Photo from the Cornell Wushu Club.

What are you most looking forward to as international travel normalizes? If you are anything like me it is a return to in-person Martial Arts Studies conferences! Our 2022 Conference is back and bigger than ever. Please join us this summer in Switzerland for another important gathering.

The organisers of the 7th international martial arts studies conference, Martial Arts, Tradition and Globalisation, which will be held in the Institute of Sport Sciences of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland (with events also taking place at the Confucius Institute (University of Geneva) and the Olympic Museum (Lausanne)) from 29th June to 2nd July 2022 are delighted to confirm three further keynote speakers:

These three new keynotes complete the line-up of featured speakers for this multi-site four-day international event.

The other conference keynotes (confirmed previously) are: Dr Ben Judkins (author of The Creation of Wing Chun and editor of the long-running and trailblazing academic blog, Kung Fu Tea), Professor Swen Körner (German Sport University, Cologne, DE), and Professor Lauren Steimer (University of South Carolina, US).

Call For Papers

The organisers invite proposals for individual 20-minute presentations (or panels made up of 3×20-minute presentations) focusing on any aspect of the complex issues of tradition and innovation in martial arts. However, the organisers are particularly interested in works that engage with martial arts, martial arts studies, tradition and innovation in relation to such themes as:

• Martial arts, globalisation and tradition
• Martial arts, tradition and technology
• Martial arts and nationalism
• Martial arts, soft power and diplomacy
• Martial arts and sport
• Martial arts and body culture
• Histories, representations and curations of martial arts
• Martial arts traditions, myths and myth-busting
• Martial arts as intangible cultural heritage
• Innovation in/and traditional martial arts

To submit a proposal for an individual paper or a complete themed panel (of three connected papers), please send one Word Document to the organising team at the email address: info-MAS2021@unil.ch containing the following information:

• Title
• Abstract (300 words max)
• Bio-note (150 words max)
• Keywords (5 max)
• Contact email address
• Link to personal or professional webpage (if available)

Deadline for Proposals: 30 November 2021
Notification: December 2021
Registration opens: January 2022

Further Information

Further information about the conference and instructions on how to submit an abstract is available here.