North American Society for the Sociology of Sport :: Société nord-americaine de sociologie du sport :: La Sociedad Norteamericana para la Sociología del Deporte
** November 4-7, 2009 ** Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
Sport Canada Research Initiative (SCRI) Conference to be held in conjunction to the NASSS Conference November 4th, 2009, Ottawa, Canada
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The third annual Sport Canada Research Initiative (SCRI) Conference will be held in Ottawa on November 4, 2009 in conjunction with the 2009 NASSS conference at the Marriott Hotel. The purpose of the SCRI conference is to gather together policy makers with all current sport researchers funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR). The idea is to share their knowledge and expertise in view of maximizing the practical applications of sport participation research. Some specific objectives of the conference include: strengthening the link between sport research and the development of sport participation policy in Canada; initiating an effective dialogue between Canadian sport researchers, sport policy makers and sport practitioners; and encouraging graduate students to contribute to and remain in the field of sport policy. Since the inception of the SCRI, Sport Canada has funded approximately 70 research projects via SSHRC and CIHR. Researchers with final results will present in the morning plenary sessions, while those with research in progress will be invited to present posters. The afternoon sessions will be devoted to dialogue between sport researchers, policy makers and practitioners. Duly registered NASSS conference participants are invited to register and take part in this one-day SCRI conference for free. Register for the SCRI conference at http://www.sirc.ca beginning August 1, 2009. For more information, contact Joanne Kay at joanne.kay[at]pch.gc.ca
The 30th annual conference of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) will be held November 4-7, 2009 at the Marriott Hotel on Kent Street in Ottawa, CAN. The theme for this year’s conference is “Sport and Bodily Culture in Hard Times.” Those interested in organizing a session should submit a session proposal by June 15th, 2009 to one of the program co-chairs, Geneviève Rail and Nancy Spencer, via the Session Proposal form. (CALL FOR SESSIONS IS NOW CLOSED.)
Given the economic downfall and its impact all over the planet, the Program Committee felt that we, as NASSS members, could reflect on the “Hard Times” behind and ahead of us and what they mean for sport and, more broadly, for culture. Hard times impact on the lives of people in so many negative ways. At the same time, they may push us to reinvent ourselves and to rethink the social structures that organize our worlds so that we do not end up in the same catastrophic situation. Since sport is so often appreciated for the values it instills and the leadership it creates, one has to wonder whether drastic changes should occur so that sport could help in developing leaders with different values (e.g., interdependence) who would work to transform our societies and avoid past errors. In a world where increasingly we define ourselves by what we have (e.g., a house, a car, a membership in a club, friends on Facebook, a nice body), should the social dynamics as well as the individual choices that have brought us to Hard Times be renewed? Could we define ourselves and our social worlds differently? How are sport and bodily culture linked to subjectivities and social forces, and how could they be part of an effort to think ourselves/our planet anew? Should we struggle to keep sport and bodily culture just as they are and continue to pursue “business as usual”? What role should we play, as scholars, in asking and answering such questions?
The Program Committee is interested in securing sessions that promote specific or focused content related to the theme (i.e., keep the theme in mind when choosing a session title). However, we also welcome sessions that are not directly related to the conference theme but are consistent in scope. Sessions that enhance interdisciplinary conversations and encourage new ways of thinking about sport and bodily culture are particularly welcome.
For further information, please contact one of the program co-chairs:
Geneviève Rail, Program Co-Chair
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Ottawa
Email: genrail@uottawa.ca
Nancy Spencer, Program Co-Chair
School of Human Movement, Sport, and Leisure Studies
Bowling Green State University
Email: nspencr@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Call for abstracts: A second call seeking paper and poster abstracts will begin once the list of sessions is complete. The final deadline for submitting paper or poster abstracts will be August 15th, 2009. Look for the “2009 Call for Paper and Poster Abstracts” as well as more details about keynote speakers and conference activities in early August on the NASSS conference website.
Conference Registration: will be available on the conference registration page when the call for papers is issued.
Program Committee Members
Geneviève Rail and Nancy Spencer (co-chairs)
Bob Rinehart (University of Waikato) rinehart[at]waikato.ac.nz
Rich King (Washington State University) crking[at]wsu.edu
Christine Dallaire (University of Ottawa) cdallair[at]uottawa.ca
Jean Harvey (University of Ottawa) jharvey[at]uottawa.ca
Sammi King (Queen's University) kingsj[at]post.Queensu.ca
Ted Fay (SUNY Cortland) ted.fay[at]cortland.edu
Dee Pearson (University of Houston) dpearson[at]uh.edu
Kyoung-Yim Kim (University of Toronto) ky.kim[at]utoronto.ca
Robert Pitter (Acadia University) robert.pitter[at]acadiau.ca)
Karima Dorney (Queen's University) karima.dorney[at]gmail.com
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Dear Session Organizer:
On behalf of the Program Committee, we would like to thank you for submitting a session proposal for the 2009 NASSS Conference. We have now received over 60 sessions that include panels, round tables, papers and posters on a broad array of topics. We have also begun to receive submissions for paper and/or poster abstracts.
As a Session Organizer, you play an integral role in the ultimate success of the NASSS 2009 conference program. Thus, we would like to outline the expectations for Session Organizers. As abstracts are submitted to the NASSS website, one of the Program Chairs will be able to access each abstract and forward it to the appropriate session organizer. You should start receiving abstracts between now and up to a few days after our deadline (August 15th). Please do not write to us until August 18th (if you have not received all the abstracts you thought you would receive, as it may be that Nancy and Gen are still in the process of verifying and forwarding abstracts).
As in the past, you, as session organizer, will retain the responsibility of deciding which abstracts to accept for your session(s). When abstracts are forwarded to you, you should decide if an abstract is appropriate for your session based upon the criteria outlined in your session proposal. When you decide which abstracts you will accept, it will be your responsibility to informally notify authors of their acceptance as well as to forward that acceptance to the Program Chairs who will send a formal letter of acceptance. It will also be your responsibility to decide how many abstracts you will accept for your session (sessions should include only 3 presenters). Once you have received enough abstracts to complete a session, you will need to submit the following information via the Session Submission form found at:
http://nasss.org/2009/final.php
The Session Submission form should be submitted via the website no later than August 22, 2009.
If you receive more abstracts than you are able to include in a session, you may wish to add another session with the same theme. If you are interested in doing that, please notify Gen Rail (Gen.Rail@Concordia.ca), one of the 2009 conference co-chairs, as soon as possible to be sure that we will be able to accommodate additional sessions. If you do not wish to organize an additional session and/or there are abstracts that do not fit into your session(s), please return them to Gen Rail (Gen.Rail@Concordia.ca) as soon as possible so that she may consider them for additional sessions.
Again, many thanks for your contribution to the program for the 2009 NASSS Conference.
Sincerely,
Gen and Nancy
July 27, 2009
