SEMINAR: Mexican-American Athletes, Dual Citizenship, and the Question of Choice

CHICAGO SEMINAR ON SPORT AND CULTURE

SPONSORED BY NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AND THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY

We are pleased to invite you to the Chicago Seminar on Sport and Culture at the Newberry Library, co-sponsored by Northeastern Illinois University and North Central College. The following lecture is Oct. 16 2009. All sessions begin at 3:30 PM. The lectures are open to the public at no charge. The Newberry Library is located at 60 W. Walton, Chicago, IL.

MEXICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES, DUAL CITIZENSHIP, AND THE QUESTION OF CHOICE

Prof. Villalobos discusses how since 1997 the Mexican government actively pursued the economic and political favor of Mexicans residing in the U.S. by changing the constitution enabling Mexican-Americans to reclaim their citizenship. This has created a significant impact on Mexican soccer. Dual citizenship has enabled the national team to successfully recruit outstanding players living north of the border. A monolingual and monoculture squad is now bilingual and bicultural. This paper traces the return of the disaporic Mexican nation in men’s and women’s soccer. This has been especially important for a chauvinistic society to become a power in soccer. The new appreciation of Mexican-Americans as in Mexico has had a similar effect in the U.S. as dual citizen Mexican-American athletes have become a sought after commodity. Gifted athletes who formerly were on the margin now have two options.

Prof. Villalobos is associate professor of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University. His publications include La imaginación genealógica: Herencia y escritura en México. Colima: Universidad de Colima, 2006.

JOB: Assistant/Associate Professor, Sport Management (Xavier)

Assistant/Associate Professor, Sport Management

Institution:

Xavier University (Ohio)

Posted:

September 29, 2009

Location:

Ohio

Category:

Recreation/ leisure studies, Business administration

Position Description:

Tenure Track

Sport Management: Assistant/Associate Professor, Sport Management. Xavier University, a Catholic University in the Jesuit tradition, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant/associate professor position in sport management beginning in fall 2010. This is a nine-month position with possible summer teaching opportunities. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in sport management or related field or an ABD with substantial dissertation progress. Preference will be given to candidates with sport industry experience as well as a demonstrated potential to meet research expectations. Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in sport management and sport administration, engaging in scholarly research, assisting with departmental activities, student advising, and community engagement. To be considered for the associate professor position, candidates should have a minimum of five years teaching experience at an accredited college or university and clearly defined record of scholarship and publications. The Department of Sport Studies offers Bachelor of Science degrees in Sport Management and Sport Marketing, and a Master of Education in Sport Administration. These degree programs have earned approval from the National Alliance for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) and the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) through the Sport Management Program Review Council (SPMRC). For more information about the department refer to http://www.xavier.edu/sport-studies. To ensure consideration, interested/qualified candidates should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, names, addresses, and phone numbers of three professional references by Friday, November 6, 2009 to Dr. Douglas Olberding, Chair, Department of Sport Studies, Xavier University, 3800 Victory Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio 45207-6311. Xavier University has a strong commitment to diversity and, building upon recent success, seeks a broad spectrum of candidates including women and minorities.

Film Fest

The second annual Canadian Short Film Festival returns to Toronto with screenings on October 2nd and 3rd. Opening night features the Canadian premiere of “A Woman Among Boys,” profiling the only woman coaching boys’ high school basketball in New York City. Closing night features “More Than Just a Game,” a dramatization of a remarkable true story of victims of apartheid using the power of sport to combat their oppression and imprisonment. There are five other screenings. Full details available at www.sportfilmfestival.ca.

JOB: Assistant Professor in Sport Management (tenure accruing position), The University of Florida (UF)

Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport Management
Assistant Professor in Sport Management
Position:
Assistant Professor in Sport Management (tenure accruing position). The University of Florida (UF) invites applications and nominations for a sport management faculty position at the Assistant Professor rank. As a member of the Association of American Universities and the flagship institution in Florida, UF (http://www.ufl.edu) is a Land-Grant and Sea-Grant institution, encompassing virtually all academic and professional disciplines. The Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport Management (www.hhp.ufl.edu/trsm) currently enrolls approximately 1000 students (900 undergraduates, 100 graduates) with 21 full-time faculty members, and provides nationally and internationally recognized education and research programs. The academic environment is rich in research and professional opportunities in the sport industry.

Responsibilities:
Initiate and maintain an active research agenda with a focused research line that results in high impact scholarship in such areas as organizational behavior, socio-cultural aspects of sport organizations, risk management, and sport consumer behavior; prepare and mentor Ph.D. students in addition to advising Master’s and Undergraduate students majoring in sport management; and engage in professional service activities. Candidates must be able to teach two or more of the following courses: sport finance, sport sociology, sport facility management, organizational behavior of sport organizations, legal aspects of sport, sport marketing, and sport consumer behavior.

Qualifications:
Earned doctorate in sport management or related field of study by time of employment; established or emerging scholar in sport management with an active research agenda; and committed to excellence in teaching and service. Preference will be given to candidates with a strong background in statistics.

Salary:
Commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Effective Date of Employment:
August 16, 2010. This is a 9-month tenure-accruing fulltime appointment.

Application Deadline:
All application materials must be submitted by November 16, 2009.

Application Process:
To be considered, applications must be submitted on-line at https://jobs.ufl.edu/
(position # 00004407; requisition # 0802878) and must include a letter of application with a statement of career goals, research interests and accomplishments; curriculum vitae; names, mailing addresses, and e-mail addresses and telephone numbers of at least three references.. Inquiries and nominations about this position should be directed to the Chair of the Search Committee:

Dr. J.O. Spengler Tel. 352-392-4042 ext 1314
College of Health and Human Performance, P. O. Box 118208 Fax 352-392-7588
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-8208 E-mail spengler@hhp.ufl.edu

JOB: Lecturer in Sport Management (non-tenure track position), The University of Florida (UF)

Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport Management
Lecturer in Sport Management

Position:
Lecturer in Sport Management (non-tenure track position). The University of Florida (UF) invites applications and nominations for a lecturer-line faculty position in the sport management program. The college has a well-structured promotion system for individuals in the non-tenure teaching positions to seek career advancement. As a member of the Association of American Universities and the flagship institution in Florida, UF (http://www.ufl.edu) is a Land-Grant and Sea-Grant institution, encompassing virtually all academic and professional disciplines, with an enrollment of approximately 50,000 students. The Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport Management (www.hhp.ufl.edu/trsm) currently enrolls approximately 1000 students (900 undergraduates, 100 graduates) with 21 full-time faculty members. With its
high expectations for academic excellence, the university aims to provide the best opportunities for teaching and learning.

Responsibilities:
Teach graduate and undergraduate sport management classes in two or more of the following areas: sport finance, sport sociology, sport facility management, organizational behavior of sport organizations, legal aspects of sport, sport marketing, and sport consumer behavior. Establish sport management internship/practicum sites, and supervise student field experiences. Contribute to program development and outreach through cultivating professional relations between the sport management program and various sport organizations. Provide student career advising and contribute to service activities at program, department, and college levels.

Qualifications:
Doctorate in sport management or related field of study. ABD candidates will be considered; however, an earned doctorate is required at the time of employment. An applicant should be passionate and enthusiastic toward professional teaching and student learning, and demonstrate strong evidence of and commitment to teaching excellence. A candidate should possess good communication and social skills to interact with various constituencies. Preferred considerations are given to those with educational technology knowledge, skills, and proficiency.

Salary:
Commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Effective Date of Employment:
August 16, 2010. This is a 9-month fulltime appointment.

Application Deadline:
All application materials must be submitted by November 16, 2009.

Application Process:
To be considered, applications must be submitted on-line at https://jobs.ufl.edu/
(position # 00020754; requisition # 0802876) and must include a letter of application with a statement of career goals, teaching interests, experience, teaching achievements, and other professional accomplishments; curriculum vitae; names, mailing addresses, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers of at least three references. Other evidence of teaching effectiveness such as course syllabi, teaching evaluations, and/or evidence of teaching awards should be sent directly to the search committee chair by email before the application deadline. Inquiries and nominations should be directed to the Chair of the Search Committee:

Dr. James J. Zhang - TRSM Tel. 352-392-4042 ext 1274
College of Health and Human Performance, P. O. Box 118208 Fax 352-392-7588
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-8208 E-mail jamesz@hhp.ufl.edu

CFP: Physical Cultural Studies - Special Issue of Sociology of Sport Journal

Call for Papers
Physical Cultural Studies
Special Issue of Sociology of Sport Journal
Guest Editor: Michael L. Silk, David L. Andrews

Cultural studies has influenced the sociology of sport community for more than 3 decades. Recently, however, cultural studies of sport have reached something of an intellectual impasse. Although many sport researchers self-identify as having a cultural studies perspective, the work produced has increasingly become hampered by the adoption of moribund empirical, theoretical, and methodological orthodoxies, which is compounded by the failure of the field of cultural studies more generally to engage the complex and diverse practices and representations of active embodiment.

In recent times a specific area of critical intellectual inquiry has emerged, Physical Cultural Studies (PCS) (Andrews, 2008; Ingham, 1997), which actively seeks to reinvigorate and reconceptualize the cultural study of sport, while simultaneously compelling us to reconsider the empirical and political import of cultural physicalities. PCS advocates suggest it is mobilized as an emergent intellectual project with an interdisciplinary and multidimensional commitment toward critical and theoretically informed engagement with various expressions of the physical (including, but by no means restricted to, sport, exercise, fitness, leisure, health, dance, and movement-related active embodied practices). The aim of this call for papers is to generate a special issue that will further define the parameters of PCS.

PCS needs a provisional sense of coherence so it can offer a tangible contribution to the understanding of physical activity as a cultural project. As a result, there is a need to establish boundaries (acknowledging their permeable and fluid nature) that will define it as a relevant and impactful intellectual project. We thus call for papers that will aid in further defining the boundaries and challenges faced by a nascent PCS. We welcome papers centered on the key foundational principles of PCS that address: (1) the ontological core of the field—the radically contextual excavation of physical culture, or, in Grossberg’s (2007) terms, a conjunctural history of the (physical) present; (2) epistemological approaches to PCS—those grounded in a moral–sacred approach that is inherently political, takes sides, and purports to “make a difference” to key social concerns of our time; (3) axiological issues—how the problematics enacted within a corporatized climate of methodological fundamentalism, evidence-based research, and default scientism impact on PCS; (4) avant-garde methodologies or practices that emerge from these philosophical discussions; and (5) ways of expressing our research—newer forms of written material, other forms of (re)presentation, or yet- to-be-imagined ways of producing and presenting knowledge.

In addition, we vision that this special issue will delineate explicit ontological, epistemological,
methodological, political, and axiological assumptions that need to be dialogically engaged (and
perhaps more accurately represent the distillation and generation of knowledge within the field.
Authors should follow the “Instructions for Contributors” found at http//www.HumanKinetics.
com/SSJ/JournalSubmissions.cfm and in every issue of Sociology of Sport Journal. The paper
should be roughly 8,000 words including endnotes and reference list. Submit online to http//
mc.manuscritpcentral.com/hk_ssj.

Please address questions to Dr. Michael Silk, m.silk@bath.ac.uk or
Dr. David Andrews, dla@umd.edu
Due date for papers: March 31st, 2010

CFP: FlowTV - Sports Media: Tensions and Transitions

FlowTV Special Issue
Sports Media: Tensions and Transitions

As the NFL bans players from Tweeting on the sidelines and the NCAA 
bans fans' unofficial Facebook recruitment pages, it is clear that 
players, fans, leagues, and media institutions are struggling to 
maintain control in changing mediated sports environments. Yet it is 
not just new media that is both enchancing and threatening the 
relationship between athletic institutsions, media industries and fan 
communities. Major transitions have also occurred in traditional media 
like television and radio with the 30th anniversary of ESPN's 
Sportscenter, and online audio and video available for seemingly every 
major sport worldwide. Although sports and mass media have a 
well-established symbiotic relationship, media studies has been slow 
to embrace sport as a legitimate or significant object of study; this 
is a negligence that Flow seeks to remedy. Questions to consider might 
include:

   * How have fan experiences been transformed by transitions from 
radio to television, network to cable, and television to the internet?
   * How have the games, players, fans, and leagues been transformed 
by these media developments?
   * What of other technological developments such as screens in 
arenas, ballparks and stadiums?
   * What is the social significance of fans', players', coaches' 
and leagues' use of social media technologies such as Twitter, 
Facebook, iPhones, and blogging?
   * How do these all of these developments change the fan 
experience and notions of fandom?
   * How do these developments contribute to athletes' ability to 
construct and promote their own celebrity image?
   * Should players be given a voice via personal blogs or Twitter 
and what does it mean when leagues regulate and silence these voices?
   * What happens to traditional gatekeeping roles when fans become 
the experts and journalists are bypassed by amateur coverage and 
footage?
   * How have discourses and representations of gender, race, class, 
sexuality, and ethnicity progressed (or not) over the decades?
   * How do advertisers, journalists, and leagues reinforce rigid 
constructs and representations of "the athlete" and "the fan"?


We encourage submissions that highlight and critically analyze 
contemporary or historical tensions between sports leagues, media 
industries, technological developments, fans, athletes, 
representations, and/or significant case studies. We welcome 
submissions which address any sport, American or International, 
professional and amateur from tennis and golf, to rugby and hockey, to 
college football and professional basketball. Flow has a longstanding 
policy of encouraging non-jargony, highly readable pieces and ample 
incorporation of images and video. Please send submissions (attached 
as a Word doc) of between 1000-1500 words to Co-Coordinating Editors  
Alex Cho (alexcho47@gmail.com) and Jacqueline Vickery 
(jvickery183@gmail.com) no later than  Monday, October 5, 2009.

CONFERENCE: Fourth Summit on Communication and Sport

In keeping with the tradition started at the third Summit, some of the best research submitted and presented at the Summit will be published in a special issue of Journal of Communication Studies. Papers will undergo blind peer review, with approximately 4-5 articles selected for publication. All scholars currently exploring communication and sport are encouraged to submit the following: Abstracts (200-500 words) to be considered for presentation at the Summit. Full-length manuscripts (7,000-10,000 words, APA style) to be considered for both the Summit and the special issue of Journal of Communication Studies. Full-length manuscripts (7,000-10,000 words, APA format) to be considered for only Summit presentation. Up to two submissions from the same author will be considered for review. Submissions should be emailed in Word format to Amy Crawford at agcrawford@ysu.edu no later than October 1, 2009 (any submission with an email date stamp after October 1 will not be considered). Please indicate if you would like your piece to be considered for publication in the special issue of Journal of Communication Studies. Presenters will be notified of presentation acceptance via email by December 1, 2009. Space will also be allotted for non-presenting attendees. Any inquiries regarding the event can be directed to Adam Earnheardt (acearnheardt@ysu.edu) or Barbara Hugenberg (bhugenbe@kent.edu). However all inquiries concerning paper submissions should be directed to Amy Crawford at agcrawford@ysu.edu.

JOB: Per course instructor, University of Rhode Island

Due to increasing enrollment in our Kinesiology major, the University of Rhode
Island is seeking a per course instructor to teach one section of Kinesiology
278: Cultural Diversity, Physical Activity, and Society in Spring, 2010
(approximately 40 students).

In the Course Catalog, Kinesiology 278 (KIN 278) is described as “an
introduction to the multiple ways issues of cultural diversity shape physical
activity in American society” and is a required class for Kinesiology majors
who are mainly interested in pursuing careers in Physical Education, Physical
Therapy, and the Health Care and Fitness industries.  For most Kinesiology
students, KIN 278 will be the only sociology course they will take in college
and their sole mandate to examine physical activity and sport from a critical
sociological point of view.

At a minimum, this person must have earned a Master’s degree in Kinesiology or
Sociology and have taken at least one sociology of sport class.  But,
preference will be given to someone having earned a Ph.D from, or currently be
a Ph.D candidate in, a sociology of sport program.

Compensation for this one class is $3,200.

If interested in this lecturer position, please contact Dr. Kyle Kusz at
kkusz@mail.uri.edu.

Please enclose your current curriculum vita (with teaching experiences
included) in your email response.


It is the policy of the University of Rhode Island not to discriminate on the
basis of race, sex, religion, age, color, creed, national origin, disability,
sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or discriminate against
disabled and Vietnam era veterans in the recruitment, admission or treatment
of students, the recruitment, hiring or treatment of faculty and staff, and in
the operation of its activities and programs, as specified by State and
Federal Laws, including the Equal Pay Act of 1963, Titles VI and VII of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
of 1967, Title IX of the 1972 Educational Amendments to the Higher Education
Act, Executive Order 11246, as amended, Sections 503/504 of the Rehabilitation
Act of 1973, as amended, Section 402 of the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment
Assistance Act of 1974, The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and all
other laws which pertain to access and equity.
    
The University of Rhode Island is committed to the principles of Affirmative
Action and the attainment of Equal Employment and Equal Educational
opportunities for all qualified individuals.

CONFERENCE: MOVE2009

the MOVE2009 countdown has been launched. In exactly one month the World Congress on Active Cities: Sport, Health and Citizenship will open its gates and welcome more than 250 congress attendees from more than 53 countries, including Albania, Algeria, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, United Kingdom.

REGISTER NOW! and become a part of the most extraordinary sport and culture event in 2009.

http://www.move2009.org/index.php/programme

MOVE2009 SPEAKERS

The MOVE2009 Congress Consortium has been very privileged to secure the services of some of today's most internationally respected exponents in the field of urban planning, sport and leisure architecture, social change management, health, sport, citizenship and related disciplines. Among othersthe following speakers will address the MOVE2009 World Congress:

 Hans JürgenSchulke, Vice-President – Deutscher Turner Bund (DTB)

 Gil Penelosa, Executive Director, Walk and Bike for Life

 Jan Gehl, Founding Partner, Gehl Architects – Urban Quality Consultants

 Carina Christensen, Minister of Culture, Denmark

 Alfred Rütten, Professor, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

 MårtenHedlund, Founder and CEO, World Village of Women Sports

 John Bale, Professor Emeritus of Sports Geography, University of Keele

 Christophe Mailliet, Executive Manager - Streetfootballworld Network, Streetfootballworld

 Bo Vestergård Madsen, Head of Analysis, the Danish Foundation for Culture and Sports Facilities

 Jeff Risom, architectural engineer and urban designer, Gehl Architects – Urban Quality Consultants

 Gar Holohan, Chairman, Aura Holohan Group, Ireland

 Jacob Kornbeck, European Commission, Directorate General for Education and Culture, Sport Unit

 Conrad Boychuk, Executive Board Member, International Association for Sports and Leisure Facilities and Canadian Representative, UIA Sports and Leisure Working Programme

 Antonio Borgogni, Researcher, Faculty of Sports Sciences, University of Cassino, Italy

 Frederik Von Sperling, Project manager, Underground, Copenhagen

 Walter Feldman, Municipal Secretary of Sport, São Paulo

 Maria Luisa Zambon, President, Italian Network of Healthy Cities

 Luisa Lazzaroni, Member of the City Council of Bologna and Counselor

 Gerry Campbell, Sport Director, South Lanarkshire, Scotland

 Raí Souza Vieira de Oliveira, Former captain of the national Brazilian football team, Co-founder of Gol de Letra Foundation, and President of Athletes for Citizenship (AtletaspelaCidadania's) Brazil

 Lone Leth Larsen, Board member of European Citizen Action Service and Director of the Danish Cultural Institute, Benelux, Brussels

 Colin Miège, Vice-President Sport et Citoyenneté, France

 Ian Mckenzie, Director, International Union of Architects Sport and Leisure Programme

 Rene Kural, Director, Centre for Sport and Architecture

 Mikael Colville-Andersen, Director, Copenhagen Cycle Chic

 Randy Rzewnicki, Project Manager, European Cyclists Federation

 LiaGhilardi, Director, Noema Research and Planning Ltd.

 Bianca Hermansen, Architect, Centre for Sport and Architecture

 Lars Bo Andersen, Researcher at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU)

MOVE2009 PROGRAMME UPDATES

The MOVE2009 Congress programme is updated on a regular basis. Keep up with the latest programme by visiting the congress website at: http://www.move2009.org/index.php/programme

Find more information about the MOVE2009 World Congress attached to this mail or at www.move2009.org

Sincerely,

Jean-Luc Frast

Public Relations Manager

ISCA - International Sport and Culture Association

Tietgensgade 65 // 1704 Copenhagen // Denmark

Tel: +45 3329 8026 // Fax: +45 3329 8028

e-mail: jlf@isca-web.org // www.isca-web.org

ISCA. Moving people.

Make sure to book your participation in the

MOVE2009 World Congress on Active Cities:

Sport, Health and Citizenship

21-24 October 2009, Copenhagen - Denmark

www.move2009.org