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    Call for Papers | Sport Literature Association Annual Conference XXXiX | June 15–18, 2022, Victoria, British Columbia (and Zoom). Call ends April 1, 2022

    The Sport Literature Association is excited to facilitate another conference that is open and accessible to scholars of sport literature from around the world and at any stage in their academic career. The Program Committee invites proposals for individual papers or complete panels related to the literature of sport. Scholarly and critical submissions for the conference should follow general guidelines set forth in the association’s publication, Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature.

    Call for Papers | “Telling the Story of Sport: Narrating Sport in a Global Context” Conference | University of Bristol, UK, April 2–3, 2020. Call ends September 30, 2019

    There has to date been little considered and comparative analysis of the many ways in which sporting stories are told across different cultures and the many purposes they serve. ‘Telling the Story of Sport’ aims to redress this by creating a forum in which individual scholars are invited to contextualise their research and begin to develop a fuller understanding of the phenomenon of sporting narrative practices.

    Call For Papers | 36th Annual Conference of the Sport Literature Association | University of Limoges, France, June 19–22, 2019. Call ends March 31, 2019

    We invite essays on sport literature (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, or film) or on the rhetoric of sport. Cultural-studies approaches to sport texts are welcome. We also encourage sessions featuring presenters’ original fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Original prose and poetry may be presented in a regular panel or during an evening readings session.

    Call for Papers | The 35th Annual Conference of the Sport Literature Association | June 20–23, 2018, University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. Call ends March 30, 2018

    Submissions should address treatments of sport in texts or textual media (print, film, performance, digital or other media). We invite essays on sport literature (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, or film) or on the rhetoric of sport. Cultural-studies approaches to sport texts are welcome. The association welcomes papers from younger scholars and graduate students.

    Call for Papers | The 34th Annual Conference of the Sport Literature Association | June 21-24, 2017, West Liberty University, West Virginia

    Scholarly and critical submissions for the conference “should address treatments of sport in texts or textual media (print, film, performance, digital or other media).” We invite essays on sport literature (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, or film) or on the rhetoric of sport. Cultural-studies approaches to sport texts are welcome.

    Call for Papers | Sport Literature Association | June 22-25, 2016, Fredericton, New Brunswick

    Submissions “should address treatments of sport in texts or textual media (print, film, performance, digital or other media).” We invite essays on sport literature (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, or film) or on the rhetoric of sport. Cultural-studies approaches to sport texts are welcome.

    Call for Papers | The 32nd Annual Conference of the Sport Literature Association, June 2015

    The Program Committee of the Sport Literature Association invites proposals for individual papers and/or complete sessions related to the literature of sport.

    Call for Paper: Play and Space in Literature (Spielräume und Raumspiele in der Literatur) Conference for PhD students and young researchers, Berlin

    WHERE? Freie Universität Berlin, Peter Szondi Institute for Comparative Literature WHEN? July 4-5, 2014 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: March 15, 2014 ORGANIZATION: Julia Dettke, M.A. (Berlin) and Elisabeth Heyne, M.A. (Münster) All play moves and has its being within a play-ground marked off beforehand either materially or ideally, deliberately or as a matter of course. The arena, the card-table, the magic circle, the...

    Booking now open: Conference on Literature and Physical Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester, 10–11 April, 2014

    Booking now open: £80 (full) or £40 (postgraduate) FOR BOTH DAYS UNTIL FEBRUARY 14th. Keynote Speakers: Professor Sarah Churchwell (University of East Anglia) Professor Luke Gibbons (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) Andrew Lycett (Author & Biographer) Plenary Speakers: Professor Simon Bainbridge (University of Lancaster) Professor Tony Collins (De Montfort University) Professor John Whale (University of Leeds) Dr Vybarr Cregan-Reid (University of Kent) Dr Emelyne Godfrey (Author & Broadcaster) Dr Claire...

    Call for Papers | The 31st Annual Conference of the Sport Literature Association will be held Wednesday, June 2014,

    The 31st Annual Conference of the Sport Literature Association will be held Wednesday, June 25 through Saturday, June 28, 2014, at the College of the Rockies in Cranbrook, British Columbia. The Program Committee of the Sport Literature Association invites proposals for individual papers and/or complete sessions related to the literature of sport. Scholarly and critical submissions for the conference should...