(NB! for seminar draft programme see below)

Scientific programme

Parrot conference room

11.30 ISHPES board meeting

12.30 Lunch

14.00 Parallel sessions I

Baer conference room

Politics at the Olympic Games (chair: Floris van der Merwe)

14.00 Patricia Vertinsky (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Jumping into the 2010 Winter Olympics: Gender Politics at the Local, National and International Level over the Issue of Women’s Ski Jumping

14.30 Jouko Kokkonen (Jyväskylä University)

The Olympic Games and Finnish Foreign Policy 1936–1952

15.00 Daimar Lell (Estonian Sports Museum)

The Soviet Olympic Journey 1956

15.30 Alar Lipping (Northern Kentucky University, USA)

Mass Media, Gender and the Summer Olympic Games

Peterson conference room

Sports Museums (chair: Christian Wacker)

14.00 Manfred Lämmer (German Sports and Olympic Museum)

The Role of Sports Museums in the Olympic Movement

14.30 Kaie Voolaid, Kalle Voolaid (Estonian Sports Museum)

Collecting Sports Museum: Estonian Example

15.00 Kamila Pereta, Katarzyna Woźniak (Museum of Sports and Tourism in Warsaw)

New Premises – New Challenges

15.30 Anna Kallinikidou; Kyriaki Oudatzi (Olympic Museum of Thessaloniki)

Dealing with national sports heroes, the case of the permanent exhibition of the Olympic Museum of Thessaloniki

Parrot conference room

Methodological issues (chair: Gertrud Pfister)

14.00 Mike Huggins (University of Cumbria, England)

Quantifying Sporting Trends: the Problems and Possibilities of British Census Data 1901-1951

14.30 Kaarel Antons (Estonian Sports Museum)

Today's historiography of sport in the period of authoritarianism in Estonia (1930s)

15.00 Haim Kaufman (Ziman College Wingate Institute Israel)

Influences of Jewish Zionist Leaders’ Biographies on their Attitude towards Sports prior to the Establishment of the State of Israel

15.30 Sebastião Votre (Universidade Gama Filho)

Variability and change in the pragmatic usage of an old volleyball game

18.00 ISHPES seminar opening ceremony

Friday, 04.07.2008

Baer conference room

09.00 Keynote paper (chair: Manfred Lämmer)

Christian Wacker (Deutsches Sport & Olympia Museum)

Olympic Education in Museums

Baer conference room

10.00 Museum roundtable (Chair: Linda J. Borish)

11.00 Coffee break

11.30 Parallel sessions II

Baer conference room

Demonstrating the Body (chair: Gerald Gems)

11.30 James McKay (Durham University)

Pornographic Eroticism and Sexual Grotesquerie in Representations of African American Sportswomen

12.00 Natalie Barker-Ruchti (University of Basel)

Ballerinas and Pixies: A Genealogy of the Changing Female Gymnastics Body

12.30 Chia Ju Yen (National Taiwan University of Physical Education and Sports)

Is the Pain a Stair down to the Hell or up to the Heaven? — A Case Study of a Facial Trauma Patient’s Experience of Pain and Body Image

Peterson conference room

New forms of the  information (chair: Kenth Sjöblom)

11.30 Anna Kallinikidou (Olympic Museum of Thessaloniki)

Cultural Content Management Policies: Web 2.0 applications in sports museums

12.00 Adam Fryc (Piekary Úlŕskie, Poland)

Revolution in Polish Soccer Historiography. The Story of the Fuji Football Encyclopedia Project

12.30 Aune Anton, Anu Sillastu (Estonian Sports Museum)

Positive globalization: translated sports literature in Estonia

Parrot conference room

Different aspects of the sport (chair: Gigliola Gori)

11.30 Linda Martis (Estonian Sports History Society)

The Development of Aesthetic Group Gymnastics into a Modern Competitive Event

12.00 Lio Chen (China University of Technology)

The Reutilization of Traditional Culture -- From Taiwanese Folk Dance to Campus Cheerleading Competitions

12.30 Maureen M. Smith (California State University, Sacramento); Rita Liberti (CSU, East Bay)

Remembering Wilma Rudolph: The Role of Material Culture in the Public Consumption of Sport History

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Parallel sessions III
 

Baer conference room

The ways of presenting the sport history (chair: Leena Laine)

14.00 Linda J. Borish (Western Michigan University)

American Jewish Women's Voices in Sport History, Heritage and Identity in Documentary Film and Research

15.00 Aino Sarje (Jyväskylä University)

Teamwork and performance as a means of producing and presenting biography

15.30 Malcolm MacLean (University of Gloucestershire)

Sports biography and the limit of historical knowledge: exploring subaltern pasts

Peterson conference room

Olympic history (chair: Kalle Voolaid)

14.00 Karl Lennartz (International Society of Olympic History)

Olympic Legends

14.30 Vladimir Rodichenko (Russian Olympic Committee)

Sport History in the Content of Olympic Education

15.00 Yuehchan Huang (Dep. P.E., National Taichung University)

The Sport Education Philosopher: Pierre De Coubertin

15.30 Steponas Gečas (Vilnius Pedagogical University)

Some Aspects Of Olympic Education

Parrot conference room

History of the physical education (chair: Mati Pääsuke)

14.00 Enn Mainla (Estonian Sports History Society)

First Steps in Sports Teaching in Estonia

14.30 Chin Hsiang-Pin (National Taiwan Sport University)

The Beginning of the Physical Education in Taiwan Primary School (1895~1898)

15.00 Vahur Ööpik (Tartu University)

The Faculty of Exercise and Sport Sciences of the University of Tartu – 80 years of teaching and research

15.30 Yuan-Ming Hsu (National Taiwan University of Physical Education and Sports); Tzong-Ming Ou (National Tainan Institute of Nursing)

The progress of the Modernization of Physical Education in Taiwan

16.00 Coffee break

16.30 Parallel sessions IV
 

Baer conference room

Research archives - researchers archives (chair: Richard Cox)

16.30 Kenth Sjöblom (National Archives of Finland)

Sports archives - in the sevice of research? Introduction to the archive session

17.00 Leena Laine (Jyväskylä University)

Women researchers – womens archives?

17.30 Kaie Jeeser (Estonian Sports Museum)

Information System of the Estonian Museums

Peterson conference room

Sport in the ancient world (chair: Heribert Aigner)

16.30 Christian Wacker (Deutsches Sport & Olympia Museum)

The Hippodrome at Olympia

17.00 Istvan Kertesz (Eszterhazy Karoly College)

Hunting Sport in Ancient Macedonia

17.30 Joe Noormets (Tallinn University)

‘Civilized Isle’ inside the Bloodthirsty World: A Re-reading of the Funeral Games for Patroclus in Iliad 23

Parrot conference room

Life stories in the sport (chair: Thierry Terret)

16.30 Aarand Roos (Estonian Sports History Society)

„Estonia's Jesse Owens" Ruudi Toomsalu and his American Dream

17.00 Jacov Sobovitz (Carmel College)

Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu – Legend In Her Time

17.30 Floris van der Merwe (Stellenbosch University)

The true reason behind Niels Bukh's visit to South Africa in 1939

Saturday, 05.07.2008

Baer conference room

09.00 Keynote paper (chair: Thierry Terret)

Heribert Aigner (Institut für Alte Geschichte)

Greek athletics and agones versus the Roman attitude of the mos maiorum

10.00 Coffee break

10.30 Parallel sessions V
 

Baer conference room

Popularising the sport history (chair: Maureen Smith)

10.30 Bettina Kratzmueller (University of Vienna)

Astérix aux jeux olympiques – Popularising ancient sports history

11.00 Lin Mei-Chun (National Taiwan Normal University)

The Bridge Between Commodities and Culture: A Study of Mountaineering Advertising Images During the Period of Japanese Rule (1895-1945)

11.30 Annette Hoffmann (Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg)

Indoor Ski Domes: A Sign of the Erlebnisgesellschaft or a Relict from the 1920s and 30s?

12.00 Keiko-Miyauchi Ikeda (Yamaguchi University)

Radicals and Sport: ‘Bully’s Acre’, John Egan and Pierce Egan’s Boxiana
 

Peterson conference room

Challenging the theory (chair: Patricia Vertinsky)

10.30 Gertrud Pfister (University of Copenhagen)

Theories for people in sport history

11.00 Gerald R. Gems (North Central College)

Sport and the Construction of National Memory

11.30 Erkki Vettenniemi

The Poverty of the National Identity Paradigm

12.00 Simone Digennaro (Tor Vergata University (Rome-Italy))

Ludodiversity in a globalised world
 

Parrot conference room

Sports games in the political context (chair: Leena Laine)

10.30 To-Pin Wen (National College of Physical Education and Sports, Taiwan R.O.C)

Postwar Communication: A Historical Survey of Waseda  University Baseball Team Visited Taiwan

11.00 Indrek Schwede (Tartu University)

Disappearance of football: how the king of the sports vanished under the Soviet occupation in Estonia and became the game of the Enemy

11.30 Chin-Fang Kuo (National Taiwan University of Physical Education and Sports)

The Embodiment of ‘Art’ and ‘Chivalry’: The Historical Album of Pih-Tau Female Basketball Team of the Free China

12.30 Lunch

14.00 Parallel sessions VI
 

Baer conference room

Sports reflecting society (chair: Annette Hoffmann)

14.00 Diethelm Blecking (Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany)

Sport and multiculture: on the organised sport of minorities in the Second Polish Republic

14.30 Tokuro Yamamoto (Kokushikan University)

“Ekecheiria” and “Article 9” of the Japanese Constitution

15.00 Gigliola Gori (University of Urbino)

The Extraordinary Contribute of the Writer Edmondo De Amicis (1846-1908) in Turning the Italians to Gymnastics and Traditional Sports
 

Peterson conference room

Modifications of different sports (chair: Keiko Ikeda)

14.00 Dmitry Belyukov (Velikie Luki State Academy of Physical Culture and Sport)

The Pskov Gymnastic Society (1896 – 1912)

14.30 Hiroshi Arai (Biwako Seikei Sport College)

The introduction of methods for army skiing in Japan

15.00 Nuno Serra (Polytechnic Institute of Guarda)

Games and physical activities mencioned in the Livro da Montaria by D. João I, in Portugal (14th and 15th centuries)
 

Parrot conference room

Physical education at the universities (chair: Daimar Lell)

14.00 Dzintra Grundmane (University of Latvia)

The Sport History In The Curriculum Of Master’s Studies

14.30 Tatsiana Bouiko (Belarus State University for Physical Culture)

Sport history as a determinant of professional identity of specialists in physical education
 

Baer conference room

16.00 Conclusions of the seminar

 
Poster presentations

Nuno Serra (Polytechnic Institute of Guarda)

The beginning of the development of sport, in the 20th century, in Portugal.

Nuno Serra (Polytechnic Institute of Guarda)

Entertainment activities and games in the Azores (Portugal), in the sixteenth century, in the books of Gaspar Frutuoso

Arnold Vaiksaar (Estonian Sport History Society)