Call for Papers: ISHPES Congress special issue, International Journal of the History of Sport

Thank you for participating in the 2020 ISHPES virtual Annual Congress hosted in Sapporo.

We would like to encourage you all to submit papers for consideration for a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport due for publication in late 2021. This will be part of the annual series of ISHPES-Congress linked special issues of the IJHS.

Please submit your paper by Monday 30 November 2020. Papers should be no longer than 10,000 words, including references. Full guidance on preparation and the publication process is available here. (Only participants of the Congress 2020 are eligable to submit). Please follow these instructions now; it will smooth the review and production process and will save us asking you change the presentation later.

You must submit via the ScholarOne system, accessible on the IJHS page, using the (green) Submit an Article button. Please make sure that you select the ISHPES 2021 Special Issue option on the drop-down menu.

Your paper will be considered through the usual refereeing process, managed by IJHS Special Issue Editor Malcolm MacLean who is working with the issue’s academic editors, Sandra Heck, Susanna Hedenborg and Darion Nardini, on this issue. Submission is no guarantee to acceptance and acceptance is no guarantee of publication in the ISHPES issue; we aim to publish in mid-to-late 2021.

We are looking forward to seeing your submissions. If you have any questions about the process, please contact Malcolm at malcolmkmaclean@gmail.com.

ISHPES Newsletter September 2020

Dear ISHPES Members,

A couple of days ago we organized our first Online Congress. Many of you participated and I would
like to thank the head organizer, Keiko Ikeda and her colleagues from Hokkaido University in Sapporo,
Japan, for their excellent work. You can all imagine the challenge of the various time zones. Presently
all registered persons can watch all the presentations again until September 14th. They have been
contacted by the organizing committee and know how to access.

I also would like to acknowledge the work that our two ECS representatives Dario Nardini and Taro
Obayashi have done to put together two sessions for ECS.

Certainly, it was not the same seeing colleagues in persons, but it was a possibility in these difficult
times to exchange our research. Especially for the Early Career Students it was a good way to present
their works. To give you a few statistical numbers: We had

  • 68 papers
  • 14 posters
  • 145 registered persons
  • 154 requests for the access including non-registered invited guests and executives.
  • 33 general visitors in person who watched “public viewing” at the university conference hall.
  • Therefore, the above statistics show more than 187 persons watched the congress.
  • Highest access number of the session was 80 for the opening event and symposium, an average of 72 persons participated in three keynotes and 51 persons still participated in the closing ceremony.
  • Highest access number of the general oral presentation was 29 (Olympics) in 5 parallel sessions and the average number was 16-20 (note: depending on the number of parallel sessions run at the same time).

Nationalities of the 145 registered participants (*invited speakers are not included in this list.)

Argentine1
Australia1
Austria2
Belgium2
Brazil5
Canada5
China2
Colombia2
Czech Republic2
France1
Germany4
Hungary2
Israel1
Italy1
Japan68
Norway2
Republic of Korea11
Slovenia1
Spain1
Sweden2
Taiwan12
United Kingdom7
United States9
Uruguay1


I do feel a bit sorry, that we could not present our awards the usual way. Our Canadian colleague
Bruce Kidd who presented us an excellent paper with insights into his own career: “From Tokyo 1964
to Tokyo 2020: Reflections of an Olympic activist”, received the ISHPES Award. I would like to thank
him again. Evelise Quitzau from Uruguay gave the Routledge Keynote. She chose the topic “Sports
History in Uruguay: Physical Culture and Entertainment Market Outside Montevideo”.

As many probably noticed ISHPES did not held a general assembly. The next one will be held at the
next ISHPES congress which will be a joint congress with CESH (European Committee for Sport History).
We are thankful that they agreed that we can join them from September 13-16, 2021, in Lisbon,
Portugal.

2021 is an important year for us, we will have the election of the council, vice-presidents and
president.

Before I close, I want to mention that there will be a special issue again on the Congress papers of
Sapporo. Everyone interested can submit a paper. There will be a double-blind peer review process.
See this page for more information.

Many greetings and I hope to see you all next year in person again

Annette Hofmann
ISHPES President