Tag: Conferences

Women Deliver, a global organization bringing together partners to advocate for the health and well-being of girls and women, is planning a symposium called Girl Power and Play in June 2015 in Canada on the impact of team sports on girls in the global development context. This symposium will coincide with the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada and...

Title:  Violence, discipline and leisure: Sport in penal and internment camps Location: Cologne, Germany Date: 23-25 September 2015 Deadline: 31 July 2014 Organizers: Prof. Dr. Dittmar Dahlmann, Universität Bonn, Dr. Anke Hilbrenner, Universität Bonn, Gregor Feindt, M.A., Institut of European History, Mainz When the camp commander detected any violation of camp discipline, he would torture us with senseless and malicious punishments which he called...

Confirmed Keynote Speakers Dr Daniel Burdsey, University of Brighton Dr Jayne Caudwell, University of Brighton Deadline for the submission of proposals: 1 December 2014 Prime Minister David Cameron recently concluded a Downing Street summit on discrimination in football by saying: ‘If everyone plays their role, then we can easily crush and deal with this problem’.  Was this simply political spin, or a naïve...

This year’s European Football Fans Congress (#EFFC) of Football Supporters Europe (FSE) at the Mondiali Antirazzisti in Bosco Albergati in Italy from 3-6 July 2014 will again be free of charge and open to all Supporters whether they are ultras, members of official fan clubs, fan initiatives or representatives of national fans organisations or just individual, non-organised supporters. The venues are also accessible...

  On Saturday 21st June, Cardiff University will host Gender, Generation and the Body, the 21st annual conference of the West of England and South West Women's History Network. The keynote lecture will be given by Dr. Garthine Walker on 'Sex, Age and Bodies: "Victim-Blaming" and Culpability in the History of Rape c. 1500-1800'. The conference will be accompanied by a small exhibition...

Portland, Oregon, USA, November 5-8, 2014 Submission Deadline:  20 June 2014 Invitation to Submit: We invite you to submit a paper abstract for the 2014 NASSS Conference to be held in Portland, Oregon, USA, November 5-8.  Scholars from a variety of disciplines and interdisciplinary “fields” examining issues relevant to the study of sport are encouraged to submit their work. Abstract Format and Submission: Abstracts...

The Sport Tourism Conference STC’14 The Sport Tourism Conference (STC’14) is a joint organization between Coimbra College of Education (ESEC), and the International Research Network In Sports Tourism (IRNIST). Please visit the conference homepage. The Organizing Committee welcomes both fundamental and empirical contributions within the broad theme of Sport Tourism: of “Sport Tourism: New Challenges in a Globalized World”. The main research subtopics suggested are: Sport Tourism...

The organizing committee is pleased to announce the 2nd Life Through Movement International Conference in South Africa (LTMIC) – 10th to the 13th September 2014. The conference is presented by the Biokinetic Association of Southern Africa in collaboration with the University of Stellenbosch (US), University of Cape Town (UCT) and the University of Western Cape (UWC). AIM The conference is organised around the...

Thursday 19th June, from 9am to 4.15pm, The Lupino Screening Room, University of Kent, Canterbury Programme 09.00- 10.00 Graham McFee, University of Brighton/California State University, Fullerton The Not-So-Beautiful Game 10.00 -10.15: Coffee 10.15-11.15 Steffen Borge, Norwegian University of Science and Technology This is Anfield: The Fictional Character of Football 11.15-11.30: Coffee 11.30-12.30 Stephen Mumford, University of Nottingham A Beautiful Game? The Aesthetics of Football 12.30-14.00: Lunch 14.00-15.00 Emily Ryall, University of Gloucestershire Good Games and...

The 2015 EASS congress will be held in Dublin, Ireland from 10–13 June. The conference will be hosted at an historic building on St. Stephen’s Green in the very heart of Dublin City centre. The theme of the conference is Sport, Unity and Conflict. Sport is often presented as both a unifying concept and practice, perhaps even acting as a...