Sport History Unit
News
08 September 2009
School of Sport and Exercise Science - Sport and Culture Group Research Seminar
1.30-2.30 pm, Friday, 11 September 2009, Room A432, Footscray Park, Victoria University
Presented in association with the Sport History Unit, the Football Studies Unit, the Football Research Collective and the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Society for Sports History.
Details of the seminar are as follows:
'Beginnings of a Switch Hunt: The Strange Case of the Slavia-Victorian Football League Game'
Karmichael Hunt's code-switching has caused a great deal of media interest and speculation. Victoria University’s Ian Syson shines a light on the switch by revealing an example from 45 years ago when Jack Dyer was instrumental in getting a team of Victorian Football League stars to shift to soccer for an afternoon. What does this case study have to teach us about contemporary code-switching?
Ian Syson teaches professional writing and literary studies in the School of Communication and the Arts at Victoria University. He is writing a history of soccer in Victoria.
All welcome - Seminar inquiries to Rob Hess.
19 August 2009
INTERNATIONAL SPORTS STUDIES CONFERENCE
Sport and the Pacific Region: Cross-Cultural Currents II - University of the South Pacific, Cook Islands Campus
16-18 September 2009 [Note change of dates]
FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (EXTENDED DEADLINE)
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 non-Pacific 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.
The conference organizing committee is pleased to announce Mr Kevin Iro as the keynote speaker. Kevin will speak on the topic: 'Sport: A Vehicle for Change'.
Potential delegates, presenters and sponsors should revisit this page where further details will be posted. Please note that due to unforeseen circumstances the dates for the Conference have been moved forward to 16-18 September 2009. Links to documents below have been altered to reflect this change.
Click here or the Conference flyer.
Click here for instructions on how to submit an abstract for the Conference.
Click here for the Conference registration form. The new 'early-bird' deadline is 28 August.
Click here for a draft of the Conference program.
Click here for accommodation options in the Cook Islands.
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 EXTENDED deadline for abstracts is now 04 September 2009.
7 February 2008
To see a copy of the abstracts from the first 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).
1 January 2008
Some of the major collaborations and initiatives that members of the Sport History Unit are involved in include the formation and convenorship of the Football Research Collective, membership of the Executive of the International Society of Football Scholars, the founding and editing of the Bulletin of Sport and Culture, membership of the committee that hosted Sporting Traditions XV (the 2005 biennial conference of the Australian Society for Sports History), and membership of the committee that hosted the International Sports Studies Conference at Victoria University (2006).
This website page was last updated on 02 February 2010