Call for Sessions
The 28th annual conference of the North American Society for the Sociology of
Sport (NASSS) will be held 31 October through 3 November 2007 at the Marriott
City Center Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The theme for this year’s
conference is “Beyond Other Boundaries: Sport within/against/across Borders.”
Those interested in organizing a session should submit a session proposal by May
25, 2007 to the program chair, C. Richard King, via the Session Proposal form
(http://nasss.org/2007/proposals.php).
CLR James classic work, Beyond a Boundary, serves a touchstone and inspiration
for this year’s theme, drawing on his critical engagements with cricket in the
West Indies to encourage discussions of physical cultural studies that explore
his core concerns, namely the complex, and often contradictory, connections
between culture and politics, race and class, local and international, as well
as structure and autobiography. At the same time, this year’s theme seeks to
examine issues unthought by James, including
(a) diaspora and transnationalism,
(b) transgression and containment,
(c) hemispheric and comparative approaches to sport, and
(d) dis/identfications.
Indeed, “Beyond Other Boundaries,” ask its participants to think critically
about the ways in which sport makes possible the creation, crossing,
contestation, and complication of social boundaries, while prompting reflections
on the politics of knowledge, culture, and identity central to playing,
consuming, and studying sport. As such, we encourage diverse approaches to
physical cultural studies from a range of theoretical, methodological,
(trans)national, social, and political positions. Even as we trace the sharp
edges and expose novel opening in sport studies, we welcome sessions not
directly related to the conference theme. As in the past, we solicit session
titles with very broad themes as in the past (e.g., “Sport and the Media”) along
with sessions that promote specific or focused content related to the theme.
For further information or discuss emergent ideas, please contact Program Chair
C. Richard King or a member of the program committee:
C. Richard King, Program Chair
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies
Washington State University
P.O. Box 644010
Pullman, WA 99164-4010
Office: 509-335-2605
Fax: 509-335-8338
Email/Courriel: crking [at] wsu.edu
C.L. Cole, clcole [at] uiuc.edu
Magaret Duncan, mduncan [at] uwm.edu
Audrey Giles, agiles [at] uottawa.ca
Janet Harris, jcharris [at] mail.sdsu.edu
Billy Hawkins, bhawk [at] uga.edu
Nicola Potopsingh, 9np1 [at] qlink.queensu.ca
Michael Silk, msilk [at] umd.edu
Nancy Spencer, nspencr [at] bgsu.edu
Jane Stangl, jstangl [at] email.smith.edu
Steve Walk, swalk [at] Exchange.FULLERTON.EDU
Eli Wolff, e.wolff [at] neu.edu
An Early Reminder: A second call seeking papers and posters will begin shortly
after the 2007 sessions have been proposed and finalized. The final deadline for
submitting paper abstracts and poster abstracts will be June 30, 2007. Look for
the “2007 Call for Paper and Poster Abstracts” as well as more details about
keynote speakers and conference activities in early May on the NASSS conference
website.
General Time Line for 2007 Conference Planning:
May: Call for sessions
May - June: call for paper abstracts
June 30: deadline for abstracts
July: notification of paper acceptance sent to authors
Late July: publication of preliminary program
C. Richard King
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies
Box 644010
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-4010
509-335-2605
509-335-8338 (fax)
http://libarts.wsu.edu/ces/richard_king.php
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