North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
27th Annual Conference
November 1-4, 2006
Vancouver, Canada
2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
This is a reminder that the 27th annual conference of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) will be held November 1-4, 2006 at the Marriott Renaissance Hotel-Harbourside in Vancouver, CAN. The theme for this year’s conference is “Re-Imagining Community/Re(En)Visioning Sport.” Those interested in submitting an abstract for a paper or poster should do so by July 15, 2006 to the program chair, Nancy E. Spencer, School of Human Movement, Sport, and Leisure Studies, 233 Eppler Center, Bowling Green, OH 43403 Tel.: (419) 372-6927. Email: nspencr@bgnet.bgsu.edu Paper abstracts or poster abstracts should be directly submitted via the session proposal form at: http://nasss.org/2006/submissions.php
This year’s theme of “Re-Imagining Community/Re(En)Visioning Sport” challenges us to (re)imagine how NASSS as an organization can continue to develop as a community of scholars that welcomes a diverse range of scholarship encompassing various theoretical, (inter)national, social, and political perspectives. Just as we consider ways of re-imagining NASSS as a welcoming interpretive and analytical community, we also wish to interrogate ways that we can re-envision sport as a site of greater inclusion. In this spirit we also welcome sessions which are not directly related to the conference theme. Sessions that enhance interdisciplinary conversations and encourage new ways of thinking about sport are particularly welcome. While we wish to solicit paper abstracts and poster abstracts with very broad themes as in the past (e.g., “Sport and the Media”), the program committee (listed below) is also interested in securing sessions that promote specific or focused content related to the theme. For example, session organizers might focus on various “Interpretive Communities and Sport,” or “Communities of Practice in Sport.” For further information, please contact the Chair of the Program Committee:
Nancy Spencer, Chair, nspencr@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Rose Chepyator, jchepyat@uga.edu
Delia Douglas, dddougla@axionet.com
Mary McDonald, mcdonamg@muohio.edu
Yuka Nakamura, yuka.nakamura@utoronto.ca
Andrew Parker, andrew.parker@warwick.ac.uk
George Sage, ghsage@prodigy.net
Damion Thomas, damion@uiuc.edu
Steve Walk, swalk@Exchange.FULLERTON.EDU
Submission Procedure
Please read through the session and poster abstracts listed on the Sessions page (or go to: http://nasss.org/2006/sessions.html) to determine which session theme best matches your paper/poster. After you have determined the session to which you wish to submit your paper, go to the Abstract Submissions page (or go to: http://nasss.org/2006/submissions.php) and follow the instructions to fill out the submission form. Once you submit via the Web, a copy of your abstract will be sent to the session organizer and the program chair. Please print the confirmation page for your records. If you have any questions about the session, contact the session organizer using the email address found on your confirmation page. If you are unsure about the session to which you should submit, or if you believe you have a topic that does not easily fit one of the identified sessions, please submit your abstract to the Open Session.
Proposing or Adding a Session
Please be aware that the paper sessions listed on the Web are guideposts, and are not to be construed as the final program. If you have an idea for a session that is not presently listed, or if you are unable to submit your abstract via the Web, please contact the program chair Nancy Spencer: nspencr [at] bgnet.bgsu.edu.
Abstract Format and Submission Requirements
• Abstracts are limited to 200 words
• Plain text only (no formatting—no italics, no bold, no underlining—and no html)
• Presentation title limited to 10 words
• Author(s), institutional affiliation(s) and contact information
• Previously unpublished material only
• Due to time and space constraints presenters are limited to a maximum of two presentations (one single-authored paper & one coauthored paper, or two coauthored papers)
• Please use APA citation style
Abstracts will be reprinted and published in the Conference Abstracts as submitted. Thus, it is imperative that these guidelines be considered prior to submitting. The simpler your submission is, the easier it will be to convert into a publishable form.
Please submit poster abstracts to the poster sessions only.
Acceptance Review Criteria
• Relevance and significance of topic to sport sociology and related interdisciplinary fields
• Clearly stated core issue, research question or objective
• Reference to conceptual framework or methodology
• Consideration of implications where appropriate
• Session organizer(s) in conjunction with Program Committee will make final decision about acceptance of abstract submissions
Abstract Submission Deadline: July 15, 2006
Notification of Acceptance: mid-August, 2006
2006 NASSS Program Features
The following Program features have been planned for the 2006 Conference Program. Please see the website for additional updates to the Program. (http://nasss.org/2006/program.html)
Presidential Keynote: Stephan Walk, California State-Fullerton
Alan Ingham Keynote Address
“Toward a Physical Cultural Studies”
The first annual Alan Ingham Keynote Address will be presented by David L. Andrews (PhD, University of Illinois–Champaign). Dr. Andrews is an Associate Professor in the Physical Cultural Studies Program at the University of Maryland–College Park. Informed by the theories, methods, and politics of contemporary cultural studies, his teaching and research interests are prefigured on a critical understanding of sport as a fluid and relational space within and through, which particular understandings of the social order and social subjectivity become authorized and/or contested.
Keynote Panel
“Re(En)Visioning Sport: Dialogues Across/Between Communities”
Yasmin Jiwani, Concordia University, author of Discourses of Denial: Mediations of Race, Gender and Violence
Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto, Canada Research Chair, Social Justice and Cultural Studies
Handel Wright, University of British Columbia, Canada Research Chair-Cultural Studies
Meet ‘n’ Eat Lunch (Thursday)
Join us for NASSS's Thursday Meet 'n' Eat Lunch, an opportunity for old and new members to socialize and network. Participants will meet in the hotel lobby and lunch at a restaurant(s) of their choice. (This is a pay for yourself event.)
Grad Student Breakfast (Friday)
Network with other graduate students at a Friday morning breakfast, courtesy of NASSS. Location TBA.
Take a Student to Lunch (Friday)
As in the past, we have decided to start organizing ‘take a student to lunch’ early. If you are interested in taking a student to lunch on Friday, November 3, please reply to Michele (grads [at] nasss.org). Starting now will allow us to more effectively match up faculty and students based on interests and specific requests. In order to make ‘take a student to lunch’ the best experience possible for both faculty and graduate students at NASSS, we have some suggestions:
• If you do sign up to take a student out to lunch, we guarantee that there will be a student who would like to be taken out to lunch, and your generosity will be greatly appreciated.
• We understand that many faculty members enjoy the social aspect of NASSS, and that you often have plans to meet with other faculty members over lunch. You are more than welcome to organize with another faculty member (or two) to take two or three graduate students to lunch–this allows for more interaction between faculty and students (and there is less pressure on everyone involved).
• Finally, have fun! ‘Take a student to lunch’ is intended to contribute to a positive experience of the annual conference for both faculty and graduate students, and we hope that as many of you as possible will agree to participate.
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