ISHPES is proud to present the three recipients for 2014. These awards include the Gigliola Gori Junior Scholar Award, the ISHPES Award, and the Routledge Book Prize for Best Presentation. We would like to congratulate all of our award recipients.
ISHPES Celebrates 25 Years
In 1989 the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport (ISHPES) was founded as a merger of the International Committee for the History of Physical Education and Sport (ICOSH) and the International Association for the History of Physical Education (HISPA). In 2014 ISHPES celebrates its 25th birthday. While at the beginning it was a very Eurocentric organization it is today very international as seen in the numerous countries from which the members hail. This paper, written by ISHPES President Annette Hofmann, will give an insight into the present state and work of this international sport history organisation. The conclusion will focus on the challenges that ISHPES faces in the twenty-first century.
Call for Papers: 2014 ISHPES Congress
Global Perspectives on Sports and Physical Cultures: From Past to Present
Organizer: Qatar Olympic & Sport Museum September 22-25, 2014
Conference Venue: Qatar University
NEW DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: MAY 18
Topics:
Historical Aspects of:
• Olympics and other Mega-Sport Events
• Development of Sport, Physical Activity in the Middle East
• Sports Cultures in the Global South
• Gender and Sport
• Sport Related Migrants and Migrations
• The Relation between Sports, Physical Activity and Health
• Transcultural Perspectives on Physical Cultures
• National Movement Cultures and Physical Education
• Open Papers
Registration is free
Terms and Conditions
• All participants are invited to submit abstracts for oral presentation or poster presentation. However, the Scientific Committee will make the final decision to indicate if the abstract will be for oral or poster presentation.
• Each main author can only present one paper.
• The ISHPES 2014 does not require an admission fee. However, one author at least must be registered for the Congress (register here) and must be a member of ISHPES.
• One of the authors has to attend the Congress in order to present the abstract and receive the certificate of presentation. Only presented abstracts will be included in the Congress proceedings.
Important Dates:
• Deadline for the abstract submission: April 6, 2014 NEW DEADLINE: May 18
• Notification of abstract acceptance: June 2014
• Deadline for the online registration: September 2014
For more information see www.2014ishpes.org
2014 Gigliola Gori Junior Scholar Award – Call for Applications
ISHPES is currently accepting applications for the 2014 Junior Scholar Award. The ISHPES GIGLIOLA GORI JUNIOR SCHOLAR AWARD will be presented at the 2014 ISHPES Seminar to be held in Doha, Qatar.
2013 ISHPES Honorees: Alison Wrynn and Malcolm MacLean
ISHPES is please to announce the winners for 2013 ISHPES Award, Alison Wrynn, and the 2013 Routledge Keynote Speaker, Malcolm MacLean.
Chia-Ju Yen and To-Pin Wen win 2013 Gigliola Gori Junior Scholar Award
The 2013 Gigliola Gori Junior Scholar Award was won by Taiwanese students, Chia-Ju Yen and To-Pin Wen for their paper “Historical discovery of the passage of Tou Hu from China to Japan and South Korea”. Both authors are regular participants of the ISHPES congresses. For several years we could observe Chia-Ju´s discipline, perseverance, and conscientious efforts in pursuit of her Ph.D. degree. Her co-author, To-Pin Wen has demonstrated similar diligence in his own academic career with many publications and presentations. Both have recently obtained their Ph.D. degree.
ISHPES in Taiwain News
The 2013 ISHPES Congress was covered in China Post, an English-language newspaper in Taiwan.
7th Meeting of the Transnational Working Group for the Study of Gender and Sport
The Transnational Working Group for the Study of Gender and Sport seeks to advance research on gender in sport, especially from a transnational and transdisciplinary perspective. Since 2005, regular meetings have stimulated fruitful scientific exchange, discussion and the mentoring of young scholars. The board of the working group is currently headed by Susan Bandy (USA), Nadia Carlomagno and Gigiola Gori (both Italy), Annette Hofmann (Germany), Manami Inoue (Japan), Leena Laine (Finland), Gerd von der Lippe (Norway), Martha Saavedra (USA) and Katalin Szikora (Hungary).
THE 2013 MEETING – Gender in Physical Culture
This year’s meeting will be held at the Department of Food and Nutrition, and Sport Science (IKI), Faculty of Education, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The meeting’s theme is Gender in Physical Culture. This theme carries both local historical and contemporary meanings. Historically, physical culture was a concept associated with practitioners of Danish-Swedish and other systems of gymnastics in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a concept that was used to describe a way of life associated with the various forms of exercise and other physical activities of the day. Physical culture was thus more than mere movement; it was a lifestyle that was embedded in beliefs, knowledge and broader individual and social practices of the time (Kirk, 1999, 65). With the demise of Danish-Swedish systems of gymnastics, the term physical culture disappeared from the lexicon of the English speaking world. Recently, however, various scholars have argued for the recovery of the concept. As were the systems of exercise mentioned above, contemporary forms of human movement (i.e. sport, exercise, physical activity, APA etc.) are socially embedded. The concept is thus seen useful in providing ways to relationally theorise a wide range of socio-cultural issues, including the reflexive nature of how individuals’ bodies are being maintained, represented and regulated and how physical culture constructs and reinforces dominant values and norms.
Important dates for submission and registration:
Abstract submission: 1 September 2013
Notification of acceptance: 1 October 2013
Preliminary program: 31 October 2013
Registration deadline: 30 November 2013
Final program: 1 December 2013
For non-presenters, please register by emailing Natalie Barker-Ruchti (natalie.barker@ped.gu.se).
Conference fee: SEK 300.- (approx. € 30), payable on site.
For further information, please contact Natalie Barker-Ruchti: natalie.barker@ped.gu.se
Website: http://www.iki.gu.se/samverkan/konferenser/gender-and-sport
ISHPES Council Call for Nominations
This is an election year so we are calling it to your attention. We have already informed you that we will do it online this time and we hope that this will work well. You can vote for the Council and the President. The council consists of a maximum of 15 members. The new council will then elect three Vice Presidents, which will support the President’s work.
Every paid-up member who has been an ISHPES member for the last two years can run for the Council. Those members who would like to run for Presidency need to have been a member for the last four years.
We are now opening the Call for Nominations. For those of you who are interested in becoming a Council member or the President, please send a short curriculum vita and also explain your relation to and interest in ISHPES. This should be no longer than one page.
Continue reading
Copenhagen Summer School 2013
Human and Social Sport Sciences – Issues, Approaches, Challenges and Implementations.
CELEBRATION OF THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY
International Summer School for Young Researchers – Course for PhD Students.
Date: 1st of July – 5th of July, 2013