Active Living Research invites abstracts to be considered for presentation at the 2009 Annual Conference on February 18 - 20, 2009 in San Diego, CA.
http://www.activelivingresearch.org/conference/2009/cfa2009
The theme for the 2009 conference is Active Communities for Youth and Families: Creating Momentum for Change. Abstracts describing research results on all topics related to active living policies and environments are welcome and abstracts related to the conference theme are particularly encouraged.
The childhood obesity epidemic presents an urgent need to create social and built environments that support active living among youth and families. The 2009 conference will accelerate the understanding of how evidence-based policies and environmental changes can help promote active living and prevent childhood obesity. ALR welcomes abstracts on research about children and adolescents at greatest risk for obesity—African-American, Latino, Native American, Asian American and Pacific Islander children and youth living in low-income communities. Abstracts with an international focus are encouraged as well, as there are lessons to be learned from policy and environmental innovations from around the world.
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Friday, July 04, 2008
CFP: Head, Department of Kinesiology University of Louisiana at Lafayette
University of Louisiana at Lafayette - College of Education
Location: Lafayette, LA
Category:
* Faculty - Health - Physical Education & Kinesiology
* Faculty - Health - Sports Mgmt, Recreation & Leisure Studies
Posted: 07/03/2008
Application Due: Open Until Filled
Type: Full Time
POSITION: Head, Department of Kinesiology University of Louisiana at Lafayette, nine month tenure track appointment with summer employment guaranteed.
RESPONSIBILITIES: The successful candidate will head the Department of Kinesiology and meet all criteria in teaching, research and service for tenure and qualify for rank as assistant, associate or full professor. Responsibilities include serving as an academic administrator to a dynamic, multidisciplinary faculty, encouraging professional growth, communicating pertinent information to the university community, faculty, staff, and students in addition to fulfilling half-time teaching expectations.
QUALIFICATIONS: Earned doctorate in one of the following areas: athletic training, exercise science, health and physical education, health promotion, sports management, or a related area.
Candidate must have evidence of professional achievement, successful teaching experience, a proven record of successful research, and support for scholarly activities. Candidate must demonstrate leadership management; communicative and interpersonal skills that foster a harmonious environment of continual growth; and strive to promote local, regional, national, and international visibility within the profession. Previous administrative experience preferred.
ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT: The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is one of eight publicly supported universities in the University of Louisiana system. Our university consists of eight degree-granting colleges and the Graduate School. The university enrollment is 16,300 and it employs 550 full time faculty. The College of Education consists of three academic departments in the disciplines of Kinesiology, Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Foundations and Leadership. The Department of Kinesiology has approximately 750 majors and 19 faculty members.
SALARY: Commensurate with qualifications and experience.
STARTING DATE: Fall semester 2009; Summer 2009 if available.
APPLICATIONS: Applications should be received by January 31, 2009. The following materials are requested: letter of application, resume, two most recent samples of scholarly work, transcripts, and three letters of recommendation.
Materials should be emailed to Dr. Lyman at halo@louisiana.edu or mailed to:
Dr. Susan Lyman; Chair, Search Committee
Department of Kinesiology
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
225 Cajundome Blvd., Lafayette, LA 70506
337-482-6465 halo@louisiana.edu
Postal Address: Dept. of Kinesiology
College of Education
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
225 Cajun Dome Blvd.
Lafayette, LA 70506
Phone: 337-482-6465
Email Address: halo@louisiana.edu
Location: Lafayette, LA
Category:
* Faculty - Health - Physical Education & Kinesiology
* Faculty - Health - Sports Mgmt, Recreation & Leisure Studies
Posted: 07/03/2008
Application Due: Open Until Filled
Type: Full Time
POSITION: Head, Department of Kinesiology University of Louisiana at Lafayette, nine month tenure track appointment with summer employment guaranteed.
RESPONSIBILITIES: The successful candidate will head the Department of Kinesiology and meet all criteria in teaching, research and service for tenure and qualify for rank as assistant, associate or full professor. Responsibilities include serving as an academic administrator to a dynamic, multidisciplinary faculty, encouraging professional growth, communicating pertinent information to the university community, faculty, staff, and students in addition to fulfilling half-time teaching expectations.
QUALIFICATIONS: Earned doctorate in one of the following areas: athletic training, exercise science, health and physical education, health promotion, sports management, or a related area.
Candidate must have evidence of professional achievement, successful teaching experience, a proven record of successful research, and support for scholarly activities. Candidate must demonstrate leadership management; communicative and interpersonal skills that foster a harmonious environment of continual growth; and strive to promote local, regional, national, and international visibility within the profession. Previous administrative experience preferred.
ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT: The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is one of eight publicly supported universities in the University of Louisiana system. Our university consists of eight degree-granting colleges and the Graduate School. The university enrollment is 16,300 and it employs 550 full time faculty. The College of Education consists of three academic departments in the disciplines of Kinesiology, Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Foundations and Leadership. The Department of Kinesiology has approximately 750 majors and 19 faculty members.
SALARY: Commensurate with qualifications and experience.
STARTING DATE: Fall semester 2009; Summer 2009 if available.
APPLICATIONS: Applications should be received by January 31, 2009. The following materials are requested: letter of application, resume, two most recent samples of scholarly work, transcripts, and three letters of recommendation.
Materials should be emailed to Dr. Lyman at halo@louisiana.edu or mailed to:
Dr. Susan Lyman; Chair, Search Committee
Department of Kinesiology
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
225 Cajundome Blvd., Lafayette, LA 70506
337-482-6465 halo@louisiana.edu
Postal Address: Dept. of Kinesiology
College of Education
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
225 Cajun Dome Blvd.
Lafayette, LA 70506
Phone: 337-482-6465
Email Address: halo@louisiana.edu
Thursday, July 03, 2008
CFP: Special Issue of IRSS - Interrogating Athletic Urbanism
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE OF IRSS
Interrogating Athletic Urbanism:
The politics of sport spectacles in the economy of appearances
Guest Editor
Thomas F. Carter
University of Brighton
The use of sport to promote a sense of community within a sweeping urban environment as well to project specific imagery of a city in a competitive global environment tends to follow discursive strategies based on consumerism and modernism. These strategies are consumerist to the extent that a city becomes a playground for certain constituencies to associate their leisure with high-profile sporting experiences. Equally, they are modernist in that participation in sport symbolically demonstrates the city’s modern qualities and characteristics thereby providing proof that the city in question is a fully civilized, cosmopolitan environment. Sport, then, reflects civic leaders’ efforts to harness perceived social, political, and economic capital of sport for the benefit of the city, as they widely imagine it.
The production of city image-making fuels transnational corporate investment and it is this ‘economy of appearances’ that forms the place-making competition between cities. The self-conscious construction processes of dramatic performance create the conditions in which capital accumulation becomes a performance; a spectacle that demonstrates and asserts a city’s financial viability and status. Essentially the drama of spectacular accumulation makes the city a commodity, bought and sold, torn down, speculated upon, and fought over, in which ‘that which appears is good, that which is good appears’.1 Cities have to be seen to be dynamic, progressive, modern –in a word “global”– before actually becoming so. Consequently, the dramatization of cities’ potential as viable places becomes crucial and it is this dramatization through spectacle that informs the economy of appearances. Whatever the imagery used, these discursive constructs rely on the idea that the city in question is a sporting city: a city that demonstrates its vitality, energy, civilization, and modernity through its sporting capacity.
Articles for this special issue of IRSS should address the politics of civic image-making through sporting spectacle: looking at how sport is harnessed for the construction of modernity in a global context. These papers should look at how selected cities - including ones not normally associated with the ideas of globalization - assert a place in a broader global order while at the same time keeping a localized context and significance through the use of sport.
Expressions of interest; queries and/or submissions should be maid via t.f.carter@brighton.ac.uk
Submissions will be subject to the standard and rigorous style conventions and refereeing procedures of IRSS. For further details of submissions conventions see: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsProdManSub.nav?prodId=Journal200937
Interrogating Athletic Urbanism:
The politics of sport spectacles in the economy of appearances
Guest Editor
Thomas F. Carter
University of Brighton
The use of sport to promote a sense of community within a sweeping urban environment as well to project specific imagery of a city in a competitive global environment tends to follow discursive strategies based on consumerism and modernism. These strategies are consumerist to the extent that a city becomes a playground for certain constituencies to associate their leisure with high-profile sporting experiences. Equally, they are modernist in that participation in sport symbolically demonstrates the city’s modern qualities and characteristics thereby providing proof that the city in question is a fully civilized, cosmopolitan environment. Sport, then, reflects civic leaders’ efforts to harness perceived social, political, and economic capital of sport for the benefit of the city, as they widely imagine it.
The production of city image-making fuels transnational corporate investment and it is this ‘economy of appearances’ that forms the place-making competition between cities. The self-conscious construction processes of dramatic performance create the conditions in which capital accumulation becomes a performance; a spectacle that demonstrates and asserts a city’s financial viability and status. Essentially the drama of spectacular accumulation makes the city a commodity, bought and sold, torn down, speculated upon, and fought over, in which ‘that which appears is good, that which is good appears’.1 Cities have to be seen to be dynamic, progressive, modern –in a word “global”– before actually becoming so. Consequently, the dramatization of cities’ potential as viable places becomes crucial and it is this dramatization through spectacle that informs the economy of appearances. Whatever the imagery used, these discursive constructs rely on the idea that the city in question is a sporting city: a city that demonstrates its vitality, energy, civilization, and modernity through its sporting capacity.
Articles for this special issue of IRSS should address the politics of civic image-making through sporting spectacle: looking at how sport is harnessed for the construction of modernity in a global context. These papers should look at how selected cities - including ones not normally associated with the ideas of globalization - assert a place in a broader global order while at the same time keeping a localized context and significance through the use of sport.
Expressions of interest; queries and/or submissions should be maid via t.f.carter@brighton.ac.uk
Submissions will be subject to the standard and rigorous style conventions and refereeing procedures of IRSS. For further details of submissions conventions see: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsProdManSub.nav?prodId=Journal200937
CFP: Special Issue of Public Management Review, ‘The Public Management of Sport’
Call for papers:
Special Issue of Public Management Review,
‘The Public Management of Sport’
Guest Editor: Dr. Margaret Groeneveld (margaret.groeneveld@unibocconi.it)
Instructions for Authors
This special issue of the Public Management Review offers an opportunity to explore the multifaceted relationships between sport and government. It seeks to explore the broad spectrum of public management and governance of sport in the 21st century By its nature, sport scholarship frequently crosses disciplinary boundaries; this special issue is an opportunity to widen the frame for both public management and sport scholars and to initiate and increase awareness of synergies and complementary approaches from an international perspective.
Public Management Review is uniquely placed to offer a leading light on the rapidly developing interest in sport within the public management framework across the world. In general, the journal is focused on material which is:
International – drawing together and learning lessons from the development of public management across the world rather than being narrowly focused upon one area, and encouraging cross-national and comparative research papers
Multi-disciplinary – concerning work on public management in a range of disciplines
Inter-disciplinary – reflecting that much of the most important work about public management is coming at the cusp of traditional disciplines; the journal promotes such cross-boundary learning and conceptualization
The core issues commonly covered in the journal include:
social/public policy making and implementation in the plural state
inter-sectoral (government - non-profit - for profit) roles and relationships
the evaluation and critique of the New Public Management paradigm
governance, institutions and processes
globalization and convergence in public management
state reform and structural adjustment
the operational and strategic management of public services organizations, including such issues as contracting, marketing and strategic management
public management and civil society
management of non-profit and non-governmental organizations
public - private partnerships
For this special issue, papers are invited which highlight the position of sport and sport policy within these categories of public management scholarship. In general, papers should address a research and academic audience and should seek to promote and develop our understanding of sport within public management in an international perspective.
Two types of papers are welcome for consideration in the special issue:
1) Articles. These are substantive papers contributing to the deepening of theory about sport and public management and/or our empirical knowledge of this specific area. Papers should be between 5,000 - 8,000 words in length. These should be written as clearly and as concisely as possible, avoiding unnecessary jargon. They must be preceded by an abstract of not more than 100 words and between two and five key words suitable for indexing and on-line search purposes. Tables and figures should be presented on separate pages with their desired position in the text indicated in the margin of the manuscript. Permission to reproduce copyright material must be obtained by the authors before submission and any acknowledgements should be included in the typescript or captions as appropriate.
2) Developments. These are shorter papers contributing to the development of knowledge about sport and public management. These will usually be of around 2,000 - 3,500 words in length. They will take one of three approaches
review papers that develop a conceptual framework or review existing approaches, for use in research about public management, working primarily from significant publications about sport and public management and/or public policy from around the world, or review a cluster of publications on one aspect of sport and public management, methodological papers that report methodological approaches to research about sport and public management research-in-progress papers that report interesting and emerging finding from on-going research about public managers engaged with sport.
Notes for Contributors
Manuscripts should reach the Guest Editor before October 31st, 2008.
Authors should submit two versions of their manuscript. One should be a complete text, while in the second all document information identifying the author(s) should be removed from files to allow them to be sent anonymously to referees. The title only should appear on the first page of both versions of the manuscript. Authors are requested to supply separately a short biographical note for inclusion in the journal.
Submission of a paper implies that it presents original unpublished work, not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Submissions should be in English, with double spacing and wide margins (including notes and references).
Details of the specific formatting requirements are available from the Guest Editor, or via http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/rpxmauth.asp
Special Issue of Public Management Review,
‘The Public Management of Sport’
Guest Editor: Dr. Margaret Groeneveld (margaret.groeneveld@unibocconi.it)
Instructions for Authors
This special issue of the Public Management Review offers an opportunity to explore the multifaceted relationships between sport and government. It seeks to explore the broad spectrum of public management and governance of sport in the 21st century By its nature, sport scholarship frequently crosses disciplinary boundaries; this special issue is an opportunity to widen the frame for both public management and sport scholars and to initiate and increase awareness of synergies and complementary approaches from an international perspective.
Public Management Review is uniquely placed to offer a leading light on the rapidly developing interest in sport within the public management framework across the world. In general, the journal is focused on material which is:
International – drawing together and learning lessons from the development of public management across the world rather than being narrowly focused upon one area, and encouraging cross-national and comparative research papers
Multi-disciplinary – concerning work on public management in a range of disciplines
Inter-disciplinary – reflecting that much of the most important work about public management is coming at the cusp of traditional disciplines; the journal promotes such cross-boundary learning and conceptualization
The core issues commonly covered in the journal include:
social/public policy making and implementation in the plural state
inter-sectoral (government - non-profit - for profit) roles and relationships
the evaluation and critique of the New Public Management paradigm
governance, institutions and processes
globalization and convergence in public management
state reform and structural adjustment
the operational and strategic management of public services organizations, including such issues as contracting, marketing and strategic management
public management and civil society
management of non-profit and non-governmental organizations
public - private partnerships
For this special issue, papers are invited which highlight the position of sport and sport policy within these categories of public management scholarship. In general, papers should address a research and academic audience and should seek to promote and develop our understanding of sport within public management in an international perspective.
Two types of papers are welcome for consideration in the special issue:
1) Articles. These are substantive papers contributing to the deepening of theory about sport and public management and/or our empirical knowledge of this specific area. Papers should be between 5,000 - 8,000 words in length. These should be written as clearly and as concisely as possible, avoiding unnecessary jargon. They must be preceded by an abstract of not more than 100 words and between two and five key words suitable for indexing and on-line search purposes. Tables and figures should be presented on separate pages with their desired position in the text indicated in the margin of the manuscript. Permission to reproduce copyright material must be obtained by the authors before submission and any acknowledgements should be included in the typescript or captions as appropriate.
2) Developments. These are shorter papers contributing to the development of knowledge about sport and public management. These will usually be of around 2,000 - 3,500 words in length. They will take one of three approaches
review papers that develop a conceptual framework or review existing approaches, for use in research about public management, working primarily from significant publications about sport and public management and/or public policy from around the world, or review a cluster of publications on one aspect of sport and public management, methodological papers that report methodological approaches to research about sport and public management research-in-progress papers that report interesting and emerging finding from on-going research about public managers engaged with sport.
Notes for Contributors
Manuscripts should reach the Guest Editor before October 31st, 2008.
Authors should submit two versions of their manuscript. One should be a complete text, while in the second all document information identifying the author(s) should be removed from files to allow them to be sent anonymously to referees. The title only should appear on the first page of both versions of the manuscript. Authors are requested to supply separately a short biographical note for inclusion in the journal.
Submission of a paper implies that it presents original unpublished work, not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Submissions should be in English, with double spacing and wide margins (including notes and references).
Details of the specific formatting requirements are available from the Guest Editor, or via http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/rpxmauth.asp
Monday, June 30, 2008
JOB: Lecturer in Kinesiology
Sonoma State, located in Rohnert Park, CA (about an hour from San Francisco) is looking for a full-time lecturer for this upcoming school year.
The direct link to the job description and everything they want (listed as Kinesiology: Pedagogy, Sociology, History & Philosophy) is at
http://www.sonoma.edu/aa/fa/temp_pool.shtml
They are working to get this lecturer position as a tenure track position the following year.
The direct link to the job description and everything they want (listed as Kinesiology: Pedagogy, Sociology, History & Philosophy) is at
http://www.sonoma.edu/aa/fa/temp_pool.shtml
They are working to get this lecturer position as a tenure track position the following year.
CFP: Active Living Research Conference
Active Living Research Conference Seeks Abstracts and Award Nominations
Active Living Research, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation® (RWJF), contributes to the prevention of childhood obesity in low-income and high-risk racial/ethnic communities by supporting research to examine how environments and policies influence active living for children and their families. The program has announced a call for presentation and paper abstracts, as well as a call for award nominations for its annual conference to be held February 18-20, 2009 in San Diego, CA.
Call for Conference Abstracts
Active Living Research (ALR) invites abstracts to be considered for presentation at the 2009 Annual Conference on February 18-20, 2009 in San Diego, CA. Abstracts are welcome on all topics related to active living policies and environments. The theme of the 2009 conference is "Active Communities for Youth and Families: Creating Momentum for Change," and abstracts related to the theme are particularly encouraged.
Abstracts are invited for both posters and oral presentations. The abstract submission deadline is Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 1:00 pm PDT. There will be no extension of this deadline.
Read the full Call for Abstracts: http://www.activelivingresearch.org/conference/2009/cfa2009
"Translating Research to Policy" Award Nominations
The second annual "Translating Research to Policy" award will be presented at the 2009 Active Living Research Annual Conference. This national award recognizes an innovative team or individual representing research, policy and/or advocacy who has had success in catalyzing policy or environmental change of relevance to youth physical activity, sedentary behavior and obesity prevention. Active Living Research is looking for award nominations which illustrate impact at any policy-making level, including school, private sector, local, state or federal. Examples of settings and topics that are relevant include schools, public or private recreation facilities, transportation, community built environment and the social/media environment.
In addition to a cash prize, the winner will be invited to provide an oral presentation at the conference and the case study will be included in the Active Living Research Annual Conference program. The nomination deadline is August 27, 2008, 1:00 p.m. PDT. There will be no extension of this deadline.
Read the full Call for Nominations: http://www.activelivingresearch.org/conference/2009/cfn2009
Active Living Research, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation® (RWJF), contributes to the prevention of childhood obesity in low-income and high-risk racial/ethnic communities by supporting research to examine how environments and policies influence active living for children and their families. The program has announced a call for presentation and paper abstracts, as well as a call for award nominations for its annual conference to be held February 18-20, 2009 in San Diego, CA.
Call for Conference Abstracts
Active Living Research (ALR) invites abstracts to be considered for presentation at the 2009 Annual Conference on February 18-20, 2009 in San Diego, CA. Abstracts are welcome on all topics related to active living policies and environments. The theme of the 2009 conference is "Active Communities for Youth and Families: Creating Momentum for Change," and abstracts related to the theme are particularly encouraged.
Abstracts are invited for both posters and oral presentations. The abstract submission deadline is Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 1:00 pm PDT. There will be no extension of this deadline.
Read the full Call for Abstracts: http://www.activelivingresearch.org/conference/2009/cfa2009
"Translating Research to Policy" Award Nominations
The second annual "Translating Research to Policy" award will be presented at the 2009 Active Living Research Annual Conference. This national award recognizes an innovative team or individual representing research, policy and/or advocacy who has had success in catalyzing policy or environmental change of relevance to youth physical activity, sedentary behavior and obesity prevention. Active Living Research is looking for award nominations which illustrate impact at any policy-making level, including school, private sector, local, state or federal. Examples of settings and topics that are relevant include schools, public or private recreation facilities, transportation, community built environment and the social/media environment.
In addition to a cash prize, the winner will be invited to provide an oral presentation at the conference and the case study will be included in the Active Living Research Annual Conference program. The nomination deadline is August 27, 2008, 1:00 p.m. PDT. There will be no extension of this deadline.
Read the full Call for Nominations: http://www.activelivingresearch.org/conference/2009/cfn2009
CFP: Inviting you to submit papers to new IFJ/Play the Game website and help qualify Olympic journalists
Inviting you to submit papers to new IFJ/Play the Game website and help qualify Olympic journalists
The 10,000 athletes that will soon compete at the Olympic Games in Beijing are not the only ones to see their abilities tested to the limit. Around 30,000 journalists and an unknown number of Chinese government officials will face a test that they have had no chance to train for:
The test of practising the media freedom that the Chinese authorities have granted all foreign journalists temporarily before, during and after the Olympics.
"The China story is our greatest test. It’s a golden chance to showcase quality journalism for democracy. Working seriously is the best support that journalists can give to the principle of freedom of expression in China and all other countries," says the General Secretary of International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Aidan White.
That is why the IFJ now joins forces with the world communication conference on sport and society Play the Game to offer a helpline and background information on China at www.playthegameforopenjournalism.org
The website is open for the public and will over the next few weeks be loaded with background information on Chinese society, sport and media provided by leading international experts.
We invite you as a sports scientist to submit papers, articles, links and other material of relevance to our site.
The goals of www.playthegameforopenjournalism.org are:
* To raise the quality of media coverage and public debate on the 2008 Olympic Summer Games in Beijing and its legacy
* To lay a basis for a strengthened direct dialogue between Chinese and non-Chinese organisations, individuals and stakeholders in relation to media issues
* To inspire to further progress in the development of freedom of expression in the People’s Republic of China through open, fact-based and respectful debate and dialogue
* To improve the quality of media coverage surrounding sports mega events and their legacies
Please submit your material to info@playthegame.org, and we will publish it as soon as practically possible with credits, link to your personal website (if available) etc.
Thank you in advance for helping journalists and the public to get the best possible Olympic journalism out of Beijing.
Best regards
Jens Sejer Andersen
Director
Play the Game
Jens@playthegame.org
Cell phone +45 20 71 07 01
(29 June-6 July and from 28 July)
Michael Herborn
Communications Manager
Play the Game
Michael@playthegame.org
Office +45 70 27 55 77
Cell phone +45 21 29 39 93
About the organisers:
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is the world's largest organisation of journalists. First established in 1926, it was relaunched in 1946 and again, in its present form, in 1952. Today the Federation represents around 600,000 members in more than 100 countries.
Play the Game is an independent non-profit organisation founded and funded by Danish sports organisations, as well as receiving significant funding from the Danish Ministry of Culture. Play the Game aims to strengthen the basic ethical values of sport and encourage democracy, transparency and freedom of expression in world sport.
The 10,000 athletes that will soon compete at the Olympic Games in Beijing are not the only ones to see their abilities tested to the limit. Around 30,000 journalists and an unknown number of Chinese government officials will face a test that they have had no chance to train for:
The test of practising the media freedom that the Chinese authorities have granted all foreign journalists temporarily before, during and after the Olympics.
"The China story is our greatest test. It’s a golden chance to showcase quality journalism for democracy. Working seriously is the best support that journalists can give to the principle of freedom of expression in China and all other countries," says the General Secretary of International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Aidan White.
That is why the IFJ now joins forces with the world communication conference on sport and society Play the Game to offer a helpline and background information on China at www.playthegameforopenjournalism.org
The website is open for the public and will over the next few weeks be loaded with background information on Chinese society, sport and media provided by leading international experts.
We invite you as a sports scientist to submit papers, articles, links and other material of relevance to our site.
The goals of www.playthegameforopenjournalism.org are:
* To raise the quality of media coverage and public debate on the 2008 Olympic Summer Games in Beijing and its legacy
* To lay a basis for a strengthened direct dialogue between Chinese and non-Chinese organisations, individuals and stakeholders in relation to media issues
* To inspire to further progress in the development of freedom of expression in the People’s Republic of China through open, fact-based and respectful debate and dialogue
* To improve the quality of media coverage surrounding sports mega events and their legacies
Please submit your material to info@playthegame.org, and we will publish it as soon as practically possible with credits, link to your personal website (if available) etc.
Thank you in advance for helping journalists and the public to get the best possible Olympic journalism out of Beijing.
Best regards
Jens Sejer Andersen
Director
Play the Game
Jens@playthegame.org
Cell phone +45 20 71 07 01
(29 June-6 July and from 28 July)
Michael Herborn
Communications Manager
Play the Game
Michael@playthegame.org
Office +45 70 27 55 77
Cell phone +45 21 29 39 93
About the organisers:
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is the world's largest organisation of journalists. First established in 1926, it was relaunched in 1946 and again, in its present form, in 1952. Today the Federation represents around 600,000 members in more than 100 countries.
Play the Game is an independent non-profit organisation founded and funded by Danish sports organisations, as well as receiving significant funding from the Danish Ministry of Culture. Play the Game aims to strengthen the basic ethical values of sport and encourage democracy, transparency and freedom of expression in world sport.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
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/
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/
Monday, June 16, 2008
CFP: Latino/a USA: Transnational Identities / Identidades Transnacionales
CALL FOR PAPERS
LATINO/A USA: TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES / IDENTIDADES TRANSNACIONALES
Seminar at
University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Friday-Saturday, November 14-15, 2008
We are inviting 30-minute presentations addressing any aspect of the interdisciplinary field of Latino/a studies. We welcome traditional research papers as well as methodological considerations from multiple disciplinary, theoretical, historical, and geographic perspectives.
All proposals are welcome, but we are particularly interested in research papers that focus on transnational identities and fall within one or several of the following areas:
* Economic, social, and cultural relationships between Latin American and US Latino/a communities
* Social, political, and cultural interactions of Latino/as with other ethnic and racial groups in the US and in between different Latino/a groups in the US
* Cultural and artistic representations of Latino/a experience
* Political mobilization of Latino/as in the US
Please email max 400-word proposals as Word attachment, together with one-page CVs,
to Dr. Anne Magnussen, magnussen@hist.sdu.dk
by September 15, 2008.
Successful participants will be notified of acceptance via email by October 1, 2008.
We accept papers and presentations in both English and Spanish.
Selected seminar presentations will be published as part of a special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Dialogos latinoamericanos in 2009.
This seminar is part of a series of activities organized by “Latinos: Migration and Transnationalism in USA,” a network funded by the Danish Research Council for the Humanities. The network is a collaborative project between researchers from the University of Aarhus (Ken Henriksen), Copenhagen Business School (Jan Gustafsson, Helene Balslev Clausen), and the University of Southern Denmark (Benita Heiskanen, Anne Magnussen).
LATINO/A USA: TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES / IDENTIDADES TRANSNACIONALES
Seminar at
University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Friday-Saturday, November 14-15, 2008
We are inviting 30-minute presentations addressing any aspect of the interdisciplinary field of Latino/a studies. We welcome traditional research papers as well as methodological considerations from multiple disciplinary, theoretical, historical, and geographic perspectives.
All proposals are welcome, but we are particularly interested in research papers that focus on transnational identities and fall within one or several of the following areas:
* Economic, social, and cultural relationships between Latin American and US Latino/a communities
* Social, political, and cultural interactions of Latino/as with other ethnic and racial groups in the US and in between different Latino/a groups in the US
* Cultural and artistic representations of Latino/a experience
* Political mobilization of Latino/as in the US
Please email max 400-word proposals as Word attachment, together with one-page CVs,
to Dr. Anne Magnussen, magnussen@hist.sdu.dk
by September 15, 2008.
Successful participants will be notified of acceptance via email by October 1, 2008.
We accept papers and presentations in both English and Spanish.
Selected seminar presentations will be published as part of a special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Dialogos latinoamericanos in 2009.
This seminar is part of a series of activities organized by “Latinos: Migration and Transnationalism in USA,” a network funded by the Danish Research Council for the Humanities. The network is a collaborative project between researchers from the University of Aarhus (Ken Henriksen), Copenhagen Business School (Jan Gustafsson, Helene Balslev Clausen), and the University of Southern Denmark (Benita Heiskanen, Anne Magnussen).
Sunday, June 08, 2008
CFP: NASSS 2008
Call for Papers (CFP), NASSS 2008
(Please see http://www.nasss.org/2008/cfp.html for more details and submission procedures.)
The 29th annual conference of La Sociedad Norteamericana para la Sociologia del Deporte /The North American Society for the Sociology of Sport/La Société nord-américaine de sociologie du sport (NASSS)will be held 5-8 November 2008 at the Curtis Hotel in Denver, Colorado, USA. The theme for this year's conference is "Sport and Peace/Social (In)Justice." Those interested in organizing a session should submit a paper proposal by 15 July 2008 to the program chair, Bob Rinehart, via the Session Proposal form: http://www.nasss.org/2008/proposals.php.
This year's theme, "Sport and Peace/Social (In)Justice," challenges us to envision sport as a vehicle for social justice and local and global peace. Sport has been used to signify patriotism, escapism, and the core values of both North American and global communities that are embedded with/in both latent and blatant issues of social injustice. In this historical moment, then, sport is implicated within "an amorphous opinion culture, characterized by strong patriotic identification mixed with feelings of practical political powerlessness" (Berlant, 1997, p. 3). As such, sport has been associated with/in such divisive or collaborative practices and rhetorics as, for example, the marginalization of LBGT communities, dispossessed peoples, ethnic and racial "minorities," people living with disabilities, and feminists. Additionally, sport has become implicated within, for example, issues concerning the environment (e.g., "sustainability" and "greening" movements); issues regarding animal rights, child labor practices, and structural privilege; issues of Native-American mascots/symbols and self-determination; issues of human rights; issues of pedagogical and praxis-oriented natures; issues embedded within ethics and ethical behaviors; and issues involving governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and individuals within the discourses and practices of conflict resolution and sporting practices.
Within the broad-based theme of Sport and Peace/Social (In)Justice, we envision a large number of papers and presentations. We also see the sport/peace/social justice nexus as performative in nature. That is to say, social justice and peace issues within sporting contexts a part of a larger cultural performance which matters. We encourage our community of scholars to engage with these issues, through the thematic lens of "Sport and Peace/Social (In)Justice," but we also encourage sessions and papers outside of the theme of the conference.
Note: Overhead projectors will NOT be available at the conference. If you need to show video clips, we suggest that you bring an LCD projector and a laptop, or coordinate with another conference participant who will be bringing this equipment.
(Please see http://www.nasss.org/2008/cfp.html for more details and submission procedures.)
The 29th annual conference of La Sociedad Norteamericana para la Sociologia del Deporte /The North American Society for the Sociology of Sport/La Société nord-américaine de sociologie du sport (NASSS)will be held 5-8 November 2008 at the Curtis Hotel in Denver, Colorado, USA. The theme for this year's conference is "Sport and Peace/Social (In)Justice." Those interested in organizing a session should submit a paper proposal by 15 July 2008 to the program chair, Bob Rinehart, via the Session Proposal form: http://www.nasss.org/2008/proposals.php.
This year's theme, "Sport and Peace/Social (In)Justice," challenges us to envision sport as a vehicle for social justice and local and global peace. Sport has been used to signify patriotism, escapism, and the core values of both North American and global communities that are embedded with/in both latent and blatant issues of social injustice. In this historical moment, then, sport is implicated within "an amorphous opinion culture, characterized by strong patriotic identification mixed with feelings of practical political powerlessness" (Berlant, 1997, p. 3). As such, sport has been associated with/in such divisive or collaborative practices and rhetorics as, for example, the marginalization of LBGT communities, dispossessed peoples, ethnic and racial "minorities," people living with disabilities, and feminists. Additionally, sport has become implicated within, for example, issues concerning the environment (e.g., "sustainability" and "greening" movements); issues regarding animal rights, child labor practices, and structural privilege; issues of Native-American mascots/symbols and self-determination; issues of human rights; issues of pedagogical and praxis-oriented natures; issues embedded within ethics and ethical behaviors; and issues involving governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and individuals within the discourses and practices of conflict resolution and sporting practices.
Within the broad-based theme of Sport and Peace/Social (In)Justice, we envision a large number of papers and presentations. We also see the sport/peace/social justice nexus as performative in nature. That is to say, social justice and peace issues within sporting contexts a part of a larger cultural performance which matters. We encourage our community of scholars to engage with these issues, through the thematic lens of "Sport and Peace/Social (In)Justice," but we also encourage sessions and papers outside of the theme of the conference.
Note: Overhead projectors will NOT be available at the conference. If you need to show video clips, we suggest that you bring an LCD projector and a laptop, or coordinate with another conference participant who will be bringing this equipment.
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