ESA Research Networks
Research Network in the Making : Society and Sports
Call for papers
8th conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) Glasgow, 3-6 September 2007
The Society & Sports Network (ESN) of the European Sociological Association (ESA) invites you to submit papers, to be presented at the Eighth ESA Conference in Glasgow, UK
Topics to be addressed in the ESN sessions include:
- Sports and Culture
- Sports, Politics and Governance
- Sports and Health
- Sports and Social Inequality
- Sports and Fitness
- Sports and Physical Activity
- Sports, Civil Society and Voluntary Organizations
- Sports and Social Capital
- Sports and Economy
- Sports and Media
- Sports and Gender
- Sports and Professionalization
- Sports and Commercialization
- Sports and Doping
- Sports and Technology
Other topics could also be of interest.
Abstracts should be submitted through the online submission form on the conference website
www.esa8thconference.com. The deadline for submission is 28 February 2007.
Coordinator of the Sport and Society Research Network:
Ørnulf Seippel
ornulf.seippel@socialresearch.no
Institute for Social Research
Pb 3233, 0208 Oslo, Norway.
Phone: 00 47 23086123
Fax: 00 47 23086101
General information about the Network
This Research Network in the Making was initially proposed at the 1999 ESA conference in Amsterdam. Two years later, in Helsinki, the RN was officially constituted, held its first business meeting and organised the first ESA conference sessions dedicated to the sociology of sport. In all four sessions took place, during which fourteen papers by sociologists from eight different states were discussed.
The Research Network has the following foundation aims:
1. to encourage and support research within the sociology of sport.
2. to promote the sociology of sport within national and international professional bodies.
3. to serve as a forum for exchange, collaboration and sharing among sociologists of sport and those with overlapping interests.
4. to organise and host research workshops and conferences relevant to the sociology of sport.
Members of this Research Network include both established academic specialists within the sociology of sport and academics and postgraduates who are developing an interest in this field.
At the Torun Conference, the Society & Sports Research Network will organize paper sessions. Papers are invited on any topic appropriate to the foundation aims of the Network. Colleagues are invited to contact the Network Coordinator, Ørnulf Seippel (ornulf.seippel@socialresearch.no) for further information, or to discuss informally any paper proposal.
Address:Ørnulf Seippel
Institute for Social Research
Munthesgt 31
0261 Oslo
Norway
Phone 00 47 23086123
Fax 00 47 23086101