Tag: Conferences

To encourage a discussion on what ethnography can do for sport (and sport scholarship for ethnography) in the age of uncertainty and distrust, we invite contributions from different fields of sports research and of diverse ethnographic perspectives, pertaining to whether sport can restore and/or uphold its integrity and remain a source of wonder and solace in the face of its present challenges.

The Scientific Committee of the 25th EASM Conference 2017 invites scholars and practitioners to submit abstracts to be considered for presentation. Additionally, the Scientific Committee welcomes short papers to be considered for the EASM Best Conference Paper Award 2017 and for the EASM New Researchers Award 2017 for young scientific scholars.

The International Network of Doping Research (INDR) invites abstract submissions for consideration for the 2017 conference. The conference theme will thematise how performance enhancement is more than just a matter for elite sport. Recent scholarship has indicated how deeply rooted questions about doping and performance enhancement are to society as well.

This one day conference will be held on 8th March 2017 as part of the International Womens Day celebrations. The conference will appeal to a range of stakeholders in womens sport from governing bodies, policy makers, sports administrators, sports development roles, education and academics, coaches, participants and anyone interested in developing and promoting sport.

The Institute for Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure is pleased to announce a forthcoming conference to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Sheila Scraton’s book, Shaping Up To Womanhood: Gender and Girls’ Physical Education. Keynote speakers include Professor Emerita Sheila Scraton.

For the first time ever, the Association for the Study of Sport and the European Union (Sport&EU) moves to Scandinavia for its 12th Annual Conference, which will be hosted on 29 and 30 June 2017 by the Faculty of Business Administration and Social Sciences in Molde University College, Norway. We look forward to receiving your proposals.

This one-day conference will examine the history/histories of tourism and leisure during the summer months in Scotland. Abstracts should be no longer than 200 words, and must be submitted by Friday, 30 January 2017. A £15 fee will be charged by the conference organisers for attendance.

In our sessions, we will discuss the role of sport in promoting health and stimulating integration and cohesion, and questions whether sport can and/or should be used in- strumentally in strategies of social engineering. Sport is central to contemporary society; our sessions are critical spaces to consider how and why.

In 2017 the ethnography symposium takes as its theme the question of politics and ethnography in “an age of uncertainty”. We invite you to join us in Manchester for the 12th International Ethnography Symposium. For the first time the conference is hosting a series of specialist streams that address the theme of politics from a variety of perspectives and disciplines.

This conference will be an opportunity to take our prosopographical perspective further, with an emphasis on figures from these forgotten groups. As this panel is meant to understand the position of women within major sporting institutions, it will welcome biographies, as well as network presentations or collective biographies of women.