Tag: Conferences

This conference hopes to continue an epistemological and paradigmatic bridge-building. We therefore seek proposals for papers to be presented at the conference. There is no set theme for the conference and the Academic Committee will consider all proposals. In the past, the range has been wide and we seek to continue this.

This Congress focuses on the fields related to Sports, Physical Education, Physical Exercise, Physical Activity and Human Movement. All sciences are included: human and social sciences, intervention, educational sciences, physiology, medicine, economics, biomechanics, neuroscience; this is a non-exhaustive list.

Under Barnhjärnan 2016 i Karlstad den 3:e oktober kommer framstående forskare att ge svar på vad neurovetenskapen i dag vet om det som händer med barnens hjärnor när de utövar lustfylld fysisk aktivitet kontinuerligt. Forskarna berättar också om de hälsovinster som är kopplade till detta samt hur barnens hjärnfunktioner förbättras.

We invite you to consider presenting at the 2017 Summit on Communication and Sport. The IACS Summit is the leading venue for communication researchers interested in exploring sport from diverse critical, methodological, and multi-disciplinary perspectives. The Summit on Communication and Sport welcomes submissions from all methodological and theoretical perspectives.

In order to consider the interaction of the local and global (e.g., economic, political and cultural), as well as possible paradoxes and tensions in the formation of small nation celebrity, we welcome submissions that probe celebrity in any small nations located in Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and Oceania.

From the quadrilles of Jane Austen to the Ballets Russes, dance continues to shape our understanding of the literature, art, and history of the nineteenth century. This special panel will prepare conference attendees for an optional nineteenth-century dance workshop at the conference, hosted by the Graduate Caucus.

We invite to the Congress researchers and scholars to discuss and analyze the international relations of skiing, its societal significance and impact on human physical and mental well-being. We want to touch upon the climatic moments and sore points which skiing has brought about.

Sport has always played an important role in societies which is also due to its ethical values and ideas. Sport can help to transfer ethical values like fairness, tolerance.The Udo-Steinberg-Symposium on “Ethics and Sports” cordially invites you and your colleagues/peers to submit a scientific or practical abstract/paper to be considered for presentation at the symposium.

We invite papers for special sessions on medieval equestrian history for the International Medieval Congress at Leeds in 2017. We welcome papers on theoretical and practical aspects of medieval equestrianism, as well as for the special strand of IMC 2017, ‘Otherness’. We also accept papers using experimental and reconstruction approaches building on profound scholarly research.

The symposium will explore the ways in which Muhammad Ali appears in un/expected spaces, beyond conventional readings. We are seeking to explore such questions as: What is Ali’s twenty-first century significance? How do we interpret the global meanings of Ali? Is sport central or peripheral to understanding Ali?