“III International SPRING Conference. Sports Marketing, Journalism, Communications and Sponsorship: Current trends and perspectives”

University of Malaga, Thursday February 20th and Friday, February 21st, 2025

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We are delighted to announce that the third full SPRING Conference will be hosted by our colleagues at the University of Malaga next February. We envisage that this will be an in – person event. The theme of the conference is ‘Sports Marketing, Journalism, Communications and Sponsorship; Current trends and perspectives’. It is worth highlighting that selected contributions from the conference will have the opportunity to be published in a special issue of journals, including Obra Digital.

Here are the conference topics:

  • Advertising, Public Relations and Sport
  • Sport and Cultural Identity
  • Current debates on Sport and Globalisation
  • The marketing of ‘Minority Sports’
  • Sport, Nationalism and Propaganda
  • Gender, Marketing and Sports
  • Disability, Marketing and Sports
  • Sports Journalism in digital societies
  • Sports Clubs and Communication Strategies
  • Fans, Marketing and Communication
  • Theoretical Perspectives
  • Individual Case Studies
  • Sport Place Branding
  • Sport and Advertising
  • Sport and Cinema
  • Media Sport
  • Human Rigths
  • Sports-Washing
  • Sport Governance

The conference will take place at:

University of Malaga

Faculty of Communication Sciences
Campus de Teatinos

Calle de León Tolstoi, s/n
29010 Málaga, Spain

Pricing:
  • Lecturers and Researchers presenting papers: €80
  • PhD Students presenting papers: €40
  • Participants without presentations: €20

The link for the registration is the following: https://tpv.uma.es/iii-international-spring-conference/

The registration deadline is December 15, 2024.

You can find information about the hotel options here.

We look forward to welcoming as many of you as possible to the beautiful city of Malaga next February.

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Scientific Committee 

President:  

Dr. Francisco Javier Paniagua Rojano, Vice-Chancelor of Communication, Cabinet and Promotion 

Members: 

Dr. Jordi de San Eugenio Vela, Full Professor at the Faculty of Business and Communication of the University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia 

Dr. Carlos de las Heras Pedrosa, Full Professor at the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising of the University of Malaga

Dr. Juan Salvador Victoria Mas, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Communication of the University of Malaga 

Dr. Guillermo Sanhauja Peris, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Communication of the Jaume I University, Castellón 

Dr. Xavier Ginesta Portet, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Business and Communication of the University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia 

Dra. Gema Lobillo Mora, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Communication of the University of Malaga  

Dr. Jim O’Brien, Research Fellow at Birbeck College, University of London 

Dr. Michael Holmes, Associate Professor at ESPOL (European School of Political and Social Sciences) at the Université Catholique de Lille

Dr. Seán Crosson, Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor of Film in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, University of Galway

Dr. Russell Holden, In The Zone

Mr. Sean Hamil, Director of the Birkbeck Sport Business Centre, University of London 

Dr. Nahuel Ivan Faedo, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Business and Communication of the University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia 

Dra. Penélope Martín Martín, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Communication at the University of Malaga 

Dr. Fernando Peinado Miguel, Associate Professor of the Complutense University of Madrid

  

Organizing committee: 

Dra. Gema Lobillo Mora (direction of the comittee), Associate Professor at the Faculty of Communication of the University of Malaga  

Dr. Jim O’Brien (direction of the comittee), Research Fellow at Birbeck College, University of London 

Dr. Xavier Ginesta Portet (direction of the comittee), Associate Professor at the Faculty of Business and Communication of the University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia 

Mr. Sean Hamil, Director of the Birkbeck Sport Business Centre, University of London 

Dr. Seán Crosson, Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor of Film in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, University of Galway

Dr. Sergio Guerra Heredia, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Communication at the University of Malaga 

Dr. Michael Holmes, Associate Professor at ESPOL (European School of Political and Social Sciences) at the Université Catholique de Lille.

Dr. Russell Holden, In The Zone

Dr. Nahuel Ivan Faedo (direction of the committee), Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Business and Communication of the University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia 

Dr. Raúl Martínez-Corcuera, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Business and Communication of the University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia 

Dra. Penélope Martín Martín, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Communication at the University of Malaga 

 

 

Technical committee:

Irene Ramírez Ojea, University of Malaga 

Marina Gómez Alcalde, University of Malaga 

Nuria Gil de Sola Merino, University of Malaga

Marisol Pavo Ruinervo, University of Malaga

Carmen Rodríguez Ocaña, University of Malaga

Marta Catalina Aguilar Cabrera, University of Malaga