Tag: Conferences

Video games are today depicted as an evident leisure activity. Yet, the legitimization of this hobby has undertaken a chaotic track. Playing video games has, in fact, transformed from a marginal and isolated activity to a global and mainstream pastime.

The 9th Irsee Sports Historical Conference on “Soccer as an Instrument of Nation-Building” will discuss, from a contemporary and global history perspective, to what extent the game of soccer with its mass media appeal has become a central element and instrument of nation-building.

As the special strand of the IMC Leeds 2016 is Food, Feast and Famine, we particularly encourage to submit proposals engaging with both horses and food: food for horses and horses as food, as well as other associations between horses and nourishment.

Social Work in Sports 2015: An Idea Whose Time Has Come will be a one-day symposium to discuss the role of social work in youth, high school, collegiate, amateur and professional sports.

we endeavor to explore textual bodies and their composition (or decomposition) in ways that help us understand the ecological placement of the body as it engages with modernism's historical and physical environments.

The British Society of Sports History, Scottish Network, is pleased to invite you to ‘Histories of Cross-Border Sport in Scotland and England’, our annual...

Next year, the European Academy of Management’s annual conference is being held in Paris. Find the full Call for Papers here, as well as all important...

The purpose of this research meeting is to pull together recent thinking from visual studies and leisure history to better understand relationships between the...

We are seeking proposals from scholars at all stages of their academic career, including graduate students, who wish to present their original research on a variety of topics dealing with social, political, or economic aspects of different ecosystems of the world of soccer.

The purpose of this paper session is to explore the crossing of boundaries and borders established by heterosexist norms that have traditionally prohibited or limited gay male and females’ potential experiences in sport.