Thursday, 19th December 16:00 GMT / 11:00 EST Hans K Hognestad Football and religion in the Middle East Please join us this Thursday for the next session of our seminar series, with Professor Hans Kristian Hognestad, University of South-Eastern Norway.…
Thursday, 31st October 16:00 GMT / 12:00 EDT Please join us this Thursday for the next session of our seminar series, with Dr Mark Doidge, Loughborough University. Zoom Link here: A call for sociology of sport to centralise climate…
Sean Heath will be giving a seminar to the Research Group RESPONSE at Nord University on August 29th, 2024, from 14:-15 CEST. They have kindly made it possible to attend the seminar virtually. Those interested in attending virtually should contact Jens Grut Vorpvik (jens.g.vorpvik@nord.no)…
We welcome abstracts to a new book project about body cultures and space. Body Cultures:Physicality, Space, and Moving Bodies will offer a multifaceted exploration into the dynamicsof human embodiment within diverse contexts. Anchored in the realms of sport and fitness,this…
UPDATE: The deadline for proposed papers is now the 13th May. All panels can now be made hybrid, so do consider presenting despite the distance! The Chair of the Anthropology of Sport Commission in the IUAES/WAU wishes to draw your…
We are sponsoring the panel Sporting Transitions in a Transitional World at the upcoming AAA conference in Toronto, ‘Transitions’. The panel will be held from 12:15pm – 1:45pm on Sunday 19th November, in the Toronto Metro Convention Centre, room 802 A. Abstract Sport, as…
“You know, They Didn’t Always Put Spandex in Jeans”: Athletes, Agency, and Tailored Bodies The following comes from Sarah Jacobs, who will present her paper to us on July 6th for discussion. In this essay, I explore how a group…
Recent social-science scholarship has shown how the hyper-commercialization of sport has instilled an ethic of individual responsibility among athletes, encouraging them to instrumentalise interpersonal relationships and engage in maximising their “bodily capital”. Thus, sporting subjects are often understood to be…
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See the attached info regarding the upcoming NASSH conference, which is hosting a Sport Anthropology caucus again this year. Fellow INSA members will be in attendance. To find out more about the conference, click here.