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2009

• June The Visual Turn in Sports History University of Bristol. Send proposals of c.300-400 words to (Mike.Huggins@Cumbria.ac.uk or Mike.OMahony@bristol.ac.uk)
• July, 14-8th., ISHPES Congress, University of Stirling
• April, Australasian Cycling History Conference, Melbourne, Australia
• April 7, Recording Leisure Lives: sports, games and pastimes in 20th Century Britain', Conference organised by the University of Bolton, Bolton Museum & Archive Sevice, and the Leisure Studies Association.
• March 29-April 3, 2009, International Ski History Congress,“From Skiing to Snow-Sport: Cultures, Images, and Adventures”, Mammoth Lakes, California, Call for Papers, Update

2008

• November 14-15, 2008, LATINO/A USA: TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES / IDENTIDADES TRANSNACIONALES, Seminar at University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. magnussen@hist.sdu.dk
• 5-8 November, NASSS Conference, Denver, Colarado
• 20-22 November, The Social Impact of Sport Governance & Management , Università L Bocconi, Milano Contact scsportex@unibocconi.it
• 30 October - 2 November, Chicago, Illinois, SPORTIVE PERFORMANCE: THE BODY AND TECHNOLOGY Area , 2008 Film & History Conference "Film & Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond"
• 25th October, Historians on Sport Annual Conference, ICSHC,De Montfort University, Leicester
• 12th October, 10th Bi-annual Conference of the Lower Saxony Institute of Sport History
• 15-21st September, XIII European Committee for Sport History Int. congress, Gorzow, Poland
• 10-14 September Scientific Conference on Kinesiology, Zagreb, Croatia
• 5-7th September, BSSH Annual Conference, University of Brighton, Eastbourne (Instructions, Programme)
• August 5, 6, 7,, 9^th Biennial International Symposium for Olympic Research, Beijing,
• 26-29 July, ISSA Conference, Kyoto Japan.
• 17-18 July The Olympics: Politics & Protest, to be held at Leeds Metropolitan University
• 9-11 July Olympic City: London, Britain and the World - 1908, 1948, 2012
• 2-6th of July, 9th ISHPES Seminar, Tartu, Estonia Details
• 26-29 June, Sports Literature Conference, East Tennessee State University Contact shelly.sander@acu.edu
• 26-29 June, Society for Baseball Research Conference, Cleveland, Ohio
• June, "Gender, Mountain and Sports" , Rhone-Alpes (Lyon-Grenoble), France
• 23-26 May NASSH Congress, Lake Placid New York
• 23 May, Jeff Hill Lecture, Keele University, UK
• 20-22 May , "To Remember is to Resist:" 40 Years of Sport and Social Change, Toronto
• 16-17 May, Society for International Hockey Research Conference, Quebec City, Canada Contact: jpatrice.matel@simpatico.ca

2007

• 8th of December, Managing Athletes Conference, ICSHC,De Montfort University, Leicester
• 27th of October, Historians on Sport Annual Conference, ICSHC,De Montfort University, Leicester
• 1-3 October 2007, Samona, Sport and the Pacific Region - Cross Cultural Currents, Abstracts
• The Chicago Seminar on Sport and Culture, Schedule of Presenters 2007-2008
• 20-22nd September, XIIth International CESH Congress, Lorient (Bretagne, France) September 2007 Sport and the Arts: Construction and Reality - congress2007@cesh.eu. Call for papers: deadline for submission is 14th April 2007 http://www.univ-ubs.fr,http://web.univ-ubs.fr/cesh2007/
• August 29-31st, Sport and Christianity, York, England
• August 25-26, BSSH 25th Annual Conference, University of Stirling, Scotland

• July 31-August 5th ISHPES Congress, Copenhagen Brochure

• June 27-30, Sporting Traditions XVI, Canberra

• June, Sport and Working Class Culture , Brisbane, Austrlaia, Labour History Association/ASSH
• May 25-28., NASSH Congress, Lubboc, Texas

• May 28th - 30th, The Isle of Man TT Races: Heritage, Place and Spirit, Villa Marina, Isle of Man

• May 12th, Women Sport and Leisure, Worcester, UK

• May 5th “Representing Sport” – Exploring the literary turn in sport history, International Centre for Sport History and Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester
• April,13-15, Spinning Stories, Cycling and Cyclists in Austrlaisia, National Wool Museum, Geelong, Australia

• March European Sport and Literature Conference, Institute of Coaching and Sport Education of Semmelweis University in Budapest

• March 1-3, 3^rd International Globalization, Diversity, and Education Conference, Spokane , Washing to n

• March 1-3rd, Dawn of a Nw Era, International Cricket Conference, University of London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies . Programme, Booking Form
• February 1st, Northern Sporting Heroes , Leeds Metropolitan University

• February 16-17th, Sports History Ireland, Third Annual Conference

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2006

• October 28th England v Australia:  The Ashes  and All That
  October 21st Sport in German History, German History Society, London

• October 19-21st, 8th International Symposium for Olympic Research, University of Western Ontario, Canada

• Chicago Seminar on Sport and Culture Series 2006/7

• September 25, 'Football Fever 2006' - Identities and Allegiances', Victoria University Queen Street Campus, Melbourne, Australia.

• September 25th, Twickenham, England, Rubgy, Empire and Commonwealth: Afrikaners, Anglos and Springboks, 1906-2006 /Also click here

• September 17-20th, Sport and the Construction of Identities, CESH Annual Conference, Vienna, Austria

• September, 2-3rd, BSSH 24th Annual Conference, St Martin' College, Lancaster Booking, Programme

• August 23-27, 8th ISHPES Seminar, Ljubljana, Slovenia

• May 20th, 'England v. Germany 1966-2006: Football, History and National Rivalry', DeMontfort University, Leicester, UK

• May 19-22nd, NASSH Proceedings Glenwood Springs, Colorado Proceedings

• March 10-13, 13th Commonwealth International Sport Conference, Melbourne, Australia

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2005

• November 6-10th, Governance in Sport: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Copenhagen  

• October Sport and Religion: An Inquiry into Cultural Values

• 5th Annual Historians on Sport symposium at De Montfort University on Saturday 29th October 2005 

• Chicago Seminar on Sport History

• September ' Football Fever 2005 - Moving the Goalposts'. Essendon Football Club's Hall of Fame

• 12 September All Blacks and the 'Mother Country' 1905-2005, Museum of Rugby, Twickenham

• 7-11 September ISHPES Congress, Koln, Germany
  2-4 September BSSH Conference, Glamorgan, Wales

• July, 11-14, Sporting Traditions Conference of the Australian Society of Sport History, Melbourne

• July, 3-8, XX World History Congress, Sydney.

• June 14-16 Women and Football - Institute of Football Studies, Preston, UK

• 28-31st May, NASSH, Green Bay, Wiscoinsin - Proceedings

• Avril 29 et 30  2005, L’adhésion identitaire aux clubs sportifs,  l’Université Libre de Bruxelles

• March 18, E. C. Larma:  Mexican American Athletic And Coaching Pioneer, 1915-1998

• March Globalization and Sport in His to rical Context Conference, ( University of California , San Diego )

• February 8-10th, Sport and Alcohol: Understanding the Mix', Massey University, NZ.

• February 26, History of the Football Codes before c. 1880.

• February 19th 1st Conference on the History of Irish Sport

• February 2 - 6, 2005 Women and Sport: Before, During, and After Title IX An interdisciplinary symposium celebrating the past, present, and future of women’s sport, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio (Added 5/10/04)

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• 8-10th of December, Educational and Sociological Issues in Sports and Physical Education, Aarhus, Denmark

• 4th December, Anthropology of Sport Seminar, Leicester 

• October 28-30, 11eme carrefour d'histoire du sport, Gender and Sport, XIX-XX centuries,CRIS, Lyon, France

• October 30, Sport, Colonialism and Empire’, 4th Annual Historians on Sport Symposium, International Centre for Sports History and Culture, DeMontfort University, England. Further infomation: tcollins@dmu.ac.uk 

• October 21-23, Cultural Relations Old and New: The Transitory Olympic Ethos, International Centre for Olympic Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.

• September 23-26, European Committee for Sports History Congress, Crotone, Italy Theme: Meeting of Culture. Interaction, Distance, Influence: Relationship to Sports History.

• September 1&2nd, European Football: Influence, Change and Development, University of Central Lancashire. Details ejkelly@uclan.ac.uk

• September 2, Research in Sport in History – An Inter-University Seminar, University of Aarhus

• August, 23-29, Historical, Sociological, Psychological and Pedagogical Approaches, International Summer School for Young Researchers, University of Copenhagen

• August, 6-11,Sports Science Through the Ages, Pre-Olympic Congress, Thessalonika, Greece

• July, 5-9, ECSS, Clermond-Ferrand, France

• July 2 'Football Fever 2004 - Crossing Boundaries', Victoria Univesity's Footscray Park, Melbourne, Australia.

• May, 28-31, 32nd NASSH Congress, Pacific Grove, California Proceedings

• May 28-31 ISHPES Seminar 2004 Pacific Grove, California
• May 6-7, Roger Bannister and the Four-Minute Mile, University of Oxford, UK

• April 19th Institute of Historical Research, University of London

• April 16-18, BSSH Annual Conference, Leicester

• April 17-18th, Beyond the Torch: Olympics and the austrlian Culture, ASSH Conference, Kingston.

• March, 26-28, Women's Hockey and Gender, St Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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2003

• January, Social History Society Conference on Play, University of Leicester

• February, 24-26, 14th International Cycle History Conference, Canberra, Australia
  April, 2-4, The 1st Int. Conference and Festival on Traditional Plays, Games and Sports, Bangkok

• April, 11-13, BSSH Annual Conference, Southampton

• May, 27-30, NASSH, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Proceedings

• November, 21-23,  The State of Play – Sports History in Britain and Ireland, past, present and future, Belfast.

• July, 9-13 ISHPES, Urbino, Italy

• Football Fever Grassroots Conference, Australia

• 5 - 28 September 2003, 8th International Congress of the European Committee for Sport History (CESH),  IOA, Ancient Olympia/Greece.    Proceedings

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2002

• Chicago Sports History Seminars 2002
• January 20-24, Ski History Congress
• January 10-12 Sporting Cultures: Hispanic and European Perspectives, International Interdisciplinary Conference, Halifax Hall, University of Sheffield, 10-12 January 2002
• The Global Nexus Engaged: Past, Present, Future Interdisciplinary Olympic Studies, Sixth International Symposium for Olympic Research, University of Western Ontario, London (2002)
• March 15 "Freedom to Play-the Life and Times of Basketball's African American Pioneers, Talk and Exhibition, Penn State University
• March 25, Association Football: British Game, Global Passion, National Football Museum, Preston - For further information e-mail ejkelly@uclan.ac.uk
• April 13-14, BSSH Conference, De Montfort University, Leicester
• May 18 Black and Asian Pioneers of Stage, Screen and Sport, Camden Town Hall, London
• May 23-216, NASSH Congress
• June 18-23, Sport Ethics, Norway
• June 24-25th, 4th International Workshop on Football History and Culture, Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education, Oslo, Norway
• July 9-12, ISHPES Conference - Kanazawa, Japan  Proceedings
• July 20th-23rd  12th Commonwealth and International Scientific Congress, UMIST, Manchester, UK.

• September 9-11, Post-Olympism? Questioning Sport In The Twenty-First Century, Aarhus, Denmark  

• September 26-29, Sport and Ideology VIIth Congress of the European Committee for Sport History, Doubs, France

• October 26th Historians on Sport, International Centre for Sports
  History and Culture, De Montfort University Leicester

• November 14-16th, The 5th Symposium of the International Chair in Olympism ,- The Legacy of the Olympic Games : 1984-2000

• November, 1-3, 150 Years of 'Turnverein' in Davenport, Iowa