“To remember is to resist:”* 40 Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008
University of Toronto, May 20-22, 2008
40 years after Mexico City, Paris, and Prague, and 80 days before the Beijing Games, the Faculty of Physical Education and Health, the Centre for Sport Policy Studies, and New College at the University of Toronto are pleased to host a three-day conference on sport and social change to be held in Toronto, Canada, on May 20-22, 2008.
These anniversaries offer a unique opportunity to revisit the ways in which the struggle for human rights has shaped sport and physical activity. This conference will commemorate and critique the aims and achievements of past and current human rights movements in sport. Keynote addresses and individual presentations will explore the past and reflect on current efforts at social change; participants will also be encouraged to suggest future directions and debate the merits of including sport in campaigns for human rights.
This conference will bring together academics and activists, practitioners and academics, including scholars from a variety of disciplines and perspectives whose research interests touch upon issues of sport and physical activity, human rights and social change. Potential topics of discussion include, but are not limited to:
International development and sport
Reform and protest (e.g., Olympic Movement for Human Rights, 1968)
The Beijing Olympics and international protest
Collective bargaining in professional and Olympic sport
Access to sport and physical activity
Gender struggles in sport
Indigenous peoples, sport and physical activity
Sport and (dis)ability
Whose knowledge counts? Struggles over curriculum in physical education and sports studies
Sport and the environment
The current state of international and national sport governance
Activism at the local level
Campaigns for children’s rights in sport
Media reform, media justice
The campaign for open access to research
The conference will feature keynote addresses by leaders in the field, plenary panel discussions, as well as open paper sessions. Conference organizers are encouraging submissions for both individual presentations and session topics. Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words (and include the paper/session title, and presenter’s name and affiliation). Deadline for the submission of abstracts is January 31, 2008.
Submit abstracts and any questions to the Conference Organizer, Russell Field, at: russell.field@utoronto.ca or 1-416-978-5548.
The information regarding accommodation at the conference is now online -- www.remember-resist.ca. There are two accommodation options: university residence space (approx. $35/night) quite close to the conference sites and hotel space (approx
$120/night) about 1.75 km away. Registration details will be posted on the conference website early next week with discounts for early registration and the option to register online. There are different fees for registrants depending upon their country of origin and a reduced fee for graduate students. Please check the conference website
(www.remember-resist.ca) in the coming days.
Dr. Bruce Kidd
Dean, Faculty of Physical Education and Health
University of Toronto
Dr. Peter Donnelly
Director, Centre for Sport Policy Studies
University of Toronto
Dr. Rick Halpern
Principal, New College
University of Toronto
Dr. Jill LeClair
Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning
*Lennox Farrell, Jamaican-Canadian activist and poet, from the essay “Black Rhythms in White Rituals”
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