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NASSS 2025 Annual Conference
The 2025 NASSS Annual Conference took place November 6th - 8th. In previous years NASSS has been able to meet in one physical location and has been striving to build remote access to the conference. In light of safety and security concerns for members at the U.S. border under the current Presidency, the organisation made the decision to hold the 2025 annual conference for the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport in three sites:
- Seattle, WA, November 6-8 at The Westin Seattle
- Vancouver, BC, November 6-8 at UBC Robson Square
- Virtual, November 6-8
Land Acknowledgements
Vancouver
Vancouver is situated on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Most of British Columbia exists on the unceded lands of 198 First Nations (land that was never signed away to the Crown), and the province once operated 18 residential schools. With this acknowledgement, we remind settlers that Indigenous people have always been and continue to steward the land that we learn, live, and play upon. In 2019, the provincial government passed UNDRIP into law, which serves as the government’s framework for reconciliation. As part of British Columbia’s action plan, the province has provided funding to help support the revitalization of First Nation’s languages, reduce barriers for land acquisition, worked to restore Indigenous jurisdiction over child-and-family services, and implemented a new graduation requirement for Indigenous-focused coursework. These are small steps on the path towards reconciliation and, as an academic community, we recognize our complicity in ongoing settler colonialism and our responsibility to ensure that action plans are understood as relationship agreements rather than checklists to be completed.
Seattle
To know the Land and Water is to know her people and honour the sovereignty they hold.
This is a commitment the organization has made in its alignment with UNDRIP and the rights of Indigenous peoples. In this commitment, it is recognized that reconciliation begins in the past, not because of the amnesia imparted by a combination of time and settler colonial propaganda, but because it is a path to humility - to remind us that colonization, imperialism, and white supremacy are in the remnants of the institutions with which we conduct business and serve, as academics and practitioners - and reconciliation. Reconciliation provides a space to set ourselves against the present with a spirit of mind and body that authentically moves towards a future honoring Indigenous people, their ancestors and descendants, the Land we are guests on, and a pledge to ongoing collaborations with Tribes and Nations, their traditions, and their culture grounded in respect, community, and reciprocity.
Throughout the week, we are on the ancestral homelands of the Suquamish, Snoqualmie, Puyallup Tribes, Muckleshoot, Tulalip, and other Coast Salish Tribes, and recognize the 29 federally recognized Tribes in the state of Washington, as well as Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh Nations in Vancouver, and recognize that British Columbia exists on the unceded lands of 198 First Nations, land that was never signed away to the Crown.
These Tribes and Nations are the original stewards of the Land, encompassing the Pacific Coast of Turtle Island. Dispossession of this Land and forced removal of Tribes and Nations occurred through theft and the federal and provincial governments’ violation of treaties or lack thereof. This includes the Medicine Creek and Point Elliott treaties, foregrounding their continued fight to live and subsist on the Land, as with the Boldt Decision in 1974. This decision affirmed the treaty rights of Tribes in Washington State to co-manage and harvest half of the salmon and steelhead fisheries, a significant victory for fishing rights and tribal sovereignty.
In the Puget Sound, Tribes such as the Puyallup Tribe of Indians, who will be joining us at the conference to talk about their partnership with the Host City of Seattle for the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup, ask permission to come ashore. Their ancestors, when traveling by canoe to another territory, would stop offshore, announce their arrival, and offer respect to the Land and its people. It is a custom that the Puyallup Tribe continues to practice, both on and off the canoe. Upon arrival in Seattle, either by Land, Air, or Water, pause, reflect, and disclose to yourself that you are a guest on Land that communities have cared for time immemorial and that, while here, you are to be a steward of this Land along with the plants that grow, the animals that reside, and the Water that touches it.
I conclude this Land Acknowledgement by extending my gratitude to Travers, President-elect of NASSS, for the invitation to craft this Land Acknowledgment and with a call to action for NASSS members to engage in the practice of Seventh Generation thinking, the Great Law of the Haudenosaunee:
We now do crown you with the sacred emblem of the deer's antlers, the emblem of your Lordship. You shall now become a mentor of the people of the Five Nations. The thickness of your skin shall be seven spans -- which is to say that you shall be proof against anger, offensive actions and criticism. Your heart shall be filled with peace and good will and your mind filled with a yearning for the welfare of the people of the Confederacy. With endless patience you shall carry out your duty and your firmness shall be tempered with tenderness for your people. Neither anger nor fury shall find lodgement in your mind and all your words and actions shall be marked with calm deliberation. In all of your deliberations in the Confederate Council, in your efforts at law-making, in all your official acts, self-interest shall be cast into oblivion. Cast not over your shoulder behind you the warnings of the nephews and nieces, should they chide you for any error or wrong you may do, but return to the way of the Great Law, which is just and right. Look and listen for the welfare of the whole people and have always in view not only the present but also the coming generations, even those whose faces are yet beneath the surface of the ground -- the unborn of the future Nation.
(Art. 28, Constitution of the Iroquois Nation)
Apply this principle to your decisions: the energy you consume, the way in which you regard and interact with the Land, Air, Water, and natural resources that provide nourishment and shelter, and your relationships, especially between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, so that our relationships will be positive for our descendants and the Land, Air, and Water continue to sustain life.
waóhola,
Sean Seiler and Miruthula Queen Anbu
Resources
Nations and Tribes of Washington State: https://ais.washington.edu/nations-and-tribes-washington-state
Puyallup Tribe of Indians on Land Acknowledgments: https://www.puyalluptribe-nsn.gov/about-our-tribe/land-acknowledgement/
The Boldt Decision: https://wdfw.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2021-12/boldt_decision.pdf
Constitution of the Iroquois Nation: https://faculty.etsu.edu/history/documents/irioqconst.htm
Sport, Justice and Belonging: Critical Analysis and Worldmaking
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
- Arundhati Roy
If the Anthropocene proclaims a sudden concern with the exposures of environmental harm to white liberal communities, it does so in the wake of histories in which these harms have been knowingly exported to black and brown communities under the rubric of civilization, progress, modernization, and capitalism. The Anthropocene might seem to offer a dystopic future that laments the end of the world, but imperialism and ongoing (settler) colonialisms have been ending worlds for as long as they have been in existence.
- Kathryn Yusoff (2018), A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Key words: Justice, Social inequality, Worldmaking
Since its emergence as a site for wealthy white men to consolidate power during the development of capitalism in mid 18th century England, modern sport has been a contested site in terms of participation, representation, cultural symbolism and economic benefit. Ideas about what counts as ‘sport’ and how sport matters for identity, belonging and legitimacy are stitched into the mythical fabric of many nation states and animate national and global systems of social stratification and cultural conflict.
Despite declarations and protestations from global, national and corporate sporting bodies that sports are not political, sport has never been separable from power and politics. In its various forms it has served as both a tool for white/male/cisheteropatriarchal/racial capitalist domination and as a site of resistance to injustice both on and beyond the playing field. The history of sport, for example, cannot be told without attention to colonialism and postcolonialism. But neither can colonialism’s history be told without attention to sport. Substitute “white supremacy,” "racism,” “heteropatriarchy,” “homophobia,” “transphobia” or “organized religion” for colonialism and the relationship holds, however equivocally. Sport is global in reach and full of layers. Global sports mega-events and corporate sporting bodies put profit ahead of people and environmental sustainability and yet so many of us, in so many places, love sport/physical culture with great intensity and devotion, often grappling with the cognitive dissonance this brings about.
As sociologists we identify and analyze social systems for distributing material and cultural resources, from the local to the global, and the ways in which these systems are contested; we study the past to understand the present; and we craft stories of worlds we have never seen. Whether explicitly or implicitly; as critical sports studies scholars we are engaged in world making, meaning the process(es) by and through which the realities of social life are created, through both interactions and symbolic meanings. Given that sport has multiple and layered materialities and meanings, particular to time and place, the sociological imagination empowers us to engage with this complexity.
This is a crucial time for our field. The Sociology of Sport analyzes the relationship between sport and structures of power, domination and social control and contributes to world-making via engagements with activists and social movements. NASSS as an organization has a long history of critically interrogating the bases of inclusion/exclusion in sport and beyond, the role of sport role in normalizing the social structures of the nation, hierarchies based on race/gender/sexuality/ability/citizenship etc., and colonialism and postcolonialism in all its variations. We also have a strong track record of revering sport, highlighting its power and beauty and inviting each other to engage from this place of feeling.
The current world that has been made is a troubling one. Authoritarian and oligarchic modes of governance are contributing to a nearly unbearable level of human and planetary suffering that is unexceptional given world history. Social movements at all ends of the political spectrum have been able to reshape societies and ecologies in extraordinary ways, often unexpectedly, at times leveraging sport symbolically and/or materially.
Key Questions
- What does sport DO in the world?
- How is sport a form of worldmaking?
- What worlds does sport contribute to building/sustaining?
- What contributions does our scholarly field and international community of sports-minded humans make to understanding our worlds and to movements striving to build worlds that are more equitable and sustainable
- How are sport sociologists engaging in projects to build more just worlds?
- How can sport sociologists contribute to and/or disrupt certain forms of worldmaking?
- How can our work expand the boundaries of what is possible?
The societies NASSS scholars inhabit are global and interconnected. Globalization and the neoliberal engineering of planetary inhabitants shapes the contexts within which we live and work. We invite you to submit an abstract to one of the sessions listed here. Sessions are listed according to location (Seattle, Vancouver, Virtual). Abstracts may also be submitted to an open session (Virtual) or placed there by the conference organizers. Should your paper not find a home in the session you submit for, we will work very hard to find a place for it.
Call for Abstracts
North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
La Sociedad Norteamericana para la Sociologia del Deporte
Société Nord-Américaine de Sociologie du Sport
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Sport, Justice and Belonging: Critical Analysis and Worldmaking
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
- Arundhati Roy
If the Anthropocene proclaims a sudden concern with the exposures of environmental harm to white liberal communities, it does so in the wake of histories in which these harms have been knowingly exported to black and brown communities under the rubric of civilization, progress, modernization, and capitalism. The Anthropocene might seem to offer a dystopic future that laments the end of the world, but imperialism and ongoing (settler) colonialisms have been ending worlds for as long as they have been in existence.
- Kathryn Yusoff (2018), A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Key words: justice, social inequality; worldmaking
Since its emergence as a site for wealthy white men to consolidate power during the development of capitalism in mid 18th century England, modern sport has been a contested site in terms of participation, representation, cultural symbolism and economic benefit. Ideas about what counts as ‘sport’ and how sport matters for identity, belonging and legitimacy are stitched into the mythical fabric of many nation states and animate national and global systems of social stratification and cultural conflict.
Despite declarations and protestations from global, national and corporate sporting bodies that sports are not political, sport has never been separable from power and politics. In its various forms it has served as both a tool for white/male/cisheteropatriarchal/racial capitalist domination and as a site of resistance to injustice both on and beyond the playing field. The history of sport, for example, cannot be told without attention to colonialism and postcolonialism. But neither can colonialism’s history be told without attention to sport. Substitute “white supremacy,” "racism,” “heteropatriarchy,” “homophobia,” “transphobia” or “organized religion” for colonialism and the relationship holds, however equivocally. Sport is global in reach and full of layers. Global sports mega events and corporate sporting bodies put profit ahead of people and environmental sustainability and yet so many of us, in so many places, love sport/physical culture with great intensity and devotion, often grappling with the cognitive dissonance this brings about.
As sociologists we identify and analyze social systems for distributing material and cultural resources, from the local to the global, and the ways in which these systems are contested; we study the past to understand the present; and we craft stories of worlds we have never seen. Whether explicitly or implicitly; as critical sports studies scholars we are engaged in world making, meaning the process(es) by and through which the realities of social life are created, through both interactions and symbolic meanings. Given that sport has multiple and layered materialities and meanings, particular to time and place, the sociological imagination empowers us to engage with this complexity.
This is a crucial time for our field. The Sociology of Sport analyzes the relationship between sport and structures of power, domination and social control and contributes to world-making via engagements with activists and social movements. NASSS as an organization has a long history of critically interrogating the bases of inclusion/exclusion in sport and beyond, examining the role of sport role in normalizing the social structures of the nation, hierarchies based on race/gender/sexuality/ability/citizenship etc., and colonialism and postcolonialism in all its variations. We also have a strong track record of revering sport, highlighting its power and beauty and inviting each other to engage from this place of feeling.
The current world that has been made is a troubling one. Authoritarian and oligarchic modes of governance are contributing to a nearly unbearable level of human and planetary suffering that is unexceptional given world history. Social movements at all ends of the political spectrum have been able to reshape societies and ecologies in extraordinary ways, often unexpectedly, at times leveraging sport symbolically and/or materially.
Key Questions
- What does sport DO in the world? How is sport a form of worldmaking? What worlds does sport contribute to building/sustaining?
- What contributions does our scholarly field and international community of sports-minded humans make to understanding our worlds and to movements striving to build worlds that are more equitable and sustainable?
- How are sport sociologists engaging in projects to build more just worlds? How can sport sociologists contribute to and/or disrupt certain forms of worldmaking?
- How can our work expand the boundaries of what is possible? The societies NASSS scholars inhabit are global and interconnected. Globalization and the neoliberal engineering of planetary inhabitants shapes the contexts within which we live and work.
Information about Submission
Note: Submissions for NASSS 2025 have now closed.
Please submit according to your plans for attendance (Seattle, Vancouver, Virtual). While we will endeavour to offer as many sessions as possible in Hybrid format (integrating Seattle, Vancouver & Virtual), we are not able to predict this in advance. You must be prepared to be physically present in Seattle for a session located there, Vancouver for a session located there. There are obviously no such limitations for Virtual sessions beyond having the internet capacity to connect remotely. If you are unsure about attending in person, for example, submit to a Virtual session.
Proposed sessions are listed according to location (Seattle, Vancouver, Virtual). Abstracts may also be submitted to an open session (Virtual) or placed there by the conference organizers. Should your paper not find a home in the session you submit for, we will work very hard to find a place for it.
All abstract proposals must include the title of the session; author name(s), institutional affiliation, email address(es); a title (10 words maximum); a brief abstract (150 words maximum) that describes the proposed paper and the location of your planned attendance. The expectation is that you will have completed a paper by the time you present at NASSS.
You may present only one paper as lead author: no multiple submissions (if you are listed as second author the first author must attend and present). This measure is in place to allow for more substantial audience/presenter discussions in each session.
Poster sessions: you must be prepared to bring a physical copy of your poster to Seattle or Vancouver or supply a digital copy for a Virtual poster session.
Timeline information for those who have submitted an abstract
All presenters must be members of NASSS by September 1 and register for the conference by October 1, 2025.
Please note: It will not be possible to change the conference program to accommodate individual scheduling issues. Submitting an abstract commits you to presenting any time from 8:45am on Thursday, November 6 to Saturday, November 8 at 5pm.
- Deadline for submission of abstracts was June 10, 2025.
- Deadline to be notified about abstract acceptance/rejection is July 1, 2025.
- Final completed session submissions are due July 15, 2025.
- A preliminary program will be released by September 1, 2025.
- All presenters must be a member of NASSS as of September 1, 2025 and registered for the Conference by October 1 to remain in the program.
- Conference registration information, pricing, and hotel information is forthcoming on the NASSS website.
- Closing time for all dates is 11:59pm Pacific Time.
Direct questions to the Conference Program Committee Chair, Travers, at [email protected].
Thanks for your patience and understanding as NASSS navigates a changing world and adopts a new software platform!
Conference Programs
Links to the conference programs for all sites (Seattle, Vancouver, Virtual) are available to current members only and can be accessed via your NASSS Member Dashboard.
Additional Schedule and Program Information
Seattle
Thursday’s Presidential reception will be held at Rough and Tumble Women’s Sports Bar. NASSS will cover non-alcoholic beverages and a few shared apps; you’ll be able to purchase alcohol or other food. We are working on a transportation plan that includes a shuttle bus, or you are free to Uber, Lyft, or taxi to or from the event.
Vancouver
Thursday’s Presidential Reception will be held on Vancouver’s iconic Granville Island at Alimentaria Mexicana. NASSS is covering the cost of food (a light dinner) and non-alc beverages; attendees can order their own drinks at the bar from a short bar menu (all draft beer, red and white wine options, some special cocktail options). We encourage sharing taxis/ubers or taking the bus!
On Saturday morning in the first slot, we’re excited to share that we’ve added a knowledge translation workshop being led by the Sport Information Resource Centre (SIRC) - this is a great opportunity for anybody interested in applying to SSHRC grants and the Sport Participation Research Initiative funding to learn more about how it works and ways to improve your applications. Also a great opportunity to learn best practices for collaborative research! Great professional development for grad students, emerging scholars, or anybody looking for a refresher on engaging the Canadian sport sector in- or through- research.
Poster Session
Scan the QR code to access the poster submitted by Brett Anderson, doctoral student, and Alanna Scully, master's student, from The University of Georgia in the Sport Management and Policy program in the Department of Kinesiology entitled 'CHL-NCAA Collaboration and NHL Outcomes: An Insider's Perspective.' This project is in the works so please submit feedback to [email protected] or [email protected].
Registration
Conference registration is now available here
Costs for the conference are listed below.
| Registration Type* | Cost (USD) |
| Professional A | $375 |
| Professional B | $250 |
| Professional B | $150 |
| Retired | $150 |
| Student | $100 |
| Professional, 1 day | $175 |
| Professional Virtual | $100 |
| Student Virtual | $50 |
*Download the Country Categories here.
[Note: This PDF was created based on the information published by the International Sociological Association: https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/membership/table-of-economies-by-category]
Hotel and Conference Site Information
The 2025 annual conference for the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport will be held in three sites:
- Seattle, WA, November 6-8 at The Westin Seattle.
- Vancouver, BC, November 6-8 at UBC Robson Square*
- Virtual, November 6-8
Further information about The Westin Seattle and the link to the NASSS special room rate are below. Further advice and recommendations on hotels and conference sites will be posted here soon.
The Westin Seattle
NASSS Room Rates - The Westin Seattle
For NASSS special room rate, book your room at The Westin Seattle here or cut-and-paste the following URL into your browser: https://book.passkey.com/event/50832955/owner/347/home
For more information on The Westin Seattle click here.
Vancouver Conference Site and Hotel Recommendations
The Sutton Place Hotel Vancouver (5-star hotel)
Sheraton Vancouver Wall Center (4-star hotel)
Century Plaza Hotel Vancouver (3-star hotel)
Holiday Inn and Suites (3-star hotel)
NASSS 2025 – Supporting Accessibility
About This Document
This guide was created by members of the 2025 NASSS Conference Accessibility Committee to promote, support, and facilitate the meaningful engagement of people with disabilities and others who encounter systemic barriers to access in all academic, professional, and social activities related to NASSS 2025.
We believe that accessibility is the shared responsibility of all NASSS members participating in the conference. This document provides information and resources for participants who commonly experience barriers to participation and for other session chairs, presenters, and audience members.
This document offers guidance on common barriers and best practices for supporting access, as well as practical resources for those navigating the conference. The Accessibility Committee will continue to update these materials as planning progresses.
The document can be accessed here or by cutting and pasting the following address into your browser: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tU41jSehxZj7iRMJvLbFNAPJjPuqd3G2TWkTwA8XfVc/edit?tab=t.0
For questions, suggestions, or feedback, please contact:
- Andrea Bundon – [email protected]
- Audrey Giles – [email protected]
NASSS 2025 Local Site Guide - Seattle
For a PDF version of this guide, click here.
Arrival from SeaTac Airport
- Link Light Rail (Recommended)
- Route: SeaTac/Airport Station → Westlake Station (~38 min) → Walk about 5–7 minutes from Westlake Station to the Westin Seattle
- Cost: $3 (adult)
- Frequency: Every 8–15 minutes
- Uber/Lyft
- Cost: $60–80 (varies by time/demand)
- Time: ~25–30 minutes
- Pick-up at the designated rideshare area at the airport
Eats (walking distances from Westin Seattle)
- Lands of Origin - Pike Place Market (1532 Pike Place) - 9 minute walk
- Pike Place Chowder (1530 Post Aly) - 9 minute walk
- Piroshky, Piroshky (1908 Pike Place) - 8 minute walk
- Taylor Shellfish Oyster Bar - Pioneer Square (410 Occidental Ave.) - 27 minute walk/16 minute transit/8 minute drive
- Shuckers (411 University St.) - 12 minute walk
- Pho Bac (1923 7th Ave.) - 3 minute walk
- The Pink Door (1919 Post Aly) - 8 minute walk
- Bookstore Bar and Cafe (1007 1st Ave) - 15 minute walk
- Poke Alice (2001 6th Ave.) - 2 minute walk
- The Hart and the Hunter (111 Pine St) - 7 minute walk
- Yard House (1501 4th Ave) - 6 minute walk
- Serious Pie (2001 4th Ave) - 4 minute walk
Things to Do
- Pike Place Market
- Wing Luke Museum
- Seattle Art Museum
- Museum of Illusions
- Olympic Sculpture Park
- Seattle Underground Tour
Getting Around Seattle
- ORCA Card:
- $3 one-time purchase; works on buses, light rail, ferries, streetcars, and monorail.
- Load stored value or day passes at machines in stations or online.
- Other options
- Lime: they are very convenient and available anywhere; the cost varies
Quick Tips
- The Westin is within walking distance of Pike Place Market, the Monorail to Seattle Center, and many bus/light rail stops.
- Light rail is the most efficient option (during rush hours, the traffic is heavy) for getting downtown from the airport.
- The ORCA card makes transfers easy across all transit (can be pre-purchased online; download the ORCA app).
NASSS 2025 Local Guide - Vancouver
For a PDF version of this guide, click here.
Conference Site: UBC Robson Square (800 Robson Street)
Airport Arrival Information
- Public transit to downtown is very easy from Vancouver International Airport (YVR). Take the Canada Line starting from the airport to the “Vancouver City Centre” stop. A one-way ticket will cost you about $10. It should take about 30 minutes.
- A taxi to downtown from the airport will cost $46. The return taxi trip to the airport will be metered.
Moving around Vancouver
You may or may not have heard about the Downtown Eastside (DTES) in Vancouver, one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods. If you wander through Gastown or Chinatown, you may end up in this area that has been over-researched and greatly under-funded. The DTES represents the complexity and intersectionality of gentrification, the rising cost of housing, substance addiction, and settler colonialism, among other issues of injustice. This is a resourceful community and we ask that visitors respect these residents as they would any other community in the city. To learn more about the history of the DTES, read here: https://ugm.ca/news/history-vancouvers-downtown-eastside
Public Transit
Vancouver’s public transit system, Translink, operates the buses, skytrain, Canada Line, and Seabus. The greater Vancouver area is divided into zones and fares are dependent on how many zones one travels through. Adult fares for travelling around the city of Vancouver cost $3.35 and an all-zone day pass costs $11.95. Riders can also tap credit cards, debit cards, Apple Pay/Google Pay/Samsung Pay when using Translink.
Things to Do
- Vancouver Art Gallery (750 Hornby) - 1 minute walk from UBC Robson Square
- Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art (639 Hornby) - 5 minute walk
- Cycle City Tour and Bike Rentals (648 Hornby) - 4 minute walk
- Vancouver Convention Centre (1055 Canada Place) - 18 minute walk
- Stanley Park - 25 minute walk
- Gastown Steam Clock (305 Water Street) - 17 minute walk
- Granville Island - 24 minute walk
Eats
- Japadog (800 Robson) - 6 minute walk
- Banana Leaf on Davie (1043 Davie Street) - 13 minute walk (note: there are multiple locations around the city)
- Salmon n’ Bannock (1128 W. Broadway) - 25 minutes on transit (The only Indigenous owned restaurant in Vancouver! Reservations are highly recommended.)
- Miku Vancouver (200 Granville Street) - 12 minute walk
- Wow Full Noodle House (505 Dunsmuir Street) - 11 minute walk
- Nero Belgian Waffle Bar (1002 Seymour Street) - 9 minute walk
- Tacofino Yaletown (1025 Mainland Street) - 13 minute walk
- Breka Bakery (855 Davie Street) - 10 minute walk
- Meat & Bread (625 Robson) - 4 minute walk
- Nuba in Yaletown (508 Davie Street) - 14 minute walk
- Phnom Penh (244 E. Georgia) - 31 minute walk/20 minute transit/9 minute drive
Pop-Up Childcare for Vancouver Attendees
Pacific Immigrant Resources Society (PIRS) run 'pop up' childcare for events as part of their social enterprise and employ newcomer women who are pursuing early childcare education degrees and/or are in need of work experience and references. PIRS provide developmentally-appropriate toys, equipment, and qualified staff for day or evening events 7 days a week, events around Vancouver. For more information, see:
S.E.E.D.S Mentoring Program
With the support of the NASSS Executive Board, President, President-elect, and Treasurer, the SEEDS mentoring program will occur in Chicago with the leadership of Ajhanai Keaton, Christopher McCleod, Umer Hussain, Eun Jung, Billy Hawkins, Jeffrey Montez de Oca, and Judy Liao. SEEDS is a mentoring program for racially minoritized graduate students and junior faculty. This programmatic effort is an attempt to create a healing, supportive space for emergent scholars with marginalized racial identities within NASSS to facilitate their ability to thrive within NASSS and academia at large, while also fostering future generations of engaged scholars.
Check out the information about our pre-conference programming, including how to apply.
Thanks to our Conference Sponsors
Journal of Sport and Social Issues/Sage Publications
New editor: Doug Hartmann
Journal of Sport and Social Issues (JSSI) brings you the latest research, discussion and analysis on contemporary sport issues. Using an international, interdisciplinary perspective, JSSI examines today's most pressing and far-reaching questions about sport. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jss
Washington State University Sport Management
Careers in sport start here. WSU Sport Management prepares the next generation of industry leaders, offering both undergraduate and postgraduate programs in sport management. For more, see: https://ceshs.wsu.edu/
Rutgers University Press
Since its founding in 1936 as a nonprofit publisher, Rutgers University Press has been dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge to scholars, students, and the general reading public. Working with authors throughout the world, Rutgers University Press seek books that meet high editorial standards, facilitate the exchange of ideas, enhance teaching, and make scholarship accessible to a wide range of readers. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/
Rough & Tumble Pub
Your home for women's sports. We cheer for women. The ones who dig in, play hard, fall down, get back up and keep on going. The ones who call their own shots. The ones who break backboards and records and glass ceilings. We play women’s sports on big screens with full sound, served up with good food and good friends. We’ve got a seat for every fan who wants to tune in and turn it up. https://www.roughandtumblepub.com/
Merchandise
In order to grow our community, sense of belonging, and additional financial support for NASSS, we have created a NASSS store on Bonfire.
We have tested the quality of the product and logistics and are pleased with the results. You can see the store here: NASSS Bonfire Store
Sponsoring NASSS 2025
Are you looking to connect with like-minded scholars and professionals in the fields of sport, exercise, dance, and play? Attend the NASSS 2025 Annual Conference and engage with scholars who are eager to learn about your institution or company and establish international collaborations. The NASSS conference provides an unparalleled platform for sport organizations, publishers, colleges, and universities to present their products and services to the largest annual assembly of sport sociologists in North America. The conference consistently attracts approximately 350 educators, researchers, students, practitioners, and corporate representatives each year.
Questions?
If you have any questions about the conference program (scheduling of events, abstracts submission), please contact Travers ([email protected]), President-Elect and conference chair
Thanks to our Conference Sponsors
Journal of Sport and Social Issues/ Sage Publications
New editor: Doug Hartmann
Journal of Sport and Social Issues (JSSI) brings you the latest research, discussion and analysis on contemporary sport issues. Using an international, interdisciplinary perspective, JSSI examines today's most pressing and far-reaching questions about sport. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jss
Washington State University Sport Management
Careers in sport start here. WSU Sport Management prepares the next generation of industry leaders, offering both undergraduate and postgraduate programs in sport management. For more, see: https://ceshs.wsu.edu/
Rough & Tumble Pub
Your home for women's sports. We cheer for women. The ones who dig in, play hard, fall down, get back up and keep on going. The ones who call their own shots. The ones who break backboards and records and glass ceilings. We play women’s sports on big screens with full sound, served up with good food and good friends. We’ve got a seat for every fan who wants to tune in and turn it up. https://www.roughandtumblepub.com/
Rutgers University Press
Since its founding in 1936 as a nonprofit publisher, Rutgers University Press has been dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge to scholars, students, and the general reading public. Working with authors throughout the world, Rutgers University Press seek books that meet high editorial standards, facilitate the exchange of ideas, enhance teaching, and make scholarship accessible to a wide range of readers. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/