ISHPES – Marne-la-Vallée

The 2016 ISHPES Congress will be held at the University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée and National architecture school of Paris Malaquais with the partner organizations of the French Society for Sports History, Université Paris-Est, and LABEX Futurs urbains.

For the 17 th ISHPES Congress, researchers are invited to submit papers related to “Sites of sport in history” – these words being taken in their widest sense. Papers are expected to meet the following sub-themes or one of the three specific symposia:
Sub-themes
– Globalisation and glocalisation of sports cultures
– The spreading of sports cultures: acculturation and innovation
– Sports facilities: architectures and urban planning
– Outdoor sports in nature and cities
– Indoor sports and spatial segregation
– Sport as a contested space
– Gendered sports sites
– Sport in figurative space: art, literature, film
– Sports heritage and sites of memory
– Physical education and sport in schools/colleges/universities
– Welfare state and urban planning in sport
– Open paper
Symposia:
– Health promotion and sports sites
– Sports sites in closed institutions
– Conflict of land use in sports and tourist areas

You may download the Call for papers here: CFP ISHPES 2016