The Sport Sciences and Physical Education Faculty from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, has organized the I^st Annual to be held on the 22^nd of October 2010. This event pays tribute to the late Trevor Williams one of the most prominent figures in European APA.

This conferences coordinated by Prof. José Pedro Ferreira a former PhD student of Trevor´s, will have as first keynote speaker Dr. P. David Howe, Senior Lecturer in the Anthropology of Sport and a key member of the Peter Harrison´s Centre for Disability Sport in School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University, U.K.

Dr. Howe and his Sport, Culture and Policy team are very much interested in a wide range of social issues (e.g. class, ethnicity, gender and physicality) and how these impact upon the community involved in disability sport. He will give a keynote address at the augural conference entitled:

“Athlete as Anthropologist, Anthropologist as athlete: a critical exploration of the Paralympic Movement”.

Dr. Howe is also a vice-president of the International Federation of Adapted Physical Activity (IFAPA)