Tag: Conferences

The steering committee is elighted to announce that the third full SPRING Conference will be hosted by our colleagues at the University of Malaga next February. We envisage that this will be an in–person event. The theme of the conference is ‘Sports Marketing, Journalism, Communications and Sponsorship; Current trends and perspectives’.

Like the world around it, football is subject to shifting and growing power imbalances. As these grow, critical thinking about the game has never been more necessary. The Collective can lead the way not only in holding people and organisations to account, be they clubs, governing bodies, the media or others, but also pursue new thinking and shape the future. Therefore, this year the Football Collective conference will seek to answer the question “How can football take on tomorrow?”.

The body is an intensely personal site for creativity and self-expression, yet even the most unique styles of dress reflect larger communities—people, places, and legacies that we care about and draw inspiration from. Whether we understand them as ‘imagined communities’, ‘communities of practice’, or something else, we as artists, designers, activists, educators, and scholars give to and take from communities. We often make our connections visible through material culture such as clothing, jewelry, headwear, footwear, and body modifications.

The tension in sport between discipline and creativity, continuity and change, or stasis and invention prompts us to think about knowledge production more generally. We call for anthropologists of sport to consider the dynamics of knowledge production that occur when tensions exist between form and creativity. We particularly invite papers that consider the ramifications of this tension in both their ethnographic interactions and in their own knowledge producing practice.

The theme of the Paris 2024 conference is “Sport Management and Social Inclusion”. Submissions that relate specifically, but not exclusively, to the conference theme are strongly encouraged. Participants also have the opportunity to submit contributions that are not specifically related to the conference theme in parallel sessions during the conference. The main objective of all conference sessions is to encourage participants from related fields to share their knowledge, provide new insights and inspire the future of sport management.

The 13th Czech Philosophy of Sport Conference will be hosted by the Faculty of Sport Studies at Masaryk University in Brno. We plan to organise an in-person meeting, with a limited number of online presentations as exceptions. The conference will be in English. We cordially invite you to participate in this event. We prioritise discussion.

The International Association for the Philosophy of Sport (IAPS) is committed to stimulate, encourage, and promote research, scholarship,  and teaching in the philosophy of sport and related practices. It publishes the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, which is widely acknowledged as the most respected medium for communicating contemporary philosophic thought with regard to sport. IAPS members are found all over the world and constitute a growing and vibrant  international community of scholars and teachers.

The concept aesthetic practice offers a novel perspective on philosophical aesthetics by shifting the focus from objects and singular experiences to ongoing, repeatedly performed activities. Practice highlights the aesthetic relevance of doing and making, temporality, continuity, multimodality and intersubjectivity. Aesthetic practices can be, for example, engagement with the arts, popular culture, craft, sports and games, or some aspect of one’s everyday environment where a fundamental motivating factor is pleasure gained through the activity.

The British Society of Sports History exists to promote the study of the history of sport. The annual conference 2024 will be an open-themed conference. Submissions based on original research are welcomed by UK and overseas scholars and can relate to any aspect of sport, physical recreation, education and culture, as considered from a historical perspective. This year, the BSSH is also offering a small number of bursaries of up to £100 to contribute towards the costs of childcare, or other caring responsibilities.

The 11th International Conference of Autoethnography will take place from Sunday 21st to Tuesday 23rd of July 2024 online (via zoom) and in person at The Engineer’s House, Clifton Village, Bristol, UK. We welcome traditional academic read papers, as well as installations, dance, music, poetry, films, messy text, collaborations and multimedia presentations around this year’s theme of Murmurations. The prompt behind our use of this metaphor comes from Elyse Pineau’s closing reflections at the 2023 Annual Conference.