CFP: Sport, Sexuality, and Culture Conference: Toward A More Human and Humane Sport Enterprise

Ithaca College will be hosting the Sport, Sexuality, and Culture Conference: Toward A More Human and Humane Sport Enterprise on March 18-20, 2009. Scholars, students (both undergraduate and graduate), public policy makers, activists, and sport industry leaders are invited to submit papers or poster abstracts addressing one or more of
these themes dealing with heterosexism/homophobia/transphobia in sport;
experiences of gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgendered athletes,
coaches, administrators, sport journalists, and others working within
sport;legal and public policy issues associated with sex and sexual
orientation discrimination in sport; activism around issues of sport,
sexuality, and culture; media, sport, and sexuality; intersectionalities
around gender, race, sexuality, and sport; gender violence and sport;
reconceptualizing the culture of sport; representations of LGBT athletes
in the culture and in sport culture; and issues of sexuality, sport, and
culture in the classroom, in the workplace, or on athletic teams.

Our confirmed invited speakers thus far include Dr. Eric Anderson,
Lecturer, Department of Education, University of Bath; Helen Carroll,
Sports Project Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights;Pat Griffin,
Professor Emerita, Social Justice Education Program, University of
Massachusetts-Amherst and Director, It Takes A Team; and Dr. Vikki Krane,
Director-Women's Studies and Professor, School of Human Movement, Sport,
and Leisure Studies, Bowling Green State University.

The deadline for abstract submissions is September 15, 2008 with
notification after blind review on or around November 15, 2008. For more
information about the conference, the call for papers, registration,
accommodations, and travel, please go to the conference website at
http://www.ithaca.edu/gradstudies/programsites/sportmgmt/sportsexualitycultureintr/