CONFERENCE: Title IX at 40

Title IX at 40
May 9–11, 2012 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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The SHARP (Sport, Health, and Activity Research and Policy Center) for Women and Girls is pleased to announce and invite you to a national conference: Title IX at 40: Progress and Promise, Equity for All, at the University of Michigan, May 9-11, 2012.

The Title IX at 40 conference will highlight the broad impact of the 1972 legislation on U.S. society, with a focus on sport participation. Nationally renowned researchers, athletes, media experts, and policy makers will explore the political, social, historical, economic, and health-related effects from Title IX.

We are excited to launch Title IX at 40 by featuring a public presentation by boxing champion and Women’s Sports Foundation president, Laila Ali, on Wednesday, May 9th.

A key goal of Title IX at 40 is to develop a call to action and identify future research priorities that will aid in fully realizing the objectives of Title IX. Presenters and attendees will co-create an agenda for future research intended to fulfill the promise of this important legislation.

POSTER SESSION
Undergraduates, graduate students, and investigators from across the country will have opportunities to participate, present, and discuss their research as it relates to the themes of this conference at the poster session. (We look forward to getting your abstracts!) A mix of researchers and scholars, students, parents, athletes, athletic directors, coaches, and policy makers are expected to attend.

CONFERENCE INFORMATION
To learn more about our exciting roster of speakers and the Title IX at 40 conference schedule see the conference link.

The Title IX at 40 conference is being organized and hosted by the SHARP Center for Women and Girls, a new collaboration between the University of Michigan and the Women’s Sports Foundation. The SHARP Center advances research and policy making to enhance the lives of women and girls through sport, play, and movement.

Please forward this invitation to anyone else that might be interested inTitle IX at 40.

We hope to see you in May!

Please contact me with any questions you might have.

Best,

Kathy Babiak, PhD
Co-Director, SHARP Center for Women and Girls
University of Michigan
kbabiak@umich.edu, 734-763-6922

JOB: University of British Columbia

Aboriginal Health, Exercise and Physical Activity

The School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia invites applications for the following tenure track position:

Assistant or Associate Professor in Aboriginal Health, Exercise and Physical Activity

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The School of Kinesiology is a leading academic unit in Canada focused on interdisciplinary approaches to sport, physical activity and health across the lifespan. The School is committed to encouraging collaborative, interdisciplinary research and teaching among its members as well as with other university and community groups. The School offers a B.Kin. degree with specializations in Kinesiology and Health Science, Physical and Health Education, and Interdisciplinary Studies. The graduate program includes M.A., M.Sc., M.Kin. (non-thesis), and Ph.D. degrees. Program enrolments are 920 undergraduate and 100 graduate students. Additional information related to the School of Kinesiology is available at http://kin.educ.ubc.ca/.

The School of Kinesiology is situated in the Faculty of Education and is a member of the College of Health Disciplines. The Faculty of Education is a leader in Indigenous Education and offers an Aboriginal Teacher Education Program (NITEP), a graduate Indigenous education and research specialization (Ts`’kel), and is proposing a doctoral specialization in Indigenous Education. The College of Health Disciplines specializes in interprofessional health, education and research, and hosts the Institute for Aboriginal Health. The University of British Columbia has identified strategic priorities around Aboriginal engagement that include providing educational opportunities for Aboriginal people and widening opportunities for all students to learn about Aboriginal issues and perspectives, and Increasing engagement with Aboriginal communities in mutually supportive and productive relationships.

For further information, see the following urls:

Faculty of Education: http://educ.ubc.ca/, http://teach.educ.ubc.ca/bachelor/nitep/ andhttp://edst.educ.ubc.ca/future/programs/ts%E2%80%98%E2%80%99kel-program

College of Health Disciplines: http://www.chd.ubc.ca/

Institute for Aboriginal Health: http://www.iah.ubc.ca/

UBC Strategic Plan: http://strategicplan.ubc.ca/the-plan/aboriginal-engagement/

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To be considered for the position, applicants must hold an earned doctoral or medical degree and have expertise in one or more of the following areas: 1) psychology of sport, physical activity, exercise, and health; 2) exercise physiology; 3) sport history; 4) the cultural study of sport, physical activity, exercise, and health; 5) epidemiology and statistics. Applicants who have completed all requirements for a doctoral degree except dissertation may apply, but final consideration for the position will require an earned doctoral or medical degree. In the exercise physiology area, post-doctoral experience is preferred.

The successful candidate will be an Aboriginal person with a record of accomplishments that demonstrates excellence in research and teaching, and successful experience working with Aboriginal communities. The appointee will contribute to the development of educational and research initiatives in the School of Kinesiology, and will be expected to teach core Kinesiology courses as well as courses in their cognate field relating to Aboriginal health, exercise and physical activity.

Expectations include: teaching and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students and serving as a role model and mentor to Aboriginal students; contributing to the development of Aboriginal health and education initiatives in the School; and implementing a research program that contributes to the mission of the School and the Faculty and involves Aboriginal communities, scholars, and centres of scholarship in British Columbia, Canada, and internationally.

Interested applicants are invited to submit a curriculum vitae, a statement of teaching philosophy and research interests, evidence of content expertise and teaching effectiveness, three samples of scholarly work, and the names and contact information of three referees.

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The position is subject to budgetary approval. Rank and salary will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. Consideration of candidates will begin April 30, 2012, and will continue until the position is filled. The start date is subject to final arrangement with the appointee, and may be July 1, 2012.

The University of British Columbia hires on the basis of merit and is committed to employment equity. We encourage all qualified persons to apply. Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority. As permitted by Section 42 of the BC Human Rights Code, the position is open to Aboriginal persons. Candidates for the position may be required to prove ancestry to qualify.

Please send applications to Dr. Robert Sparks, Professor and Director, UBC School of Kinesiology, 210-6081 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, Canada. Dr. Sparks can be contacted by phone (604-822-2767) or e-mail at robert.sparks@ubc.ca. For questions and conversation about these positions, please contact Dr. Sparks.

CFP: Olympika Journal

This is a call for papers, research notes, and review articles for Olympika: The International Journal of Olympic Studies, volume XX, 2012. Olympika is a peer reviewed academic journal with an internationally recognized editorial review board, and is committed to the dissemination of research in the area of history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, political science, and sport management, as well as other disciplines that contribute to our socio-cultural understanding of the modern Olympic movement. It is published annually, in December, by the International Centre for Olympic Studies at The University of Western Ontario (Canada) and is available worldwide through LA84 (www.la84foundation.org/index.html, under Digital Archive, Periodicals and Series). For more information about Olympika, including submission guidelines, please visit the following website: http://www.uwo.ca/olympic/olympika.html. Should you have any questions about the journal or the submission process, please don't hesitate to call or write - my contacts are below.

CONFERENCE: Sport, Gender and Media

We are delighted to invite members of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport to the Sport, Gender and Media conference on 10th March 2012 at the University of York, UK.

We are excited to announce that the Sport, Gender and Media conference schedule and poster are now available. You can view them on the conference blog:

http://sportgendermedia.blogspot.com/. We've also included the flyer as an attachment, and the schedule can be seen below.

If you haven't already, you can register via the website above. The £15 registration fee (or £10 for the University of York students) includes lunch, refreshments and a wonderful day of presentations on sport, gender and media. We look forward to seeing you all soon!

Best regards,

Amy and Geneva

PANEL: Student-Athlete Due Process & the UNC Football Investigation

STUDENT-ATHLETE DUE PROCESS AND THE UNC FOOTBALL INVESTIGATION PANEL

During the 2010-2011 collegiate football season sixteen University of North Carolina (UNC) football student-athletes missed all or parts of the season due to a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) investigation. One of the student-athletes was eventually exonerated, but at least two of the student-athletes were never informed of why they were ruled ineligible. None of the student-athletes were initially represented by an attorney and none were afforded a hearing prior to being ruled ineligible.

There is not one page in the 434-page NCAA manual related to student-athletes rights.

Student-Athlete Due Process & the UNC Football Investigation panel discussion will be held in “The Great Hall” at the North Carolina Central University (NCCU) School of Law on Wednesday, February 22, 2012, at 4:30 pm. The NCCU Law School is located at 640 Nelson Street, Durham, NC 27707.

Panelists include Bomani Jones (Around the Horn), Deunta Williams (Tarheelblue Network), Robert Orr (Poyner Spruill), Noah Huffstetler (Nelson & Mullins), and Marcia Shoop (Calling Audibles).

The panel is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to studentathleteshumanrights@yahoo.com

Contact The Student-Athlete’s Human Rights Project

(917) 297-8488

EVENT: The Knapsack Institute: Transforming Teaching and Learning

The Knapsack Institute: Transforming Teaching and Learning, June 6-9, 2012

http://www.uccs.edu/~knapsack/

The Knapsack Institute supports educators across the nation as they create curriculum and pedagogy to integrate race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class and other forms of social inequality into their work and strive to create inclusive classrooms.

The Knapsack Institute provides educators with a framework for teaching about the matrix of privilege and oppression. Our interactive, collaborative Institute welcomes all educators ((broadly defined, including K-12, higher education, non-profit staff, private sector, diversity trainers, etc.). Alumni include faculty, teachers, and facilitators at many levels, from a wide range of disciplines, backgrounds, and organizations.

The Knapsack Institute:

• Is a forum for sharing ideas and strategies
• Emphasizes pedagogical approaches to teaching diversity, privilege, and intersectionality
• Provides professional growth and development, including CEUs & academic credit
• Provides mentoring and leadership development
• Supports curriculum building
• Provides hands-on activities, tools and practices that can be replicated
• Provides strategies for dealing with resistance
• Provides suggestions for creating institutional change in your organization
• Provides resources and networking to support on-going change
• Is facilitated by faculty and informed by the latest research

K-12 Track! We are partnering with a number of national organizations to offer a separate K-12 track. Breakout sessions will examine issues such as: bullying, ally building, issues of safety for students, gender identity, creating inclusive environments, and culturally responsive practices. Co-sponsored by theADL’s A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE Institute

Evaluation Highlights: for the fourth consecutive year, on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being fully agree, participants rated the KI a 10 in the following key areas:

• This Institute was very useful and valuable to me
• I would recommend this Institute to colleagues
• Speakers were knowledgeable and engaging

The Knapsack Institute is a program of The Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion, the home of the national, award-winning White Privilege Conference.

Flier with further details attached. Early registration discounts available. Details and application at: http://www.uccs.edu/~knapsack/

CFP: 8th Annual Sports in Africa Conference

Call for Papers

The Institute of the African Child and the Center for Sports Administration

Present

8th Annual Sports in Africa Conference

Sports and Community Building in Africa and the Global South

April 6-7, 2012

Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

The 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics in Brazil , and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar confirm the global reach of elite sports and the increased participation of Africa and the Global South. Does this trend denote fuller integration of the Global South into a world system of sports where each community thrives? Or does it indicate a gradual transformation of traditional approaches to community building and a changing definition of community itself? Building on a debate that started at the Sports in Africa Symposium at Ohio University in 2002, this conference seeks to understand and discuss the effects of mega-events and global marketing on local sports. To what degree are communities integrated into global sport and what kinds of loyalty do mega events generate locally? What roles do/can sports play in local communities in Africa and the Global South in the face of transnational sports economies? Can sports become a site for communities to reaffirm their own particularity, create new forms of solidarity and reinvent themselves? The 2012 conference encourages presentations on themes such as:

• Sport and community health
• International sponsors and the nature of local sports
• Elite versus community sport: Which way forward?
• Sports and education
• Sports and wellness in local communities
• Global sports in the workplace
• Sport and community building
• Globalization: How can local sports survive?
• Sports and rural communities
• Sports in the city: New challenges, new communities
• Financing local sports
• Impact of mega events on the environment
• Mega-events, urban landscape and architecture
• Media and Imagined Communities
• Sport and culture

Although we encourage the submission of papers that focus on community sports, conference organizers are also open to the submission of papers that deal with other aspects of sports in Africa and the Global South, as well as comparative studies. The conference intends to be intellectually engaging and a source of inspiration and networking for future scholarly and practical endeavors.

Submission Guidelines

Presentation Sessions (20 minutes)

Authors must submit a cover page, including the title of the paper, the name(s) of the author(s), and the author(s)' affiliation(s), if applicable; and an abstract of the paper. The abstract may be no longer than 350 words and should not contain the name(s) of the author(s) or reference(s) that would identify the author(s). All submissions should conform to Endnote style guidelines. Each submission should be made as a separate email attachment, using the .doc format from Microsoft Word or .txt format. Only electronic submissions will be accepted.

Online submission: http://www.sportinafrica.org/forms/abstract_sub.php

The deadline for presentation abstract submissions is March 4, 2012.

IMPORTANT: Selected papers will be considered for publication in Impumelelo:The Interdisciplinary Electronic Journal of African Sports

Contact:

Gerard A. Akindes

akindesg@ohio.edu

African Studies Program - Center for Sports Administration

College of Business - Center for International Studies

JOB: Brock University

Brock University

Department of Kinesiology

Faculty of Applied Health Sciences

The Department of Kinesiology at Brock University invites applications for a probationary tenure track position at the rank of Assistant Professor effective July 1, 2012, subject to final budgetary approval. The successful applicant must have a completed Ph.D. and an outstanding record of research productivity, including publications in quality peer-reviewed journals as well as demonstrated potential to secure external funding through national agencies. Candidates must be qualified to teach in one of the following areas: history, physical literacy, physiology, or psychology. University teaching experience would be an asset. The closing date for applications is April 15, 2012, and the review process will continue until the position is filled. Applicants must

submit a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, and the names of three referees to:

Dr. Philip Sullivan, Chair

Department of Kinesiology

Brock University

St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2S 3A1

E-mail: phil.sullivan@brocku.ca

Brock University is actively committed to diversity and the principles of Employment Equity and invites applications from all qualified candidates. Women, Aboriginal peoples, members of visible minorities, and people with disabilities are especially encouraged to apply and to voluntarily self identify as a member of a designated group as part of their application. Candidates who wish to be considered as a member of one or more designated groups should fill out the Self-Identification Form (available at http://www.brocku.ca/webfm_send/1095) and include the completed form with their application. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. More information on Brock University can be found on the University’s website www.BrockU.ca.

CFP: Disability Sport: A vehicle for social change?

Disability Sport: A vehicle for social change? Conference

Call for abstracts deadline extended to Wednesday 29^th February 2012

Conference for practitioners and academics to be held in Coventry Cathedral 23-25^th August 2012. Accepting abstracts for oral and poster presentations as well as suggestions for symposium topics.

For further details see

www.coventry.ac.uk/disabilitysport2012

CONFERENCE: 10th Anniversary Macintosh Sociology of Sport Day Conference

Please find below and attached the agenda for the 10th Anniversary Macintosh Sociology of Sport Day Conference, which takes place on Saturday, February 4, 2012 at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.

We are delighted to announce that the annual Donald Macintosh Memorial Lecture will be given this year by Dr. James Gillett, Chair of the Department of Health Aging and Society at McMaster University. Dr. Gillett's talk is titled, Inter-determinacy and Lines of Flight: Interspecies Relations, Sport Sociology, and the Ethics of Caring.

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, to be paid on-site, 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).

10th Anniversary Macintosh Sociology of Sport Day Conference

AGENDA

9:00 Registration and Coffee

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS

9:15 A Prophet? Don Macintosh, His Times, and Ours

Dr. Geoff Smith

Emeritus Professor

Queen’s University

SESSION I

9:30

Makeup and Muscles: Negotiating Gender Identity in Roller Derby

Jenn Bruce, Michael L. Naraine, Amanda Morrison, Bethany-Marie Tovell, Dr. Jules Woolf

University of Windsor

9:55

Mo’ Than Just a Moustache: Investigating Hockey, Masculinity and Movember

Matthew Ventresca

Queen’s University

10:20

Ethical Dimensions of Coaching in Older Youth Sport

Mark Williams

University of Western Ontario

10:45 Break

SESSION II: Donald Macintosh Memorial Lecture

11:00

Inter-determinacy and Lines of Flight: Interspecies Relations, Sport Sociology, and the Ethics of Caring

Dr. James Gillett

McMaster University

Lunch & Poster Presentations

12:30

Les Corps En Baignade: Contextualiser Les Bains Publics à Ottawa, 1924

Ornella Nzindukiyimana

Université d'Ottawa

The Great White Nope: Post-Human Identity and the NBA's Cultural Politics of Whiteness

Scott Carey and Robert Millington

Queen’s University

SESSION III

1:30

Understanding Tim Tebow

Matt Hawzen

Queen’s University

1:55

A Profile of Canadian Roller Derby Athletes and Their Perceptions of Risk

Katrina Krawec, Ian Flaxey, Meghan Roney, Joey Zhou, Dr. Jules Woolf

University of Windsor

2:20

Cause Marketing and a Case Study of the NFL

Christopher M. Pellerin

University of Western Ontario

2:45

The Pre-Game: Black Student-Athletes and the Pursuit of U.S. Athletic Scholarships

Desmond Miller

York University

3:10 Break

SESSION IV

3:25

Outside Looking In: Youth Development through Recreation for and by Aboriginal Peoples

Alana Rovito

University of Ottawa

3:50

Gender, Embodiment and Self-Regulation: Exposing the Surveillance Element in Distance Running Subcultures

Christine Carey

McMaster University

4.15

Critical Theory & Canadian Sports Media: The Bell-Rogers Purchase of MLSE

Simon Robinson,

Queen’s University