2026 ASA Sports Studies Caucus Schedule

Thursday, October 22

Movers and Shapers: Athlete-Scholars on Playing, Thinking, and Critical Sports Studies | Thursday, 10/22 10:15-11:45 am | Palmer House, Floor 3, Salon 9 [Roundtable]

The Sound of Victory: Music, Sport and Society | Thursday, 10/22 12:00-1:30 pm | Palmer House, Floor 3, Crystal [Roundtable]

The Sports Studies Monograph: Improvising a New Publishing Paradigm | Thursday, 10/22 3:30-5:00 pm | Palmer House, Floor 3, Salon 5 [Roundtable]

Friday, October 23

Queering the Everyday: Identity, Sport, and the Minor Improvisations of Queer Life | Friday, 10/23 8:30-10:00 am | Palmer House, Floor 3, Salon 10 [Panel]

“‘The Call Me the Zesty Hooper’: The Queer Aesthetic of Gen Z’s Black Male Athletes” Presenter: Charise Cheney | Friday, 10/23 10:15-11:45 am | Palmer House, Floor 3, Salon 2 [Paper]

“‘No, Pops’: Brittney Griner, Fatherhood, and the Politics of Black Masc Refusal” Presenter: Brandon J. Manning | Friday, 10/23 12:00-1:30 pm | Palmer House, Floor 7, Burnham 1 [Paper]

ASA SSC Business Meeting | Friday, 10/23 3:30-5:00 pm | Palmer House, Floor 3, Wabash 2

ASA SSC Social and Celebration of Books | Friday, 10/23 5:00-7:00 pm |2Twenty2 Tavern - 222 S. Wabash Ave. Chicago, IL, 60604

Saturday, October 24

ASA SSC Run Club | Saturday, 10/24 7:00-8:00 am | Meet in Palmer House lobby

Improvising and Negotiating Power In, Over, and Through Bodies: The Imperial, Gendered, and Racialized Olympics | Saturday 10/24 12:00-1:30 pm | Palmer House, Floor 3, Salon 10 [Panel]

“Sympathetic Magic: Improvisation and Enclosing Conformity in Sports” Presenter: John Pleming | Saturday, 10/24 1:45-3:15 pm | Palmer House, Floor 3, Salon 1 [Paper]

Sports, Labor, and the Global Politics of the Body | Saturday, 10/24 3:30-5:00 pm | Palmer House, Floor 7, Clark 7 [Panel]

Racialized Bodies, Athletic Experiences and Creative Exchange: Reflections from an Interdisciplinary Symposium about Sport | Saturday, 10/24 3:30-5:00 pm | Palmer House, Floor 3, Salon 7 [Roundtable]

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2026 ASA Annual Conference - SSC Edition