by Yeung on Fri Feb 09, 2024 9:47 am
Alphabetical List of Conference Speakers
Martial Arts Studies Conference, 4-6 June 2024
Victor Lorenzo Alonso Delgado [Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain]: The Lucha Canaria Chair at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: a multidisciplinary proposal for the conservation of an intangible cultural heritage
Cree & Denise Amory-Reid [Academy For Contemporary Music, Birmingham, United Kingdom]: Interwoven Paths: Family Connectedness in Martial Arts – A Case Study of a Beautiful Journey
Sarriy Anani [Göteborgs Universitet, Gothenburg, Sweden]: Playing out Violence as an Act of Responsibility
Spencer Bennington [Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA]: Teaching Martial Arts Studies at the University: How and Why? A Discussion of Best Practices
Paul Bowman [Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom]: De-Orientalising the Curriculum
Anna S. Brasch [Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Göttingen, Germany]: From travelogues to fitness boxing instructions. Origin and development of the German-language boxing discourse
Dave Bright [University of Chichester, Chichester, United Kingdom]: Risk vs. Hazard: Precision in categorising combat sports
Randy Brown [Randy Brown Mantis Boxing & Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Westminster, USA]: Failing to Learn – Encouraging Failure in Martial Arts to Fuel Success
Alesha Byrne [University of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA]: Gender and Sexual Minorities in Martial Arts: More than Masculine
Thomas Chan [School of Professional Education and Executive Development, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong]: Reimagining Chinese Kung Fu: A Study on the Adaptations and Integration of Martial Arts for the New Generation of Martial Arts Practitioners in Contemporary Hong Kong
Alex Channon [University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom]: The sexualisation of female fighters: Instagram glamazons, flashing celebrations, and the ‘OnlyFans boxers’
David Contreras [Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany]: Bildung with capoeira. A videographic and phenomenological study of practicing the Afro-Brazilian martial art
K.L. Coy [Lesley University, Cambridge, USA]: D.E.A.L.Breakers – (Dysfunctional Emotional Abuse in Loyalty) Narratives that Bind and Confine: A Kyukpa and NeuroNarrative Community Wellness Engagement Discussion
Greet De Baets [Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium]: Somatic metaphors: the impact of aikido-informed intercultural communication training on interaction skills and memory performance
Emily Dobrich [University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada]: Insights and Implications from Diasporic Women’s Embodied Learning Experiences in Muay Thai
Carole Drouelle [University Paris 8, Paris, France]: Migration processes from martial gesture to theatrical gesture
Per Faxneld [Study of Religions, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden]: Martial arts and the study of religions
Adam Frank [University of Central Arkansas, Conway, USA]: The “Hard Problem” of Qi: Thoughts on Martial Practices in the Context of Consciousness Studies
Jakob Fruchtmann [Constructor University, Bremen, Germany]: See What goes on in a Boxers Mind – and Change it! An Innovative Inquiry into the Dyad of Fighting Mind-Bodies
David Glover [California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, USA]: The Sakki Test: A Phenomenological Exploration of Embodied Awareness and Intention in Martial Arts
Carlos Guttiérrez García [Department of Physical and Sport Education, Universidad de León, León, Spain]: “I came to a country where the name judo meant nothing”: The creation of judo social imaginary in Spain
Jiongyan Huang [Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom]: Why Do We Practice Martial Arts? A Critical Analysis of the Globalisation of Japanese Kendo
Lyn Jehu [University of South Wales, Treforest, United Kingdom]: Martial Arts for Life: Developing a Sustainable Framework for Practice
George Jennings [Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, United Kingdom]: The Lucha Canaria Chair at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: a multidisciplinary proposal for the conservation of an intangible cultural heritage
Zoe John [Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom]: “Normally a cock”: Embodiment, Gender and Violence in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)
Noah Johnson [Cornell College, Mount Vernon, IA, USA]: Olympic Champion by Knockout: Competing Forms of Karate Representation
Dinah Kretschmer [Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany]: Without anxiety there is no fighting art: an explorative interview study with MACS teachers on anxiety
Mickael Langlois [Institute of Sport Sciences (ISSUL), Lausanne, Switzerland; University of Pantheon-Sorbonne Paris 1 (CHAC/SIRICE)), Paris, France]: The history of Võ Annam: the confusion surrounding a practice between martial arts and combat sports in French Indochina
Jay Lee [New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM, USA]: Epidemiology of martial arts injuries classified by Gentile’s Taxonomy
Roma Loudun [Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom]: Transgender embodiment and combat sports: Intimate violence and haptic encounters on the edge of legibility
Kylie Lui [The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong]: Negotiating Wu Masculinity: Martial Arts Practitioners and Chinese Nationalism in Hong Kong, 1940-2022
Xiujie Ma [School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff, United Kingdom; School of Wushu, Chengdu, China; Chinese Guoshu Academy, Chengdu, China]: Multidimensional Interpretation of “Fighting(打)” in Martial Arts from the Perspective of Chinese Ancient Literature
Scott MacMillan [Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Canada]: An Existential Approach to Brazilian Jiujitsu
Alexandre Meyer Luz [Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil]: Are Martial Arts Violent? A Philosophical Approach
Zixin Miao [The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong]: From Bruce Lee to Jet Li: The Appropriation and Reconstruction of Nationalism in Chinese Martial Arts Commercial Culture in the 1980s
Lauren Miller [Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA]: Thrown Out: Adventures in Agency
Martin Minarik [Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany]: Taekkyon – A Traditional Korean Martial Art?
Meaghan Morris [University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China]: Doing celebrity as a martial artist: the longevity of Cynthia Rothrock
Daniel Mroz [University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada]: Sitting in a Well, Looking at the Sky
Henrike Neuhaus [Goldsmiths College, University of London]: Red Belt, Black Tag: the trajectory of a youth’s martial arts dream in urban Argentina
Thiago Pimenta [Universidade Federal de Santa Maria – UFSM, Santa Maria, Brazil]: The Genesis of Self-Defence: An Evolutionary Look at the Body Fighting Technique
María Perrino-Peña [Department of Physical and Sport Education, Universidad de León, León, Spain]: The Institutionalisation of MMA in Portugal and Spain and the view of MMA Practitioners and Stakeholders
Georgina Robinson [King’s College London, London, United Kingdom]: Panel Chair: ‘Gender Power, Performance, and Self-Determination in Martial Arts Studies’
Augustus Roe [Independent Researcher, Hanoi, Vietnam]: Where Tradition meets Modernity: An Ethnographic Study of Martial Arts and Combat Sports in Vietnam
Wriddhibrata Saha [Shiv Nadar University, Delhi, India]: “One India, Five Taekwondo!”- Exploring the multiple social lives of Taekwondo as a martial art and combat sport in India
Glenn-Eilif Solmoe [The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (NIH), Oslo, Norway]: A ‘Karate Epidemic’ in Post-War Norway?
Bradley Spurdens [University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom]: Parents’ Perceptions of their Daughter’s Combat Sports: A Discourse Analysis
David Stevens [University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom]: In Defence of Self-Defence Training: The Moral Permissibility of Practicing to Overcome Psychological Barriers Against Harming Others
Khải Hoài Tran [Vin University, Hanoi, Vietnam]: “The Little Old Vietnamese Man?”: Taijiquan Diplomacy in Sino-Vietnamese Relations and The Making of an Internal Martial Art
Georgia Verry [Conscious Combat Club, Melbourne, Australia]: Gender-responsive, trauma-informed kickboxing: Contrasting the Global North to the Global South
Petr Vrána [Charles University (Faculty of Arts, Department of Sinology), Prague, Czech Republic]: Guangdong-Hong Kong School Martial Arts Fiction
Marnix Wells [independent, United Kingdom]: Short Hitting: Internal versus External Styles of Boxing in Martial Arts History
Luke White [Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom]: Martial Arts in/as Science Fiction
Wayne Wong [University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom]: Martial Arts as Method: Decolonizing Theories of Cinematic Action
Yun Choi Yeung [Institute of Martial Arts and Sciences, Bolton, United Kingdom]: The sciences of neutralisation in non-concentric martial arts
Zhen Zhang [East China Normal University, China]: Exploring the Embodied Turn: A Comprehensive Review and Reflection on the Study of Asian Martial Arts Studies
Jingzhe Zhang [Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands]: Towards a Radical Martial Arts Pedagogy: A Practice-Based Research of Liberation Martial Arts (LMA) through the Notion of Black Study
Mantong Amanda Zhang [Birkbeck, University of London, London]: Negotiating Wu Masculinity: Martial Arts Practitioners and Chinese Nationalism in Hong Kong, 1940-2022
Nan Zhou [University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom]: Why the Cat? Exploring the Artistic Expression of Movement and Stillness in The Way of The Dragon (1972)