Tag: Conferences

As one of the largest, most important sporting events in the world, football’s World Cup has a complicated history. It has transformed from a small 13-team event into a commercial enterprise.. The aim of this symposium is to bring researchers together to present on different topics relating to the history of the World Cup to further understand the significance of the tournament in a contemporary setting, and to address and challenge controversies surrounding the modern-day event. Submissions are welcomed from both the UK and further afield.

Sport is everywhere in social life, yet for decades it remained marginal in Geography. Early works were mostly descriptive, while only from the 1990s onward did scholars such as John Bale and Gilmar Mascarenhas begin to treat sport as an analytical object. Even today, its full recognition as a legitimate field of geographic inquiry is still emerging. This call seeks to advance a critical geography of sport. We invite contributions that use geographic categories rigorously to analyze sport as a spatial, territorial, scalar, and identity-based phenomenon.

The CSSOR Program Committee welcomes high quality academic work on sport studies topics such as race, gender, politics, legacy, youth, or disability. Proposed research papers focusing on broader sociocultural topics within sport are welcomed, in addition to research specifically addressing the Olympic Movement. Scholars in the fields of history, philosophy, management, communication, ancient and modern languages, literature, visual and performing arts, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, economics, marketing, and law are encouraged to submit proposals or attend the conference.

SVEBI:s årliga konferens kommer att äga rum i Örebro den 26-27 november 2025 med nätverksträffar dagen innan. Konferensen arrangeras av Örebro Universitet på uppdrag av Svensk Förening för Beteende- ochSamhällsvetenskaplig Idrottsforskning (SVEBI). Det är 50-års jubileum för konferensen som arrangerades för första gången just i Örebro 1975.

How sport is organised and practised can influence public health, community well-being, and social mobilisation, making it a fundamental field of study for understanding the complexities of human interaction and social structures. Therefore, it is essential to understand how emotions influence sporting practice and how, in turn, sport impacts our emotions. In this working group, we aim to create a space for critical reflection on these interactions, to promote research that delves into the role of emotions in the construction of sporting identities.

This conference and a prospective follow-up publication seek to bring together original scholarship to elaborate on how sport and physical culture impacted the ways German and American people came into contact with each other, how they perceived each other, how their respective sporting traditions and cultures interacted with each other, and how sport and physical culture changed because of these contacts and encounters. The phrase ‘sport and physical culture’ should be conceived to include a broad variety of sport-oriented activities.

Scholars, researchers, students and professionals interested in the sociocultural study of the modern Olympic and Paralympic Games are invited to submit abstracts for conference presentations. Papers in the areas of history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, political science, cultural studies and sports management. as well as other disciplines that contribute to the cultural understanding of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, are particularly encouraged. Proposals for thematic sessions are also invited.

This conference invites scholars, practitioners, coaches, creatives, psychologists, cultural critics, and sports researchers to explore Ted Lasso as a springboard for wider questions about how we lead, learn, care, and create connection — both on screen and beyond it. This conference welcomes 15-minute academic and/or creative presentations, performance, and multimedia work. We invite perspectives from media studies, psychology, sports studies, arts-based research, cultural theory, performance, pedagogy, and beyond.

The Strength and Conditioning Conference is a scientific conference for research and innovation in strength training and conditioning, targeting elite sports but also focussing on the elderly, patients and general health. Participants include researchers, trainers, students, healthcare professionals and product developers. The program will include novel research across different themes, showcasing science that has implications for teamsport and diverse groups of individuals.

The World Association for Sport Management (WASM) is pleased to announce its fifth conference to be co-hosted by the North-West University and Cape Peninsula University of Technology. It will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, at the Newlands Cricket Ground from 3 to 6 March 2026. The theme of the WASM 2026 conference is “Global Visions, Local Actions: Innovation and Sustainability in Sport Management.” The conference theme resonates with current industry trends that shape the practices and perspectives of sport management professionals and academics alike.