The 36th annual conference of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport (IAPS 2008) will be held in Tokyo, Japan, from the 10th through 15th of September 2008, under the auspices of the Japan Society for the Philosophy of Sport and Physical Education. The society will be celebrating its 30th anniversary (JSPSPE 2008) and hold the Research Seminar for Sport Philosophy 2008 (RSSP 2008), together with IAPS 2008.

The venue, the National Olympics Memorial Youth Center (NYC), once utilized as the Olympic Village for the Games of the XVIII Olympiad in Tokyo, 1964. Reconstructions and improvements have been made to provide a better environment for a wide range of activities, such as conferences, lectures, symposiums, meetings of small groups.

The organizing committee asks you to come to Shinjuku Station by train or bus from the airport. It is the easiest and safe way from Narita to downtown Tokyo. Time table is avilable for train and bus.

Take the JR Narita Express to Shinjuku Station (Duration is about 80-90 minutes). Transfer to a local train on Odakyu Line (about 3 minutes). The NYC is about 7 minutes walk from the station.

Take the Airport Limousine for Shinjuku Station. The Bus starts at Bus Stop No.23 and No.24 (Duration is about 85 minutes). Then transfer to a local train on Odakyu Line (about 3 minutes). The NYC is about 7 minutes walk from the station.

The International Association for the Philosophy of Sport invites the submission of abstracts to be considered for presentation at the 36th annual 2008 IAPS meeting. The conference will be held in Tokyo, Japan between September 10th and 15th, 2008. Details about the conference may be found in the IAPS fall 2007 newsletter. Abstracts are welcome on any area of philosophy of sport, including metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics and ethics, and from any theoretical approach, including analytic philosophy and critical theory. In addition to abstracts for papers, proposals for round table and panel discussions, including a tentative list of participants, are also welcome and should follow the same format as paper abstracts. Graduate students and emerging scholars are encouraged to submit works in progress. Abstracts should be 300-500 words long and must be received by April 1, 2008. The preferred mode of submission is by e-mail. Please send the abstract as an attachment, preferably in Word. Contributors who do not have access to e-mail should feel free to send a hard copy instead. Please submit e-mail copies of abstracts to the Conference Chair at: ahardman@uwic.ac.uk.

Please send hard copies (only if e-mail is not available) to: