News
08 May 2009
INTERNATIONAL SPORTS STUDIES CONFERENCE
Sport and the Pacific Region: Cross-Cultural Currents II
University of the South Pacific, Cook Islands Campus
28-30 September 2009
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The Cook Islands Campus of the University of the South Pacific (USP), with the support of major sponsors and partners, including the School of Sport and Exercise Science at Victoria University (Australia), is to host the second biennial international sports studies conference in the Pacific region.
Papers from the fields of sport - tourism, history, education, management, philosophy, law, business and comparative studies - are invited. Postgraduate student presentations are especially encouraged. The broad theme of the conference is ‘Sport and the Pacific Region: Cross-Cultural Currents’, although papers dealing with more specific themes and topics are welcome. It is anticipated that papers from the conference will be published in an edited anthology.
The Cook Islands, as the host nation for the Pacific Mini-Games (21 September – 02 October 2009), will be the site for the conference. The Cook Islands Campus of USP, situated in the beautiful capital city of Rarotonga, will be the conference venue, and delegates will have the opportunity to attend a number of elite sporting events that will be staged as part of the Mini-Games.
Potential delegates, presenters and sponsors should revisit this page where more details will be posted very soon.
Queries from local (Pacific Island) delegates should be directed to Andrew Minogue at pacificgamescouncil@nc2011.nc. Queries from international (outside the Pacific region) delegates should be directed to Rob Hess at Robert.Hess@vu.edu.au.
The deadline for abstracts is 15 August 2009.
14 April 2008
Information on the Victorian Amateur Football Association/Victoria University Football Studies Unit Football History Essay Competition for 2008 is now available by clicking here.
25 March 2008
Information on the Bulletin of Sport and Culture book review register is available here.
7 February 2008
To see a copy of the abstracts from the International Sports Studies Conference, held at the National University of Samoa, 1-3 October 2007, click here. The theme of the conference was ‘Sport and the Pacific Region: Cross-Cultural Currents’, and abstracts were extracted from the Bulletin of Sport and Culture, no. 28 (September 2007).