The third annual Scholarly Colloquium on Intercollegiate Athletics will be held January 12 and 13, 2010, in conjunction with the NCAA Annual Convention in Atlanta, Georgia.   The theme for this year’s Colloquium is “College Sports in Recessionary Times: Assessing Challenges and Opportunities.” The conference will consist of keynote presentations by Rodney Fort (University of Michigan), Amy Perko (Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics), Richard Lapchick (University of Central Florida) and Andrew Zimbalist (Smith College) and two formal reactions to each keynote, in addition to a number of refereed free papers.

Proposals for refereed papers should deal closely with issues related to the conference theme of “College Sports in Recessionary Times.”  In order for your paper to be considered for one of the free paper sessions, please submit by e-mail attachment an abstract of no more than 300 words to John Thelin, University Research Professor, University of Kentucky, at jthelin@uky.edu.

 Research papers can be related to sport in general (as long as there are clear implications for college sport) or intercollegiate athletics specifically, with connection to the conference theme of “College Sports in a Recessionary Time.” Your scholarship may be based in the sciences, social sciences, economics, humanities or any number of professional fields related to intercollegiate athletics. 

The deadline for proposal submission is October 1, 2009.  Individuals will be notified of the results of the review process in early November 2009.