The themes of the seminar will include:

 
A. The theoretical challenges/questions in popularising sport history

- The challenge of historical thinking and the critics of sport history

- The question of cultural heritage in the ’global world’

- The deconstruction of sporting traditions and patrimony

- National identities vs. local identities in the history of sport and movement culture

- Identities and reminiscences

- Popularising sports history: between academic requirements and popular demand

- Life stories

B. Challenging ways of understanding ‘sport’ and its heritage

- The role of national self-consciousness in sport history

      - The influence of social movements on sport history

- ‘Everyday’ history and sports history

 
    Heritage and identity:

- Sport as a determinant of national identity

- Sport as a determinant of local/group/gender identity

- Telling individual stories/local stories/national stories

- The Stadium - between the local identity and a place of tourism

 
     Sports heritage – unifier or separator?

    - The idea of a “Hall of Fame” in determining gender/group identities of sports

    - Preservation and presentation of the history of minorities in sports?

C. Sport history and educational ideologies:

- Sport history in educational programs

- The role of sport history in the curriculum of higher institutions

- The history of teaching physical education

- The history of physical education: reminiscences, environments and artefacts

- Great sports events and sports heroes: a challenge or nuisance for sports historians

 

D. The preservation and presentation of sport and movement history

- The new idea and message of a sports museum

- The preservation and availability of sources in sports history: sports archives

- The role of public museums in preserving sporting traditions

- The use of TV/radio/internet etc. in popularising sports history

- Sport history societies/institutions and the education of non-professionals in reminiscence work

- A museum for women’s sport

- Sport and movement history as a part of a local festival

F. Sessions suggested

   - Documentary film : Jewish women in American Sport: Settlement Houses to the Olympics (Linda J. Borish)

   - A special session on Sport Archives, with a tentative theme on 'Research archives - researchers archives'. Anyhow, papers with a topic on archival problems and solutions etc are welcomed

   - Special session on Sport Museums