Tag: sportswashing
Call for Participation | “The 2026 World Cup: Human Rights, Sportswashing, & Authoritarianism”, CCSE Talk | Free online seminar, May 20, 2026, 5pm CEST
The Centre for Culture, Sport and Events at the University of the West of Scotland is pleased to announce our next FREE ONLINE SEMINAR, which will take place on the 20th of May at 5pm CEST. The theme for this seminar is “The 2026 World Cup: Human Rights, Sportswashing, & Authoritarian”, featuring Drs Jules Boykoff and Callum McCloskey.
Call for Participation | Book Workshop: The Ethics of Sportswashing | University of Glasgow and Zoom, May 21, 2026. Registration deadline May 14, 2026, 9:00am BST
Sportswashing has recently grown into a vital concept in scholarly and public discussions of sport. In 2022, the Collins dictionary named ‘sportswashing’ one of their ten Words of the Year, reflecting the extent of public discussion of the term in the run-up to the 2022 Men’s Football World Cup in Qatar. The term is used as a criticism of owners of clubs or hosts of competitions and has established a foothold in both journalistic and academic work. But there has been very little academic discussion of what exactly sportswashing is or why it matters.
Call for Papers | America’s Game in the Middle East: The 2027 Qatar Basketball World Cup, an edited collection | Call ends May 31, 2024
This project will adopt a multidisciplinary approach and explore a wide range of cultural, economic, political, and social issues. Themes will include, but are not limited to: the origins of the game in the Middle East and the role America played in this process; basketball and its role in Middle Eastern societies; the importance of the Middle East as a market for the American professional basketball league, the NBA, and for the global growth of basketball; Middle Eastern ownerships and sponsorships in American basketball; and more.
Call for Papers | Sportswashing: Managing state relations and reputations through associations with sport – a one-day symposium | Loughborough University, London Campus, May 24, 2024. Call ends March...
Sportswashing is a neologism that has become a mainstay of Western media reporting in the last few years, whether in relation to the hosting of sporting mega events, the ownership of professional sports clubs or the sponsorship of high-profile sports tournaments. We require better ways of evaluating the impact (or otherwise) of sportswashing. To address these issues, we will be holding a one-day symposium on Wednesday 29th May 2024 at Loughborough University’s London campus.
