Hockey continues to experience reckonings. While some incidents have garnered more media attention than others, questions about hockey’s deeper purpose abound: How might we, individually and collectively, reckon with a history of hockey that has contributed to acts of misogyny, violence, racism, homophobia, classism, and ableism? How might we reckon with realizing our entanglements and vulnerabilities in the context of hockey culture? In what ways are we implicated in narratives of hockey culture? People have begun to trouble the inheritances of hockey culture, and to recognize that the way the game has been understood and performed is not inevitable. We have witnessed these challenges through academic scholarship, through investigative journalism, through the activism of players, through the practical changes made by coaches, and through the policy changes enacted by leaders. Through this conference, we aspire to open up conversations and to cultivate conceptions of ice hockey that do not yet exist. 

Although there is a conference theme, submissions that engage a range of themes are welcome for the conference. We are using the conference theme to organize the keynotes. We will also be using the conference theme for a journal special issue following the conferences. The theme is not intended to limit the topics people can speak about in their own presentations.  

echoes, “sound repeated by reflection”; 

reckoning, “a settling of accounts”