Conference on Sport and Society in Transnational Contexts

Start Time: 
Friday, 5 June, 2015 - 11:30 to Saturday, 6 June, 2015 - 11:30

The conference aims to bring together academics from a wide range of disciplines to expand our conceptual understanding of sport’s international dimensions, particularly the flows and circulations of historical processes at the sites of production and consumption within a connected space of interaction.

 

We invite papers which focus on, but are not limited to, the following themes:

  1. The functions of nation-states and other establishments in initiating and mediating sport codes.
  2. New models of analyzing circulation and appropriation of particular sports.
  3. The agency of intermediary individuals within or outside institutions that promote transnational sport.
  4. The processes of recasting sporting discourses through visual and textual constructions.
  5. Transformation of sport through transactions between dispensers and absorbers.
  6. Simultaneous multiple production of modern sport across diverse sites, and subsequent configuration of their contemporary forms.

The conference committee welcomes abstracts of 200-250 words for 20 minute presentations. Please send your abstract and a brief biography (not more than 200 words) to Souvik Naha at souvik.nahagmw.gess.ethz.ch by 31 October 2014. Female and early career researchers are particularly encouraged to participate.

We do not guarantee travel and accommodation bursaries at this stage. Registration information will follow once we learn the outcomes of funding applications.

The conference proceedings will be published as a special issue of Sport in Society in 2016.

Latitude: 
47.3666700
Longitude: 
8.5500000
Conference Location: 
Zurich, Switzerland
Organizer: 
ETH Zürich
Contact: 

ETH Zürich

Rämistrasse 101

8092 Zürich

Switzerland

 

souvik.nahagmw.gess.ethz.ch