The II Congress of History and Sport will be held May 30 and 31, 2013 at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. The conference is organized by the Grupo de História e Desporto (Group for History and Sport), from the Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC) of Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX of Universidade de Coimbra – CEIS20.
The year 2013 is the centenary of the Portuguese-Brazilian relations in football, a very important issue in both countries. In 1913 a Portuguese football team visited Brazil for the first time in history. To mark this event and to promote sport history research about the international relations between Iberian Peninsula and American countries, the II Congress of History and Sport will be dedicated to Sport in the Ibero-American Space with different perspectives on sport, including social, economic, political, religious, media, culture, ethics, cultural, artistic, structural and others.
Proposal submissions until February 15, 2013 are invited to: historia.desporto(AT)gmail.com, with submission results: March 15, 2013. Proposals shoudl have a title, abstract (500 words), 3 key-words and curriculum (200 words)
More details about the Congress can be found on the following websites:
http://congressodehistoriaedesporto.blogspot.com
http://www.ceis20.uc.pt
http://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/