Conference on Sport, Conflict and Reconciliation – Liverpool Hope University, Saturday 28 April 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS

Sport can be both a source of conflict and a means of promoting reconciliation and peace-building. This one-day conference aims to examine theoretical debate and practical approaches to the role of sport in relation to conflict and conflict resolution.

A particular interest of the conference lies in the area of the use of sport for purposes of conflict resolution, post-conflict reconstruction and rehabilitation, and peace-building. Prof. John Sugden, Professor of the Sociology of Sport at the Chelsea School, University of Brighton, will be giving a keynote address on this theme. In addition, the conference organisers will be aiming to organise at least one panel specifically on this theme, so we particularly welcome papers in this area.

However, we also welcome papers looking at other aspects of sport and conflict, and from any discipline, including geography, sociology, politics, economics, cultural studies, history, media studies, literature, and sports studies. Amongst the themes that could be considered are:

• Theoretical perspectives on understanding the interactions of sport with conflict and with post-conflict rehabilitation
• Case study evaluations of historical or contemporary instances of the relationship between sport and conflict/conflict resolution
• Organisational studies looking at the role of agencies such as ngo’s, governing bodies, political institutions, economic actors and educational bodies in sport
• Comparative assessments of the interplay between sport and conflict in different circumstances and contexts
• Analytical studies looking at the key themes and issues of relevance in using sport as an interventionist tool for peace-building
• Philosophical and ethical evaluations of the roles of sport, both in engendering conflict and in promoting its resolution.
• Assessments of methodological approaches to the analysis of the role of sport in conflict and conflict resolution.

The conference is being organised by the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies at Liverpool Hope University. The conference organisers are Dr Michael Holmes, Dr Liam O’Callaghan and Dr Joel Rookwood. The venue will be the Conference Centre, Liverpool Hope University, Hope Park campus, Taggart Avenue, Liverpool.

Paper proposals (title and an abstract of not more than 300 words) should be submitted to the Conference Secretary, Jane Reilly, at reillyj(AT)hope.ac.uk by 31 January 2012. We will provide initial notification to proposers by 17 February. Late submissions may be accepted if feasible.

XIV CONGRESS of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport
– and XII BRAZILIAN CONGRESS for the History of Physical Education and Sport

July 9-13, 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sport and Physical Education Around the Globe – Past, Present and Future

CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline for abstracts: January 8, 2012
Notice of acceptance: March 10, 2012

Information about registration and accommodation information will soon be provided on the conference webpage.

SPORT AND GENDER HISTORY WORKSHOP 10.6.2011

Hosted by the International Football Institute, University of Central Lancashire & The British Society of Sports History

Location: Greenbank Building, University of Central Lancashire

Closing Date 20th May 2011. For further information contact Dion Georgiou, Co-convenor at e-mail:sportshistory(AT)hotmail.co.uk

http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/248

The Institute of Historical Research in London

Sport and Leisure History Seminar:

Summer 2011 Programme

9 May: Dr David Dee (De Montfort University)

The British Union of Fascists and the ’Sporting Jew’, 1935-1939

23 May: Nick Piercey (University College London)

Football Club Membership in Rotterdam in 1914: Walking through the Historic City in Search of the Individual

6 Jun: Professor Peter Bailey (University of Manitoba)

Entertainmentality! Modernising Pleasure in a Victorian Leisure Industry, or Did Foucault Ever Play the Hackney Empire?

10 Jun: SPORT AND GENDER HISTORY WORKSHOP

Please note that this event will take place on a Friday at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston. Contact Dion Georgiou at sportshistory(AT)hotmail.co.uk for more information.

20 Jun: FOOTBALL AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN POST-WAR ENGLAND

Christoph Wagner (De Montfort University)

Huns vs Inselaffen: Anglo-German Football Rivalry, 1954-1996

Dr Dilwyn Porter (De Montfort University)

English Football and the State of the (British) Nation, c.1980-2000

The seminars will take place in the Ecclesiastical History Room of the Institute of Historical Research in London, at 5:15 PM on Mondays fortnightly (unless listed otherwise). If you are interested in attending the seminar, contact us at sportshistory(AT)hotmail.co.uk, and we will add you to our mailing list.

Seuran järjestämän liikuntahistorian tutkijaseminaarin ohjelma on julkaistu. Seminaari toteutetaan Jyväskylässä 25.5.2011 Jyväskylän yliopiston Historian ja etnologian laitoksella. KATSO OHJELMA!

Suomen urheiluhistoriallisen seuran jäsenet kutsutaan vuosikokoukseen, joka pidetään
torstaina 31.3.2010 klo 17.30 alkaen Suomen Urheilumuseolla, Olympiastadion, Helsinki.
Kahvitarjoilu. Kokouksen jälkeen klo 18 seuraa FT Jari Kanervan esitelmä

Ennen afterskitä – suomalaisen alppihiihtokulttuurin synty.

Mitä meillä oli ennen lumilautoja, kumparelaskua ja afterskitä? Millaisia olivat valkeat rinteet ja mitä vauhdin hurma?

Alppihiihtokäännöksiä tapailtiin Suomessa jo 1920-luvun lopulla. Neuvoa haettiin Ruotsista, jossa itävaltalaista oppia oli muokattu tunturiolosuhteisiin sopivaksi. Vaikutteiden hakeminen ja hiihdon monipuolinen kehittäminen olivat erityisesti naisten alaa. Miehiset urheilupiirit taas perustivat ratkaisunsa perinteeseen ja tukeutuivat kotimaiseen tietämykseen. He keskittyivät mitalien voittamiseen eivätkä hyväksyneet Keski-Euroopasta levinnyttä ”hotelliurheilua” todelliseksi urheiluksi.

Ennen toista maailmansotaa Lapin tunturihiihto oli harvojen harrastus, mutta naisvoimistelujärjestöt vaikuttivat aktiivisuudellaan Lapin matkailun yleistymiseen. Lappi- ja tunturihiihtomainoksilla luotiin vauhdikkuudella ja yläluokkaisella glamourilla höystettyä mielikuvaa raikkaudesta ja terveellisestä elämäntavasta.

Tilaisuus on avoin yleisölle!
TERVETULOA!

Medlemmarna i Finlands idrottshistoriska förening kallas härmed till årsmöte torsdagen den 31 mars 2011, kl. 17.30 vid Idrottsmuseet, Olympiastadion, Helsingfors. Mötesdeltagarna bjuds på kaffe.

I samband med årsmötet kl. 18 håller fil. dr Jari Kanerva ett föredrag (på finska) om den alpina skidkulturens tillblivelse i Finland. Se rubrik ovan!

Föredraget är öppet för allmänheten.

VÄLKOMMEN!

Call for Papers:

The Sport and Leisure History Seminar Summer Conference:

’Sport and Leisure in Suburbs and New Towns: Communities, Identities and Interactions’

21st-22nd July, 2011

Hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, London

Global society is becoming increasingly dominated by suburban growth, yet our understandings of suburban social life are still lamentably under-informed or prejudiced by elitist anti-suburbanism. Some historians, cultural commentators and social scientists have explored the social significance of sport and leisure in new communities but much more work needs to be done to provide a fuller picture of the social life of suburbs and new towns in the modern and post-modern eras.

Our conference is looking for academics who are working on sport and leisure in suburbs and new towns. All sports and leisure activities are to be included. Approaches that include a focus upon community and association, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, age and class are encouraged. An emphasis upon suburban identities and social formation in new communities is particularly welcome. Conformity and subversion are key themes that should also be addressed.

There is also a tendency – even in academic work – to treat ’suburban’ as a byword for lower middle class. We are therefore particularly keen to receive papers that demonstrate the social heterogeneity of suburbs and new towns. Contributors should also consider the geographic, as well as the social and cultural, dimensions of sport and leisure in suburbs and new towns: what are the influences, for example, of their spatial dimensions; of their infrastructure; of their distance or disconnection from existing urban centres; of migration to and from them?

Our scope is global: we hope to get proposals for papers not only from Britain and Europe, but also the Americas, Africa and Asia. We are particularly interested in work being undertaken in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and in the first decade of the current century. We therefore hope to attract academics from a range of disciplines, including history, sociology, geography, cultural studies, and architecture and the built environment, to name a few.

Please send abstracts (c. 300 words in length) and a brief biography to leisureinsuburbia(AT)gmail.com by Friday, 15th April.

Conference organisers: Dr Mark Clapson, Dion Georgiou and Dr John Law.

The European Committee for Sports History (CESH) is pleased to inform that its 16th annual congress with will be held 12-16 October 2011 in Estoril (Lisbon), Portugal. This year’s topic is ”Sport and Tourism”.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

February, 28 – deadline for abstracts submission

April, 15 – deadline for notification of acceptance

April, 30 – deadline for first authors registration

Full information is available on the congress website
http://www.fmh.utl.pt/cesh2011/

For more information about CESH, please visit http://www.cesh-site.eu

Halukkaita kirjoittajia pyydämme ottamaan yhteyttä toimittajiin ja tarjoamaan tekstejään tai alustavia aiheitaan maaliskuun 2011 loppuun mennessä.

Ta kontakt med årsbokens redaktion per slutet av mars 2011.

LISÄTIETOA / TILLÄGGSINFORMATION

Mellan den 4 och 7 augusti 2011 sammanstrålar Nordens alla sociologer till Nordiska sociologförbundets 25:te konferens, som förlagts till Oslo med univeristetet där som värd. Årets tema, ”Power and Participation”, ska genomsyra presentationerna i alla sessioner, så också i den session som kort och gott benämns ”Sports”. Ansvarig för den är Tommy Langseth, Høgskolen i Telemark och Nils Asle Bergsgard, International Research Institute of Stavanger, IRIS. En annan session att hålla ögonen på för sportforskare är ”Voluntary organization”, som inkluderar också idrottsorganisationer. Ørnulf Seippel är ansvarig. Det finns därutöver en lång rad research groups för sociologiska specialinriktningar.

Abstracts ska vara inlämnade (via det elektroniska systemet på hemsidan) senast den 1 februari 2011. Konferensspråket är engelska.

Mer information fås på http://www.nordicsociology2011.org/web/