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Sports Studies Caucus
Why Sports Studies?
Because sports have long held a prominent place in American culture.
Because American Studies scholars often come to sports-centered projects out of larger questions about identity, politics, history, and narrative.
Because sports, far from marginal, can profoundly impact Americans of all ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, classes, and ages.
Because sports-interested scholars of diverse methodological backgrounds can most productively engage each other’s work under the multidisciplinary auspices of American Studies.
For these reasons and many more, we have established the Sports Studies caucus—creating a legible place in the academy for scholars interested in critically considering the roles sports play in American culture. Possessing, as we do, a diversity in critical methodologies that is both inclusive and illuminating, the members of the Sports Studies caucus are dedicated to a consideration of sport that relates to issues of broader relevance: enriching and deepening connections between our work and the work of our not-so-sports-inclined colleagues.
Sports resonate widely in American society at large, and that resonance attracts the intellectual energies of scholars from across the academic spectrum. Rather than remain scattered, those energies deserve a designated forum in American Studies. That forum is the A.S.A.‘s Sports Studies caucus.
Won’t you join us? E-mail Noah Cohan at [ncohan@wustl.edu]
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ASA 2013 Sports Studies Panel Lineup
The Sports Studies Caucus is pleased to announce that two affiliated panels have been selected for the 2013 ASA Annual Meeting Washington, DC. They are listed below. The conference schedule remains TBA.
“Sport and the Geography of Debt”
Panelists:
Rachael Miyung Joo, Middlebury College
Roberta Newman, New York University
Frank Guridy, University of Texas at Austin
Daniel A. Gilbert, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Adrian Burgos, Jr. (chair), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Penalties, Sanctions, and Fines: Discourses of American Sports Gone Afoul”
Panelists:
Simon J. Bronner, The Pennsylvania State University
Jennifer Doyle, University of California, Riverside
John Bloom, Shippensburg University
Michelle Slaughter, Texas Woman’s University
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ASA 2013 Panel Proposals
The Sports Studies Caucus of the American Studies Association seeks panel proposals for the 2013 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, November 21-24, 2013.
Possessing, as we do, a diversity in critical methodologies that is both inclusive and illuminating, the members of the Sports Studies caucus are dedicated to a consideration of sport that relates to issues of broader relevance: enriching and deepening connections between our work and the work of our not-so-sports-inclined colleagues. We seek proposals that examine the wider cultural resonances of sport even as they address the 2013 Annual Meeting theme: “Beyond the Logic of Debt, Toward an Ethics of Collective Dissent.”
Have a panel idea? Visit our web page (http://www.theasa.net/caucus_sports_studies/) or Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/groups/135180959965247/) to seek like-minded presenters. Questions? Contact Noah Cohan at [ncohan@wustl.edu]. Panel proposals submitted by Jan. 14 at 8 p.m. ET will be considered for caucus sponsorship by a vote of our members. To be considered, please e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
with a list of panelists and an abstract of 300 words.
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ASA 2012 is underway!
Join us at these events of interest to our caucus!
THURSDAY, November 15
5:00-6:45 p.m. (Room 209a) - Documentary Screening and Director’s Discussion with Bernardo Ruiz: Roberto Clemente (Rob Ruck)
FRIDAY, November 16
12:00-1:45 p.m. (Room 102b) - More than a Game: Global Sports, Exotic Bodies, and Contested Spaces (David Leonard, Kathy Jamieson, Thabiti Lewis, Jose Manuel Alamillo, Noah Cohan, Michael Willard)
2:00-3:45 p.m. (Room 209a) - Examining the Dimensions of Sport within the Empire of American Studies (C. Richard King, Amy Bass, John Bloom, Daniel Nathan, Michael Oriard)
4:00-5:45 p.m. (Convention Center Foyer) - Business Meeting of the Sports Studies Caucus
SATURDAY, November 17
8:00-9:45 a.m. (Room 202b) - Sport and Empire: from the Caribbean to MacArthur Park (Theresa Runstedtler, Lara Putnam, Daniel Gilbert, Jennifer Doyle)
SUNDAY, November 18
2:00-3:45 p.m. (Room 102c) - Sports, Blackness, and the Body Politic (Adrian Burgos, Joel Nathan Rosen, Roberta Newman, Millery Polyne, Frank A. Guridy)
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ASA 2012 Sports Studies Event Schedule
As you may have heard, the ASA 2012 schedule has been released. Events of interest for Sports Studies Caucus members are listed below (full panel abstracts after the jump).
THURSDAY, November 15
5:00-6:45 p.m. (Room 209a) - Documentary Screening and Director(tm)s Discussion with Bernardo Ruiz: Roberto Clemente (Rob Ruck)
FRIDAY, November 16
12:00-1:45 p.m. (Room 102b) - More than a Game: Global Sports, Exotic Bodies, and Contested Spaces (David Leonard, Kathy Jamieson, Thabiti Lewis, Jose Manuel Alamillo, Noah Cohan, Michael Willard)
2:00-3:45 p.m. (Room 209a) - Examining the Dimensions of Sport within the Empire of American Studies (C. Richard King, Amy Bass, John Bloom, Daniel Nathan, Michael Oriard)
4:00-5:45 p.m. (Convention Center Foyer) - Business Meeting of the Sports Studies Caucus
SATURDAY, November 17
8:00-9:45 a.m. (Room 202b) - Sport and Empire: from the Caribbean to MacArthur Park (Theresa Runstedtler, Lara Putnam, Daniel Gilbert, Jennifer Doyle)
SUNDAY, November 18
2:00-3:45 p.m. (Room 102c) - Sports, Blackness, and the Body Politic (Adrian Burgos, Joel Nathan Rosen, Roberta Newman, Millery Polyne, Frank A. Guridy)
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ASA 2012 Sports Studies Panel Lineup
The Sports Studies Caucus is pleased to announce that four affiliated panels have been selected for the 2012 ASA Annual Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico! They are listed below (full panel abstracts after the jump). The conference schedule remains TBA.
Examining the Dimensions of Sport within the Empire of American Studies (C. Richard King, Amy Bass, John Bloom, Daniel Nathan, Michael Oriard)
More than a Game: Global Sports, Exotic Bodies, and Contested Spaces (David Leonard, Kathy Jamieson, Thabiti Lewis, Jose Manuel Alamillo, Noah Cohan, Michael Willard)
Sport and Empire: from the Caribbean to MacArthur Park (John Nauright, Rob Ruck, Lara Putnam, Daniel Gilbert, Jennifer Doyle)
Sports, Blackness, and the Body Politic (Adrian Burgos, Joel Nathan Rosen, Roberta Newman, Millery Polyne, Frank A. Guridy)
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