Webinar « Building bridges within and outside the history of sport », Program Spring 2022, University of Lausanne

The Centre for Olympic Studies & the Globalisation of Sport of the University of Lausanne and its director Prof. Patrick Clastres are pleased to invite you to the webinar Building bridges within and outside the history of sport ((see attached pdf). Each seminar will take place in English, from 4:30 to 6:30 pm Zurich hour, and will include a presentation of the thesis (45mn), a talk by a discussant (15mn) and a question and answer session (45mn).

The CEOGS/UNIL seminar aims to bring together PhDs who have recently defended their thesis in the history of sport across the continental distances that separate them. It also aims to allow them to exchange with more experienced researchers, who will be their discussants, and with an international audience of listeners, and thus to make their work better known on a global scale in a convivial atmosphere. This webinar will provide a space for dialogue between national historiographies that often misunderstand each other and that are correlated to different disciplinary fields (history, international relations, political sciences, sport and body movement sciences, colonial and post-colonial studies, gender studies, subaltern studies, cultural studies, visual studies, area studies…).

Finally, the sessions will be built around the virtuous circle that must link empirical approaches, concepts and theories of history. Particular attention will be paid to the internal and external criticism of sources, to the articulation between the narrative that these sources allow and the historical contexts that encompass it, and to the singularity of the history of sport in relation to other forms and objects of historical writing. 

Our collective ambition will be to contribute to bringing the history of sport out of its isolation and give it its rightful place in the historiography of contemporary societies: a place that is neither marginal nor central.

To follow the webinar, please register with Raphaël Benbouhou: raphael.benbouhou@unil.ch. A Zoom link with the access code will be provided to follow the conference.

Call for paper “Competition and collaboration in sport and physical education from Antiquity to Modern times”, XXVth International Congress of CESH in Bucharest

NEW ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE : 15 MAY 2022

We are pleased to announce the next congress of our committee, organised in Bucharest by our colleague Pompiliu-Nicolae Constantin in September 2022. You can now submit your proposals for papers. For more information, please consult the attached document or the congress website at cesh2022.unefs.ro
Come in great numbers!

2022 CESH Early Career and Post-Graduate Award

All post-graduate and early career researchers intending to present a paper at the 25th CESH Congess: Competition and collaboration in sports history from Antiquity to Modern times, Bucharest 21-23 September 2022, have the opportunity to enter for the prestigious CESH Early Career and Post-Graduate Award. This has a range of benefits, including a cash prize.

Colleagues will know that winning this award has many benefits to an early career scholar:

  • It looks extremely good as part of a curriculum vitae, and can improve future jobs prospects.
  • It confers prestige on the scholar and his/her institution.
  • The financial gain of a money prize (currently of 250 Euros) is always useful.

Deadline: 29 August 2022

EarlyCareerScholarAward2022Call

International conference « Olympic events, historical moments »

The Global Sport & Olympic Studies Center of the University of Lausanne is thrilled to inform you that the international conference co-hosted with ACHAC « Olympic events, historical moments » will be held on 7th December in Lausanne.
You can see the conference via a Zoom link. You have to register via this link : https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvfu-oqTktHdHT7DmyjDeLYB2CZsk1fmBS

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Exciting future congresses of CESH

The General Assembly of CESH on 15 September 2021 in Lisbon was the occasion to look to the future. We are delighted to confirm and announce the next congresses of CESH. We’ll meet again in:

– Bucharest (Romania), 21-23 Sept. 2022

– Cologne (Germany), September 2023

– Paris Nanterre (France), Summer 2024

Details will follow in due time. Many thanks to the candidates and congratulation on your bids!

Thanks to the organisers of Lisbon 2021

The Directing Council of CESH on the behalf of all participants express their sincere thanks to Daniele Serapiglia and Rahul Kumar  for the successful organisation of the 24th CESH Congress / ISHPES Congress at the Universidade Nova Lisboa.

139 papers, 3 keynotes in a hybrid conference… and a sensation to resume scientific relations with international colleagues.

Thank you so much for having challenged the situation and managed to host the joint CESH/ISHPES congress during three fabulous days in Lisbon.

 

 

International round table on history of university sport: Paris, November 16, 2021 / Lausanne, June 1, 2022

On behalf our CESH member Lidia Lesnykh we announce the launching of a two-days international round table organised by the Institute of Sport Sciences of the Université de Lausanne, the GERME (Groupe d’études et de recherche sur les mouvements étudiants) and the Cité des mémoires étudiantes (Paris).

Title: Students and sports in the world from the 19th century to the present day: Actors, institutions, practices.

1st round table: Paris, November 16, 2021

2nd round table: Lausanne, June 1, 2022

Proposal submissions: sportunivcolloque@gmail.com

Submission deadline: June 15, 2021  July 15, 2021

Find the CfP in French and English here: aac sports V6

More info: http://www.germe-inform.fr/?p=4358

 

Prof. Wolfgang Decker, Fellow of CESH, passed away in April 2020

Prof. Wolfgang Decker, Fellow of CESH no. 19 (Deutsche Sporthochschule, Cologne, Germany) passed away on April 28. 

Prof. Fernando García Romero, Fellow of CESH, has written a short obituary. May he rest in peace.

 

On April 28, 2020, Professor Wolfgang Decker, a historic member of the CESH College of Fellows, passed away at the age of 78. Professor Decker is the author of a vast scientific production, based on a very solid academic background: he had studied sports sciences at the Deutsche Sporthochschule in Cologne, where he would be Professor of sports history from 1976 until his retirement, and also classical studies, archeology and Egyptology at the University of Cologne. He has been the world’s greatest specialist in Egyptian sport, a subject on which he published, in addition to many articles, some fundamental books: his general works Sport und Spiel im Alten Ägypten (Múnich 1987; English translation Yale 1992) and Pharao und Sport (Mainz 2006), the critical compilation of texts Quellentexte zu Sport und Körperkultur im alten Ägypten (St. August 1975) and, in collaboration with Michael Herb, the compilation of iconographic sources with an extensive comment Bildatlas zum Sport im Alten Ägypten. Corpus der bildlichen Quellen zu Leibesübungen, Spiel, Jagd, Tanz und verwandten Themen (Leiden 1994).
 
He has also been for the last 50 years one of the greatest scholars of ancient Greek sport, a period to which he dedicated, among countless other works, his book Sport in der griechischen Antike. Vom minoischen Wettkampf zu den Olympischen Spielen (Hildesheim 2012, translated into Greek in Athens 2004) and his biographical dictionary of great athletes from the Ancient World Antike Spitzensportler. Athletenbiographien aus dem Alten Orient, Ägypten und Griechenland (Hildesheim 2014)He was also one of the main promoters of the magazine Nikephoros. Zeitschrift für Sport und Kultur im Altertumof whose bibliographic rapports he dealt with for many years, an essential instrument for all researchers of sport in the ancient world. 
 
During the last stage of his academic production he was also actively engaged in studying the origins of the modern Olympic Games, and specifically the contribution of Greece, since his precise knowledge of the modern Greek language (he was a great polyglot) allowed him direct access to the reading of the original sources; one of the fruits of that work was the book Praeludium Olympicum. Das Memorandum des Jahres 1835 von Innenminister Ioannis Kolettis an König Otto I. von Griechenland über ein Nationalfest mit öffentlichen Spielen nach dem Muster der antiken panhellenischen Agone (Hildesheim 2006). 
 
Wolfgang Decker has been a teacher in the broadest, noblest, and truest sense of the word. To his intelligence and wisdom, he added exceptional human qualities. We are left with his work and we still have the memory of his intelligent and at the same time funny conversation, of his slow speech in any of the several languages ​​he dominated, of his always kind and polite treatment, of his generosity towards his colleagues and disciples, whatever his age and academic rank.
 
Prof. Fernando García Romero 

 

Prof. Decker
Prof. Wolfgang Decker in CESH 2014 Edessa congress (2014).