Congress Programme

 

International Congress of ISHPES

“Bodies, identities and representations in physical education and sports from Ancient Times to the Present”

Bucharest, 22-25 July 2025

                                                                                                     UNEFS, Constantin Noica street, no. 140

 

Tuesday, 22 July 2025

 

13:00-14:30 Opening of registration

14:30-15:30 Welcome ceremony, Room Amphitheatre of UNEFS (Constantin Noica street, no. 140, Bucharest)

15:30-15:45 Hydration break

15:45 - 17:45 Parallel sessions

15:45 - 17:45 Session 1, Room Amphitheatre: Body, space, infrastructure

Chair: Malcolm MacLean

  • Pierre-Olaf Schut (Gustave Eiffel University, France), Protecting nature sports sites
  • Ruxandra Balcanu (“Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning, Romania), Building sport in socialist Romania: The influence of public policies on sports infrastructure
  • Andrei Mihail, Ileana Gabriela Szasz (The National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania), Andrei-Răzvan Voinea (University of Bucharest, Romania), Mapping the Legacy of Workers’ Sports Infrastructure in Bucharest: A Socio-Historical Inventory
  • Ming-Fu Yen (online), Mei-Chun Lin (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan), From Political Commemoration to Sports Landmark: The Historical Narrative of Yuanshan Sports Ground

15:45 - 17:45 Session 2, Room F2: Regulating bodies. Medicine, rights, and integrity in sport

Chair:  Ornella Nzindukiyimana

  • Evelise Amgarten Quitzau, Marcelo Moraes e Silva (Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil), “The physician and the instructor are inseparable”: first traces of sports medicine in Brazil (1930s)
  • Oana Rusu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania), Sports for people with disabilities in Romania
  • Jiří Mališ (Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic), Scientific Integrity under Pressure: Polarization and the Case of Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sports
  • Florentina Camelia Medei (Western University of Timisoara, Romania), Social Security in the Field of Sports. Regulations, challenges and perspectives

15:45 - 17:45 Session 3 (online), Room F3: Bodies, politics, and physical education in Uruguay

Chair: Gabriela Marta Marques de Oliveira

  • Alberto Mallada Meseguer, Paola Dogliotti Moro, Paula Malan Moreira (University of the Republic Higher Institute of Physical Education, Uruguay), Gymnastics and women's sports at the Crandon Institute in Montevideo (1906-1949)
  • Virginia Alonso (University of the Republic Higher Institute of Physical Education, Uruguay), Gymnastics through the Nexo Sport Magazine in its first decade of circulation (1983-1992). A look at its role in the process of democratic opening in Uruguay.
  • Tamara Parada Larre Borges (University of the Republic Higher Institute of Physical Education, Uruguay), Physical education, gymnastics, sexuality and gender. An analysis based on the curricular designs of the educational system in Uruguay (2008 and 2022)

17:45-18:15 UNEFS Museum Visit

18:15-18:45 Demonstration of Oină (The Romanian national sport) on the UNEFS handball field. The teams are representing the School 112 Bucharest coordinated by prof. Ioana Nedelcu.

19:00-21:00 Welcome cocktail at UNEFS

 

 

Wednesday, 23 July 2025

 

7:00-8:00 Social activity: Urban running with Marian Chiriac. Starting point: UNEFS (Route: UNEFS, Military Museum, Ibis Hotel City Center, Cismigiu Park, Izvor Park, House of The Parliament, Orthodox Cathedral, Izvor Park, Opera, Eroilor Park, UNEFS). Distance: 8 km

8:30-9:00 Coffee break

9:00-11:00 Parallel sessions

9:00-11:00 Session 4, Room F2: Women in sport. Representation, leadership, and historical narratives

Chair: Keiko Ikeda

  • Chia-Ju Yen, Mei-Chun Lin (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan), Unwrapping Bound Feet, Racing to the Sports Field - Exploring Taiwanese Women's Athletic Images in News Advertisements During Japanese Colonial Period (1920s-1930s)
  • Angela Stănescu (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain), Agenda Setting and Framing of Women’s Sports: A Content Analysis of Romanian Sports Media
  • Hsienwei Kuo (National Tainan Institute of Nursing, Taiwan), Chinfang Kuo (Aletheia University, Taiwan), The Historical Context, Community Construction, and Cultural Significance of the Nanyang Women’s Chin Woo Athletic Association: An Analysis Based on Nanyang Newspapers
  • Sandie Beaudouin (University Gustave Eiffel, France), A rower, a leader: Antoinette Rocheux, a figure in rowing

9:00-11:00 Session 5, Room Amphitheatre: Building football cultures

Chair: Bogdan Popa

  • Lorenzo Venuti (University of Bologna, Italy), Spreading the culture of Football: The Central European Cup as a European experience (1927-1940)
  • Oğuzhan ‘Ozzy’ Keleş (Western University, Canada), From Struggles to Glory: Breaking Istanbul’s Hegemony in Turkish Football – A Historical Analysis of the Formation and Rise of Trabzonspor (1975-85)
  • Dale Whitfield (Hokkaido University, Japan), From School Fields to Corporate Clubs: The Educational Foundations of Japanese Football before Professionalism (1945-1992)
  • Francisco Pinheiro (University of Coimbra, Portugal), Photography goes to the ball – contributions to the history of sports photojournalism

9:00-11:00 Session 6, Room F1: Shaping the Body. Histories of physical culture, performance, and ideals

Chair: Oana Rusu

  • Daimar Lell (Estonian Sports History Society, Estonia), Strength and body. Early Days of the Estonian Sports Journalism
  • Bianca Andreea Macovei (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania), Elements for a history of bodybuilding in Romania
  • Andrei Maglașu, Tudor Virgil, Ana Maria Mujea, Cristina Vărzaru (UNEFS, Romania), The Evolution of the Body Ideal in Bodybuilding
  • Pompiliu-Nicolae Constantin, Ionuț Corlaci, Ana-Maria Gavojdea, Adrian Rădulescu, Ștefan-Dragoș Toader (UNEFS, Romania), Nutrition and Athletic Performance in Early Communist Romania (1945–1965)

9:00-11:00 Session 7 (online), Room F3: Embodied identities and social formations in sport and physical culture

Chair: Jiří Mališ

  • Rikako Nitta (University of Tsukuba, Japan), A Study on Masculinity and the Formation of Male Communities in the Satsuma Domain during Early Modern Japan
  • Anna Prikhodko (Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Ukraine), Sports in Kyiv on the Eve of World War I: A Review of the Events of the Past Era Based on the Local Periodical Press Materials
  • Renhui Feng (Chengdu Sport University, China), Pedagogies of Embodiment in Physical Education: A Systematic Literature Review

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:30 Keynote presentation, Room Amphitheatre:

Rebekka von Mallinckrodt (University of Bremen, Germany):

"Physically given? Towards a radical historicization of the human body or: What early modern history can offer modern sports historians"

Chair: Silvana Rachieru

12:30-13:45 Lunch, Calise Restaurant

13:45-15:15 Workshop, Room Amphitheatre: How Athletes See Themselves in History?

Speakers: Constantina Diță (marathon), George Ogăraru (football), Alexander Peev (table tennis), Octavian Țîcu (boxing), Éva Tófalvi (biathlon)

Moderators: Andreea Trușcă, Pompiliu-Nicolae Constantin

13:45-15:15 Session 8 (online), Room F3: Athletes and leaders redefining roles in sport and society

Chair: Dale Whitfield

  • Gabriela Ferreira de Mello, André Mendes Capraro, Ricardo João Sonoda Nunes, Gustavo Piana Passos da Silva (University of Parana, Brazil), Victoria Barcelos da Silva (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Dribbling the censorship: Asaléa Campos and her path into becoming the first female football referee
  • Liana Maria Ursa (Free University of Brussels, Belgium), From Ballon d’Or to Executive Mansion: Did Being a Great Footballer Make George Weah a Good President of Liberia?
  • Daniel Svensson (Malmö University, Sweden), Anna Åberg (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), Challenging the Male Sports Hegemony: Analyzing the Roles of Women Sport Leaders in International Skiing Through the Case of Inga Löwdin

15:15-15:45 Hydration break

15:45-17:15 Parallel sessions

15:45-17:15 Session 9, Room F1: Olympism in perspective

Chair: Edip Öncü

  • Ana Popovčić (Croatian Olympic Academy, Croatia), Fencing in Zagreb’s Schools Before World War I: Between Military Discipline and Civic Culture
  • Christian Saleh Hajj, Kilian Mousset, Guillaume Bodet (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France), The Recognition and Vulnerability of Olympic Sports: The Case of Basque Pelota
  • Anita Sterea, Simona Amânar Tabără, Alexandra Nica (Romanian Olympic Committee, Romania), Sydney 2000: A Defining Moment for Romanian Gymnastics – 25 Years Later

15:45-17:15 Session 10, Room Amphitheatre: Sport and society in the interwar period

Chair: Lorenzo Venuti

  • Nikoletta Sipos-Onyestyák (Hungarian University of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Hungary), Hungarian Sport Governance and Sport Institutionalization before World War II
  • Mei-Chun Lin (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan), Brands, Sports, and Colonialism: Mizuno in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period (1920s–1930s)
  • Alejandro de la Viuda-Serrano, Iker Ibarrondo-Merino (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain), Sport and Culture in the Trenches: Sport and Physical Education through the Republican Battalions’ publications during the Spanish Civil War

15:45-17:15 Session 11, Room F2: Educating the body. Pedagogies, practices, and cultural influences

Chair: Jessica Chin

  • Pauline Deodati (University of Besançon, France), Beyond technical transmission: Michel Mathiot's gymnastic parrying (1952-1988)
  • Emiliano Gorga Vera (Higher Institute of Physical Education, Uruguay), The Teaching of Aquatic Practices in Argentina (1925-1939): A Historical Bibliographic Analysis of the Early Educational Sources
  • Jimena González Correa (Higher Institute of Physical Education, Uruguay), The (in)visible formation of bodies in Physical Education. A look from digital culture

15:45-17:15 Session 12 (online), Room F3: Sport and identity in Jewish and Israeli contexts

Chair: Yoshimi Kasuga

  • Udi Carmi (Tel-Hai Academic College, Israel), Semantic Changes in the Meaning of ‘Olympic Minimum’
  • Anat Kidron (Tel Hai Academic College, Israel), The Young Athletes teaching Israeli students about nationalism and Zionist Ideology: Popular Children's Literature in the service of ideological education.
  • Nestor William Aponte Lopez, Constanza Palomino Devia, Camilo Abril Brito (Universidad del Tolima, Colombia), Soft Art: A History of Jiu-Jitsu in Colombia

 

 19:00 - 20:30 Social activity: Guided walking tour of Bucharest with Anita Sterea, and Ioana Popa (Asociația Coolturala ‘Nouă ne Pasă’). Starting point: Manuc's Inn (Hanul lui Manuc).

 

 

Thursday, 24 July 2025

 

8:30-9:00 Coffee break

9:00-11:00 Parallel sessions

9:00-11:00 Session 13, Room Amphitheatre: Competing bodies, competing nations. Sport and political symbolism

Chair: Francisco Pinheiro

  • Gabriela Marta Marques de Oliveira (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Amateurism à la Brazil: race and class in the making of the Brazilian sports field
  • Evelise Amgarten Quitzau (Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil), Daniele Cristina Carqueijeiro de Medeiros (State University of Campinas, Brazil), The “Garra Charrúa” viewed from the countryside: football and national identity in Uruguayan newspapers, 1930
  • Russell Field (University of Manitoba, Canada), Second World interests, Third World battleground: Eastern European attitudes towards the 1963 Games of the New Emerging Forces
  • Charles Little (St Mary's University Twickenham, UK), Dancing Cossacks, Rugger Huggers and Spying Three-Quarters: Romania’s 1975 Rugby Union Tour of Cold War New Zealand

9:00-11:00 Session 14, Room F2: The many faces of football in Eastern Europe

Chair: Andrei-Răzvan Voinea

  • Tudor Palade, Grigore Gheorghe (UNEFS, Romania), The game of football in interwar Romania
  • Andrei Antonie (University of Eastern Finland, Finland), The best professionals in Army and Militia were the football players. Shamateurism in Romanian football during ‘Golden Epoch’
  • Octavian Țîcu (Moldova State University, Moldova), Football and „Europeanization” of Eastern Europe: The cases of Romania and Ukraine
  • Paul-Claudiu Cotîrleț (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania), Doping in Romanian Football. From Excessive Vitamin Supplementation to the Use of Psychoactive Substances

9:00-11:00 Session 15, Room F3: Corporeality and culture in Antiquity

Chair: Alejandro de la Viuda-Serrano

  • Maximilian Tarik Orliczek (University of Graz, Austria), Plato’s Movement Pedagogy. Corporeality, movement, and sport in light of a dualist-critical relation of σῶμα and ψυχή
  • Alexandra Lițu (University of Bucharest, Romania), The body of the warrior and the body of the athlete in Archaic and early Classical Greece – first insights
  • Claudia Portillo Martín (online) (University of Polytechnic of Madrid, Spain), Gods, Rituality, and Spectacle: The Circus in Antiquity as a Space of Sacredness, Power, and Body Representation

9:00-11:00 Session 16, Room F1: Athletes as symbols

Chair: Anita Sterea

  • Alina Rusănescu, Corina Stancu, Roxana Bejan-Mureșan (UNEFS, Romania), The Contribution of Ethnic Minorities in Romanian Sports to Strengthening National Identity
  • Yoonkyu Song (University of Münster, Germany), The Legacy of Sohn Kee-Chung: The Evolution of Nationalism in Korean Sport
  • Pompiliu-Nicolae Constantin, Rareș Stănescu (UNEFS, Romania), A National Hero and International "Bad Boy". Media Representations of Ilie Năstase during the Cold War

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:30 Keynote presentation, Room Amphitheatre:

Mark Dyreson (Penn State University, USA)

“The Center of All Physical Activity?”  Embodiment Indeed, But Don’t Forget to Leaven Bodies with Cultures and Minds

Chair: Evelise Amgarten Quitzau

12:30-13:30 Lunch, Calise Restaurant

13:30-15:00 Workshop, Room Amphitheatre: From research to bookshelf. The lives of sports history publications

Speakers: Mark Dyreson (Penn State University, USA), Russell Field (University of Manitoba, Canada), Keiko Ikeda (Hokkaido University, Japan), Rebekka von Mallinckrodt (University of Bremen, Germany), Lorenzo Venuti (University of Bologna, Italy), Doru Someșan (Maga Books).

Moderator: Bogdan Popa

13:30-15:00 Session 17 (online), Room F3: Discourses on women's physical education

Chair: Alexandra Lițu

  • Georgeta Fodor (George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Sciences and Technology of Târgu Mureș, Romania), Fit for the Nation: Debating the Importance of Transylvanian Romanian Women's Physical Education in the Romanian Nationalist Discourse
  • Iara Marina dos Anjos Bonifácio, Andrea Moreno (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil), Michaël Attali (Rennes 2 University, France), Women's physical education at the International Congresses of Physical Education: discourses and prescriptions (1900-1913)

15:00-15:30 Hydration break

15:30-17:30 Parallel sessions

15:30-17:30 Session 18, Room F1: Bodies at altitude. Politics, memory, and mountain sports

Chair: Pierre-Olaf Schut

  • Andreas Brugger (Montafon Archive, Austria), Skis for the Border Protection of the National Socialists at the German-Swiss Mountain Border in the Winters of 1939 to 1943 – Analysis of a Chronicle and a ‘Kulturfilm’ (documentary)
  • Leonardo Daniel Marsico (online) (Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina), Skiing, Physical Education curriculum, and National Policies in 20th and 21st century in Argentina. An approach to their development
  • Marian Chiriac (Independent Researcher, Romania), Footsteps of Freedom: Trekking the Carpathians in Communist Romania
  • Yaqi Wang (online) (University of Alberta, Canada), The Fate of Bodies on Everest: Identity, Hierarchy, and Environmental Ethics

15:30-17:30 Session 19, Room Amphitheatre: Identity and representations of race and ethnicity

Chair: Russell Field

  • Ornella Nzindukiyimana (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada), What is Past is Epilogue: Towards Storying Black Sport Histories as Prospective Narratives
  • Francois Cleophas (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), South Africa’s first black Olympian: Ron Eland
  • Jessica W. Chin (San José State University, USA), From Chinatown Courts to Mainstream Media: The Politics of Chinese American Representation and 9-Man Volleyball
  • Edip Öncü (Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey), Lefter Küçükandonyadis (Lefteris Antoniadis): The Professor Ordinarius of Football

15:30-17:30 Session 20, Room F2: Bodily cultures in Japan and Taiwan between tradition and transformation

Chair: Hsienwei Kuo

  • Keiko Ikeda (Hokkaido University, Japan), Toru Morishita (Yamaguchi University, Japan), Daishi Funaba (Yamaguchi Gakugei University, Japan), Dale Whitfield (Hokkaido University, Japan), Yoko Yamamura (Graduate School of Hokkaido University, Japan), Katsumi Ishidate (Shiseikan University, Japan), Kyosuke Sasaki (Sakura no Seibo Junior College, Japan), The Transformation of Bodily Cultural Politics in Japan from the Traditional Society to the period of the Anglo Japanese Alliance (1902-1923 cc.)
  • Kuo-Yu Wu, Mei-Chun Lin (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan), The Continuation and Transformation of Traditional Physical Culture: 30 Years of the Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Games (1994- 2025)
  • Cristian Laiber (University of Bucharest, Romania), Multiple Bodies, Layers of Embodied Knowledge: Unpacking the Somatic Practice of Classical Martial Arts of Japan

15:30-17:30 Session 21 (online), Room F3: Sport diplomacy

Chair: Sandie Beaudouin

  • Ignacio Mirabal (University of the Republic, Uruguay), Physical culture and Batllismo: the emergence of a public-private network of physical culture actors in Uruguay between 1911 and 1915
  • Michelle M. Sikes (Penn State University, USA), Diplomatic Play: Kenya, China, and the Politics of Sport Infrastructure in the 1987 All-Africa Games
  • Pascal Charitas (University of Paris Nanterre, France), Cyril Polycarpe (Université Marie et Louis Pasteur de Franche-Comté, France), The VIIIth South Pacific Games in Nouméa (1987): a milestone in the pacification of Franco-New Caledonian relations?
  • Gianfranco Ruggiano López (Higher Institute of Physical Education of the University of the Republic, Uruguay), The “Uruguayan Sports” created by Antonio Valeta: an analysis of the intersections between physical culture and naturism in Uruguay (1914-1941)

17:30-17:45 Hydration break

17:45-18:50 ISHPES General Assembly, Room Amphitheatre

19:00 – Group Photo

19:05 – 22:00 Official Dinner, Calise Restaurant

 

Friday, 25 July 2025

 

9:00-9:30 Coffee break

9:30-11:00 Parallel sessions

9:30-11:00 Session 22, Room Amphitheatre: Sport as a tool of diplomacy and activism

Chair: Charles Little

  • Bogdan Popa (Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Romania), Politicising a Sport Event: Romania at the 1919 Interallied Games
  • Chinfang Kuo (Aletheia University, Taiwan), Hsienwei Kuo (National Tainan Institute of Nursing, Taiwan), The Cold War Diplomatic History of Taiwan Women's Football: Beyond the National Hero Image of the Chung Hua Mulan Team
  • Malcolm MacLean (University of Gibraltar, UK), Considering strategy, tactics, and governance in sport-related activism: rethinking the boycott

9:30-11:00 Session 23, Room F2: Sport practices as cultural and social expressions

Chair: Francois Cleophas

  • Kyosuke Sasaki (Sakura no Seibo Junior College, Japan), Reassessing the Gaelic Athletic Association: Cultural Identity, Nationalism, and Social Change in Late 19th-Century Ireland

9:30-11:00 Session 24, Room F3: Sport history through technology and digital media

Chair: Andreas Brugger

  • Andrei Udrea, Monica Stănescu, Marius Stoicescu (UNEFS, Romania), The Integration of Technology in the Physical Training of Football Players: Historical Perspectives in the Digital Era
  • András Killyéni (Hungarian Olympic Academy, Hungary), Presenting the results of a sports history research with innovative methods. Case study: The Olympic Ski Center in Borşa
  • Murilo Eduardo dos Santos Nazário, Ian Pinto Paulino (São Paulo State University, Brazil), Uses and Consumptions on/of Instagram: A Netnographic Study of Brazilian Série A Football Clubs

9:30-11:00 Session 25, online, Room F1: Sport, media, and policy

Chair: Mei-Chun Lin

  • Shuhei Tonozuka (Hokkaido University, Japan), An Analysis of The Red Bulletin using text mining: A study of lifestyle sports
  • Ralph Ramos, Veerle De Bosscher (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium), Sport Policy in the Philippines: Governance, Historical Legacies, and Development Challenges in an Emerging Nation
  • Mihaela Maria Timu, Marius Stoica (UNEFS, Romania), The Evolution of the Pilates Method and Its Implications for Modern Rehabilitation

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:30 Gigliola Gori Award Lecture, Room Amphitheatre:

Oğuzhan ‘Ozzy’ Keleş (Western University, Canada)

Who Was the Champion of the 2010–2011 Turkish Super League?: A Historical Analysis of the Match-Fixing Scandal in Turkish Football

Chair: Pierre-Olaf Schut

12:30-13:30 Lunch, Calise Restaurant

13:30 – 15:00 Workshop, Room Amphitheatre: Sport history in the Digital Age: tools, trends, and transformations

Speakers: Andrei Angelescu (Romanian Football Federation), Marius Cosmeanu (Savantgarde), Helena Csomoss (Arcanum), András Killyéni (Hungarian Olympic Academy), Răzvan Stoian (Romanian Football Legends project).

Moderator: Marius Ștefan Deaconu, Murilo Eduardo dos Santos Nazário

13:30 – 15:15 Session 26 (online), Room F1: Histories of sport and physical education in Latin America

Chair: Evelise Amgarten Quitzau

  • Marcela Bruschi (State University of Campinas, Brazil), For a History of Brazilian Cultural Practices in Physical Education During the Early 20th Century
  • Alejo Levoratti (National University of La Plata, Argentina), The bodies of physical education as an expression of the national during the civil-military dictatorship. Argentina, 1978
  • Daniele Medeiros (State University of Campinas, Brazil), Sports Public Policies in Brazil and Uruguay: A Comparative History (1964-2004)
  • José Ignacio Estévez Rippa (Higher Institute of Physical Education, Uruguay), Rowing on the Shoreline: Sports Practices on the Uruguay River in the Early Decades of the 20th Century (1901 - 1934)

15:00-15:30 Hydration break

15:30-17:00 Conclusion of the ISHPES Congress, Room Amphitheatre