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19th CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION 
FOR SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT

“TRANSITIONING SPORT – TRANSITIONING EUROPEAN 
SOCIETIES”

  Budapest, Hungary 29 May–2 June 2023

The 2023 EASS conference was held in the picturesque city of Budapest 
and at the Hungarian University of Sport Science with over 120 participants 
and 110 conference papers. Presentations in 32 parallel sessions, with more 
than a hundred contributions from delegates, focused on a range of different 
topics, with an emphasis on diversity and health. Several sessions focused on 
specific social groups, analysis of sport and gender, and many presentations yet 
explored and assessed the effects of Covid-19 on various aspects of sport.

Two keynote speakers presented recent findings on social media and the me-
diatization of doping. On Wednesday, we heard Prof. Dunja Antunović from the 
University of Minnesota present “What is Still ‘New’ about Social Media? The 
Importance of Sociology of Sport in Research on Mediatization.” The other 
keynote was by Prof. Andrea Petroczi, who brought a critical and interdiscipli-
nary perspective to her own research in the field of doping, outlining how this 
very problem arises from the modern sports landscape, where a wide range of 
factors and stakeholders in elite sports keep the solution to the doping problem 
opaque. At the end of the week, the Young Researcher Award was given to Fed-
erico Genovesi from Ulster University for his paper entitled “Spaces of football 
and belonging for people seeking asylum: Resisting policy-imposed liminality 
in Italy”. There was also an honourable mention for the paper “Listening to 
boxing hearts and beats: Analysing boxing (through) soundscapes” by Kristina 
Orszaghova.

While the days were filled with presentations and talks, the afternoons were 
spent in social activities. A wide range of cultural activities provided opportuni-
ties to relax, connect with colleagues, and learn about the history of Budapest 
and Hungary.

To summarize, it is clear that new interdisciplinary and multimodal thinking 
is needed to address a problem that is so embedded and entrenched in the sports 
system. In line with this message, we are looking forward to the next EASS 
conference in Spain, hosted by the European University of Madrid.

Saša Pišot 



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19. KONFERENCA EVROPSKEGA ZDRUŽENJA ZA 
SOCIOLOGIJO ŠPORTA (EASS)

»ŠPORT NA PREHODU – EVROPSKE DRUŽBE NA 
PREHODU«

Budimpešta, Madžarska, 29. maj–2. junij 2023

Konferenca EASS 2023 je potekala v slikoviti Budimpešti in na madžarski 
univerzi za vede o športu. Sodelovalo je več kot 120 udeležencev, ki so pred-
stavili 110 konferenčnih prispevkov. Predstavitve so potekale v 32 vzporednih 
sekcijah, udeleženci pa so v prispevkih obravnavali različne teme s poudarkom 
na raznolikosti in zdravju. Več sekcij je bilo posvečenih posebnim družbenim 
skupinam, analizi športa in spola, številni prispevki pa so še vedno predstavljali 
raziskave o covidu-19 in učinkih tega na šport.

Na dveh plenarnih predstavitvah smo se seznanili z najnovejšimi ugotovi-
tvami o družbenih medijih in mediatizaciji dopinga. V sredo smo prisluhnili 
profesorici Dunji Antunović z univerze v Minnesoti, ki je predstavila prispevek 
Kaj je še »novega« v družbenih medijih? Pomen sociologije športa pri razisko-
vanju mediatizacije. Drugo predavanje je imela prof. Andrea Petroczi, ki je v 
predstavitvi svojega področja raziskovanja vnesla kritično in interdisciplinarno 
perspektivo problema dopinga v sodobnem športnem okolju, kjer zaradi števil-
nih dejavnikov in deležnikov v vrhunskem športu, rešitev problema še vedno 
ostaja nerazjasnjena. 

Ob koncu tedna je nagrado za mlade raziskovalce prejel Federico Genovesi 
z univerze Ulster za prispevek Prostori nogometa in pripadnosti v Italiji: od-
por prosilcev za azil proti liminaliteti z udeležbo v solidarnostnem množičnem 
športu (nogometu). Častno pohvalo je prejel tudi prispevek Kristine Orszag-
hove Poslušanje src in utripov boksa: Analiza boksa (skozi) zvočne pokrajine.

Medtem ko so bili dnevi napolnjeni s predstavitvami in predavanji, so bili 
popoldnevi in večeri namenjeni družabnim dejavnostim. Številne kulturne pri-
reditve so ponudile priložnosti za sprostitev, povezovanje s kolegi ter spozna-
vanje zgodovine Budimpešte in Madžarske.

Če povzamem, je jasno, da bo v prihodnje potrebno interdisciplinarno in 
multimodalno razmišljanje za reševanje problemov, ki so tako močno zasidrani 
in zakoreninjeni v športnem sistemu. Zato se tudi veselimo naslednje konferen-
ce EASS v Španiji, ki jo bo gostila evropska univerza v Madridu.

Saša Pišot 


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