UT Austin’s Texas Program in Sports and Media (TPSM) and The College of Communication will be hosting the 2013 meeting of the International Association of Communication and Sport (IACS), Feb 22-24 in the Belo Center for New Media. IACS is formally organizing now after a core group of mass communication scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds have met for biennial research exchanges over the last 10 years. Their Fifth Summit on Communication and Sport was held in late March at Bradley University in Peoria, Il. The 2013 meeting in Austin will mark the group’s move to an annual meeting schedule. The 2014 Summit will be hosted by Marist College in Manhattan.

Click here for the program from the 2012 IACS meeting.

For more information on the 2013 IACS meeting, click here.

The community of scholars maintains a listserv of related opportunities and announcments at communicationandsport@googlegroups.com.

CBSIG will have a larger presence at Summer AMA in the Windy City this August!

There will be two special sessions during the conference. One is a roundtable “Social Justice and Sustainable Business Practices: Indispensable and Inseparable”, chaired by Jose Antonio Rosa at Wyoming. The second special session is a 3 paper and discussant format session on sponsorship fit and consumer behavior, co-sponsored by Sport SIG. More detailed information can be found on the Special Session page.

There will also be a CBSIG boat tour, Friday evening (Aug 17), after the AMA reception. Save the date now, details to come!