Tag: soft power
Call for Papers | “Sport, Media and Soft Power”, an International Sport and Media Symposium | University of The Western Cape (UWC), South Africa, June 3, 2026. Call ends...
This symposium focuses attention on various attempts to use sport as a means of persuasion in pursuit of political objectives. Sport communication research cuts across a wide range of disciplines. This symposium will provide a common ground to host interdisciplinary discussions around key issues related to sport media’s role in the pursuit of political aims, and how they might be reimagined.
Call for Papers | Sport, Media and Soft Power, an International Sport And Media Symposium | University of Wester Cape, June 3, 2026. Call ends January 15, 2026
Recent scholarship in sport and media has highlighted a range of ways that mediated sport has been appropriated for the exercise of soft power: a set of tactics for securing consent for various aims using persuasion rather than force. Sport for development and peace examines efforts undertaken by the United Nations and NGOs to leverage sport as means to foster humanitarian concerns. Others have studied how nations use sport to advance diplomatic efforts and foster international cooperation.
Call for Participation | “(Il)liberal Nation Projection Through Sport, Culture, Entertainment, and International Broadcasting”. Hybrid symposium | University of Manchester, October 21–22, 2022
The concept of ‘nation projection’ subsumes classic public and cultural diplomacy efforts and ‘soft power’ activities, such as the hosting of sport and entertainment events. The term also refers to state-sponsored campaigns of external influence activities including international broadcasting and covert meddling in the affairs of foreign states. This hybrid symposium will expand on debates and bring together comparative perspectives on how nation projection differs.
