Tag: Conferences

The theme of this year’s conference theme, “Sociology of Sport and Alternative Futures” recognizes that our field is facing unprecedented challenges not only over funding and resources but also in terms of its legitimacy and relevance. The 2019 World Congress of Sociology of Sport provides an ideal platform to reflect, evaluate and contemplate the past, present, and future of the field.

The project of creating a ‘New Man’ and ‘New Woman’ initiated in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc constituted one of the most extensive efforts to remake human psychophysiology in modern history. How did science, culture and medicine overlap with a mode of government that sought to manage, cultivate and regulate human life?

Sport promotes a shared sense of belonging and participation and may therefore also be an important tool for the integration of immigrants. The link between language and sport is, therefore, a very interesting issue which pushes one unto reflecting about identitarian expressions and to rethink integration of immigrants and all citizens.

Forskningsgruppingen Teaching and Learning in Physical Education ved Høgskolen i Innlandet ønsker å etablere en årlig metodekonferanse for kroppsøvingsforskning. Årets konferanse vil ha fokus på aksjonsforskning som forskningstilnærming.

Visit the 26th EASM – The European Sport Management Conference in the exciting city of Malmö, Sweden! The theme of this year’s conference is Managing Sport in a Changing Europe. The conference attracts several hundred delegates from universities and sport-related organizations at different levels in Sweden, Europe and the rest of the world.

Boka in den 6 september i din kalender! I samband med att The European Sport Management Conference hålls på Malmö Live erbjuds den dagen ett särskilt eftermiddagsprogram (kl. 13-17) för verksamma inom idrotten och dess organisationer på följande aktuella tema: Rethinking ”sport for all”: Inclusion and integration(?)

The overall theme for this conference is “Inclusive and Innovative Physical activity, Sport and Health Education for Sustainable Development in Africa”. We welcome professionals, scholars, and practitioners in the broad fields of Exercise and Sport Science, Physical Education, Urban Planning, Nutrition, Sports for Peace and Development, Leisure and Recreation Studies from across the globe.

At the centre of both sport and cultural performance are bodies. In the spectacles of professional or amateur sport, plays, musicals, dance, and opera, bodies are made to transcend their fleshly existence by the mise-en-scène and the audience contract. The (sport) spectacle transforms the embodied subject of the athlete/actor into a representation of human potential and possibility.

The notion of ‘endangered bodies’, or bodies in danger, arises from our concern with current Western political and socio-economic tendencies and practices against the discriminated or disenfranchised Other, whose body is physically, materially and symbolically subjected to internal pressures towards normalization and homogenization.

The symposium seeks to address this lack of knowledge, exploring the design of different sport and recreational landscapes over time and how they have given expression to various understandings of nature and culture. What are the relationships between sport landscapes and their environment? What is the relationship between the site itself and the culture of sports and recreation embedded within it?