Sport&EU (the Association for the Study of Sport in the European Union) together
with the Department of Politics, International Relations and European Studies at
Loughborough University (and thanks to a contribution from The Sports Sciences Department at Loughborough University) organises on 30 June and 1 July a workshop on 'Sport and the
European Union, 10 years after Bosman: the situation and the perspectives'.
The workshop aims to assess the origins, current status and possible future
developments of the European Union's involvement in sport-related matters and to
review the state of academic research on the topic, ten years after the Bosman
ruling. The objective of the workshop is to have a lively debate and exchange of
ideas on the topic. Discussants will be invited to give even more feed-back to paper
givers.
The organisers invite submission of abstracts on the theme of the workshop that fall
into the following categories: 'Sports policy and governance', 'Sports law and
regulation' and 'Sports in society'. The organisers would particularly like to
encourage papers that do not only focus on football and that come from a wide range
of academic perspectives. Theoretical contributions are welcome as well.
Papers presented at the workshop will be considered for inclusion in a special issue
of the on-line Journal of Contemporary European Research (JCER) to be published in
2007, which will be discussed during the workshop.
In the medium term, this and other future workshops of Sport&EU are also intended to
provide the basis for a text book on the EU and Sport.
Abstracts (no longer than 250 words), together with the author's institutional
affiliation and contact details should be sent before 15 March 2006 to
workshop@sportandeu.com