Keynote Speakers

Mark Dyreson is Professor of Kinesiology and Affiliate Professor of History at Penn State, where he is the senior faculty member of the History & Philosophy Program as well as the Co-Director of the Penn State Center for the Study of Sports in Society. He has published more than 150 refereed journal and book chapters, and a dozen books and anthologies. A former member of the editorial staff of the International Journal for the History of Sport, including a stint as managing editor, he now serves as the co-editor of the Sport in Global Societies: Historical Perspectives book series for Routledge Press. He has been a president of the North American Society for Sport History and is a fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Kinesiology.

full professor of early modern history at the University of Bremen and member of the Hamburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. With regard to sports and physical exercise she has published Bewegtes Leben—Körpertechniken in der Frühen Neuzeit/Life on the Move—Body Techniques in the Early Modern Period (Harrassowitz, 2008), Sports and Physical Exercise in Early Modern Culture (with Angela Schattner, Routledge, 2016), A Cultural History of Sport in the Enlightenment (Bloomsbury, 2021) and numerous articles on the cultural and social history of running, swimming, and diving.

PhD candidate and lecturer in Sociocultural Studies, School of Kinesiology at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada, with a specialization in the historical dimensions of the Olympic Movement and the history of football, particularly its cultural and historical connections to Türkiye. His dissertation focuses on the history of Trabzonspor Football Club and its socio-cultural implications, enabling him to conduct comparative historical analyses that highlight significant global and regional patterns.