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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 9, 2021 6:13 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Wedge, Philip C. <pwedge@ku.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> CFP: Annual Sport Literature Conference and Graduate Student Essay Competition<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">SPORT LITERATURE ASSOCIATION<span style="letter-spacing:-3.35pt">
</span>ANNUAL CONFERENCE<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span>XXXIX<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Call<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>for Papers</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Jamie<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">
</span>Dopp</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>Chair:<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Angie<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">
</span>Abdou</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Abstract<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>Deadline:<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">April<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>1,<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>2022</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Conference dates:<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt">
</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Wednesday
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#201F1E">June<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>15 –<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Saturday<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>June<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>18</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Call<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>for<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>papers<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">The thirty-ninth annual conference of the Sport Literature Association will be conducted<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">
</span>June 15-18, 2022. COVID-willing, there will be an in-person conference in Victoria, British<span style="letter-spacing:-2.85pt">
</span>Columbia, with an accompanying virtual conference by Zoom. If required by circumstance,<span style="letter-spacing:-2.85pt">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>conference will<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>be held<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>virtually<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>during the same<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>period.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Whatever the exact format (to be announced as soon as possible), the Sport Literature<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">
</span>Association is excited to facilitate another conference that is open and accessible to scholars<span style="letter-spacing:-2.85pt">
</span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>sport<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>literature<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>from around the<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>world<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>at<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>any stage<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>in their<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>academic<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>career.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">The Program Committee of the Sport Literature Association (SLA) invites proposals for<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">
</span>individual papers or complete panels related to the literature of sport. Scholarly and critical<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">
</span>submissions for the conference should follow general guidelines set forth in the association's<span style="letter-spacing:-2.85pt">
</span>publication,<span style="letter-spacing:.3pt"> </span><i>Aethlon:<span style="letter-spacing:.35pt">
</span>The<span style="letter-spacing:.3pt"> </span>Journal<span style="letter-spacing:.35pt">
</span>of<span style="letter-spacing:.35pt"> </span>Sport<span style="letter-spacing:.35pt">
</span>Literature</i>,<span style="letter-spacing:.35pt"> </span>which<span style="letter-spacing:.3pt">
</span>“celebrate[s]<span style="letter-spacing:.35pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:.25pt">
</span>intersection<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>literature<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>with<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>world<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>play,<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>games,<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>and sport.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">All abstract submissions should address treatments of sport in texts or textual media (print,<span style="letter-spacing:-2.85pt">
</span>film, performance, digital or other media). We invite work on sport literature (fiction,<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">
</span>nonfiction, poetry, drama, or film) or on the rhetoric of sport. Cultural studies and<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">
</span>sociological approaches to sport texts are welcome. We also encourage sessions featuring<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">
</span>presenters’ original fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">As an international, diverse, and inclusive association, SLA is committed to equity and<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">
</span>equality. We foster an environment in which all people deserve and are given respect. To this<span style="letter-spacing:-2.85pt">
</span>end, our meetings, conferences, and publications attempt to use appropriate language that<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">
</span>reflects this commitment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Membership<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">All presenters and conference attendees must be current members of the Sport Literature<span style="letter-spacing:-2.9pt">
</span>Association. For information on membership, visit our website:<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">
</span></span><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue"><a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsportliteratureassociation.com%2Fmembership%2F&data=04%7C01%7Csport_literature_association%40lists.ku.edu%7C726eff3363c14992a69308d9a395bd10%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637720685950615348%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=o2fJaDm6YfH2CT3sNsE%2F9NtboNrjG9q3eSIc8RJaIcU%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://sportliteratureassociation.com/membership/" shash="huTSWILhXOGu0qUITRBNTcfhYWAla96GTVXhnNBXQGEXHJGnfm8WgJ33ILHViKnIOEEe/ZRfzd4TG9uAp6jLXoe+sIar493xZ8YJe4h7xOf2dRuuIYihnFAeoLh5gTmD8DKoYSMr0fxqhpL2Vfb9GWChvUwJp98tUwNJXb+F8dc=">https://sportliteratureassociation.com/membership/</a></span></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">To<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>renew<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>become<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>member<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>SLA,<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>please<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>contact<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> Dr.
</span>Joyce<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Duncan<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>at<span style="letter-spacing:-2.85pt"> </span><a href="mailto:joyced1001@cs.com">joyced1001@cs.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 style="margin-top:11.65pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Presentation<span style="letter-spacing:1.4pt">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Traditional<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>Presentation:<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">20 minutes.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:101%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:101%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Creative<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>Presentation<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>(</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:101%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Fiction,<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">
</span>poetry,<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>creative<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt">
</span>non-fiction<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>reading/performance):<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>20<span style="letter-spacing:-2.85pt"> </span>minutes.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:101%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:97%"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:97%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Panel<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>discussions:<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:97%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">60<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>minutes.<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Scholars<span style="letter-spacing:.7pt">
</span>wishing<span style="letter-spacing:.35pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:.25pt">
</span>suggest<span style="letter-spacing:.9pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:.6pt">
</span>panel<span style="letter-spacing:.85pt"> </span>discussion<span style="letter-spacing:.25pt">
</span>must<span style="letter-spacing:.85pt"> </span>submit<span style="letter-spacing:-2.85pt">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing:.65pt"> </span>panel<span style="letter-spacing:1.0pt">
</span>theme<span style="letter-spacing:.7pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:.35pt">
</span>suggested<span style="letter-spacing:.8pt"> </span>structure<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>for<span style="letter-spacing:.15pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">
</span>panel<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>as<span style="letter-spacing:.8pt">
</span>part<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:.7pt">
</span>their<span style="letter-spacing:.55pt"> </span>abstract,<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>as<span style="letter-spacing:.75pt"> </span>well<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>as<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span>include<span style="letter-spacing:.3pt">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing:.35pt"> </span>names<span style="letter-spacing:.75pt">
</span>of<span style="letter-spacing:.8pt"> </span>those<span style="letter-spacing:.4pt">
</span>wishing<span style="letter-spacing:.55pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>be<span style="letter-spacing:.45pt"> </span>part<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>of<span style="letter-spacing:.8pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:.45pt">
</span>panel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Alternative<span style="letter-spacing:-2.25pt">
</span>Presentation<span style="letter-spacing:-1.6pt"> </span>Options<span style="letter-spacing:-2.0pt">
</span>for<span style="letter-spacing:-2.15pt"> </span>2022<span style="letter-spacing:-1.5pt">
</span>Virtual Conference:<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.05pt">Whether</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">
there is an in person<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span>gather in<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt">
</span>2022 or not, a<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span>virtual<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>portion<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>of the<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>conference<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>will<span style="letter-spacing:-2.85pt">
</span>be held by Zoom to allow for presentations by members from anywhere in the world. New<span style="letter-spacing:-2.85pt">
</span>members who want an introduction to the SLA but who cannot attend in person are<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">
</span>especially encouraged to attend and / or participate by Zoom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Please<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>indicate<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>your<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>proposal<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>if<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>you<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>are<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>likely<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>prefer<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>presenting<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>in-person<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>or<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>Zoom.<span style="letter-spacing:-2.85pt"> </span>This is, at this stage, only for planning purposes. The exact distribution of in-person and<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">
</span>virtual<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>sessions<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>will<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>be<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>determined<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>once<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>circumstances<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>become<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>clear<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>enough<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>do<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>so.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 style="margin-top:3.05pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="margin-top:3.05pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Submitting<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt">
</span>your<span style="letter-spacing:1.6pt"> </span>abstracts<span style="letter-spacing:1.6pt">
</span>or<span style="letter-spacing:.5pt"> </span>presentation<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt">
</span>proposals:<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Those interested in presenting should send abstracts of individual papers or original work or<span style="letter-spacing:-2.85pt">
</span>proposals for complete panels by <b><u>April 1, 2022</u> </b>to the Program Chair,
<b>Angie Abdou </b>at<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:aabdou@athabascau.ca"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">aabdou@athabascau.ca</span></i></a></span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">and Host<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span><b>Jamie Dopp<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span></b>at </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:jdopp@uvic.ca"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">jdopp@uvic.ca</span></i></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> </span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:102%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:102%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Submissions must include presenter’s name, phone number, postal and email addresses, paper<span style="letter-spacing:-2.85pt">
</span>title, and a 250-word abstract that also indicates the presentation format.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:85%"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:85%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Please note the committee reserves the right to request completed papers if it is deemed<span style="letter-spacing:-2.85pt">
</span>necessary<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>to do so.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:85%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:85%"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:85%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> </span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:85%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:85%"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:85%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Abstracts will be compiled and published online on the Association listserv, Arete. Only those papers presented LIVE or through
another conference medium will be published.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:85%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> </span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 style="margin-top:10.35pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Lyle<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>Olsen<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Graduate<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>Student<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Essay<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>Contest.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">SLA also welcomes and encourages papers from emerging and early career scholars and<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">
</span>graduate<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>students,<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>particularly<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>via<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>entering<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>Lyle<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Olsen<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>Graduate<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Student<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>Essay<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Contest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Essays entered in the contest must pertain, in some significant way, to the literature of<span style="letter-spacing:-2.85pt">
</span>sport. The winner will receive a small stipend, publication in <i>Aethlon</i>, a year’s<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">
</span>membership in the association, and an invitation to present the work during the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Submit your essay (or any questions you have about the contest) to
<b>Dr. Mark Noe at<span style="letter-spacing:-2.85pt"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:marknoe@comcast.net"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">marknoe@comcast.net</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Deadline<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>for<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>Lyle<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Olsen<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>Graduate<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Student<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>Essay<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Contest:<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>April<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>15,<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>2022</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;background:white">Joyce Duncan</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Dr. Joyce Duncan<br>
Faculty, ETSU, Ret.<br>
Managing Editor, Sport Literature Association<br>
Box 70270 ETSU, Johnson City, TN 37614<br>
423-202-0937<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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