H-Sport

Academic network for scholars in historical, socio-cultural, & philosophical study of sport, PE & physical activity.

[🎓MA in Sports Ethics and Integrity @MAiSI_Erasmus]

Prof. Alberto Carrio Sampedro (UPF) @precarrio presented ideas on the importance of democracy in athlete representation in Helsinki📝.

[Univ. of Arkansas Press @uarkpress]

The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the addition of Christine O’Bonsawin as coeditor of the Sport, Culture, and Society Series!

https://t.co/rFYOQkkrkB

#sporthistory @NASSSport @ussporthistory @JournSportHist @HNet_Sport

[Johanna Mellis @JohannaMellis]

People are BIG mad. Part of waiting 2-ish years was partly bc I knew the anti-trans backlash would be swift, harsh

Sorry for the anti-trans bigotry in y’alls replies 🥺

wondered when they’d go after my appearance, lol

I promise I’m good. Important to show this though, I think

[Theodora Dragostinova @theodora_dragos]

Another great project brought to completion: Rachel Hutchinson's MA thesis, The Battle for Peace in the Early Cold War: Soviet Press Coverage of the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Soviets athletes as peacekeepers + Stakhanovites & sports as ideology, w/ parallels today. @ramhutch

[The Editor @idrottsforum]

Call for Papers | On Horses – A Philosophy of Sports Conference | University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain, November 11–13, 2022. Call ends June 30, 2022 https://t.co/PV9aWkXyoQ

[. @PhysCstudy]

One last reminder that the deadline for Irish Sporting Lives is Monday 25th. Hosted by @UlsterSchSport, ISL is open to anyone studying the lives of Irish sporting heroes. https://t.co/9OYKYjRsPm @BritSportHisSoc @ceshSportHist @osborne_carol @HNet_Sport

[Johanna Mellis @JohannaMellis]

#NASSS2022 #NASSS2021 wonderful blur.

meeting peeps irl for 1st time @Derekcrim @_shireenahmed_ @letisha122 @JulesBoykoff @DearAdamSilver @courtmcox @jenfrytalks more: just ❤️❤️🤩

SO so humbled to see that our work @EndofSportPod resonates w/people 🙏🙏🙏. Talk ab motivation!

[. @PhysCstudy]

#PhDfairy @HNet_Sport @BritSportHisSoc @ISHPES @idrottsforum

@UlsterSchSport are offering a potentially funded PhD studying the role of lootboxes in the FIFA Video Game franchise. Please share widely as this is an exciting and interesting project!

https://t.co/1Ui9gI8wSn

[Harry Blutstein @harryblutstein]

@HNet_Sport Check out this article on the History News Network that gives an account of a protest by Tommie Smith and John Carlos, which they considered just as important as their iconic protest, which they executed five minutes later.

https://t.co/WQAf8TFo7x

[Equine History @Equine_History]

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[Professor Fiona Skillen @FionaSkillen]

Excited to announce this Call for Contributions for a new edited collection on the history of women's football in Britain and Ireland which I am co-editing with @HBee2015 & @GaryJamesWriter
Details via link 👇

Please share.⚽️
#WomenInSport #SportHistory
https://t.co/R69kDyPy75

[Kentucky Historical Society @KyHistSoc]

Football on your mind? 🏈 Check out #RegisterKHS article "On the Opposite Side of the Fence: The University of Kentucky & the Racial Desegregation of the Southeastern Conference" by Dr. S Zebulon Baker HERE: https://t.co/o3T9uXiCQI @HNet_Sport @UKYHistory #twitterstorians #ICYMI

[Univ. of Arkansas Press @uarkpress]

Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of The Crown Games of Ancient Greece by David Lunt

https://t.co/0VS5oYIA1f

#sport #sporthistory #ancientGreece @JournSportHist @HNet_Sport

[Univ. of Arkansas Press @uarkpress]

Now available! George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing’s First Black World Champion, 1870–1908 by @Jason_Winders.

25% off when you order: https://t.co/Z981m6AI6n

@historyauthor @JournSportHist @HNet_Sport @ussporthistory #boxing #sweetscience #sporthistory

[Univ. of Arkansas Press @uarkpress]

For more on these "separate games" see Separate Games: African American Sport behind the Walls of Segregation, edited by David K. Wiggins and Ryan A. Swanson

https://t.co/JmxUrvsbUW

@ussporthistory @JournSportHist @HNet_Sport @SHR_HK

[Brittany Reid @brittany_reid18]

I am beyond proud to share "Sidelines" with all of you.
This collection of sport poems was a labour of love, and I am endlessly grateful to @EmergingSport for publishing the #openaccess chapbook through JESS Press, available in digital and hard copy.
Check it out now!

[Univ. of Arkansas Press @uarkpress]

Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s by Peter Benson is our June Book of the Month.

50% off!

https://t.co/jdvha10PM3

@EdgeofSports @JournSportHist @ussporthistory @HNet_Sport @NASSSport

[Johanna Mellis @JohannaMellis]

On anti-Black racism and anti-migrant discrimination in Germany (Neukölln to be exact) and Italy in daily life & football.

@DDGCtweets @bcesn @CentralEuropean @Blackgermans @H_BlackEurope @HNet_Sport @JournSportHist @blacksportwoman @blacksoccerdoc

[Dario Brentin @DarioBrentin]

Interested in #nationalism and/or #sport, particularly in combination? Excited to announce an @asenevents discussion on the role of sport in nationalism research, which I'll be chairing on 07.06. at 15.30 CET. Join our stellar line-up: https://t.co/f8aPsIGQe8 & spread the word!