We are pleased to inform that Nottingham Trent University has been selected to host the 2011 annual conference of the Association for the Study of Sport and the European Union. Following a very succesful conference in Gent in 2010, Sport&EU returns to the United Kingdom for its sixth annual conference, which will be held at Nottingham’s Conference Centre on 30 June and 1st July 2011. Please record these dates in your diaries, as we would like to see as many of you as possible in the beautiful sourondings of Nottingham city centre next summer.
The conference will be organised by Nottingham Trent University’s Schools of Education and Law under the title ‘Reflections on Lisbon – past, present and future’. The conference will aim at analysing (from an interdisciplinary perspective) the development of EU sports policy under the new provisions in the Lisbon Treaty. The timing of the conference could not be better, as it is quite possible to coincide with the legislative debate of the new sports programme that the European Commission shall propose towards the end of 2010. As usual, the conference will feature a mixture of research panels, keynote speakers and social activities. We hope to build in the tremendous success of our 2010 conference, where we welcomed 52 delegates from accross Europe for two days of very interesting and stimulating debates. Sport&EU and the conference organisers will issue a call for papers and panels in due course. Please consult this website regularly for more information on the conference and the call for papers. The Sport&EU committee would like to congratulate the local organisers, David Hindley and Simon Boyes, for their excellent proposal. We are sure they will deliver a conference of outstanding quality for our members. Similarly, the Sport&EU committee would like to thank all the other institutions that were interested in hosting our 2011 conference. We received a large number of high quality proposals and it was a tough decision to select just one. We hope that the interest in organising Sport&EU conferences remains high and would like to encourage our members to consider the posibility of applying to organise the 2012 conference once the process is open.
