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SPORTING TRADITIONS XVI 27-30 June 2007
Sporting Traditions XVI is the biennial conference of the Australian
Society for Sport History. The event will be hosted by the Please visit the Conference Website for further information!
The tripartite theme for Sporting Traditions XVI is ‘Conceiving, locating, and narrating sports history’. These three verbs are, arguably, central to the craft of sports history today.
1) The term ‘conceiving’ is chosen to explore the roles of author imagination, construction, and individual perspective in history scholarship. The baggage of historians is much more than the photocopied documents they take home from archives. Should historians therefire identify their underlying ontological position, their epistemological assumptions, and indeed locate their work in a particular research paradigm?
(2) The term ‘locating’ is chosen to emphasise the importance of sources, sites, and places for history. These traditionally range from archived documents and images through to museums and artefacts. Additionally, sports studies researchers have utilised interview methods and oral testimony to glean memories and information not available in official repositories. Sports scholars have also become interested in human bodies as sites for research data – such as with ideas about embodied gender differences through sport and socio-physical perceptions of ‘race’ in sports performance.
(3) The term ‘narrating’ relates to the processes of story-telling in history and the multi-faceted role of authors as narrators. Social and cultural historians, like writers of fiction, can be guided by conventions associated with narrative performance - characters, emplotment and style. Should historians therefore be more cognisant of the rhetorical dimensions of history writing? How might authors benefit from a better understanding of history as a discursive practice?
Sporting Traditions XVI features three
overarching areas of analysis – ‘conceiving, locating and
narrating sports history’. Within this framework, particular discussion
options have been constructed and listed in the conference program.
Prospective speakers are required to conceive a talk to fit one of these
topic areas. This is a strategy to ensure that each of the conference themes
is systematically addressed, and that papers follow a logical sequence from
one topic to another. To submit abstracts, please click here!
Academic Presentations
Proposals to present academic papers will be accepted from 1 July 2006 until each of the thematic areas in the conference program is taken up. Nominations require submission of an abstract (max 250 words), which will be refereed anonymously by two academic historians. Please click here for a copy of the abstract template, which must be used for all abstract submissions. It should be forwarded to the Conference Manager, Dr Daryl Adair, via email attachment to SportingTraditions@canberra.edu.au under the subject heading ‘ASSH 2007 Abstract’. Before submission to referees, the anonymity of nominees will be protected by removal of text identifying authors. Nominees can expect to learn of the outcome of referees’ deliberations within two weeks of submitting their abstracts. Successful proposals will be included promptly in the Conference Program.
Student Presentations
Day 1 of the conference is devoted solely to student-led discussion, the contents of which are open and not subject to a refereeing process. Students may, therefore, deliver a work-in-progress from their postgraduate thesis or offer a summary of its key findings. Please click here for a copy of the abstract template for student presentations, which must be used for all abstract submissions. There is space in the program for 18 student papers. Academic supervisors are expected to write in support of a student intending to present, as per the document provided here.
Abstracts, Papers, Powerpoint
Subject to the refereeing approval process, presenters will then provide the Conference Manager with an updated abstract for submission into the Conference Program. That final document should be forwarded to the Conference Manager, Dr Daryl Adair, via email attachment to Daryl.Adair@canberra.edu.au under the subject heading ‘Updated ASSH 2007 Abstract’. In addition to an abstract, and at least 14 days prior to the conference, all speakers are expected to provide the Conference Manager with an electronic copy of their powerpoint slides (or equivalent). In the preparation of this e-document, speakers must follow the Presenter Guidelines document available here for download.* Alternatively, speakers may submit the text of a paper to be delivered, also taking into account the Presenter Guidelines.
Prof Allen Guttmann is one of the founding pillars
of academic sports history internationally. His research range, scope and
depth of analysis are admired universally. Prof Guttman’s
historical studies include analysis of the Olympic Games, sports spectators,
sport and imperialism, sexuality and sport, and women in sport. His major
books include From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports,
Columbia Univ Press, New York, 1978; Sports
Spectators, Columbia Univ Press, New York,
1986; Women’s Sports: A History, Columbia Univ
Press, New York, 1991; The Erotic in Sports, Columbia Univ Press, New York, 1996; Games and Empires,
Columbia Univ Press, New York, 1996; Japanese
Sports: A History, Univ of Hawaii Press,
Honolulu, 2001; and The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games, Univ of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2nd edition, 2002. Prof
Guttmann has recently been awarded the North American Society of Sports
History book prize for his Sports: The First Five Millennia, Univ of Massachusetts Press,
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Dr Markula, who is
originally from
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For a draft of the tentative program, please click here.
To register for the conference, please click here, download and print the form and return to the address noted on the form.
ASSH seeks to encourage student participation in its conferences. To this end, full-time or part-time secondary or tertiary students who are members of ASSH and present a paper at an ASSH conference may submit original receipts, evidence of their student status, and evidence of their current ASSH membership, and request in writing that the ASSH Treasurer reimburse registration and associated conference costs. A total amount of $3000 per biennial period shall be available for this purpose. A maximum of $500 for individual full-time students will be made available as a subsidy to cover registration and associated costs for applicants who are members of ASSH, and a maximum of $250 for individual part-time students will be made available as a subsidy to cover registration and associated costs for applicants who are members of ASSH. Should the number of requests for funding exceed the amount of available funding, subsidies will be allocated on a pro-rata basis.
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