Sport 2

Call for Papers

Sport plays multiple roles in society.  It can be a means of escape, a vehicle for inclusion, a way to generate excitement and fandom, and a showcase for excellence, and it can be all of those things at once.  In some contexts it can also be restorative, for fans and participants alike, and provide a means of strengthening or developing resiliency and overall mental health.

Importantly, the study and practice of sport are also inherently interdisciplinary, requiring focus on a variety of perspectives and disciplines, such as physiology, psychology, management, economics, marketing, and history, to name but a few.  Sport is everywhere in society, at all different levels, and thus touches every one of us in some way and often in multiple ways.  The goal of Sport: Probing the Boundaries is to engage those interdisciplinary connections and develop a conversation among independent scholars, academics, educators, practitioners, and commentators that helps us advance our understanding of sport and develop new connections and projects that create a broad-based community of inquiry.

For this symposium we invite papers, presentations, workshops, roundtables, panels and other activities that address the critical social roles of sport, including such topics as:

• Restorative sport
• Sport and mental health
• Physical culture
• Sport and inclusion
• Fandom and community
• Sport and women’s development
• Sport in educational curriculums
• Impact of mega-events
• Sport and development
• The economics of sport
• Sport and race/gender
• Accessibility in sport

This will be the second Sport: Probing the Boundaries event sponsored by Progressive Connexions, and run in connection with The International Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sport. The meeting follows on a very successful December 2017 event that led to a number of exciting projects and collaborations.  We look forward to continuing this tradition in Budapest.

Andrea Talentino: atalent0@naz.edu

Project Administrator: budapestsport@progressiveconnexions.net

E-mails should be entitled: Sport Symposium Submission