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ISHPES
- Bulletin 34
January 2008
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International
Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport
Société Internationale d’Histoire de l’éducation physique et du sport
Internationale
Gesellschaft für Geschichte des Leibeserziehung und des Sports
Inhalt . Contents . Sommaire
ISHPES news p.3
1. President’s news
p.3
2. ISHPES report on the Awards
Committee p.6
3. Minutes of the ISHPES
Council, 1sh August, 2007,
Copenhagen
(17h15-19h) p.7
Reports and Announcements p.9
1. Third
meeting of Transnational Scholars for the study of Gender
and Sport: Historical Perspectives (Urbino, 2007) p.9
2. Honourable Honoris
Causa Title for Gertrud Pfister at the Faculty
of
Physical Education and Sport Sciences , Semmelweis University p.10
3. Honorary Doctorate Degree for
Patricia Vertinsky at the University of
Copenhagen p.12
4. A week of scholarly fun: “To remember is to
resist:”* 40 Years of Sport
and Social Change,
1968-2008,” and the annual NASSH conference. p.12
5. The Centenary
Conference of Rugby League in Australia, Powerhouse
Museum, Sydney, 7-8 November 2008. p.13
6. ICSEMIS, 2008. p.14
7. Tartu 2008 . p.14
8. Japan and Asian
Annoucements p.14
9. International
Cycling History Conference (ICHC) (20th), Freehold,
New Jersey, USA, 2009 p.15
Books, Journals p.15
Sandra Günter:
Geschlechterkonstruktion im Sport. Eine historische
Untersuchung der nationalen und
regionalen Turn- und Sportbewegung des 19.
und 20. Jahrhunderts. 2004. p.15
Helmut Digel/Ommo Grupe (eds.)
: On Ethics, Globalization, Peace and
Olympism, 2007. p.16
Susan J. Bandy, Annette R.
Hofmann & Arnd Krüger (eds.). Gender, Body and
Sport in Historical and
Transnational Perspectives, 2008. p.16
Stephan Wassong: Playgrounds und
Spielplätze. Die Spielbewegung in den USA
und in Deutschland 1870-1930, 2007. p.16
1.
President’s news
Dear ISHPES members,
Since the successful ISHPES-ISSA congress of
the last summer in Copenhagen, four projects have been conducted and are still
on the agenda. The first one is the organisation of our ISHPES seminar to be
held in Tartu, Estonia (July 2-6, 2008). Under the title of “People in Sport
history. Sport history for the People”, the challenge there will be to analyse
the popularisation of sport history. I urge you to send an abstract and to
advertise the seminar around you. For more details, see http://www.spordimuuseum.ee/ishpes2008.
Please note that a Council meeting will occur during the seminar.
The second project is the contribution of
ISHPES within ICSEMIS, the international convention for sciences, education and
medicine in sport, co-organised by ICSSPE, IOC, FIMS and IPC. It will be held
in Guangzhou, China, the week prior to the Olympic Games. For ISHPES, the
initial plan was to have a joint session in partnership with our colleagues
from the International Society of Olympic Historians (ISOH) on a “political
history of the National Olympic Committees”. I defended this idea during the
meeting of the ICSSPE Association’s board members in Warsaw last September.
However, I have received no confirmation up to now and am still expecting more
information. In any case, you can have an overview on the convention on http://www.icsemis2008.org/
The third project is the ISHPES congress to be
held in Stirling, Scotland, in
July
2009. Our colleague Wray Vamplew, who will serve as
host, has actively handled the numerous tasks required by the organisation.
After many discussions, the final title is “Sport in History: Promises
and Problems”; it will deal with some issues within sport e.g. drugs, child
labour, discrimination etc. and how they have been addressed. On the other
hand, it will consider how sport has been called upon to alleviate wider social
and economic problems and the result of this. All details will be given in the
next week on the web site, and present in Tartu as well.
Finally, the last urgent issue for ISHPES is
our contribution to the world congress of history in Amsterdam, during the
summer 2010 (August 22-28). Although the date seems far, many points had to be
fixed recently, the most crucial being of course the recognition of sport
history as one of the topics in the program. I attended the ICSH general assembly
in Beijing last October to defend it. Despite a strong concurrence of other
international organisations in history and more than 200 issues presented, the
topic was accepted, thanks to the support of the International Commission of
the history of international relations. As a consequence, the session to
organise in Amsterdam will focus on “International Relations in Sport: Historiographical
Trends and New Challenges”.
They are still many tasks to achieve within the
next weeks and months. The panel of
experts for Amsterdam has to be fixed rapidly. The constitution of the
scientific committee members for Stirling is also on the agenda and I am still
looking for opportunities to publish a part of the papers presented in
Copenhagen. Meanwhile, do not forget to send your ISHPES membership fee for the
year. Jean Saint-Martin remains at your disposal.
I wish you a very stimulating New Year and hope
to see you soon in Tartu.
Thierry Terret,
President of ISHPES.
Chers membres de l’ISHPES,
Depuis le succès
du congrès de l’ISHPES et de l’ISSA l’été dernier à Copenhague, quatre projets
ont été développés et sont toujours à l’ordre du jour. Le premier concerne
l’organisation de notre séminaire
international à Tartu, en Estonie, du 2 au 6 juillet 2008. Sous le titre de
“People in Sport history. Sport history for the People”, le défi relevé sera
d’analyser la popularisation de l’histoire du sport. Je vous engage à envoyer
un résumé et à parler de cet événement autour de vous. Pour plus de détails,
voir http://www.spordimuuseum.ee/ishpes2008.
Veuillez noter que durant le séminaire se tiendra une réunion du Conseil de
l’ISHPES.
Le second projet
est la contribution de l’ISHPES a ICSEMIS, la convention internationale pour
les sciences, l’éducation et la médecine en sport, co-organisée par le CIEPSS,
le CIO, la FIMS et le mouvement paralympique. Elle se tiendra à Guangzhou, en
Chine, la semaine précédant les Jeux olympiques. Pour l’ISHPES, l’idée de
départ était d’avoir une session en partenariat avec nos collègues de
l’International Society of Olympic Historians (ISOH) sur une « histoire
politique des comités olympiques nationaux ». C’est ce que j’ai défendu
lors de la réunion des membres de l’Association’s board du CIEPSS réunis à
Varsovie en septembre. Toutefois, je n’ai pas reçu de confirmation depuis. Dans
tous le cas, vous pouvez consulter l’état général de la convention sur http://www.icsemis2008.org/
Le troisième
projet est le congrès de l’ISHPES à tenir à Sterling, en Ecosse, en juillet
2009. Notre collègue Wray Vamplew, qui en a la
charge, s’est activement attelé à la tâche. Après de nombreuses discussions, le
titre final est le suivant : « Le sport dans l’histoire :
promesses et problèmes ». Il traitera d’aspects internes au monde du sport
tels que l’usage des drogues, le travail des enfants, la discrimination, etc.
et comment ils ont été pris en considération. Par ailleurs, il s’attachera à
analyser la manière dont le sport a été mobilisé pour régler des problèmes
sociaux et économiques plus larges et avec quels résultats. Tous les détails
seront prochainement disponibles sur Internet et présentés également à Tartu.
Enfin, le
dernier point sur l’agenda de l’ISHPES est notre contribution au congrès
mondial d’histoire à Amsterdam, pendant l’été 2010 (22-28 août). Bien que ces
dates semblent loin, plusieurs décisions ont du être prises récemment, la plus importante
pour nous étant évidemment la reconnaissance de l’histoire du sport comme l’un
des thèmes du programme du congrès. J’ai participé à l’assemblée générale du
CISH à Pékin, en octobre dernier, pour défendre sa place. Malgré la forte
concurrence d’autres organisations internationales en histoire et la
proposition de plus de 200 thèmes, l’histoire du sport a été retenue, en
bénéficiant notamment du support de la Commission internationale pour
l’histoire des Relations internationales. En conséquence, la session à
organiser à Amsterdam portera sur « Les relations
internationales dans le sport: tendances historiographiques et nouveaux défis ».
De nombreuses
tâches demeurent à réaliser dans les prochaines semaines et les prochains mois.
Le panel d’experts pour Amsterdam doit être choisi rapidement. La constitution
du comité scientifique pour Sterling est aussi à l’ordre du jour et je suis
toujours à la recherche d’une opportunité pour publier une partie des actes de
Copenhague. En attendant, je vous engage à renouveler votre inscription
annuelle à l’ISHPES. Jean Saint-Martin se tient pour cela à votre disposition.
Je vous souhaite une très
stimulante nouvelle année et j’espère vous voir à Tartu.
Thierry Terret, Président
de l’ISHPES.
Liebe ISHPES Mitglieder,
seit dem erfolgreichen ISHPES-ISSA Kongress letzten Sommer in Kopenhagen,
wurden vier Projekte durchgeführt und weitere sind in Bearbeitung.
Das erste Projekt ist die Durchführung unseres ISHPES-Seminars,
das in Tartu, Estland (2.-6. July 2008) stattfinden soll. Unter dem Titel
„People in Sport history. Sport history for the People” wird dort die
Herausforderung sein, die Popularisierung der Sportgeschichte zu analysieren.
Ich bitte Sie dringend darum, einen Abstract einzureichen und für dieses
Seminar zu werben. Weitere Informationen sind unter http://www.spordimuuseum.ee/ishpes2008
zu finden. Bitte beachten Sie, dass während des Seminars ein Council Meeting
organisiert wird.
Das zweite Projekt ist der Beitrag von
ISHPES innerhalb ICSEMIS, der internationalen Tagung für Wissenschaft, Bildung
und Medizin in Sport, die von ICSSPE, IOC, FIMS und IPC mitorganisiert wurde.
Diese Veranstaltung wird in Gaungshou, China in der Woche vor den Olympischen
Spielen abgehalten werden. Ursprünglich war für ISHPES geplant, eine gemeinsame
Session mit unseren Kollegen von der International Society of Olympic
Historians (ISOH) über die „political
history of the National Olympic Committees” („politische Geschichte der
nationalen Olympischen Komitees“) abzuhalten. Zuletzt setzte ich mich für diese
Idee während der ICSSPE Vorstandssitzung im letzten September in Warschau ein.
Allerdings habe ich bisher noch keine Bestätigung bekommen und erwarte weitere
Informationen. In jedem Fall kann man sich einen Überblick über die Tagung
unter http://www.icsemis2008.org/
verschaffen.
Das dritte Projekt ist der
ISHPES-Kongress, der im July 2009 in Stirling in Schottland stattfinden soll.
Unser Kollege Wray Vamplew, der hierfür verantwortlich ist, hat die zahlreichen
organisatorischen Aufgaben übernommen, die hierfür verlangt werden. Nach vielen
Diskussionen lautet der Titel schließlich “Sport in History: Promises and Problems“; dabei wird es um Probleme innerhalb des Sports gehen, wie
z. B. Drogen, Kinderarbeit, Diskriminierung usw. und wie man mit diesen
umgegangen ist. Des weiteren soll untersucht werden, wie der Sport genutzt
wurde, um breitere gesellschaftliche und ökonomische Probleme zu
vermindern und zu welchem Ergebnis dies geführt hat. Alle Details finden Sie
nächste Woche auf der Website und sie werden auch in Tartu präsentiert.
Das letzte wichtige Projekt für ISHPES ist
schließlich unser Beitrag zum Weltkongress der Geschichte im Sommer 2010
(22.-28. August) in Amsterdam. Obwohl das Datum noch
weit entfernt scheint, mussten vor kurzem viele Punkte geklärt werden. Der für
uns wichtigste Punkt war natürlich die Anerkennung der Sportgeschichte
als eines der Themen im Programm. Ich nahm an der
ICSH-Generalversammlung in Beijing letzten Oktober teil, um mich dafür
einzusetzen. Trotz einer starken Konkurrenz der anderen internationalen
Geschichts-organisationen und der über 200 vorgeschlagenen Themen, wurde die
Sportgschichte - dank der Unterstützung der „International Commission of the
History of International Relations“ - angenommen. Daraus ergibt sich, dass sich
der in Amsterdam durchzuführende Arbeitskreis auf “International Relations in
Sport: Historiographical Trends and New Challenges” konzentrieren wird.
Während der nächsten Wochen und Monate gibt es noch viele
weitere Aufgaben zu erledigen. Das Expertengremium für Amsterdam muss dringend
bestellt werden. Des weiteren steht die Zusammensetzung des Wissenschaftlichen
Komitees für Stirling auf der Tagesordnung. Zudem bemühe ich mich noch um eine
Möglichkeit, einen Teil der Vorträge, die in Kopenhagen präsentiert wurden, zu
veröffentlichen.
Bitte vergessen Sie in der Zwischenzeit nicht, Ihre
ISHPES Mitgliedschaftsgebühr für dieses Jahr zu überweisen. Jean Saint-Martin
steht Ihnen zur Verfügung.
Ich wünsche Ihnen ein sehr anregendes neues Jahr und
hoffe, Sie bald in Tartu zu sehen.
Thierry Terret,
ISHPES-Präsident.
2. ISHPES report on the Awards
Committee (August 2007 – Copenhagen)
First my thanks go to the committee
who helped me select the winners for the ISHPES scholar and the junior scholar
awards. – Annette Hofmann, Gerry Gems and Tara Magadalinski.
The winner of the Sport scholar
award was Leena Laine, well known sport history researcher from Finland whose
deft, thoughtful and well focused work
on Women in Finnish sport organizations has made an international impact upon
the field. Leena has had a series of teaching and research positions in Finland
and her research projects on the history
of the Finnish Worker Women’s sports movement as well as sport organizations
more generally and their political and social impacts has added
new and important dimensions to our work on gender and sport from a
historical perspective. In particular she has advanced feminist research
through the use of narrative methods, generating a rich and illustrative set of
histories of Finnish women and the values they have placed on movement and
sport.
The winner of the Junior Scholar
award by a slight margin is Cesar
Torres, from SUNY College at Brockport, USA. His topic was “The Endurance of
the Nation – Juan Carlos Zabala’s 1932 Olympic Marathon Victory and Argentine
Nationalism. It is a well written essay with an extensive use of primary
sources that address multiple discourses and focuses upon the role of sport and
Olympic victory in the promulgation of national identity in Argentina.. The
study is nuanced in its investigations of cultural adaptations and contested
cultures in Argentina and is a welcome addition to the growing body of research
on Latin America.
Two runners up deserve praise for
their interesting and well researched essays, Russell Field’s “As Much a Part
of the game- A Profile of Ice Hockey Spectators in 1930s Toronto,” and Pascal Delheye, “Statistics, Gymnastics and
the Origins of Sport Science in Beligium, 1830-1914.”
Russell Field’s essay on sports
spectators in the 1930s addresses a topic that has not been a critical concern
to sports historians and his paper makes a nice contribution to understanding,
not simply the emotional bond between fan/spectator and team/games but the
class and gender make-up of those in attendance. This provides some very useful
data as a point of contrast to those who mythologize the working class history
of spectatorship that is under threat from the commodification of sport and the
corporatisation of spectating.
Pascal Delheye’s study of statistics
and gymnastics in Belgium is well written and a fascinating study of the growth
of the discipline of sport science and the importance of the work of Quetelet
to the discipline. His use of primary sources in the study is excellent and his
style interesting . We were only held back because he does not really answer
the question posed by his essay but the new light thrown upon the process of
knowledge development, statistics and anthropometry is fascinating.
Some comments to the
Council
We have solved the difficulties of
language by selecting jurors once the essays are in, such that we can arrange a
committee of whatever languages are needed.
More problematic is the need to generate more
essays for the competition, and to be more precise about our expectations of
the entrants and the winner, especially in their relation to ISHPES and their
attendance at the conference. We must expect the winner to be in attendance at
the conference to give his/her paper and promote the junior ranks of ISHPES for
the future. We may need to assist in travel for this Award.
Patricia Vertinsky.
3. Minutes of the ISHPES Council, 1sh August, 2007, Copenhagen
(17h15-19h)
Present: T.
Terret ; A. Hofmann, P. Vertinsky, J. Saint-Martin, R. Cox,
H. Aigner, T. González
Aja, Y. Daren (represented), J. Gems, G. Gori, M. Lämmer (represented), L.
Laine, T. Magdalinski, G. Pfister, M. Smith, K. Szikora, E. Trangbaek, B.
Woltmann.
Invited: Sun Yue (china), Angela Teja (Italie), Kenth
Sjöblom (Finland), Vray Wamplew (Scotland),
Karl Lennartz (Germany), Kalle Voolaid (Estonia).
Excused: J. Riordan, A. Guttmann, F. Lebed,
1.
Information (T. Terret)
2.
Copenhagen
2007 (E. Trangbaek)
3.
Proceedings
of Cologne (M. Lämmer) and Lubljlana
4.
Award
committee (P. Vertinsky)
5.
Preparation
of Tartu 2008 (L. Laine)
6.
Project
ISHPES-ICA-SPO on the sports archives (K. Sjöblom/ A. Teja)
7.
Applications
for 2009 and vote (R. Cox, V. Vamplew)
8.
Participation
in ICSSPE-FIMS-IOC-IPC Convention (China 2008) and linked project ISHPES-ISOH
on the
history of
the NOCs (T. Terret, K. Lennartz)
9.
Bulletin
(A. Hofmann),
10.
ISHPES
Website and Sport list (R. Cox)
11.
Preparation
of the General Assembly (August 2)
12.
Others
The order of day is accepted
1.
Information (T. Terret) :
BBSH (Sterling, annual congress of
BBSH): In August 2007, T. Terret will participate at a round table with
different presidents about the future of sport history institution.
ICSH (Beijing, September 2007): T.
Terret will participle to the discussion about the World congress in History in
Amsterdam in 2010. The topic ‘sport and disabled body: sport, body, normality
and abnormality’, was not accepted among the 15 chosen by ICHS. TT asks the
Council to have an official subvention by ISHPES to go to Beijing (400 euros)
and to try to have sport history recognised as a topic within the next World
congress of ICSH (August, 22-28, 2010).. UNANIMITY
ICSSPE, association board, Warsaw,
October, 2007 : The contribution of ISHPES to the so-called “ICSSEMIS”
(International Convention in Sport Science, Education and Sport Medicine) is
not clear: TT will defend the opportunity of having a join session ISHPES-ISOH
on a political history of the national Olympic committees. See point 8
2.
Copenhagen 2007 :
E. Trangbaek presents a report and
recalled the two conditions which were discussed in Urbino: that Copenhagen
would organise the congress if there was only one language and no proceedings.
T. Terret suggests that other
solutions might be found to edit a part of the papers presented in Copenhagen.
E. Trangbaek invites more persons to
participate in the social program.
3. Proceedings of Cologne and Ljubljana
Evelyn Mertin, representing Manfred
Lämmer and the team of Cologne, brought the proceedings of 2005 in Copenhagen.
T. Terret informs the council on the
proceedings of Ljubljana 2006, which will be published in late 2007) or early
2008. There might be several volumes; the printer has not been selected yet.
4.
Award committee (P. Vertinsky)
P. Vertinsky presents the ISHPES
Award winners for 2007: Leena Laine. The Junior scholar award goes to Cesar
Torres .
P. Vertinsky wishes the winners to
participe effectively in the congress? The decision is removed to Tartu.
5.
Preparation of Tartu (seminar, 2008)
Kalle Voolaid presents the first announcement.
One hundred copies will be diffused during the General Assembly.
6.
Project ISHPES-ICA-SPO on the sports
Archives
K. Sjöblom (vice president of
ICA-SPO) and A. Teja (CESH) present a project in five points:
- a petition to the EU
- a Statement addressed to
culturally oriented, worldwide organisations like UNESCO, to support and help
in raising awareness of Sports Archives and their importance for sports
Research.
- a Statement addressed to
International Sports Organisations (FIFA, IAAF, UEFA, etc.) to include the
safeguarding of Sports Archives in their working programme.
- a Statement/petition to the IOC to
spread awareness to and put pressure on National Committees to take care of the
Olympic Archives.
- A charter on the importance and
value of Sports Archives and the means to improve these.
T. Terret proposes to create a
working group on this issue with A. Teja, R. Cox and T. Terret.
7.
Applications for ISHPES Congress
2009
There is only one application. Wray.
Vamplew presents the application of Sterling, in Scotland. The congress will be
organized in July 2009 (7-11). Topic to
be chosen. All official ISHPES languages will be accepted
Vote : UNANIMITY
8. Participation in ICSSPE-FIMS-IOC-IPC Convention (China 2008) and
linked project ISHPES-ISOH on the history of the NOCs (T. Terret and K.
Lennartz)
T. Terret and K. Lennartz have
presented a project of session on the history of the NOCs, to be included in
ICSSEMIS, in Guangzhou, China, 1-5 August, 2008. However, the organisers wish
to have a panel rather than a more traditional session. Opportunities to have
the planed session in another location might be looked for. The project could
led to a more ambitious systematic and editorial work in the future.
9. Bulletin
A. Hofmann asks everyone to send
papers and information for the bulletin.
10. ISHPES Website and Sport list
R. Cox presents a project of
renovating the ISHPES Website, to make it more interactive.
J.
Saint-Martin
Reports and Announcements
1. Third meeting of Transnational Scholars for the study of Gender and Sport: Historical Perspectives (Urbino, 2007)
Set against the background of the
Italian university city of Urbino, which is steeped in history and tradition,
the third meeting of the Transnational Scholars for the Study of Gender and
Sport took place from 30 November to 1 December 2007. On invitation by Gigliola
Gori, a good 25 scientists and a group of interested students from the Facoltà
di Scienze Motorie came to the Carlo Bo University to sample varied insights
into the work on Gender & Sports from the perspective of a classical
history scholar Luigi Bravi (Italy). The well-organised conference also
provided participants with the opportunity of taking a closer look at research
projects in recent and present-day history.
The conference mainly focussed on
biographical case studies. In their stirring lectures Susan J. Bandy (USA),
Annette R. Hofmann (Germany), Katalin Szikora (Hungary) and Jan Todd (USA)
covered an extraordinary range of subject matter from sporting Sister
Engeltraud to She-Woman Katie Sandwina, as a result of which sport
in the everyday lives of many different women from the past to the present was
very vividly, almost tangibly, presented.
The opening lecture by Roland Renson
(Belgium) on the development of basketball - with particular reference to
women's basketball - sparked off a row of lectures on the emancipation
struggles of women in and through sport (Antonella Cagnolati/Italy, Leena
Laine/Finland). The focus lay not only on the role of female athletes, but also
on that of female spectators (Gigliola Gori/Italy). The contributions of Gerd
von der Lippe (Norway) and Martha Saavedra (USA) provided further, more
differentiated insight into these issues.
In addition to the international participants,
several female researchers from Italy presented their work on the situation of
sporting Italian women, covering the Auxiliary Female Service during Italian
fascism (Roberta Vescovi), the varied predilection of Italian men and women for
different types of sports (Ivana Matteucci), the co-educational training of
those studying sport (Anna Rita Calavalle) through to the professional training
of Italian female primary school teachers (Nadia Carlomagno). The lectures were
rounded off with contributions by Katja Schmitt and Sandra Winheller (Germany)
who presented the results of their empirical research into the situation of
female primary school physical education teachers both in Germany and abroad.
Following the chamber music concert,
the cultural programme culminated in a surprise Christmas party and the
ceremonial presentation of the festschrift Gender, Body and Sport in
Historical and Transnational Perspectives dedicated to Gigliola Gori and
edited by Susan J. Bandy, Annette R. Hofmann & Arnd Krüger, published by
Kovač Verlag. Nineteen European and North
American scholars, who had been part of Gigliola Gori's scientific career,
explore a variety of subjects including the influence of fascism on the arts,
the Olympic Games, and intersections of the body, gender, and ideology in
sport.
In addition to the scientific programme, the
founding of the Transnational Working Group for the Study of Gender, Sport, and
Physical Culture was also discussed. Further discussions have been scheduled
for the fourth meeting of the research team to be held in the early winter 2008
at the Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg in Germany.
Andrea Bruns & Katja Schmitt (Georg-August-Universität
Göttingen).
2. Honourable Honoris Causa Title for Gertrud
Pfister at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Semmelweis University
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Professor Gertrud Pfister, the internationally
acknowledged, outstanding representative of sport sociology and sports history
graduated in Sport Sciences, Latin Language and History at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University
München.
She carried out her doctoral studies in ancient history of sport and
received her PhD title ‘magna cum laude’ at the University of Regensburg. Her
university career started at the Ruhr-University Bochum in 1980, where she
received another PhD degree with summa cum laude at the department of social
sciences. The topic of her dissertation was gender, co-education and
socialisation and gender studies have been among her main fields of interest
during her scientific career. A special focus was the historical and
sociological investigation of women and sport. In addition, she researched and
published extensively in the field of sports history with a special focus on
the 19th and the 20th centuries.
She became
a professor at the Institute of Sport Sciences at the Freie Universität Berlin
in 1981. There she built up a sport history research centre which cooperated
with the “Forum of Sport History” and had such a large impact on the sport
historical efforts in Berlin. At the free University she served as head of the
Institute and in several influential committees, among others the research
committee which was responsible for the funding of research for the whole
university.
In 2001
she was offered a position as professor at the Institute of Sport Sciences at
the University of Copenhagen,which is one of the leading universities in
Europe. She accepted the offer and built up a sport historical and sport
sociological research group. In 2006 she was offered a position as the dean of
the history and culture department at the university of Oslo, which she
declined.
From 1993 to 2000
Gertrud Pfister served as president of the International Society for the
History of Physical Education and Sport (ISHPES) In 2004 she was elected as
president of the International Sport Sociology Association (ISSA). Since 2003
she had served in the scientific board of the interdisciplinary European
College of Sport Sciences as well. Gertrud Pfister has participated in numerous
PhD evaluations, she was a member of several professor assessment committees
and she participated in the evaluation of sport institutes of four universities
(Göttingen, Vienna, Basel, Keunas). In addition, she is member of the editorial
board and/or the review panel for more than 10 national and international
journals, among others International Journal of the History of Sport, Sport
History Review, and International Review of Sport Sociology. These offices show
that her work is accepted and appreciated in a broader area of sport sciences.
Her main
field of research has been women’s sport and gender studies from sociological,
sport sociological, historical and methodological perspectives. She explored,
among other things, the development of women’s sport in Germany and Europe,
especially the role of women and women’s sport in political, social and
cultural-historical changes, the participation of women in the Olympic
movement, the gender relations in decision making committees of sport
organisations, the representation of female athletes in mass media, etc.
Gertrud
Pfister has published 50 books as author or editor and around 250 articles in
scientific books or journals. Most of her publications are in German or
English, but some papers have been translated in Portuguese, French, Mandarin,
Japanese, Dutch etc.
The titles
of some of her publication show us the broad range of her interests and areas
of expertise: ‘From outsider to idols: ‘Women at the Olympic Games’; ‘Opportunities and Barriers for Women
in Sports in Turkey”; Integration and Gender’; ‘The Everyday Lives of
Sportswomen: Playing Sport and Being a Mother’; ‘Doing Sport is Doing Gender –
Sport and Socialisation from a Constructive Perspective’; ‘Women and Sport in
Comparative and International Perspective’. Currently she is working on a book
about “Understanding American Sport – on the (gendered) sport structures and
practices in the USA”.
Professor
Pfister got into contact with the TF in the beginning of the 1990ies, and there
are still intensive scientific contacts with the Department of Social Sciences
of our Faculty. As a president of ISHPES she held lectures both at our
university and at the Hungarian Olympic Committee. She had a great impact in the decision to
conduct a world congress in Hungary. Thus our university could organize the 6th
World Congress of the International Society of Sport History in 1999. The
proceedings of this congress we edited together.
Since that
time she has been the invited lecturer of several sport historical and sport
sociological conferences, scientific forums, and university courses here in
Hungary, and has been the consultant for some of our PhD students. She invited
several Hungarian students to participate in the International Summer School,
which takes place every August in Copenhagen. Hungarian Phd students also
participated in the International Congress of Sport Sociology, which took place
in Copenhagen in 2007.
Gertrud Pfister is the second woman
to receive the honourable Honoris Causa title at the Faculty of Physical
Education and Sport Sciences /TF/, awarded by the Senate of the Semmelweis
University.
Katalin Szikora
3. Honorary Doctorate Degree for
Patricia Vertinsky at the University of Copenhagen
Professor Dr Patricia Vertinsky is Professor of Human Kinetics and Distinguished
University Scholar at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
She is widely recognized internationally as an outstanding social and cultural
historian who has made an exceptional contribution to the fields of women’s
history, sport history and sociology, and the history of health and
medicine - always with her insightful
focus on gender and body culture. The broad focus of her innovative,
interdisciplinary and theoretically sophisticated work has centered on the
historical role of physical activity in sustaining health which is a potent
social issue world wide. Her extensive scholarly writings, some of which are
classics in the field, have advanced understandings of the complex social and
cultural determinants of health and exercise in society – especially her
discerning analyses of gender, racial stereotyping and ageing in relation to
physical culture.Professor Vertinsky’s professional career has been
characterized by leadership, innovation, commitment and international service
and she has received numerous distinguished research prizes and awards. The
first time she visited University of Copenhagen was a decade ago and since that
time she has maintained particularly close ties with the Department for
Exercise and Sport Sciences. She has supported and inspired the researchers and
the students at the Institute, integrating colleagues and students there into
international scientific research and professional networks and facilitating
visits to the University of British Columbia. In particular, she has been
instrumental in enhancing the development of research and teaching in the
historical fields at the Institute where some of the leading and most
productive scholars in the field are now located.
Else Trangbaek
4. A week of scholarly
fun: “To remember is to resist:”* 40 Years of Sport and Social
Change, 1968-2008,” and the annual NASSH conference.
The North American Society of Sport
History will meet for their annual conference in Lake Placid, New York on May
23-26, 2008. Abstracts have been reviewed and the program is being finalized. A
draft of the program will be available on the NASSH website (www.nassh.org) on February 2, 2008. Over 150 scholars from a number of countries
(including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain,
Korea, and United States) will be presenting papers over the 4 day conference.
The NASSH conference is being
preceded by a conference, “To remember is to resist:”* 40 Years of
Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008,” hosted by the University of Toronto, May
20-22, 2008.
This conference will commemorate and
critique the aims and achievements of
past and current human rights movements in
sport. Keynote addresses and individual presentations will explore the past and
reflect on current efforts at social change; participants will also be
encouraged to suggest future directions and debate the merits of including
sport in campaigns for human rights.
This conference will bring together
academics and activists, practitioners and academics, including scholars from a
variety of disciplines and perspectives whose research interests touch upon
issues of sport and physical activity, human rights and social change.
Submit abstracts and any questions
to the Conference Organizer, Russell Field, at: russell.field@utoronto.ca
or
1-416-978-5548.
5. The Centenary Conference of Rugby League in
Australia, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney,
7-8 November 2008.
This is a preliminary call for papers and
contributions to a conference recognising the cultural, historical and social
significance of rugby league in Australia 1908-2008. The convening group, the
Tom Brock Bequest Committee, a group which promotes the scholarly study of
rugby league, is seeking support and sponsorship from significant
cultural institutions within Australia .
Deadline for abstracts: (250 word) :
1 March 2008
Deadline for papers for publication:
1 May 2008.
(5000 words maximum, as MS Word document, in
final polished form for refereeing. It is proposed that a publication,
consisting of contributions to the conference, will be provided to all
participants as part of their registration fee and will be available on the
first day of the conference.. Therefore the above
submission date is non-negotiable.)
It is further proposed that the conference also feature a non-academic
stream of contributions from former players, journalists, and others who may
not wish to contribute to the publication.
Abstracts should specify whether it is your
intention to submit a 5000 word paper for refereeing.
All correspondence to:
Associate Professor Andrew Moore, A.Moore@uws.edu.au
chair Tom Brock Bequest Committee,
School of Humanities and Languages
University of Western Sydney
Bankstown campus
Building 7
Locked Bag 1797 S.
PENRITH 1797 NSW AUSTRALIA
The ISHPES Seminar for year 2008
will be held in Tartu, Estonia from 2-6 July. The title of the Seminar is
“People in Sport History – Sport History for People”.
The main task of the Seminar is to deal with
the theoretical challenges in popularising sport history, the challenging
ways of understanding sport and its heritage,
the sport history and educational ideologies and the preservation and
presentation of sport and movement history.
More information and the organisers’ contacts
are available on the Seminar Website : www.spordimuuseum.ee/ishpes2008
8. Japan and Asian
announcements :
The 22nd conference of JSSH (The Japan Society of Sport History) is to
be held in the Conference Hall of "Corasse Fukushima", 22-23
November, 2008. The organizer: prof. Yasuhiro Sakaue, Fukushima
University.
For more information: http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jssh/
or Keiko Miyauchi Ikeda, one of the executive
committee members of
JSSH:
kikeda@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp
The Spring Seminar of the Historical Research Section of
Japan
Society of Physical Education, Health and Sport Sciences, 2008
is to be held in
Biwako Seikei Sport College, 17-18 May, 2008.
The organizer: Prof. Hiroshi
Arai.
(Cf.The venue of 59th Congress of JSPEH&SS is Waseda
University).
For more information: http://www.taiikushi.org/
or Keiko Miyauchi Ikeda, a board member of the
directors of
the Historical Reserch Section of JSPEH&SS :
kikeda@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp
The Asia-Pacific Conference on Exercise and Sports Science 2007
was
held in
Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, 6-8 December,
2007 which included the section of history of sport: keynote lecture on this
section was "Leisure and Transformation" by Christopher R. Edginton,
Ph.D,
Secretary General of World Leisure and Recreation
Association
Professor and Director, School of Health, Physical Education
and
Leisure
Services, University of Northern Iowa, USA.
The need of making an emphasis upon
the section of history of sport
was
discussed among the new board
members (Keiko Miyauchi Ikeda, one of the new board members of APCESS).
More informations on this organization: http://www.acess.org/
9. International Cycling
History Conference (ICHC) (20th), Freehold, New Jersey, USA, 2009.
The 20th
ICHC will be held in Freehold, New Jersey (USA), July 29 to August 1, 2009. All
persons interested in the history of bicycles and the people involved with
bicycles are cordially invited to attend (see www.cycling-history.org).
Freehold,
New Jersey (USA), is the home of the Metz Bicycle Museum (see
www.metzbicyclemuseum.com), and was the home of A. A. Zimmerman, the first
World Cycling Champion. Freehold, NJ, is the county seat of Monmouth County and
is located about 50 miles south of NewYork City. Freehold is located in an area
of New Jersey that is undergoing rapid urbanization, but which is also rich in
American heritage.
The 20th
ICHC will feature a reception at the Metz Bicycle Museum with ample time to
absorb the abundance of bicycle history displayed in this museum; the
conference itself will be held in a restored historic hotel; a trip to
Smithville, NJ, where the Star bicycle was
manufactured (optional);
a banquet with a special presentation; and a bicycle ride around Manhattan (New
York City) after the close of the conference (optional).
Persons
interested in presenting papers on any aspect of bicycle history are invited to
submit an abstract of their paper to Gary Sanderson by email (garysanderson@comcast.net) by January 30,
2009, for inclusion in the program. The papers presented at this conference
will be published under the title “Cycle History 20” by Van der Plas
Publications so manuscripts of these papers should be sent, or handed, to Gary
Sanderson no later than the time of the presentation.
Information on how to
register for the 2009 ICHC will be available after July 2008. In the meantime,
you can contact Gary Sanderson by email (garysanderson@comcast.net), or by
phone (1-973-857-3447), for general information.
Sandra
Günter: Geschlechterkonstruktion im Sport. Eine historische Untersuchung der
nationalen und regionalen Turn- und Sportbewegung des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts.
Schriftenreihe des Niedersächsischen Instituts für Sportgeschichte Hoya e.V.
2004, 336 pages.
Im Zentrum des Buches steht die Analyse der
sozialen Konstruktion von Geschlecht und Geschlechterverhältnissen in der
deutschen Turn- und Sportbewegung des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Obwohl die
Untersuchung ein bereits mehrfach behandeltes Thema aufgreift, wird in
verschiedener Hinsicht wissenschaftliches Neuland betreten. So werden im ersten Teil aktuelle Diskurse der
Sport- und der sozialwissenschaftlichen Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
aufgegriffen und im Rahmen eines interdisziplinären Theorieansatzes
reflektiert. In erster Linie wird die Frage zu klären versucht, ob Turnen und
Sport zur Konstruktion oder zur Dekonstruktion der tradierten
Geschlechterverhältnisse beigetragen haben.
Die qualitative Erweiterung der bisherigen
Erkenntnisse wird im zweiten Teil der Arbeit durch eine regionalhistorische
Fallstudie zur Entwicklung des Frauenturnens in Bremen geleistet. Die
Ergebnisse werden im theoretischen Kontext der Arbeit interpretiert und
diskutiert. Dieses Buch, das auf der Dissertation der Autorin beruht, stellt
einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Geschlechterforschung innerhalb der deutschen
Sportgeschichte dar, deren Aufarbeitung noch weiter forciert werden sollte.
Annette Hofmann
Helmut Digel/Ommo Grupe (eds.)
: On Ethics, Globalization, Peace and Olympism. Über Ethik, Globalisierung, Frieden und
Olympismus, Tübingen/Köln, 2007, 162 pages.
A remarkable event took place in 2006. On the occasion of the 6th world
ethos speech with IOC President Jacque Rogge, world sport met world ethos,
represented by Hans Küng. Olympic sport, with its virtues of fairness, mutual
respect, solidarity and internationality, regardless of ethnicity, gender or
political and religious convictions, has been included in the discourse of
world ethos. In this process Olympic sport will have to clarify
its own patterns of meaning, ensuring its
inherent values. It is the purpose and objective of this book to grant the
public access to this discourse, stimulating and encouraging people to reflect
on questions and problems concerning Olympic top-level sport. The book is
divided into English and German parts.
Text from the back cover of the book.
Susan
J. Bandy, Annette R. Hofmann & Arnd Krüger (eds.). Gender, Body and Sport
in Historical and Transnational Perspectives. Hamburg, Verlag Dr. Kovač,
2008, 336 pages.
In Gender, Body and Sport in Historical and Transnational Perspectives,
honouring the Italian sport historian Gigliola Gori, nineteen European and
North American scholars explore a variety of subjects of fascism on the arts,
the Olympic Games, and intersections of the body, gender, and ideology in
sport. This collection of originial essays marks a shift from national to
transnational perspectives in sport research, and many of the essays explore
the ways in which the forces of history fashioned the development of sport and
the sporting lives of relatively unknown yet important figures in sport.
Text
from the back cover of the book.
Stephan
Wassong: Playgrounds und Spielplätze. Die Spielbewegung in den USA und in
Deutschland 1870-1930. Aachen: Meyer
& Meyer, Verlag, 2007, 314 pages.
The history of American sports is of
interest to some European researchers. One current example is the work of
German scholar Stefan Wassong, who searched for links between the American
playground movement and the German “Spielplatzbewegung” between 1870 and 1930.
In
the late 19th century, a time marked by industrialization and
urbanization, which led to a rising crime rate, disease, and problems between
different ethnic groups, the construction of public playgrounds was intended to
counteract these developments. Through playgrounds, educators intended to give
children the chance to improve their state of health, introduce them to moral
values, and foster social aims through individual and team sports. Physical
educators soon found interest in this phenomenon. Curtis, Gulick, Lee and
Johnson were well-known supporters of the movement. The founding of the
Playground Association of America (PAA) in 1906 as a national organization led to
a rise in urban playgrounds all over the US.
Wassong
not only elaborates on the rise of the playground movement in the US, he also
pursues the question of whether the PAA had any influence on the Geman
“Zentralausschuss zur Förderung der Volks- und Jugendspiele (ZA)” (Central
Committee for Folk and Youth Games and umbrella of the German playground
movement) and vice versa. This is not a far fetched assumption. Henry S. Curtis
collected information on the ZA during a study trip to Germany in 1902 “which would
conncect and coordinate the individual actions of the urban playground
associations” (p. 279). According to Wassong, Curtis brought from Germany the
“structural stimulation for improving the degree of organisation of the
playground movement in order to give it a grwoing impulse at at national level”
(p. 280).
From the German side it was Carl
Diem who, in 1913, went on a one-month trip to the US to study the American
sport structures. During this trip he visited various playgrounds in New York,
Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Boston. Surprisingly in his later publications he
neither mentions the journal The Playground nor his conversations with
Lee, Curtis, and Gulick (p. 233). Diem´s most intensive studies on urban
American playgrounds seem to be on the ones in Chicago´s South Park System Very
detailled elaborations can be found on these playgrounds, which in 1912 were
frequented by almost 5.5 million visitors. This park system consisted,
according to Diem, of indoor gymnasiums, outdoor gymnasiums, swimming pools,
assembly halls, and club rooms. Five hundred “Spielleiter” were professionally
in charge for these playgrounds.
Back
home in Germany, Diem and Berner published Städtische Sportanlagen. Ein
Wegweiser für den Bau von Spiel- und Sportangelegenheiten (1914). In the
chapter „Das Vorbild der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika“ („The U.S. as a role
model“) they highlighted the playgrounds as a place for health, moral, and
social education of urban youth. Diem also started a campaign to foster the
German Spielplatzbewegung. His original aim was to have Spielplätze
in each village with more than 5000 inhabitants for free usage, with four
square meters per inhabitant. He even tried to implement a law relating to
this, but was unsuccessful. Despite these difficulties, the number of
playgrounds in Germany rose between 1914 and 1928, which Wassong attributes to
Diem’s idealization of the American playground movement and its contribution to
the national well-being.
Wassong
ably notes the influences that both movements had on each other. It would be
very interesting to know what happened to the American playground movement and
the German Spielplatzbewegung and where they are today.
Annette Hofmann