IAPS Newsletter The Official Newsletter of the International Association of Philosophy of Sport 2003, Spring

In this issue,

Editor’s Note:     Please read and respond to the following:

1. President's Message

2. Proposed Constitutional Revision

3. Call for Papers, 2003

4. IAPS 2003. University of Gloucestershire, UK, annual meeting and conference

5. News from Journal of Philosophy of Sport

6. Meetings, Executive Session, Penn State Conference

7. Meetings, Business Meeting, Penn State Conference

8. Other News, Announcements

9. IAPS Membership Forms.

10. About IAPS and Executive Board

President’s Message

Sigmund Loland, President of IAPS

Dear IAPS-members,

In my address in the fall newsletter, I listed a few things that we should give priority.

One was the work of the Honors, Award and Future Sites committee (currently consisting of Cesar Torres with the assistance of myself) on the possibility of arranging our 2004 conference in conjunction with the ICSSPE-organized Pre-Olympic Congress in Thessaloniki, Greece. On the advice of Professor Klissouras, who is the President of the Scientific Committee and who is supportive of our field, I have mailed the local organizer with questions concerning the practicalities of the conference. I am still waiting for a reply  and without a local organizer a conference would be difficult.

We should definitely take part in the conference with sport philosophy papers. Indeed, the Scientific Committee has accepted some sessions based on proposals from IAPS members and they will welcome more sport philosophy papers. However, in order to be able to accept a full number of papers reviewed by IAPS-members and to do other business that belongs to our annual meetings, we should probably arrange the 2004 IAPS conference on an alternative site. (We did the same thing in Australia in 2000 with an IAPS conference in Melbourne and the Pre-Olympic Congress in Brisbane.) I am following up on such alternatives these days. I will keep you informed of the development.

Another important business concern of IAPS is the vote on constitutional amendments, among them the proposal for a two-year Presidency and for new officer positions. We have not yet arranged the final vote on the amendments and they will take place now. At the business meeting at Penn State, the amendments were approved by a two-thirds majority. What is left now is a mail ballot among all members of the Association in which we need a two-third majority (art XII, sect. 2).

I have spent some time trying to figure out how the new elections will be. With the help of Nick (who, of course, makes everything clear as usual), this is the outline:

If the membership ratifies the constitutional amendments, things will look as follows:

We are now into a period with a two-year Presidency. In order to ensure some continuity in key elected positions, the first President (Jan Boxill) will serve a two year term (2003-05) and the President will thereafter be elected in odd numbered years. Persons elected to the new positions of Conference and Elections Chair will initially serve for only one year (2003-04) and thereafter be elected in even numbered years for a two-year period. The Future Sites Committee is supposed to consist of three members in rotating three-year terms so that a vacancy comes open each year (art VI, section 1). As of today, Cesar Torres is the only member here. By electing one new member in 2003 and another new member in 2004, we will be back on track.

The first call in this process is yours. We need nominations!  We ask you all to consider the suitability of potential candidates and to inform me of persons in good standing within the association that you wish to nominate to serve as officers of IAPS.  Email Sigmund.loland@nih.no with your suggestions as soon as possible or before April 15.  In other words, in 2003, and based on nominations from the membership, we will elect

·        two Members-at Large for two-year renewable terms (as usual)

·        a Conference chair (previous President-Elect) for a one year term

·        an Election Chair (previous Past-president) for a one year term

·        one Member of the Honors, Awards and Future Sites Committee for a three-year renewable term.

The Executive Council will nominate candidates for a new Secretary Treasurer (Alun has now served a three year term) and Newsletter Editor (Sharon has served her two year term) and the membership will vote for these offices in 2003 too.

For a description of officer duties, please see the constitutional amendments, upon which you will soon vote and to which you will find a link in this newsletter.

As the members of the IAPS, I hope all of you will take the nomination and election processes seriously. It takes a few minutes of your time to nominate and later vote. After all, active participation in elections is a critical sign of the vitality of democratic association.

Best wishes for a good spring term, Sigmund Loland 

IAPS 2003 CONFERENCE
Call for Papers

Jan Boxhill, President-Elect

The International Association for the Philosophy of Sport invites the submission of abstracts to be considered for presentation at the 2003 IAPS meeting. It will take place at Cheltenham, England from Thursday, September 18 to Sunday, September 21. More details about the conference will follow in upcoming newsletters.

Abstracts are welcome on any area of philosophy of sport, including metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics and ethics, and from any theoretical approach, including analytic philosophy and critical theory. In addition to abstracts for papers, proposals for round table and panel discussions, including a tentative list of participants, are also welcome and should follow the same format as paper abstracts.

Abstracts should be 300-500 words long and must be received by April 1, 2003. The preferred mode of submission is by e-mail. Please send your abstract as an attachment, preferably in Word. Contributors who do not have access to e-mail should feel free to send a hard copy instead.

Please submit e-mail copies of abstracts to jmboxill@email.unc.edu
Please send hard copies (only if e-mail is not available) to:

Jan Boxill
Department of Philosophy
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3125
USA

FAX: 919-962-6094

Abstracts will be reviewed by a program committee of three peers in IAPS. Contributors will be notified about the acceptance or rejection of their abstracts by May 15, 2003

News from Journal of the Philosophy of Sport

Nicholas Dixon, Editor

Volume XXX, issue 1 is in place for an on-time publication in May.  It contains seven articles, four of which are written by authors who have never before published papers in JPS.  This is a very encouraging sign.   

We now have up and running an online review system (JORS), which is the preferred method of submission.   With this system, authors submit papers online, and referees access manuscripts and submit their comments online.  In turn, authors can access the referees’ and editor’s comments online.  The savings in time and postage are significant for all concerned.  To submit papers online, please visit the JORS web site <http://www.humankinetics.com/jors/> and follow the instructions for authors.  You will be asked to carry out a very simple registration process.  Submissions should be made as Word or RTF (Rich Text Format) files.  For authors without internet access or those who do not wish to use online review, we will still accept hard copy submissions, as in the past.

 We still have space remaining in the fall 2003 issue (Vol. XXX, issue 2).  I urge all of you who have papers that are nearing completion to finish them up and submit them with all speed.  If we receive them very soon, especially if they are submitted through JORS, we may be able to place accepted manuscripts in this year’s fall issue.   

IAPS 2003:  University of Gloucestershire, UK

31st Annual Meeting of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport

 The Leisure & Sport Research Unit http://www.glos.ac.uk/lsru/ at the University of Gloucestershire, UK, would like to welcome you to the annual IAPS conference from 18 - 21st September 2003.  The University has four main campuses, three in Cheltenham and one in Gloucester.  The conference will be held at the Park Campus in Cheltenham.  Please click on these links for information about the campus, travel, maps, Cheltenham town and the surrounding area http://www.glos.ac.uk/uog/content.asp?sid=2 and http://www.glos.ac.uk/lsru/content.asp?sid=4

 England's Regency spa town has been welcoming visitors for nearly 300 years.  Cheltenham became a spa town in 1716.  Tradition has it that the first medicinal waters were discovered when local people saw pigeons pecking at salty deposits which had formed around a spring.  The town received Royal patronage in 1788 when King George III visited the town to drink the waters.  This contributed to the rapid development of Cheltenham as a fashionable spa between 1790 and 1840.  The heritage of that earlier era can still be seen today in the town's Regency architecture, with intricate ironwork a feature of distinctive town house facades.  Cheltenham is the most complete English Regency town.  And you can still take the waters at the Pittville Pump Rooms!

 Cheltenham is also a cultural centre of international repute, offering a broad variety of entertainment for visitors including excellent theatre, music, dance and comedy, antique and collectors' fairs.   

 For the sports fan, Cheltenham is known as the home of National Hunt horse racing; there are fine golf courses throughout the region; the premier tennis club in the county is located in Cheltenham, and;

the county boasts one of the top rugby teams in the country in Gloucester Rugby Club.  Cheltenham is also in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.  With thousands of miles of paths, the Cotswolds present walkers and ramblers with unrivalled opportunities to experience the English countryside.  If you want to explore the region's history and heritage some of the attractions you can visit include the Pittville Pump Rooms, Sudeley Castle, Hailes Abbey, Prinknash Abbey and Pottery, and Holst's Birthplace Museum. 

 For further information about what to do and see in and around Cheltenham and the Cotswolds please visit Cheltenham's tourist information website www.visitcheltenham.gov.uk

 The Organising Committee

Mike McNamee, Heather Sheridan, Alun Hardman, Carwyn Jones

IAPS Executive Session Minutes: Penn State 2002

For Minutes of the Executive Session of IAPS, click here.

IAPS General Business Meeting Minutes:  Penn State 2002

For minutes of the General Business Meeting of IAPS, click here

Text of Constitution Revision

Please click here for a review of the Constitution Revisions slated by IAPS. You will be receiving a mail ballot for your vote on these revisions shortly.  Please respond.

Call for Nominations

IAPS can only function if we, as her members, are dedicated to her healthy survival.  We, the executive board, request nominations for officers in 20003.  Email Sigmund.loland@nih.no with you suggestions:  Nominations for Officers: 

·        two Members-at Large for two-year renewable terms (as usual)

·        a Conference chair (previous President-Elect) for a one year term

·        an Election Chair (previous Past-president) for a one year term

·        one Member of the Honors, Awards and Future Sites Committee for a three-year renewable term.

In accordance with Article VI of the Association’s Constitution, The Honors, Awards, and Future Sites Committee is inviting the membership to nominate candidates for the following awards: Send to Cesar Torres at:  crtorres@brockport.edu

· "IAPS Distinguished Scholar Award"

· “IAPS Honorary Member”

In identifying candidates consider qualities and experiences that make these scholars suitable for the award for which they are being nominated. Keep in mind that for the “Distinguished Scholar Award” the nominees must have contributed eminent manuscripts to the philosophic literature concerning sport for at least five years and need not be a member of the Association. Please include the nominee's name, affiliation, address, phone number, the award for which he or she is being nominated, and a brief description of the rationale for the nomination. Send your nominations to Cesar Torres at:  crtorres@brockport.edu

Announcements:

Ohio State Conference in Sport Philosophy (USA)

International Conference on Gene Technology in Elite Sports