Sport: Probing the Boundaries,

About the event

The symposium aims to bring together a community of scholars and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines and industries – sociology, cultural studies, philosophy, history, politics, urban studies, geography, psychology, sport science, and sports management – who are interested in exploring the significance and meaning of sport within modern societies and who would like to make a contribution to an inter-disciplinary understanding of sport in the twenty first century.

The symposium will also be a launch event for the inaugural meeting of The International Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sport, an organization that aims to establish a global collaborative network bringing together academics, professionals, practitioners, NGO’s and voluntary sector workers.

Key themes will include:

• Sport and social identity
• Ethics and sport
• Commerce and sport
• Sport and space
• Sport and popular culture
• Sport and fandom/celebrity cultures
• Commerce and sport
• Mega-events and sport
• Politics and sport
• History and modern sport
• Issues in sport science

In addition, the symposium schedule includes workshop sessions focusing on collaborative research opportunities and channels for publication, including a proposed academic journal.

Why should you sponsor?

Sport: Probing the Boundaries is an event with an established and successful history having convened over a period of 5 years at Mansfield College, Oxford as well as in Athens, Greece. The event has attracted a global audience coming from a variety of contexts, professions and backgrounds. 3 paperback books have emerged from the meetings.

Sponsorhsip of the event gives access to a unique interdisciplinary space where people from a variety of niche and specialist markets come together to share knowledge, expertise and experience. Often these are people with significant leverage inside the insttituions and networks they represent, with the event itself carrying a lasting resonance not only for the work they are doing but also in anticipating future meetings and collaborations.

Rob Fisher

I have been involved in creating innovative interdisciplinary programmes for over 30 years. Formerly Head of Philosophy and Course Leader for Theology at Westminster College, Oxford, I walked away from formal academia in order to concentrate on developing creative new possibilities for interdisciplinary work which ever encrouching business models were stifling in higher education. A former Fellow of Harris Manchester College in Oxford, I have also been a CEO of several companies before founding Inter-Disciplinary.Net and spending the next 18 years building 70 global interdisciplinary research projects, founding an interdisciplinary publishing house with 4 imprints and successfully gaining accreditation from the British Accreditation Council. I am Series Editor for a collection of interdisciplinary publications with Brill (The Netherlands) and have been an external examiner and consultant for a number of Universities, institutions and networks across the world. A passionate progressive rock fan, I write for two influential progressive music portals and collaborates on a weekly progressive rock radio show.

Contact the Organizer Contact the Organizer