Summer 2025:

(Note that times other than 10:00/15:00 are in bold)

Date	(Provisional) Time	Name	Session Type	(Provisional) Title
5th-6th Jun	N/A	Everyone	INSA Conference!	Sport: Beyond Definitions
3rd July	10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST	Marit Hiemstra	Paper-in-progress	Knowing More-Than-Rationally in Safe and Enjoyable Guided Running
17th July	10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST	Aarti Ratna	Seminar Series/Book Discussion	Writing “A Nation of Family and Friends: Sport and the Leisure Cultures of British Asian Girls and Women”
31st July	10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST	Andrea Buchetti	Paper-in-progress	The Play of Alterity, the Sport of Intimacy: Competition and Cooperation in a Border Perspective
14th August	10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST	Sara Bonfanti	Paper-in-progress	Making Space for Cricket: South Asian Diasporas and Urban Sportscapes in Italy
28th August	10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST	Steve Crossley	Presentation	Care and grassroots sports clubs

Spring 2025:

Date	(Provisional) Time	Name	Session Type	(Provisional) Title
16th Jan	10:00 EST / 15:00 GMT	Everyone	All-Members Meeting	2025 Check-In: Plans and Network Organization
30th Jan	10:00 EST / 15:00 GMT	Josh Rubin	Paper-in-Progress	Anthropology and Evocative Significance: Art, Sport, and Aesthetics
13th Feb	12:00 EST / 17:00 GMT	Esra Sarıoğlu	Presentation	Affective Surge at Freibad: Embodied Encounters in Berlin’s Outdoor Public Pools Amidst Europe’s Right-Wing Era
27th Feb	11:00 EST / 16:00 GMT	Susan Brownell	Paper Discussion	Title TBC
13th March	12:00 EDT / 16:00 GMT	Daniel Uy	PhD Proposal Presentation	Let Me Be Perfectly Queer: Amplifying Narratives of Racialized 2SLGBTQ+ Embodiment and Joy in Powerlifting
27th March	11:00 EDT / 15:00 GMT	Audrey Giles	Paper Discussion	Secondary Traumatic Stress and Community-Based Participatory Research in Sport and Physical Activity
17th April	07:00 EDT / 12:00 BST	Aarti Ratna	Seminar Series	Title TBC

Autumn 2024:

Please note additional sessions outside the usual fortnightly cycle are in light blue!

Date	(Provisional) Time	Name	Session Type	(Provisional) Title	Discussant	Chair
19th Sept	12:00 BST / 07:00 EDT	Dallas Taylor	Writing in Progress	‘How it Feels to Be Us: Centering the Body in Sporting Fandom’		Ben
26th Sept	17:00 BST / 12:00 EDT	Sertaç Sehlikoglu	Seminar Series	For the Love of Erdogan: Fan-Based Politics and the Anthropology of Sports in Times of Populism		Sean
3rd October	17:00 BST / 12:00 EDT	Dario Nardini	Writing in Progress	Calcio Storico Fiorentino: (Re-)enacting Florence’s history and identity		Ben
17th October	12:00 BST / 07:00 EDT	JulieAnn Thomas	Practice Presentation	Simmel and Durkheim as ‘football tourism pundits’: Commentaries about the online behavior of tourists at the Anfield Stadium.		Kika
31st Oct	16:00 GMT / 12:00 EDT	Mark Doidge	Seminar Series	A call for sociology of sport to centralise climate action and nature		Sean
14th Nov	12:00 GMT / 07:00 EST	Emy Lindberg	Writing in Progress	The Football Dads: Entanglements of Economy and Care in the Football Migration Industry		Ben
28th Nov	17:00 GMT / 12:00 EST	Gil Hizi	Writing in Progress	Morality Plays: Chinese Village Sports as Social Theatrics.		Ben
12th Dec	12:00 GMT / 07:00 EST	Hans Kristian Hognestad	Seminar Series	Football, religion and politics – contested narratives from the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar		Sean

Summer 2024:

Date	(Provisional) Time	Name	(Provisional) Title	Discussant	Chair
30th May	12:00 EDT	N/A	Conference Debrief: Why The Anthropology of Sport Matters	N/A	Ben
13th June	12:00 BST	Ben Hildred	Paper Discussion: ‘Testing’ things out: Navigating change and the status quo in a Sri Lankan cricket team.		Sean
27th June	12:00 EDT	Eilis Lanclus	Paper Discussion: ‘”You’ve been chicked!”: The Gendered Nature of Endurance in Ultra-Trail Running and Walking’.		Ben
11th July	12:00 BST	Leo Hopkinson	Book Chapter: ‘Being the best: On the performance of aspiration’		Kika
25th July	12:00 EDT	Arthur Gaillard	Paper Discussion: Sport for Development’s Nation-State Monolingualism		Sean

Spring 2024:

Date	(Provisional) Time	Name	(Provisional) Title	Discussant	Chair
11th January	12:00 GMT	Loes Oudenhuijsen	Levelling the playing field: women’s queer futures in football and beyond		Ben
25th January	12:00 EST	Francesco Fanoli	Playing dangerously: reproducing and displacing heroic and entrepreneurial masculinity in Senegalese wrestling with punches.		Sean
8th February	12:00 GMT	Xiaojie Tian	Childhood Play In Maasai Society		Kika
22nd February	12:00 EST	Sean Heath	Good Skills: Learning to play well in outdoor swimming		Kika
7th March	12:00 GMT	Will Lloyd	Mountain spaces of possibility: Trail running as world-building in Nepal		Ben
21st March	12:00 EST	Mariann Vaczi	Book Presentation: Catalonia’s Human Towers		Ben
4th April	12:00 GMT	Santram Antil	Sahi Samay (The Right Time) & Sahi Taknik (The Correct Technique): Making of the Wrestler in Haryana (North India)		Ben
18th – 19th April	GMT	N/A	INSA Conference!	N/A	N/A