Once a year, the Sport and Religion Research Alliance hosts a distinguished expert for a campus lecture.<\/p>\n
SRRA Lecture Series 2023\/24<\/strong><\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> Tuesday, March 5, 2024<\/p>\n Time:<\/strong> 1:00-2:15 p.m.<\/p>\n Place:<\/strong>\u00a0UT’s Student Union<\/a> Room 262 A\/B<\/p>\n Title:<\/strong> “Play, Sport and Religion in the 21st Century: Trends and Issues”<\/p>\n Speaker: <\/strong>Dr. Terry Shoemaker<\/a>, Associate Teaching Professor, Depts. of Religious Studies and Ethics, Sport and Culture, Arizona State University<\/p>\n Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Terry Shoemaker is a qualitative research scholar focusing on religious change in contemporary life in the United States. This includes the ways that religion and religious people adapt, convert, deconvert, reform, and abandon aspects of their religiosity or spirituality. He also is a leading scholar who examines the nexus of sport, recreation, disability and religion in contemporary culture.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n SRRA Lecture Series 2022\/23<\/strong><\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> Thursday, November 3, 2022<\/p>\n Time:<\/strong> 6:00-7:00 pm<\/p>\n Place:<\/strong>\u00a0UT’s Student Union<\/a> Room 180<\/p>\n Title:<\/strong> “Seeing the “Big Red Elephant” in the Room:\u00a0Counseling Practice and Techniques\u00a0for Promoting Mental Health and Wellness\u00a0with the Athlete Populations”<\/p>\n Speaker: <\/strong>Taunya Tinsley<\/a>, PH.D., D.MIN., NCC,\u00a0LPC<\/p>\n Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n This lecture is designed to begin the process of\u00a0developing multicultural sports counseling to create\u00a0competent leaders in sport. The conversation will\u00a0provide a framework for the creation of a specific\u00a0model for the holistic development of the athlete\u00a0population that includes spiritual and mental health\u00a0counseling. To reach people no one else is reaching\u00a0we must do things no one else is doing that includes\u00a0relating to, and caring for, the sports community by\u00a0bridging the gap between culture, sports, religion, and\u00a0wellness. Both the lecture and the model connect\u00a0theories of human development, psychology,\u00a0counseling, sports studies, spiritual care, and the\u00a0multicultural sports counseling competencies.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n SRRA Lecture Series 2021\/22<\/strong><\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> Monday, March 28, 2022<\/p>\n Time:<\/strong> 6:00-7:00 pm<\/p>\n Place:<\/strong>\u00a0Online Live Zoom Webinar<\/p>\n Title:<\/strong> Sport Tech: Faster, Stronger, BETTER?<\/p>\n Speaker:<\/strong> Tracy J. Trothen, ThD<\/a><\/p>\n Professor of Ethics, School of Religion Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n Technology is developing at a furious pace. In sport, the tech race to become the best athlete is ratcheting up. Robots, pharmaceuticals, immersive AI, the Vaporfly running shoe, telemetry hacking sensors, nutrigenomics, genetic modification, cognitive enhancements, and more, are changing sport. In this technological age, it is becoming increasing difficult to identify our values and recognize what we love about sport. Spirituality may be a valuable part of the sport experience but may not be consciously recognized. We may experience something \u201cmore\u201d that lifts sport into another zone but not be able to articulate the meaning of that something more. \u201cTechnological doping\u201d is complicating things. If winning is important, but not everything or the only thing, then we must take a close look at how we are \u201cenhancing\u201d sport. In this talk, we will consider what it means to become better in sport. We will look at our values. We will look at sport\u2019s spiritual dimension. And we will explore sport examples of technological doping and how these may or may not make us better.<\/p>\n Sport Tech Faster Stronger BETTER<\/a><\/p>\n SRRA Lecture Series 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n Canceled due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic<\/p>\n SRRA Lecture Series 2019\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Title: <\/strong>Observations at the Intersection of Religion and Sport in American Culture<\/p>\n
\nJoint Appointment, School of Rehabilitation Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences
\nQueen\u2019s University
\nKingston, Ontario, CAN<\/p>\n