Longtime ISHPES member and former council member and vice president Gigliola Gori presented the Routledge Keynote at the 2018 Congress in Münster, Germany. Gori’s talk was entitled “Sporting Propaganda in Visual Arts under the Fascist Regime and the Example of the 1941 Cremona Prize”.
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Dr. Matti Goksøyr is the winner of the ISHPES Scholar award for 2018. Dr Goksøyr is Professor of History at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in Oslo, Norway where he has worked for several decades. From 2006 – 2010 he was the Head of Department of Cultural and Social Studies at that university. He gained his doctoral degree from the Norwegian School of Sorts Science at the University of Oslo in 1991 and since that time has published numerous books and articles in both English and Norwegian.
Much of his extensive work has focused upon sport and physical culture in Norway providing a vivid window for international students into the political, cultural and ecological aspects of Norwegian sport history that has become highly thought of. For example he has written about the Winter Games in Norway and the creation of a Norwegian national identity; Norway and the World cup in soccer; cultural diffusion and sportification; and Norwegian sportsmanship and national celebrations. He has been a visiting scholar to countries around the world, especially to the University of California, Berkeley in the United States and the University of New South Wales in Australia. As well he has presented numerous talks to universities in the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, and elsewhere, as well as giving countless presentations at conferences around the world. His extensive contributions to sport history are to be celebrated.
Dr. Goksøyr’s keynote address at the 2018 ISHPES Congress was titled “Play vs. Fire: The Role of Sport as the Heat Increases. Sports Meet the Real World before and during World War II”.
Three scholars shared the Routledge Early Career Scholar Presentation Award at the 2018 Congress in Münster, Germany. Ricardo Assumpção, Justus Kalthoff, and Kalle Rantala, each received the award, which includes £75 in books from Routledge.
Entrants for the Gigliola Gori Early Career Scholar Award for 2018 were uniformly excellent showing the rich set of talents of the younger ISHPES scholars. There were 6 interesting and well written papers in all from a number of countries, demonstrating the global reach of our organization. The panel consisted of Gerald Gems, Gertrude Pfister, and Pierre-Olaf Schut who kindly agreed to review the papers and formulate their decisions.
The panel read each paper, assigned marks and then discussed the results, coming to a difficult conclusion given the high quality of the essays. The papers covered a wide range of extremely interesting and well researched sport history related topics.
The 2018 winner of this award is Lydia Furse, a historian and rugby player studying the social and cultural history of women in Rugby Union from the late 19th century to the present. Lydia Furse studied French and History at the University of Warwick. Since 2017, she is a PhD candidate. As a historian and rugby player Lydia worked on an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project entitled “Women in Rugby Union: A Social and Cultural History, c. 1880-2016.” The international scope is an integral aspect of her research.