CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
In the Echoes of Reckonings: Hockey Conference 2025
June 17-19th, 2025
Fort Garry Hotel, 222 Broadway, Winnipeg, Canada
The Hockey Conference is a biennial event held at various locations throughout North America. The conference is committed to advancing dialogue and scholarship by bringing together a diverse and inclusive group of hockey scholars, sport leaders, professionals, and community members. The upcoming conference will be hosted in Winnipeg, Canada, by the Hockey Conference Committee, which includes a range of scholars, graduate students and community leaders from across Canada.
Hockey 2025 Conference Theme: In the Echoes of Reckonings
echoes, “sound repeated by reflection”; reckoning, “a settling of accounts”
Hockey continues to experience reckonings. While some incidents have garnered more media attention than others, questions about hockey’s deeper purpose abound: How might we, individually and collectively, reckon with a history of hockey that has contributed to acts of misogyny, violence, racism, homophobia, classism, and ableism? How might we reckon with realizing our entanglements and vulnerabilities in the context of hockey culture? In what ways are we implicated in narratives of hockey culture? People have begun to trouble the inheritances of hockey culture, and to recognize that the way the game has been understood and performed is not inevitable. We have witnessed these challenges through academic scholarship, through investigative journalism, through the activism of players, through the practical changes made by coaches, and through the policy changes enacted by leaders. Through this conference, we aspire to open up conversations and to cultivate conceptions of ice hockey that do not yet exist.
Although there is a conference theme, submissions that engage a range of themes are welcome for the conference. We are using the conference theme to organize the keynotes. We will also be using the conference theme for a journal special issue following the conferences. The theme is not intended to limit the topics people can speak about in their own presentations.
CALL FOR INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS & PANELS
The conference committee invites abstracts for presentations from scholars, industry practitioners, and community members. Presentations must take some aspect of hockey as a site for critical intellectual engagement and presenters can include, but are not limited to: physical therapists, members of performance laboratories, hockey operations personnel such as coaches and player agents, volunteers, independent community researchers, representatives of the non-profit and amateur sport sector, activists, authors and journalists, policymakers, and Indigenous knowledge keepers. Abstracts can include, but are not limited to, historical, empirical, conceptual, and artistic approaches to the sport. They can be completed pieces you want to share with a broader audience or works in progress that you would like to workshop.
Abstracts for the conference can engage with a variety of themes including, but not limited to:
Analytics
Business and economics
Coaching
Colonialism
Commodification
Community building
Embodiment and ability
Family
Gender and sexuality
Globalization
History
Literature
Management
Media
Popular culture
Race and ethnicity
And more…..
Please submit your abstract for a panel or individual paper using this link by November 15, 2024
Notes:
Applicants can only be the first (presenting) author on two submissions.
Presenting authors must register for the conference. We plan to open registration in December 2024 or January 2025.
We hope to let successful applicants know by December 2024 or January 2025.
At this point in time, presentations are expected to be in person but the committee will do its best to organize for online attendance to view presentations.
Please direct any questions that you have about abstract submission or using Google Forms to
thehockeyconference2025.ca
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