CFP: 9th Annual CSRI Conference on College Sport

9th Annual CSRI Conference on College Sport
April 20-22, 2016
Downtown Columbia Marriott
The University of South Carolina Columbia, SC

Call for Papers

The College Sport Research Institute welcomes the submission of abstracts for its 9th annual CSRI Conference on College Sport to be held at the Downtown Columbia, SC Marriott: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/caemh-columbia-marriott/

The conference’s mission is to: “Provide students, scholars, and college-sport practitioners a public forum to discuss relevant and timely college sport issues.”

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
To be considered for acceptance, abstracts must reflect research on college-sport history, socialcultural college-sport issues, legal theory or the application of law to college-sport issues, businessrelated issues in college sport, or special topics related to current college-sport issues. The research should have reached a fairly complete stage of development, and the abstract should provide enough detail about the research, so the reviewers have sufficient information to judge its quality. Abstracts proposing teaching-related sessions on college-sport issues will also be considered, as long as the abstract provides sufficient detail to judge the quality of the proposed session.

Abstracts will undergo a multi-person, blind-review process to determine acceptance.

Abstracts submitted to CSRI should not be concurrently submitted for consideration to another conference.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
Abstracts should NOT be submitted prior to Monday, October 26, 2015 and MUST be received no later than Friday, January 22, 2016 (11:59p.m. EST). Submissions received after this date and time will not be considered for acceptance.

ABSTRACT FORMAT AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURES:
All abstracts MUST be submitted electronically as a Microsoft Word attachment and must contain the following information and conform to the following format requirements:
● Single-spaced
● One-inch margins,
● Times New Roman 12-point font, and
● 400-word maximum for poster presentations. 800-word maximum for 30-minute oral presentations & 65-minute symposia, panels, roundtables, or workshops. (NOTE: References should be included for in-text citations.)

ABSTRACT FORMAT:
Line 1: Type of session desired (choose from the options below):
● Poster presentation
● 30-minute oral presentation (including questions)
● 65-minute symposium, panel, roundtable, or workshop
Line 2: three to four keywords that will help the program coordinator schedule similar topics in succession
Line 3: author(s) and institution(s) names (centered on page)
Line 4: presentation title (centered on page)
Line 5: blank
Line 6 to end: text of abstract (including demonstration of research conducted)

In your email please include the corresponding author’s contact information.

Submission of abstract(s) indicates the intent of the presenter(s) to register for the conference at the appropriate registration fee.

Email all abstracts to: CSRI Conference Abstract Review Committee at csri@sc.edu

NOTE: All abstracts MUST be submitted electronically as a Microsoft Word attachment. For more information regarding the conference: http://www.csriconference.org or call at: 803.777.0658 / 803.777.5550