Digital Symposium: Oct 16-18

SYMPOSIUM THEME:

Power at Play

Our purpose is to bring together emerging and established scholars and professionals in an online open-access forum to freely engage in constructive debate examining the various ways sport can be a vessel for personal/community empowerment while simultaneously reinforcing societal structures of power.

Conference Program

Conference Format

Accepted presenters will be asked to record their presentation and submit their video to the Journal of Emerging Sport Studies.

The recorded presentations will be organized into panels according to themes.

Presentations will be posted on the conference website prior to the start of the conference, allowing public viewing of the presentations.

Questions for presenters will be submitted to JESS over email or twitter.

From October 16-18, digital panels will allow presenters to engage with the public regarding their work.

Abstracts

Abstract submissions of approximately 300 words should be submitted to conference organizers, Andrew Pettit and Taylor McKee, at EmergingSportStudies@gmail.com by June 30, 2020.

Video abstracts are also acceptable through twitter,

either through DM or mentions, @EmergingSport

Please include in your abstract institutional and contact information.

Notification of acceptance will be sent by July 7, 2020.

Conference information

We invite abstracts for papers from the following disciplines: history, sociology, philosophy, psychology, law, marketing/economics, management, policy, literature, analytics, and others.

Cost: In keeping with our stated mission of reducing barriers to open-access education, we are only requesting presenters to make a small donation to help cover the costs of the website.

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Call for Abstracts - JESS Digital Symposium - October 2020 (pdf)Download

Power at Play - Conference Program (pdf)Download