/or panel proposals that analyse the three broad pillars of EU Sport Policy as defined in the current work plan: Economic impact of sport; Social inclusion in and through sport; Sport integrity. Contributions from diverse disciplines (law, politics, social sciences, philosophy etc.) are accepted. Papers with an interdisciplinary background are particularly encouraged.

The School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University invites all those interested in socio-cultural studies of sport and exercise to join our day conference, held in the memory of our colleague Dr. Donald Macintosh (1931–1994). The conference will be held in person with COVID precautions in place, and on Zoom. All presentations will be livestreamed. The programme will consist of several sessions of graduate student presentations, a catered lunch, and the annual Donald Macintosh Memorial Lecture.

RESPONSE – Research Group for Sport and Society at Nord University – is hosting The 14th annual conference of the Transnational Working Group for the Study of Gender and Sport. The conference takes place in Bodø – Norway, from the 16th to the 18th of November. It will be possible to follow the opening ceremony, three keynote lectures, and the closing ceremony digitally during the conference.

The Symposium will consist of sport and exercise psychology research and praxis presentations as individual presentations and symposia. All presentations should clearly relate to the overall topic of social justice. Presentations must be original work, including theoretical or conceptual topics, reviews of literature, praxis or professional practice, creative teaching practices, and/or policy. Individuals are limited to two submissions.

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.