The conference "Women, sport and culture" Sfax (Tunisia) 2014, offers an opportunity to insist on the double movement which is outlined, working upstream to create a privileged space for exchange and dialogue while recognizing downstream the plurality of cultures of South and North which is translated inevitably by different conceptions of the status of the feminine body. Two types of problems can be met:

- Common problems shared by all women during their involvement in sport.

- Specific problems which derive from the membership in a culture or in a social category within the same cultural or political forming.

Argument

The conference "Women, sport and culture" Sfax (Tunisia) 2014, it fits in the optics to perpetuate the tradition of exchange, integrating international strategic approach outlined by the Brighton Declaration (1994) on Women and Sport, calling for "promoting the creation of opportunities for girls and women to participate in sport and physical activity throughout the world."

It offers plus an occasion to insist on the double movement which is outlined, working upstream so that the Mediterranean be a privileged space of exchange and dialogue while recognizing downstream, the plurality of Mediterranean cultures which is translated inevitably by different conceptions of the status of the feminine body.

This encounter appears in many respects as likely to contribute to measuring prior achievements and advances accumulated during the previous two decades, but also to stop us on deficiencies, gaps and resistance to change that still raises the involvement of women and girls in sports.

In this founder act, it is convenient to bring a global answer which does not neglect the local expressions, so much, the situations of women, at the level of the practice, as well as at the level of organization and management of sport in the different countries, are diverse.

Two types of problems can be met:

• Common problems shared by all women during their involvement in sport.
• Specific problems which derive from the membership in a culture or in a social category within the same cultural or political forming.

Objectives

This meeting has for objective to reunite women and men representing the variety of feminine sports circles of various countries of the North (Europeans) and South (Arab), to measure the accomplished headways at the level of the active participation of women in the field of sports, physical activities and of the expression, of their representativeness within the sports powers, to encircle the new problems put in the access of women to the world of the sport and envisage finally measures susceptible to sustain the key decision-makers of the sports circles in the sense of a better presence of women in the sport.

Approaches

• Gender, Sex and sport: the social and the biological.
• Right of women to practice sport and right to dispose of their bodies
• The traditional games and the place of women.
• Athletes of height-level: what challenge in the culture?
• The new forms of sports practice.
• Sports women, time, leisure and health
• Sports responsibilities and leadership in sport
• The sport in the test of the coeducation in the Mediterranean
• The parity in the sports media..
• Violence and maltreatment against sport.

Submission guidelines

The participants who wish to present a communication are invited to subject a typed summary

• In Arab and French,
• Arab and English,
• Or in French and English,

of about twenty line (250 words at most) and 4 keywords, in character Times 12, under Word attached document.

Courier to send to : Abdelaziz Hentati, ISSEP de Sfax, BP 1068, 3000, Sfax (Tunisia).

E-mail : aziz.hentati@yahoo.fr

Deadline : 01/03/2014

Announcement of acceptance : March 15, 2014

Sending of the definitive texts by attached document : April  15, 2014

Conditions for participation

Costs including transportation from the airport to the conference (round-trip), access to conference documents (abstracts, proceedings, coffee breaks, accommodation (3 nights), meals and sea excursion)

• International participants : 200 Euros
• Local participants : 200 Tunisian Dinars

Organising Committe

Conference Président: Abdelaziz HENTATI

Organized by : ISSEP of Sfax

Scientific Committee

• Anita HOECKELMAN
• Abdelaziz HENTATI
• Taysir MANSI
• Sadiq ALHAYEK
• Gamal ALI
• Oussama HALIM
• Tareq FAROUK