Update: Confirmed Conference Speakers, July 2017

Below is an updated alphabetical list of confirmed speakers at our July 2017 conference: 

Bowman, Paul		Cardiff University
Bryden, Michael	Women's Boxing and Sports Criminology	University of Portsmouth
Burkart, Eric	How you fight is who you are: Technique, Identity and narratives of self-reassurance	University of Trier
Chan, Thomas	Transformation of Kung Fu and Martial Club in a Capitalist city –Hong Kong	Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Choi, Bok Kyu	Qi jiguang's Body Types Strategy for Martial arts and its Application in Joseon Dynasty	Korean Institute of Martial Arts
Davies, Philip	The Origins and Evolution of Pencak Silat	Brunel University
Delamont, Sara	Tales of a Tireur: The Life of a Savate Teacher in the UK	Cardiff University
Delamont, Sara	Wounded Warriors: The Injury Narratives of Advanced UK capoeiristas	Cardiff University
Dias, Everton	Martial Arts Media and Spectacle: A  study on mixed martial arts	Miami
Gagné, Sylvain	Prolegomena for the teaching and academic research of martial arts: the empowerment of a field of knowledge	Université Laval
Gianni, Tommaso	Comparing the Chinese paradigm of martial culture with Japan: The Embodiment of wenwu 文 武	University of Suwon
Gowtham, PS	Narratives around martial arts in India	Shiv Nadar University
Hay, Alexander	'Breaking of the Targe' – Scottish martial arts and the cultural history of Culloden	Southampton Solent University
Hoekstra, Nicholas	Teaching and Learning Inclusive Martial Arts: Perspectives from a Blind Martial Artist	World Intellectual Property Organisation
Honeycutt, Damon	Martial Partner Practice as Collaborative Artistic Research	Artist
Istas, Leo	Martial Education in German Curricula: From Nazi Reich to Present Day	Cologne Sports University
Jaquet, Daniel		University of Geneva
Jehu, Lyn	The Perception of Mental Toughness Attributes in Karate Teaching	University of South Wales
Jennings, George	Out of the Labyrinth: The Recently Invented Mexican Martial Arts Riding the Wave of Mexicanidad	Cardiff Metropolitan University
John, Zoe	Tampons and Toughness: Body Politics in Mixed Martial Arts	Cardiff University
Judkins, Ben		Cornell University
Keller, Sebastian	HEMA - A model case for martial arts studies?	University of Regensburg
Kenklies, Karsten	Wisdom of the Sword: Cutting through the Western Educational Mind	University of Strathclyde
Kolanad, Gitanjali	Striking a Balance – the relationship between dancing and fighting	Shiv Nadar University
Labouret, Victor	How a conceptual description of a martial art helps to remodel its pedagogy: the example of the Kinomichi	Kinomichi Teacher
Lloyd, Issie	Wounded Warriors: The Injury Narratives of Advanced UK capoeiristas	Dance Development Teacher
Lorge, Peter	Invention 'traditional martial arts'	Vanderbilt University
Magnan-Park, Aaron	"We are Not Sick Men!: Bruce Lee and the Restoration of China's Pre-Confucian Martial Virtue"	University of Hong Kong
McGuire, Colin	Music and Martial Arts: Heroic Display through Violent Musicking in Kung Fu	University College Cork
Moore, Brian	Wellbeing Warriors: Mental Health and the Martial Arts	Macquarie University
Mroz, Daniel	Martial Partner Practice as Collaborative Artistic Research	University of Ottawa
Partikova, Veronika	Self-orientation in Chinese martial arts context	Hong Kong Baptist University
Pedrini, Lorenzo	Sparring in  Italian Gym Boxing Classes: Towards the Study of Embodied Politics in Combat Sports	University of Milano Bicocca
Pellerin, Eric	Lau Kar Leung as Kung Fu Auteur and the Pedagogy of Martial Arts	City University of New York
Porchet, Pierrick	Circulation of kinesic practices and representations in Chinese martial arts	University of Geneva
Southwood, James	Tales of a Tireur: The Life of a Savate Teacher in the UK	GB Savate
Stephens, Neil	Wounded Warriors: The Injury Narratives of Advanced UK capoeiristas	Brunel University
Wetzler, Sixt	The problem of violence: martial arts as coping strategy	German Blade Museum, Solingen
White, Luke	The Ethics of Violence in the Kung Fu Comedy	Middlesex University