1st Annual Martial Arts Studies Conference
10-12 June 2015, Cardiff University (UK).
This inaugural Martial Arts Studies Conference in 2015 brought together a range of academics and PhD students for an interdisciplinary dialogue on a range of formative issues in this rapidly developing field of study. It considered a range of questions, including:
What is martial arts studies? What could it be? Is it a specific new field or is it always going to be a subsection of other disciplines? What are the possibilities and limitations of creating or developing martial arts studies? What are its key concerms, problematics, theories, orientations, and methodologies, and why?
It built on work such as the 2014 special issue of JOMEC Journal on martial arts studies, and invited proposals for 20-minute papers that engage with key questions about the field, as well as papers that present current work in any aspect of martial arts studies.
- Professor Stephen Chan, OBE (SOAS)
- Professor Meaghan Morris (Sydney)
- Professor Douglas Farrer (Guam)
- Dr Ben Judkins (independent scholar)