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Dear colleagues, We are assembling an issue of Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore dedicated to sport culture and games. We are expecting articles on different topics of sport and traditional games phenomena in heritage (fan movements and traditions, different outputs of sport culture in new media, sport folklore and semiotics, etc). The issue will be…

Faculdade de Letras – University of Coimbra, Portugal Sports and media is a very important research field in the Portuguese Group for Communication, Journalism and Public Space, working at the research institute of CEIS20 from University of Coimbra, in Portugal. In February 25, 2013, it’ll be organize the II Conference on Communication and Sports at…

Grupo de História e Desporto (Group for History and Sport), from the Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC) of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in a partnership with Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX of Universidade de Coimbra – CEIS20. Type of congress International congress with papers accepted in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French. Goals The…

Call for Papers: Sport and other Leisure Industries Special Edition of Sport in History We are seeking articles for a special edition of the journal Sport in History that examines the relationship between sport and other leisure and/or cultural industries. Although sport’s distinctiveness as a form of leisure, due to its emphases on physicality and…

The 30th Annual Conference of the British Society of Sports History, will take place Friday and Saturday, 7-8 September 2012. The conference will take place at the University of Glasgow, based in the scenic West End of the city. The conference will be open-themed. Papers should be a maximum of 20 minutes in length with…

XIV CONGRESS of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport – and XII BRAZILIAN CONGRESS for the History of Physical Education and Sport July 9-13, 2012, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilSport and Physical Education Around the Globe – Past, Present and Future CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for abstracts: January 8, 2012 Notice…