West Liberty University hosts worldwide conference | Information, Athletics, Careers

WEST LIBERTY — For the 2nd calendar year in a row, West Liberty College hosted the annual Conference of the Sport Literature Affiliation, which attracts attendance from about the globe. Presenters for the meeting, held nearly June 23-26, ended up from Australia, Canada, France, Eire, New Zealand, Poland, the United Kingdom, and every time zone in the United States.
The digital meeting was facilitated by WLU English professor Jeremy Larance, who also serves as the university’s assistant provost for educational innovation and strategic planning.
“I was delighted to host the 38th yearly Convention for the Activity Literature Affiliation for the next yr in a row, in a digital structure that authorized every person, no make a difference the journey restrictions in many international locations, to participate,” Larance reported.
In attendance have been professors, inventive writers, historians and journalists, according to Larance. Papers and readings were being in the region of activity literature: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama or film.
This year’s keynote speaker was Janice Forsyth, member of the Fisher Cree Initially Nation and affiliate professor in sociology and director of Indigenous research at Western College in London, Ontario. Her analysis focuses on Indigenous-settlers’ relations in Canada advised by the lens of sport.
Her 2020 monograph, “Reclaiming Tom Longboat: Indigenous Self-Resolve in Canadian Sport,” gained the 2021 North American Society for Sport Heritage Monographs Ebook Award.
The Sport Literature Association is an international business devoted to the review of activity in literature and society. Initiated in the 1980s, the organization now has a number of hundred customers around the entire world and sponsors an annual convention in a distinct North American place just about every summer season.









