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H-Sport enables scholars around the world who are engaged in the historical, socio-cultural, and philosophical study of sport, physical education, and physical activity to discuss research and teaching interests, conferences and symposia, current issues, sources of funding, publishing, new data and collections, and other areas of interest to scholars.
CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE 1 DECEMBER 2019
ERC The Healthy Self as Body Capital & Science Museum International Conference
Locating Medical Television. The Televisual Spaces of Medicine and Health in the 20th Century
18-20 March 2020, Science Museum Dana Research Centre, London, UK
De Montfort University's International Centre for Sports History and Culture (ICSHC) and the Photographic History Research Centre (PHRC) are pleased to announce a Midlands 4 Cities funded PhD project, From Stoke Mandeville 1944 to London 2012
Get involved in this crowd sourcing project to map newspaper references to Irish women and any code of football. This project is pooling together all references researchers have come across related to Irish women in Ireland or abroad as players, participants or organizers. Read more about the project in this blog post: https://footballcollective.org.uk/2019/07/16/mapping-irish-football-get-involved/
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Sport History Review
“Issues in Transnational Sport History”
With the new academic year starting in many countries, it also marks the start of the academic job search season. As a reminder to H-Sport subscribers, H-Net offers a Job Guide which is updated almost daily as new job announcements are posted. Individuals can see the jobs posted from September 9-16, or browse all current job announcements. The Job Guide is free to the job seeker.
Hello colleagues,
I am writing to let you know about our latest "New Books in Sports" interview with Roy Hay, author of Aboriginal People and Australian Football in the 19th Century: They Did Not Come From Nowhere (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019). In our conversation, we discussed the origins of Australian Rules Football, indigenous competition in cricket and footy in the mid and late-19th century in rural Victoria, and the Marngrook debate.
H-Sport is pleased to announce the release of the latest Journal Watch for the third quarter of 2019. The Journal Watch identifies scholarly sport-related articles and book reviews published in five languages (English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese) during the last three months, and also surveys Italian-language publications on a biannual basis.
Olympika: International Journal of Olympic Studies invites graduate students to write a journal article review for our next issue (Volume 28, 2019). If interested, please contact the Journal Article Review Editor, Andrew B. Pettit at apettit3@uwo.ca.
**Hello H-Sport subscribers: The Lemelson Center especially welcomes project proposals that explore innovation in sports and sports technology as we are embarking on a multi-year exhibition and research program in this area. Thanks!
