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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

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Program | Keynote | Pres Address | Ingham Address | Keynote Panels | Spotlight1 | Spotlight2 | Dialogues | Grad Workshop | Meet 'n' Eat | Grad Breakfast | TASToL | Thursday Eve | Opening Reception | Sightseeing Walk| Post-Presidential Reception | Friday Social | Business Meeting | Saturday Eve Outing

PROGRAM


REMINDER: Presenters are responsible for providing their own audio-visual equipment. Projector screens will be available in each room.


26 Oct 09: Updated conference program:     Program at a glance (doc)   ::    Full Program (pdf)


7 Oct 09: Updated conference program info:     Program at a glance (doc)   ::    Sessions (pdf)

Please, DO NOT contact Geneviève Rail to request changes. Putting together a program is extremely complicated and the Program Committee expects presenters to adjust to the program as it would be IMPOSSIBLE for the people responsible for the program to adjust to the presenters’ schedules. Please know that conference topics have been spread around during the 3 days. For instance, multiple sessions on topics such as women/gender & sport (15 sessions), obesity (8), environment (5), media (7), peace/dev (5), race (13), etc., have been distributed so that there is one session after the other on the same topic so that 2 race and sport sessions, for example, would not be in concurrent sessions. However, we have distinct NASSS patterns (for example for women/gender sessions and race/racialization sessions so because we only have 11 time-spots, we are bound to have sessions on the same topic that are competing against one another. There are also difficulties related to people who are active during the conference (as discussant, presider, organizer, presenter, co-author on a paper by a colleague or student they would like to support). We try to accommodate their multiple roles (not put them in a situation where they have to choose between roles because of 2 concurrent sessions). Finally, we have the additional variable of room size: we try to accommodate sessions where we expect a large audience and find suitable rooms for sessions where we expect a more modest audience. All in all, we do hope people will appreciate the nice problem of putting together such a huge program and will not request changes.

 

28 Sep 09: List of accepted abstracts for the 2009 NASSS conference is now available, linked below. PLEASE read the first page of the document for an explanation of the list and for instructions for any further action that is needed. A preliminary program with session schedules will be posted in the very near future.


Accepted Sessions and Papers

Because of our collaboration with the Sport Canada Research Initiative conference there will be some slight changes to our traditional schedule. Please note, in particular, the following:

Wed, Nov 4, 8:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m: SCRI Conference, Crowne Plaza Ottawa (connected to the NASSS conference hotel by an underground walkway)
**THIS EVENT IS FREE FOR NASSS ATTENDEES, BUT NASSS MEMBERS MUST STILL REGISTER.**

Contact Debra Gassewitz (debrag[at]sirc.ca) and tell her that you are a NASSS attendee who would like to register for the Sport Canada conference.

Wed, Nov 4, 6:00 p.m.- 7:00 p.m: SCRI/NASSS 5K Sightseeing Walk, beginning in the lobby of the Crowne Plaza and ending at the Welcoming Reception
**THIS EVENT IS FREE FOR ALL NASSS AND SCRI ATTENDEES AND THEIR COMPANIONS**

Wed, Nov 4, 6:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m. NASSS REGISTRATION, Victoria Ballroom foyer, 2nd floor, Marriott Ottawa

Wed, Nov 4, 7:00 p.m.- 10:00 p.m. WELCOMING RECEPTION for SCRI and NASSS attendees, Victoria Ballroom North, Marriott Ottawa

If you have any questions about the events listed here, please contact Sammi King at kingsj[at]queensu.ca. The programming committee is putting the finishing touches to the final conference schedule, which will be posted below shortly.



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5k Sightseeing Walk (WED LATE AFTERNOON)

FREE 5k Sightseeing Walk for NASSS and SCRI Participants: Wednesday, November 4, 5:50 p.m.
Meet at the Sport Canada Research Initiative (SCRI) Registration Desk in the Ballroom Foyer of the Crowne Plaza at 5:50 for a 6:00pm departure.
Hosts: Christine Dallaire, NASSS and Brandie Adams, SIRC
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OPENING RECEPTION (WED EVE)

7:00 p.m.- 10:00 p.m., Victoria Ballroom North, Marriott Ottawa
All SCRI and NASSS attendees welcome.

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GRAD STUDENT/FACULTY INFORMATION EXCHANGE: (THURS MORN)

Teaching Graduate Students
For a description of this year&#quo;s workshop topic, please visit the grad student page.
Workshop Organizers and Presiders:
Dr. Mary Louise Adams, Queen’s University
Callie Batts, University of Maryland
William Bridel, Queen’s University

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KEYNOTE ADDRESS (THURS MORN)

Wendy Frisby, University of British Columbia
"From Critique to Action: Exemplars from Research on Poverty, Inclusion, and Physical Activity"
Dr. Wendy Frisby is a Professor in the School of Human Kinetics in the Faculty of Education and the former Chair of Women?s and Gender Studies (2004-2009) in the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia. The overall goal of her research program is to determine how those who have the least access to sport and recreation can become more involved as decision makers and participants to promote health, policy change, and other outcomes. For over a decade, she has conducted feminist participatory action research (FPAR) with citizens and practitioners to analyze how the social and living conditions experienced by those living in poverty, which are often exacerbated by existing policies and structures in community sport and recreation, create barriers to participation. The community-based organizations that she has helped to form have received awards for their efforts to promote inclusion.
In her presentation, she will reflect on the ’action’ component of her research program. Dr. Frisby will demonstrate how 'action' has been under-theorized, discuss issues related to action-taking, and challenge researchers to consider their roles in social change and transformation. She has published work on this topic in traditional academic outlets (e.g., Sage Handbook of Action Research, Action Research, Canadian Journal of Public Health, Canadian Women’s Studies) and has made concerted efforts to disseminate the results and recommendations more broadly to increase knowledge transfer and uptake (e.g., government and professional reports, public workshops and presentations).
Presider: TBA

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MEET ’N’ EAT LUNCH (THURS)

Join us for NASSS’s Thursday Meet ’n’ Eat Lunch, an opportunity for old and new members to socialize and network. Participants will meet in the hotel lobby and lunch at a restaurant(s) of their choice. (This is a pay for yourself event.)

List of restaurants nearer the hotel for lunch:

  1. Bank Street: Eggspectation (171 Bank); Royal Oak Pub (318 Bank); walk along Bank going south
  2. Sparks Street Mall
  3. Bâton Rouge, 360 Albert
  4. Lil Thai Garden, 246 Queen
  5. Kasbah Village, 261 Laurier West
  6. There are other Japanese, Indian and other restaurants near the hotel on Slater, Queen, Albert bw Bank street and Kent street.

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THURSDAY EVENING OUTING

we’ve planned a more formalized/organized evening and itinerary:

  1. Dinner: walk down Kent to Somerset then Preston (these are very safe streets, you can walk alone or in groups)
  2. Social event: meet at the Heart and Crown on Preston around 9ish (http://www.irishvillage.ca/preston.aspx)
  3. We have booked the “Snug Pub”, a room with it’s own bar at the back of the pub and we have all night; a good place to socialize and mingle with other NASSSers in a fun but quieter environment
  4. After 10:00, there will be a live band in the front area of the pub. You’ll thus have a choice to stay in the Snug Pub to mingle or to move to the front room for a livelier atmosphere.

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GRAD STUDENT BREAKFAST (FRI)

Network with other graduate students at a Friday morning breakfast, courtesy of NASSS. New Grad Reps will be elected at this meeting.


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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS (FRI MORN)

Bob Rinehart, Univeristy of Waikato
Poetic sensibilities, humanities, and wonder: Toward an e/affective sociology of sport
Presider: Synthia Sydnor, University of Illinois

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TAKE A STUDENT TO LUNCH [TaSToL](FRI)

This year’s Take a Student to Lunch event will take place on Friday, 6 November. For more information, please see the grad page.

List of restaurants nearer the hotel for “take a student to lunch”:

  1. Bank Street: Eggspectation (171 Bank); Royal Oak Pub (318 Bank); walk along Bank going south
  2. Sparks Street Mall
  3. Bâton Rouge, 360 Albert
  4. Lil Thai Garden, 246 Queen
  5. Kasbah Village, 261 Laurier West
  6. There are other Japanese, Indian and other restaurants near the hotel on Slater, Queen, Albert bw Bank street and Kent street.

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BUSINESS MEETING (FRI AFTERNOON)

Join us before the Presidential Reception for NASSS’s year-in-review, also known as the Business Meeting. All attendees and only attendees of the business meeting will receive tickets for the book raffle. After the meeting is over, you can write your name on the tickets and deposit them in containers representing each book you want to take a chance on.

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PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION (FRI EVE)

After the business meeting, socialize with other attendees over food and drink (cash bar), location TBA
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FRIDAY EVENING SOCIAL

We propose two itineraries following the President’s reception; it is up to individuals to choose the option they prefer (in both cases, these areas are very safe and you can walk alone or in groups):

  1. walk over to pubs or restaurants on Elgin street (we recommend: MacLaren’s, Manx, Lieutenant's Pump or other); or later for nightclubs: Maxwell’s and the Firestation
  2. take a short taxi ride (about 10-13$; 4 people can share a taxi) to the “vieux Hull” to live a francophone experience on Laval Street (restaurants: Pizzazza, Troquet; pubs: Café des 4 jeudis, Troquet, Ou-Quoi, Pêle-Mêle; nightclub: le Bop)
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ALAN INGHAM KEYNOTE ADDRESS (SAT MORN)

Pirkko Markula, Univeristy of Alberta, Canada
"Body-Movement-Change: Reflections through Foucault and Deleuze"
Pirkko Markula’s research interests include poststructuralist, particularly Foucauldian and Deleuzian, analysis of women’s fitness and dance, ethnography, autoethnography, and performance ethnography.
Why engage in socio-cultural research around sport and physical activity when the calls for evidence-based research on health interventions are more visible than ever? Who needs such critical knowledge(s) in the current society where economic resources devoted to research are becoming scarce? What impact can qualitative research on physically active bodies have on the contemporary culture? These are questions many of us in sport sociology struggle to answer in order to justify and legitimate our field. In this talk, I reflect on these questions through and against my own poststructuralist research on health and physical activity. I draw from Michel Foucault’s technologies and Gilles Deleuze’s rhizomatic philosophy to examine possible ‘relevances’ for socio-cultural research on physical activity. More precisely, I employ Deleuze’s concepts of assemblange and Body without Organs to examine how the moving body might act as a social force to change how health and physical activity are understood.
Presider: TBA
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SATURDAY EVENING OUTING

Head on to the Byward Market : highly touristic, many restaurants, pubs and nightclubs (http://www.byward-market.com/)

  1. our suggestions for fine dining restaurants
  2. Other restaurants, pubs and nightlife: take a stroll and choose among the various options such as the following cheaper eateries: Chez Lucien, Lone Star, Royal Thai, Ahora Mexican Cuisine, Clock Tower Brew Pub, Dunn's
    3. A suggestion for live music on Saturday: Rainbow Bistrow, 76 Murray St, (http://www.therainbow.ca) will feature a show by the winner of the Canadian blues album of the year, http://www.julianfauth.com/rong

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