Tag: Conferences: Sociology of sport

The city as a phenomenon is growing, and urban lifestyles are increasingly differentiated. Consequently, the possibilities for people in the urban environment to live a healthy lifestyle, and to participate in sport and exercise, are relevant like never before. We invite those interested in the study of sport and society to address issues within a wide range of classic domains and newly emerging ones.

Linnéuniversitetet hälsar lärare och forskare vid landets universitet och högskolor, idrottsledare, lärare i idrott och hälsa, och andra intresserade varmt välkomna till idrottskonferensen SVEBI 2015.

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.

On behalf of the 2015 conference committee, it is my pleasure to announce the release of the NASSS 2015 conference Call for Abstracts. You can go to the NASSS web site where you will find a list of the organized sessions for the 2015 conference. Cheryl Cooky, Conference Committee Chair.

The conference theme engages in questions and considerations of borders, borderlands, and border work to explore the ways in which sports both materially and discursively constitute and are constituted by, in, and through myriad borders

Please follow this link for the Call for Papers of the RN28 Society and Sports for the 2015 European Sociological Association (ESA) Conference (Prague –...

The 3rd Annual Muhammad Ali Center Athletes and Social Change Forum will take place April 3-4 in Louisville, KY with the theme, Athlete Activism:...

This day conference will explore the relationship between sport and collective mobilizations for social change. It will explore mobilizations around the staging of mega-events,...

This workshop seeks to create a discursive space for contributors to explore the social, ethical and political criticalities arising in the interaction between sports, gender and sexualities in contemporary societies.

Although thoroughly studied by live science specialists for the last three decades, East-African athletics has seldom caught attention of social and human scientists. This conference offers an opportunity for scientists from either sport sciences or social and human sciences to present communications on any subject related to East-African athletics.