CONFERENCE: National Title IX

Title IX at 40 National Conference – University of Michigan May 9-11, 2012

The new Sport, Health and Activity Research and Policy (SHARP) Center for Women and Girls* at the University of Michigan proudly announces a national conference to celebrate the 40^th anniversary of Title IX, the landmark legislation that has changed the lives of women and girls.

Please save May 9-11, 2012 and plan to join us at the University of Michigan campus, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Laila Ali will present a keynote lecture at this two and a half day conference featuring nationally renowned researchers, athletes, media experts, and policy makers. The conference will highlight the broad impact of the Title IX legislation on U.S. society. Political, social, historical, economic, and health-related effects will be explored along with an agenda for future research intended to fulfill the promise of Title IX. Undergraduate and graduate students from across the country will also have opportunities to participate, present, and discuss their research as it relates to the themes of this conference.

For more information on the conference, visit:

http://www.kines.umich.edu/research/sharp/upcoming-events

or

http://irwg.research.umich.edu/sharp/events.html

More information on this conference (including a finalized list of speakers) to come soon. Please contact Kathy Babiak: kbabiak@umich.edu if you have questions and / or are interested in attending.

SEMINAR: Games in the city

The Penn Institute for Urban Research cordially invites you to help us kick off our Games and the City Seminar series with these two exciting events!

In "Ballparks as Urban Anchors" we welcome CEOs and experts representing the Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians, Washington Nationals, and Florida Marlins to discuss the distinct challenges that baseball teams and ballparks face as urban anchor institutions.

Earlier that day, we explore, in conjunction with the Center for Health Behavior Research, the impact of video games and recess on children's health and well-being.

Please join us for one or both event!

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Penn IUR Games and the City Seminar Series

Ballparks as Urban Anchors

Houston Hall, Bodek Lounge | 5:30pm – 7:30pm

This public panel discussion kicks off the 3rd annual Penn IUR Roundtable on Anchor Institutions, a peer-to-peer exchange of anchor institution leaders on the opportunities and challenges they face in the urban landscape, and marks the first event in Penn IUR’s seminar series “Games and the City.” Panelists will discuss how ballparks can
anchor urban revitalization. Speakers include: Edward L. Cohen, Principal Owner, Washington Nationals; Manny Diaz, former Mayor, Miami, Florida; Paul Dolan, Chair and CEO, Cleveland Indians; David Montgomery, President and CEO, Philadelphia Phillies; and Irwin P. Raij, Partner, Foley & Lardner. Co-sponsored by the Provost’s Office Year of Games and PennDesign’s Department of City and Regional Planning. To register, email penniur@pobox.upenn.edu by November 29, 2011.

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Penn IUR Games and the City Seminar Series
The Impact of Games and Play on Health
Amado Recital Hall, Irvine Auditorium | 9:00am - 2:00pm

Penn IUR, in partnership with the Center for Health Behavior Research and the Provost’s Office Year of Games invites you to the Center for Public Health Initiatives 2011 Forum. Programs from across the University will be highlighted that focus on using video games to collect information about nutrition and exercise as well as influence facial perception skills in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, and the impact of recess on children’s performance, health and
well-being. Keynote presentation by Paul Tarini, Senior Program Officer, Pioneer Portfolio, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Panel discussions featuring the interdisciplinary perspectives of Amy Hillier, Assistant Professor, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania; Bob Schultz, Director of the Center for Autism Research (CAR), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; and Mary Summers, Lecturer, Political Science/Health and Societies, School of Arts and
Sciences, University of Pennsylvania. RSVP at http://www.cphi.upenn.edu/2011Forum.shtml.

CFP: Representing the Body in Culture and Society

CFP: Proteus: A Journal of Ideas seeks submissions for our upcoming issue, “Representing the Body in Culture and Society.” We are soliciting articles and creative works from a wide range of disciplines that reflect upon the issue’s theme. We are particularly interested in work that focuses on the body from a Disability Studies perspective, though submissions from all disciplines are welcome. We are looking for broad theoretical inquiries, individual case studies, and traditional scholarly articles on the subject of the body, as well as theme-related photographs, poetry, and creative writing.Full Essays Due by January 15, 2012. Submit them electronically (MS Word preferred) to proteus@ship.edu.

CFP: Special Issue of Journal of Sport Management on Community Sport

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue of the Journal of Sport Management

Community Sport

Community sport has recently come under the research lens, in large part because of a growing

focus on its (potential) role in helping achieve government policy objectives that range from

individual physical and emotional health, to community cohesion. It is also a sport context of

particular interest, being the grassroots foundation of a country’s sport system, and where most

people engage in organized sport. As a result, there is a growing body of research examining

various aspects of community sport (e.g., policy, capacity, innovation, volunteerism,

interorganizational relations, social inclusion, social capital, community development).

The intent of the special issue is to provide a platform for the examination of various aspects of

community sport, and thus to foster progress in its study and practice.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

The development, governance, and management of community sport:

 The nature and impact of community sport program design and delivery

 Strategy and structure of community sport organizations and delivery mechanisms

 The development, nature and impact of community sport policy, and the impact of policy

on community sport

 Community sport governance, at the organizational and/or government level

 Organizational capacity development

 Community sport volunteerism

 Interorganizational relations in community sport

 Legal aspects of community sport

 Community sport marketing

 Facility challenges, including access and affordability

 Innovation in community sport

 Commercialization of community sport

The impact of community sport (including benefits and detriments):

 The impact of community sport programs and experiences on individuals and groups,

including marginalized cohorts

 Local and societal impact of community sport

(Note. The focus is community-based sport programs and organizations rather than school sport

and large-scale sport events.)

Conceptual and empirical research with a strong theoretical basis that advances knowledge are

being sought. Studies using quantitative and/or qualitative approaches are welcomed.

Submissions for the “From the Field” section of JSM are encouraged.

Manuscripts should follow the guidelines in the Publication Manual of the American

Psychological Association (6th ed.), 2009 (www.apa.org), and should be prepared in accordance

with the Journal of Sport Management “Instructions to Authors”

(http://www.humankinetics.com/JSM/journalAbout.cfm). Manuscripts must not be submitted to

another journal while they are under review by the Journal of Sport Management, nor should

they have been previously published.

Manuscripts should be submitted no later than September 1, 2012 via e-mail to either of the

Guest Editors:

Alison Doherty, PhD

Associate Professor, Sport Management

School of Kinesiology

Faculty of Health Sciences

The University of Western Ontario

London, Ontario, Canada

N6A 3K7

Ph. 519-661-2111 Ext. 88362

Fax 519-661-2008

Email adoherty@uwo.ca

Laura Cousens, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Sport Management

Faculty of Applied Health Sciences

Brock University

St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

L2S 3A1

Ph. 905-688-5550 (Ext. 4748)

Fax 905-688-4505

Email lcousens@brocku.ca

JOB: Gender studies, body, and sport

Concerned about promoting access to women in academic careers, the University

encourages female applicants.

JOB OPPORTUNITY

The Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland

invites applications for a full-time position of:

Associate Professor or Assistant Professor (Tenure track; conditional pre-

nomination to the level Associate Professor)

in

Gender studies, body, and sport

Qualifications and requirements:

Applicants are required to have a Ph.D. in the social sciences (anthropology, sociology,

educational science, political science, etc.) or equivalent. He/she must demonstrate a

distinct competence in the field of gender studies and possess extensive teaching and

research experience at the university level.

The ideal candidate has high level research activities and publications in the field related

to the post. He/she has clearly demonstrated the potential to conduct research and to

work in a team. He/she also participates in international scientific networks.

A full-time assistant will be associated with this post.

Starting date : 1 August 2012 or mutually agreed upon date

Interested candidates are kindly requested to submit via email a letter of application,

curriculum vitae, copy of degree, list of publications and the five most significant

publications to: rhssp@unil.ch

Further details regarding the job description and employment conditions can be found at:

http://www.unil.ch/ssp/page15565.html.

Closing date: 5 January 2012

CFP: 10th ANNUAL MACINTOSH SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT DAY CONFERENCE

Call for Papers

THE 10th ANNUAL MACINTOSH SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT DAY CONFERENCE

Saturday, February 4, 2012, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario

The School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University would like to invite all those interested in socio-cultural studies of sport and exercise to our annual day conference, held in the memory of our colleague Dr. Donald Macintosh.

The conference programme will consist of several sessions of graduate student presentations, a catered lunch, and the annual Donald Macintosh Memorial Lecture, which will be given this year by Dr. James Gillett, Chair of the Department of Health Aging and Society at McMaster University. Dr. Gillett is also an associate professor in the Department of Sociology. He completed his PhD at McMaster University in the Department of Sociology and afterward worked at the University of Windsor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology as an Ontario HIV Treatment Network postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Gillett is interested in critical, interpretative social science research in the area of sport/physical culture, interspecies relations, media communications, and health/illness. His work has been published in a wide variety of international journals including the Sociology of Sport Journal, Sociology of Health and Illness, Media Culture and Society, and AIDS and Public Policy. Dr. Gillett’s book, A Grassroots History of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in North America, was published by Marquette Books in 2011.

Graduate students who would like to present their work at the conference should send abstracts or proposals for round-table discussions to Samantha King (kingsj@queensu.ca) by December 16, 2011. We are looking for presentations of works-in-progress, as well as presentations of completed research.

Kingston is accessible by VIA rail or bus. It is a two hour and 45 minute drive from downtown Toronto or downtown Montreal. It is a two-hour drive from Ottawa and a one-hour drive from Watertown, New York. Registration fees are $30 for faculty and $20 for students.

For information or to add your name to our email list, please write to Samantha King: kingsj@queensu.ca.

CFP: American Studies Symposium

American Studies Symposium

"National Tragedies: Perceptions, Receptions and Expectations"

Purdue University ~ West Lafayette, IN ~ April 19th and 20th, 2012

Submission Deadline: January 16, 2012

The American Studies Program at Purdue University announces its 37th annual Symposium to be held April 19-20, 2012. This event is organized by graduate students and focuses on the presentation of graduate student work. In acknowledging the importance of interdisciplinary studies, the Symposium Committee invites papers from students of all disciplines to engage the theme "National Tragedies: Perceptions, Receptions, and Expectations."

National Tragedies: Perceptions, Receptions and Expectations

The theme of “National Tragedies” seeks to interrogate those moments and events in both history and contemporary society, which have affected the American psyche consciously and/or unconsciously. A focus on Perceptions assesses how various peoples in America and even those beyond America's geo-political borders have defined tragedies and nations, politically, socially, economically, and environmentally. Receptions aims to uncover the varied responses to and reflections upon these tragic moments and decipher what they mean both nationally and transnationally for America. Finally, Expectations seeks to develop and foster an understanding about national tragedies cross-culturally, within and without the nation.

With a focus primarily on past and present transnational developments in America, the theme seeks to initiate scholarly conversations that theorize upon instances within American history which have been instrumental in defining how America views itself as a nation as well as how America is viewed by other nations. These instances include subjects which deal with tragic disasters on American soil as well as America’s response to tragedies abroad, America’s involvement in wars, racial injustice, inequalities within the law, recent Internet and pop culture phenomena, immigration and migration policies, international relations, the regulation of gender and sexuality, and other numerous political rebellions. Thus, the goal of the conference highlights how identities are constantly being negotiated and formed through constant exchanges amongst and between various peoples, nations, and spaces within the theme of National Tragedies.

Possible proposal topics from interdisciplinary perspectives include, but are not limited to:

● Community Initiatives and Activism

● Critical Race Theory, Whiteness Studies

● Cultural Amnesia

● Cultural Studies, Popular Culture Studies

● Eco-Feminism, Environmental Studies

● Education and Pedagogy Studies

● Ethnic Studies

● Film, Television & Media Studies

● Gender, Queer Theory and Sexuality Studies

● Literary Studies

● National and Global Citizenship

● Online/Virtual Identities

● Othered Social Groups

● Performance Studies, Performance Art

● Religious Studies



The Symposium Committee invites all those interested to submit proposals no longer than one page in length for panels, individual papers, workshops, and performances no later than January 16, 2012. Please also submit a biography of no more than 250 words, a current CV with contact information (especially your email address), and a list of any audio and/or visual equipment necessary for your presentation. Submissions must be made electronically toamstsyposium@purdue.edu <mailto:amstsyposium@purdue.edu>



For more information and updates on keynote speakers please visit:http://www.cla.purdue.edu/idis/american-studies/<http://www.cla.purdue.edu/idis/american-studies/>

CFA: Disability Sport: A vehicle for social change?

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Disability Sport: A vehicle for social change?

Abstracts for papers from individuals wishing to present at the ‘Disability Sport: A vehicle for social change?’ conference to be held at Coventry Cathedral from 23^rd – 25^th August 2012 are now being accepted. The conference will be based around four main themes:

· Disability sport for peace and development

· Disability sport and social inclusion

· The recreational and psychological value of sport for people with disabilities

· Sport and health for people with disabilities

For details of the format for submitted abstracts please visit the conference website at:

http://www.coventry.ac.uk/disabilitysport2012

The closing date for abstracts is Tuesday 31^st January 2012.

CFP: 2012 CSRI Conference on College Sport

2012 CSRI Conference on College Sport

April 19-21, 2012

William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

Call for Papers

The College Sport Research Institute welcomes the submission of abstracts for its 5th annual CSRI

Conference on College Sport to be held on the campus of The University of North Carolina at

Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC. The conference’s mission is to: “Provide students, scholars, and

college-sport practitioners a public forum to discuss relevant and timely intercollegiate-athletics

issues.”

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

To be considered for acceptance, abstracts must reflect college-sport research on the history of

intercollegiate athletics, social-cultural college-sport issues, legal theory or the application of law

to college-sport issues, business-related 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 17, 2011 and MUST

be received no later than Friday, January 20, 2012 (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 30-minute presentations and posters, and 800-word

maximum for 65-minute presentations.

ABSTRACT FORMAT:

Line 1: Type of session desired (choose from the options below):

30-minute oral presentation (including questions)

65-minute teaching symposium, roundtable, or workshop

65-minute forum (2-3 papers with a discussant, including questions)

Poster presentation

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 the email message accompanying the attached abstract, include the principal author’s name,

postal mailing address, email address, and fax and telephone numbers.

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:

(Graduate Research Coordinator – College Sport Research Institute) at

csri@unc.edu

NOTE: All abstracts MUST be submitted electronically as a Microsoft Word attachment

For more information regarding the conference:

http://www.csriconference.org

or

919.843-9627 / 919.962-3507

CFP: 2012 NINE Spring Training Conference

NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture announces The 19th Annual NINE Spring Training Conference on the Historical and Sociological Impact of Baseball

Wednesday, March 7-Saturday, March 10, 2012

Fiesta Resort Conference Center
2100 South Priest Drive
Tempe, Arizona

Call for Papers

The 19th Annual NINE Spring Training Conference invites original, unpublished papers that study all aspects of baseball, with particular emphasis on history and social policy implications. Abstracts only, not to exceed 300 words, should be submitted by December 2, 2011, totstrecker@bsu.edu<mailto:tstrecker@bsu.edu> .

Authors will be notified as quickly as possible whether their papers have been accepted. Authors are required to register for the conference and present their work in person.

Keynote Speaker: Rob Fitts

Rob Fitts graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and received a Ph.D. from Brown University. Originally trained as an archeologist of colonial America, Fitts left that field in 2000 to focus on his passion, Japanese baseball. He has since published numerous articles and three books on the topic. The first, Remembering Japanese Baseball: An Oral History of the Game, won the 2005 SABR/Sporting News Award for Best Baseball Research. His second book, Wally Yonamime: The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball, is a biography of the first American to play professional baseball in Japan after World War II. Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan (forthcoming early in 2012) is the story of the attempt to reconcile the United States and Japan through the tour of Major League all-stars in 1934 and the efforts of fanatical ultra-nationalists to drive the nations apart. The story involves international diplomacy, espionage, attempted murder, and, of course, baseball.

Featured Guest: Ila Borders

An all-star Little League prodigy, at age 12 Ila Borders hit 18 home runs. She was named MVP in her junior high and high school years, and in 1994 became the first woman ever awarded a collegiate baseball scholarship. That year, pitching for Southern California College (NAIA), she stepped into history as the first woman to post a complete-game victory in men's collegiate baseball. In 1997, scout Barry Moss recommended Borders to Mike Veeck, who signed her to his St. Paul Saints of the independent Northern League. In 1998, pitching for the Duluth-Superior Dukes of the same league, Borders became the first woman to win a men's professional game since Mamie "Peanut" Johnson of the Negro leagues. Borders ultimately pitched four seasons of professional baseball. She currently works as a firefighter/paramedic in Arizona and coaches baseball for the World Children's Baseball Fair. She is completing a memoir of her life and times in baseball.

Registration

Conference registration forms are available online on the NINE Website at http://nine.iweb.bsu.edu/registration.htm .

The $195 conference registration fee includes the Saturday evening banquet and tickets for two spring training games, if paid prior to January 13, 2012. After January 13, the conference fee will be $205, and game tickets
are not guaranteed.

Send your registration form with your conference fee to:

Dan and Jean Ardell
P. O. Box 482
Corona del Mar, CA 92625

For further information about conference registration, please contact Jean Ardell at jeanardell@yahoo.com.

Registrants should make their hotel reservations directly with the Fiesta Resort Conference Center on the Web at http://www.fiestaresortcc.comor by phone at 1-800-528-6481. Rates are $99.00/night single or double;
$109/night three per room; $119/night four per room. To ensure the conference rate; rooms must be booked before February 15, 2012. Be sure to mention NINE: A Journal of Baseball History & Culture.

Trey Strecker, Editor
NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture
Department of English
Ball State University
2000 W. University Ave.
Muncie, IN 47306-0460
NINE Web site: http://nine.iweb.bsu.edu