CONFERENCE: Sociology of Sport Day Conference

Call for papers

THE 4th ANNUAL
SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT DAY CONFERENCE

Saturday, January 14, 2006, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario

The School of Physical and Health Education at Queen’s University would like to invite all those interested in socio-cultural studies of sport to a day conference that will be held in the memory of our colleague Dr. Donald Macintosh. The conference will take place at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario on Saturday, January 14, 2006.

The conference programme will consist of several sessions of graduate student presentations, a catered lunch, and the annual Donald Macintosh Memorial Lecture which will be given this year by Dr. Alan Bairner, Reader in the Sociology of Sport and Director of Learning and Teaching at Loughborough University. He is the author of Sport, Nationalism, and Globalization: European and North American Perspectives (2001) and editor of Sport and the Irish: Histories, Identities, Issues (2005). With John Sugden, he wrote Sport, Sectarianism and Society in a Divided Ireland (1993) and edited Sport in Divided Societies (1999). His current research interests include Marxist interpretations of sport, sport in the city, and sport and national identities. He is in the process of preparing two monographs (Why Sports Science? and Sport, Politics and Society) for publication in 2007. He serves on the editorial boards of the Sociology of Sport Journal, Soccer and Society and Football Studies. He also writes a column on current affairs in Daily Ireland and acts as an advisor to the Irish Football Association on community relations issues. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Helsinki.

Graduate students who would like to present their work at the conference should send abstracts or proposals for round-table discussions to Samantha King (kingsj@post.queensu.ca) by December 15, 2005. We are looking for reports of works-in-progress, as well as reports of completed research.

Kingston is accessible by VIA rail or bus. It is a two hour and 45 minute drive from either downtown Toronto or downtown Montreal. It is a two hour drive from Ottawa and a one hour drive from Watertown, New York. Registration fees are $20 for faculty and $10 for students.

For more information or to add your name to our email list, write to Samantha King, kingsj@post.queensu.ca.