Invitation to Session Organizers
The 26th Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Sociology
of Sport will be held October 26-29 at the Adams Mark Hotel in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. This year's theme is Sport / Empires /
Globalization and attempts to reflect both continuity and change in the
broad context in which scholars discuss and theorize sport. As always, the
NASSS Conference welcomes sessions both related and unrelated to the
conference theme. Those who wish to propose panels, workshops, sessions, or
other ideas for the conference should contact Program Chair, Stephan Walk,
Department of Kinesiology, California State University, Fullerton,
Fullerton, CA, 92834 Tel (714) 278-4763; Email: swalk@fullerton.edu.
Deadline for Proposals for Sessions is Monday, May 2.
Many contemporary social thinkers have grappled with the implications of a
global order characterized by rapidly shifting systems of economic and
cultural exchange. In identifying Sport / Empires / Globalization as this
year's conference theme, the NASSS Program Committee wished to recognize the
emerging economic, political, and cultural context of current manifestations
of sport. What insights into inequalities, power, and the body in sport are
advanced by notions of empire(s) as they relate to globalization processes?
In identifying these themes, the committee wished to continue to foster the
"interdisciplinary dialogues" that were the hallmark of the Tuscon
conference. For more information, please contact any member of the 2005
NASSS Program Committee:
* Stephan Walk, Program Chair (swalk@fullerton.edu)--contact to propose
sessions
* Becky Beal (bbeal@pacific.edu)
* Othello Harris (harriso@muohio.edu)
* Leslie Heywood (heywood@binghamton.edu)
* Pirrko Markula (p.markula@bath.ac.uk)
* Robert Rinehart (rerine@wsu.edu)
* Patricia Vertinsky (patricia.vertinsky@ubc.ca)
* Mary McDonald (mcdonamg@muohio.edu)
* Maureen Smith (smithmm@csus.edu)
* Ellen Staurowsky (staurows@ithaca.edu)
* Earl Smith (smithea@wfu.edu)
In addition to keynote speakers, panels, poster and paper sessions, this
year's conference will feature seminars, in which small groups prepare and
exchange position papers on key issues, and a roundtable session on
collaborative research. This year will also continue the Saturday Spotlight
Session, and a Graduate Student Workshop.
Reminder: A call seeking papers and posters will be issued soon after the
2005 sessions have been submitted and finalized. The deadline for papers
and posters submitted for the 2005 NASSS Conference will be mid June. Look
for the Call for Paper and Poster Abstracts (including important information
on online submissions), in addition to further details on keynotes and other
conference highlights coming soon on the NASSS website: www.nasss.org
Best wishes
Steve Walk, Program Chair
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