Ninth International Confernece on Sport & Society
- 2018 Special Focus - Sports Impacts: Reshaping Cities, Environments, People
- 19-20 July 2018
- Florida International University, Miami, USA
Days of paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters, and colloquia.
Delegates from all over the world who attended the Ninth International Conference on Sport & Society.
Countries represented.
Sports are forms of social organization. They depend upon, and are always supported by, institutional infrastructures. In what ways should we measure the material impact of sports on cities, environments, and their people? How might we consider infrastructures as agents of change, environmental, economic, and social?
Assistant Professor, Chaplin School of Hospatality & Tourism Management, Florida International University, USA
The Ninth International Conference on Sport & Society featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Associate Director for Sports Tourism, Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau, USA
Chief Running Officer/Miami Marathon Co-Founder, USA
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active academic interest in the conference area. The Award, with its accompanying responsibilities provides a strong professional development opportunity for each career academics. The 2018 Emerging Scholar Awardees are listed below.
Eastern Florida State College, USA
University of Connecticut, USA
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
The George Washington University, USA
Newcastle University, UK
Bryant University, USA
Brock University
Syracuse University, USA
Miami, Florida, USA
Virtual Posters present preliminary results of work or projects that lend themselves to visual representations. Download the posters below.
Lightning Talks are 5-minute "flash" video presentations. Click the button below to view the videos on our YouTube channel.