H-Sport

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

The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the addition of Christine O’Bonsawin as coeditor of the Sport, Culture, and Society Series! uapress.com/obonsawin-name… #sporthistory @NASSSport @ussporthistory @JournSportHist @HNet_Sport

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

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

Call for Papers | On Horses – A Philosophy of Sports Conference | University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain, November 11–13, 2022. Call ends June 30, 2022 idrottsforum.org/call-for-paper…

#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!

@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. historynewsnetwork.org/article/180781

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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 sway.office.com/exIBNqoEf3chUA…

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: muse.jhu.edu/article/670741 @HNet_Sport @UKYHistory #twitterstorians #ICYMI

Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of The Crown Games of Ancient Greece by David Lunt uapress.com/forthcoming-cr… #sport #sporthistory #ancientGreece @JournSportHist @HNet_Sport

Now available! George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing’s First Black World Champion, 1870–1908 by @Jason_Winders. 25% off when you order: uapress.com/product/george… @historyauthor @JournSportHist @HNet_Sport @ussporthistory #boxing #sweetscience #sporthistory

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 uapress.com/product/separa… @ussporthistory @JournSportHist @HNet_Sport @SHR_HK

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!

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! uapress.com/product/battli… @EdgeofSports @JournSportHist @ussporthistory @HNet_Sport @NASSSport

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

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: asen.ac.uk/event/nationan… & spread the word!