Tag: Conferences: Sport history

The Finnish Society for Sports History and the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä jointly organize Nordic–Baltic Sports History Congress at the University of Jyväskylä, in Finland, 8th–9th of December 2023. The Congress will be arranged in hybrid form, so it will be possible to attend the Congress in face-to-face manner or remotely by Zoom. The congress language is English. The speeches are expected to be twenty minutes, and ten minutes are reserved for public discussion.

We invite researchers and scholars to the congress to discuss and analyze the many perspectives of the history of sports. The thematic is free and we happily receive presentation offers. It is also possible to participate as audience. The congress language is English. The speeches are expected to be twenty minutes, and ten minutes are reserved for public discussion.

The 2023 annual International Football History Conference will take place at Hampden Park, Glasgow, G42 9BA and will be held over two days (30 June and 1 July 2023). This is a call for papers to be presented at the conference. There will be an opportunity to present on any topic relating to the history of football of all codes. Abstracts for the following presentation styles are welcomed: Short Form (7 minutes); Twenty Minutes; Panels.

This one day event, a special conference on the history of the League of Ireland, will mark the publication of The League of Ireland: An Historical and Contemporary Assessment by Routledge. This has developed from a special edition of Soccer and Society published in December 2021. The conference will take place on Saturday, 14th of January 2023 from 9.30 a.m. until 4.15 p.m at Dalymount Park.

Offering an opportunity to all the international community of the sport historians to gather in Switzerland, the organization committee also want to address several epistemological issues, such as a “biographical turn”, a new interest for the institutions that are governing (inter)national sport or also beyond some new (trans)national way of analysing the sporting modernity, all of them being discussed within sport history communities all over the world.

The inaugural International Football History Conference was staged in 2017 and proved popular with leading academics, early career researchers, football historians and students. That was followed in 2018 & 2019 by further enjoyable conferences. Due to Covid we had to cancel our 2020 & 2021 conferences but now we're back. This year the conference promises to be significant, with world leading research presented, while also providing networking opportunities, as well as the potential for collaborations.

This year marks the 40th year of the BSSH’s history and we are delighted to be teaming with the International Centre for Sports History and Culture (ICSHC) at De Montfort University (DMU), Leicester, for this year’s conference. This will be an open themed conference. Submissions based on original research are welcomed from UK and overseas scholars. Papers can relate to any aspect of sport, physical recreation, education and culture, as considered from an historical perspective.

Competition and collaboration are two essential dimensions for the culture of sport and physical education. Instances can be identified since the Antiquity. Given the essential dimension of competition and collaboration and the learning, teaching and training processes, there is a need for in-depth historical analysis of these two dimensions and of their effects on society. 

NASSH 2022 will be a hybrid conference held from May 27-30, 2022. The in-person conference will be hosted in Chicago, Illinois, US at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Chicago-Magnificent Mile. The Chicago area is located on ancestral lands of Indigenous Nations and Tribes, including the Council of the Three Fires (Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations) and the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac, Fox, Kickapoo, and Illinois Nations.

This workshop aims to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to debate the histories, meanings, significance, and contexts of sport-articulated populism. In addressing an understudied but relevant topic within sport history, the aim is to bridge the fields of sport history, cultural studies, sociology, and political science, and, in doing so, provide a forum to further collaborative understanding, knowledge advancement, and research dissemination.