2017 Gigliola Gori Award – Call for Applications

ISHPES is currently accepting applications for the 2017 Early Career Scholar Award. The ISHPES GIGLIOLA GORI AWARD will be presented at the 2017 ISHPES Congress to be held in Alexandria, Egypt, 3-6 April 2017.

It is awarded for an unpublished essay of outstanding quality in the field of sport history. Eligible scholars must be a member of ISHPES and a registered student (undergraduate or graduate) at the time of the Congress or within one year of receiving a having graduated from a program of higher education.

The essay must be submitted in English and the text itself (including notes and bibliography) must not exceed 10,000 words.

The main criteria for selection will be based on originality, the scientific quality of the research and the value of the study from the perspective of international sport history. A specially chosen committee will review the articles.

Gigliola Gori, a leading sport historian in Italy and longtime member of ISHPES, as well as one of its current Vice-Presidents, has very generously donated a 1000 € prize for this award. The ISHPES GIGLIOLA GORI AWARD is intended to promote emerging scholarship among young scholars of sport history world-wide through the organizational support of ISHPES and its members.

The award winner will receive a 1000 € prize, free registration at the Congress and a year’s membership to ISHPES. The winning paper should be presented during the conference. His/her paper will be published in Stadion and the winner, together with any other entrant whose work is recognized by the committee for its quality, will receive a diploma that will be presented during the Congress. The essay must be emailed to the Chair of the Awards Committee at awards@ishpes.org no later than DECEMBER 1, 2016.

ISHPES 2017 Congress Call for Papers

18th ISHPES CONGRESS
April 3-6, 2017 in Alexandria, Egypt

The Transformation of Sport and Physical Activity Through Time:
Journeys in History”

Call for abstracts [pdf version] DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DEC 4

More information can be found on the ISHPES Congress page.

Organizers:
Faculty of Physical Education for Girls at Alexandria University

Patronage:
Alexandria University
Ministry of Higher Education
Ministry of Sports

Partners:
Tolip Hotel
Kasha Tourist Compony

Congress topic and subtopics

The aim of the 18th ISHPES Congress is to provide a forum for the latest research, findings and experiences from the vast field of sport history.

The Congress topic THE TRANSFORMATION OF SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY THROUGH TIME: JOURNEYS IN HISTORY is broad and general, allowing every sport historian – academicians, independent researchers, lecturers, PE teachers, coaches and others, as well as graduate and postgraduate students and experts from cognate and adjacent scientific fields from all over the world to participate.

Sub-themes:

  • Globalization and glocalization of sport and physical activity
  • Traditional festivals, sporting activities and folk dances
  • The history of Physical Education and sports in schools, colleges and universities
  • Gender and sports
  • Biographical approaches to sporting legacies
  • History of the Olympic and Paralympic Games
  • History of sports in the Middle East
  • Methodological aspects of sport history
  • Open paper

Guidelines for abstract submission

1. Abstract submission is exclusively online via the ISHPES Conference Submission Page.

2. The online form will invite you to inform the following points :

A. Name of the author(s), your institutional affiliation and position, your office and mobile phone numbers, and email addresses.

B. The paper’s title followed by a 350 words (maximum) abstract of the proposed paper. The abstract should include the question(s) addressed in the paper, the evidence to be used, a precise statement of the argument and conclusions, and what significance the paper has to our understanding of sports history.

C. Please specify also to what sub-theme your abstract is related.

3. All abstracts will be assessed by two members of the scientific committee.

The official language of the congress is English.

Presenters need to be an ISHPES member to present a paper, and a person can only present one paper as first author. Join ISHPES now.

Participants are invited to submit their abstracts for podium/oral presentations only.

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Jerry Gems Presents Routledge Keynote at 2016 ISHPES Congress

Jerry Gems has been a professor at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois since 1988. Over his lengthy career, Jerry has been a Renaissance Man in academia, a good teacher, an active and productive scholar, and engaged in serving his professional organizations.

As the presenter of the 2016 Routledge Keynote, Jerry began the ISHPES Congress in Paris with his talk, “Women and the Advent of American Sport Tourism: The Feminine Invasion of Male Space”.

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Benjamin Sacks Wins Gigliola Gori Award

Entrants for the Early Career Scholar Award for 2016 were uniformly excellent showing the rich set of talents of the younger ISHPES scholars. There were 9 interesting and well written papers in all from a number of countries, demonstrating the global reach of our organization.

The panel read each paper, assigned marks and then discussed the results, coming to a difficult conclusion given the high quality of the essays.

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Final Program Now Online

Join us for the 2016 ISHPES Congress in Paris!

The final program is now available.

**Please check the program – sessions have been adjusted, moved, and changed.

For more information about the 2016 ISHPES Congress in Paris, check out the ISHPES Congress page.

Questions about the program should be directed to program@ishpes.org.

 

March 2016 President’s Report

Dear ISHPES Colleagues,

This report reaches you a bit later than usual. However, thanks to the work of our Webmaster, Heather Dichter, many things that I used to tell you in out bulletin or newsletter can only now be found on our constantly updated website.

ISHPES can look back on a successful year 2015 with 140 members from 34 countries by the time of our conference, though we still have only a few members from Oceania and the African continent. Our annual congress was titled “Coming from the Past, Working in the Present, Looking in the Future: Aims, Topics, Results in Sport History”. It was organized by the Croatian Society for Sport History, the Croatian Olympic Academy and Split Sports Association with Zrinko Čustonja, president of the organizing team in Split. It took place in Croatia from 18-22 August had around 100 participants from 31 countries (including North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Australia and Europe). Not only did we listen to a variety of excellent papers, but we also could enjoy now and then the seaside in the middle of August.

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2016 Gigliola Gori Junior Scholar Award – Call for Applications

ISHPES is currently accepting applications for the 2016 Junior Scholar Award. The ISHPES GIGLIOLA GORI JUNIOR SCHOLAR AWARD will be presented at the 2016 ISHPES Seminar to be held in Paris, France, 29 June-2 July 2016.

It is awarded for an unpublished essay of outstanding quality in the field of sport history. Eligible scholars must be a member of ISHPES and a registered student (undergraduate or graduate) at the time of the Congress or a junior scholar (within one year of receiving a PhD). The essay must be submitted in English and the text itself (including notes and bibliography) must not exceed 10,000 words.

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