The 2011 ISHPES Congress will take place in Frankfurt, Germany from August 8-12, 2011.  The Congress will be organized by Gertrud Pfister and Annette Hofmann together with the Deutsche Turner-Bund.

The 6th Meeting of the Transnational Working Group for the Study of Gender and Sport will be held at the University of Bath (UK) on the 26-27 November 2010. The purpose of the group is to further the study of the cultural/social, political, and educational significance of the participation of females in sport, physical culture, and physical activities as well as to the study of gender as it relates to these activities from transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Telemark University College and the Norwegian Sports Federation have the pleasure to invite you to a conference on the history of outdoor winter sports from February 23 – 26, 2011.  Conference abstracts are due September 15, 2010.

International Summer School for Young Researchers

Sport and physical activities – ideologies, practices and realities
Historical, Sociological, Psychological and Pedagogical Approaches

GERTRUD PFISTER received the Inaugural European Women and Sports Award (EWS-Award) for research, leadership and exceptional achievements for women in sport.

Gigliola Gori, a leading sport historian in Italy and longtime member of ISHPES, as well as one of its current Vice-Presidents, has very generously donated a 1000 euro prize for the ISHPES Young Scholar Award. This award is intended to promote emerging scholarship among young scholars of sport history world wide through the organizational support of ISHPES and its members.

Congratulations to the three winners of the 2009 YOUNG SCHOLAR Award winners!