Tag: leisure history

Under the theme of “Re-creating Leisure”, the 2023 LSA Conference will bring together an interdisciplinary field of researchers, educators, students, practitioners and policymakers to share visions, expertise, experiences to critically examine how leisure practices, spaces, and domains are theorised, researched, and experienced. Recent global events have dramatically underlined the significance of making sense of leisure in times of planetary upheaval. 

Da Oslomarka gjekk frå villmark til park, føregjekk prosessen på fleire parallelle plan. I avhandlinga si tar Mytting opp framveksten og tilblivinga av Oslomarka som friluftsområde. Ifølgje Mytting er det først og fremst i mellomkrigstida at Marka blir til som en tydelig definerbar størrelse, som «ein eigen entitet i verda». Mytting framstiller Marka som eit frambrakt rom, eller ein fortidig romleg konstellasjon, samstundes som han ettergår dei prosessane som skapte nettopp dette rommet.

The Leisure Studies Association is delighted to open the first call for abstracts for its annual conference in 2020. The conference offers the opportunity to explore leisure from a range of disciplinary perspectives, and to learn from industry and policy practitioners. We welcome submissions that address the core themes of the conference: leisure pasts, presents and futures, and are open to those that address any other area of leisure research, teaching and practice.

Research in the field of leisure studies emphasises the role played by leisure as part of people’s everyday lives. It requires a measure of reflexivity and an intersectional appreciation of the situatedness of what we study. The aims of this conference are (1) To explore the ways in which leisure has been and is enacted around us; and (2) To explore ways in which leisure, and leisure studies, can be and are being re-created now.

This international meeting aims to elucidate the many ways that city dwellers have striven to appropriate rivers and riverbanks for leisure purposes from the 19h century to today. The goal-perspective approach to the conference will be a pluridisciplinary task, seeking to understand the complex circumstances that intersect with several areas and disciplines.

Summer 2015 Workshop, organised by the British Society of Sports History's South of England Sport and Leisure History Network (BSSH South) in association with The University of Portsmouth’s Port Towns and Urban Cultures Group