IAPS Newsletter
The Official Newsletter of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport
March, 2007
IAPS NewsletterThe Official Newsletter of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport March, 2007 |
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Editor’s Note: Please read and respond to the following:
Greetings to all,
With our annual conference still six months away, IAPS may not be on everyone’s mind, but there are lots of things going on this spring. Abstract deadlines and elections are coming up very soon, there are conferences of the BPSA in Leeds and APA in Chicago, and the IAPS brochure is back from the printer and ready for distribution (forward requests directly to me).
Our most pressing issue is the upcoming elections. A healthy IAPS depends on good leaders and we need candidates for the following offices: President, Members at Large (2), Newsletter Editor, Webmaster. We seek officers who reflect the diversity of our membership. Please don’t be shy about approaching your colleagues or volunteering yourself.
Another issue that will be on the ballot regards the Distinguished Service Award. Apparently, the criteria for the award were decided upon and put into use without making it into our constitution. Since the honor has already been awarded, we will follow precedent and place new nominees on the ballot. The official language will also appear on the ballot so we can go ahead and modify the constitution as previously planned.
In December, IAPS held its first session after a long hiatus at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Washington D.C. The group was small but the discussion was excellent. There was a panel on teaching sport-related philosophy courses featuring Jan Boxill, Mark Holowchak, and myself, plus papers by Paul Gaffney on athletic confidence and Joseph Lewandowski on boxing.
Jeff Fry will chair an IAPS session at the Central Division APA meetings on April 21, 2007, from 12-15-2:15 PM at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Illinois. Speakers include Seth Bordner, Joan Grassbagh Forry, and Michael W. Austin. These sessions provide a great opportunity for our members to present their work to a mainstream philosophical audience, and to attract more scholars to the philosophy of sport. A call for abstracts for the December 2007 Eastern Division Meeting in Baltimore was recently circulated; the deadline is April 30.
Plans for the Annual Meeting in Slovenia, September 19-22, 2007, are shaping up. The schedule includes sessions in both Ljubljana and Portorož with an optional excursion to Postojna Cave. The abstract deadline is April 1st –so don’t delay. The conference website is: http://www.fsp.uni-lj.si/filozofija/Eng/iaps2007.htm .
Our 2008 conference will be held September 11-15 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo Metropolitan University will host the event at the National Memorial Youth Center, which utilizes part of the Olympic Village from the 1964 Games. Onsite accommodation is offered at very low cost, making this a great opportunity for IAPS members to experience this great Asian city.
One of my goals as IAPS president was to make the organization more international. The variety of conference hosts indicates some success in that area, but it is just as important that philosophy of sport continues to thrive in its old stomping grounds. We remain a very small organization that depends on almost all of its members to be leaders and ambassadors for our field. Please get involved and encourage your friends. I look forward to seeing you all in Slovenia!
The due date for our 2006/6 subscription was 1st October 2006 – long since past. I will very shortly be putting together a list of members in good standing to send to Human Kinetics who will be sending out the April 2007 issue of the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport. If you are not a member in good standing I will not be able to include you on the list. The membership renewal form is on the website www.iaps.net. Please use it. It’s quick and painless - there is no easier way to pay!
If you’re not sure whether you’re a member in good standing please email me and I’ll check my records.
From time to time I circulate news about the association, conferences, seminars, events, research, vacancies, and so on. I have an up to date email list of all IAPS members so if any of you have any news or information you would like circulated, please email it to me and I will pass it on.
News from the Journal. Long time reviewers Simon Eassom, Akio Kataoka, Joseph Kupfer, and Mike McNamee have left the editorial board. We will miss their good work, contributions to JPS, and their fine support to the JPS. Reviewers put in much time and effort, we thank them for the dedication.
On the flip side, we have four new additions to the JPS editorial board. Grea! The new reviewers are:Paul Gaffney, St. John's University, Leslie A. Howe, University of Saskatchewan, Cesar Torres, SUNY Brockport, and Junko Yamaguchi, Tsuda College.
Make sure you are paid up on your subscription to IAPS, so that you don't miss an issue of JPS. The fall 2007 Issue of the JPS (Volume 34, Issue 2) will include a special section on Children and Sport. Full submissions must be received by April 30th to be considered for inclusion in this special section. Gabriela Tymowski will guest edit this section.
The spring
2007 issue (Volume 34, Issue 1) is in press now and should arrive in members'
mailboxes in late May/early June.
Click Here: Call for Papers - IAPS, Slovenia 2007, Portorož, Slovenija, September 19th and 22nd, 2007. For information on the conference site: The conference website is: http://www.fsp.uni-lj.si/filozofija/Eng/iaps2007.htm .
IAPS website
www.iaps.net has been
updated to provide members with the option of paying membership fees online.
Membership fees are due on October 1 of each year. Please renew your membership.
Go to the membership page
www.iaps.net and click on the link to the online secure payment
page. The fee for each membership category is listed in UK Sterling, US
Dollars, and Japanese Yen. The site currently trades only in Pounds
Sterling. This means that when you make your payment the amount will only be
shown in Sterling. Your bank statement should show the amount debited from
your account in the currency your bank account operates in.
A small handling charge has been added on to each payment. These charges are
unavoidable. They go to World Pay for handling the transaction. It is a
flat rate for paying by debit card. The credit card charge depends on the
membership category fee.
When you hit 'Make Payment' you should receive immediate confirmation of the
transaction by email: the amount, type of membership, etc. At the same time, IAPS
secretary Heather Sheridan and I will receive a similar email (but not your
credit or debit card details) so that membership records can be updated..
If you do experience any difficulties, spot any peculiarities, have any
questions or ideas for improvement, please email Heather at hsheridan@glos.ac.uk
Finally, please note that if you do not want to renew your membership online
then the option remains to continue paying with the old method by check.
Full instructions are on the website
Our dear friend Bernie Suits passed this past month. As Bill Morgan said so well, we all who knew him personally had many stories of his mis-adventures. Even so, he was such an important scholar to the field of sport ethics. As Thomas Hurka wrote in the introduction to Suits' text, The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia: "Though not widely known, Bernard Suits's The Grasshopper is one of the most remarkable philosophy books of the twentieth century. It's utterly unique, a book without peers. This is partly because of its style. Most philosophical works are sober and even ponderous, but The Grasshopper is wonderfully funny as befits its topic of games. You read it with a broad smile on your face, punctuated by loud guffaws: this is laugh-out-loud philosophy. But..it...is also completely philosophically serious, both in what it says and in how it argues for it." A couple years ago, Angela Schneider and her partner wrote a piece in which they discussed Suits' work - we all thought he had passed on - when what to our wondering eyes should occur - a missile from Suits' arguing in defense of his work and against Schneider and Butcher. It was classic Suits - out of the grave he hurdled a counter attack :-) We thought we might get him to attend an IAPS conference like the old days - but it was not to be. I first met Dr. Suits at a conference held at Trinity College in the 1970s while I was in graduate school and then later at a conference at University of Tennessee. He was a unique and remarkable individual - I'm sure at the conference in Slovenia we will all remember our stories. We miss you Bernie.
Call for Papers - Sport and Violence in Europe
About IAPSEstablished in 1972 as the Philosophic Society for the Study of Sport with its name changed in 1999. The purpose of the organization is to stimulate, encourage, and promote study, research, and writing in the philosophy of sporting (and related) activity; to demonstrate the relevance of philosophic thought concerning sport to matters of professional concern; to organize and conduct meetings concerning the philosophy of sport; to issue publications concerning the philosophy of sport; to support and to cooperate with local, national, and international organizations of similar purpose; to affiliate with national and international organizations of similar purpose; and to engender national, regional, and continental affiliates devoted to the philosophic study of sport. Executive Board: International Association of Philosophy of Sport President: l, USA, Heather Reid, USA, reid@mustang.morningside.edu Secretary Treasurer: Heather Sheridan, Great Britain, hsheridan@chelt.ac.ul Journal Editor: John Russell, Canada, Jsrussell@shaw.ca Conference Chair: Alun Hardman, ahardman@uwic.ac.uk Elections Chair: Terrence Roberts, Australia, Terence.Roberts@vu.edu.au Members at Large: Naofumi Masumoto, Japan, masumoto-naofumi@c.metro-u.ac.jp Ivo Jirasek, Czech Republic, jirasek@ftknw.upol.cz Carwyn Jones, Great Britain, crjones@uwic.ac.uk Cesar Torres, USA, crtorres@brockport.edu Webmaster: Andy Miah, UK, email@andymiah.net Newsletter Editor: Sharon Kay Stoll, USA, sstoll@uidaho.edu |