25th International Congress of CESH
“Competition and collaboration in sport and physical education from Antiquity to Modern times”
Bucharest, 21-23 September 2022
UNEFS, Constantin Noica street, no. 140
Tuesday, 20 September 2022
18:30-20:30 Welcome cocktail
Wednesday, 21 September 2022
8:00-9:00 Reception of guests
9:00-09:30 Welcome ceremony
09:35-10:35 Anke Hilbrenner, Jewish Sport History in East Central Europe: Collaboration, Competition and Question of Belonging in the first half of the Twentieth Century
10:45-12:45 Session 1 & Session 2
12:45-13:45 Lunch
13:45-15:15 Session 3 & Session 4
15:20-17:20 Session 5 & Session 6
17:30 – 17:45 Oina demonstration
18:15-19:30 Guided walking tour of Bucharest
Thursday, 22 September 2022
8:30-9:00 Coffee break
9:00-11:00 Session 7 & Session 8
11:10-12:40 Session 9 & Session 10
12:45-13:45 Mike Huggins, The Complexities of Sporting Competition: A Tentative Overview
13:50-14:00 Group Photo
14:00-15:00 Lunch
14:30 -15:00 Meeting of the Fellows of CESH
15:00-16:15 General Assembly of CESH
16:20-17:50 Session 11 & Session 12
18:00 – 19:30 Session 13
20:30 – 23:00 Official Dinner
Friday, 23 September 2022
9:00-9:30 Coffee break
9:30-11:30 Session 14 & Session 15
11:35-12:35 Fiona Skillen, ‘The referee was generous enough to limit the ordeal’: Some reflections on the development of women’s football in Scotland, 1880-1939.
12:35-13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Session 16 & Session 17
15:10-16:40 Session 18
16:45-17:15 Conclusion of the CESH Congress
Detailed Programme
Tuesday, 20 September 2022
18:30-20:30 Welcome cocktail in the Outdoor Classroom Tent of UNEFS
Early guests could pick up their participation kit.
Wednesday, 21 September 2022
8:00-9:00 Reception of guests in the Outdoor Classroom Tent of UNEFS
9:00-09:30 Welcome ceremony, Room Amphitheatre:
Speakers: Florin Pelin, Monica Stănescu, Daphné Bolz, Pompiliu-Nicolae Constantin
09:35-10:35 Keynote presentation, Horst Ueberhorst Memorial Lecture, Room Amphitheatre:
Anke Hilbrenner, Jewish Sport History in East Central Europe: Collaboration, Competition and Question of Belonging in the first half of the Twentieth Century
10:45-12:45, Session 1, Room F1:
Gender studies
Chair: Gertrud Pfister
- Arnd Kruger, Swantje Scharenberg, Sydne Rome competing with Trimmi - a German biography of Aerobic
- Martina Gugglberger, Standing on top: Gendered aspects of competition and collaboration in Himalayan mountaineering
- Anita Sterea, Alexandra Nica, Simona Amânar-Tabără, The perfect ten history in Romanian gymnastics - From Nadia Comaneci to Lavinia Milosovici
- Grigore Gheorghe, Dan Badea, Ciolcă Sorin, Palade Tudor, The women's route of football-rugby games in Romania
10:45-12:45, Session 2, Room Amphitheatre:
Sport diplomacy
Chair: Fabien Archambault
- Clément Luy, Cycling in fascist sport diplomacy: the example of the Critérium des Italiens de France
- Lorenzo Venuti, An unfortunate attempt of sport diplomacy: Romania, Hungary and the Mitropa cup in the late Thirties (1937-1940)
- André Gounot, Football against Franco. The collaboration between Cuba, Mexico and the Basque Team in the middle of the Spanish Civil War
- Juan Antonio Simon Sanjurjo, Daniele Serapiglia, Cultural 82. Football and culture at the FIFA World Cup in Spain. A successful example of collaboration?
12:45-13:45 Lunch at the Calise Restaurant
13:45-15:15 Session 3, Room F3:
Sport in communism
Chair: Richard Mills
- Octavian Țîcu, Dribbling Communism: The history of Nicolae Simatoc from Ripensia to FC Barcelona
- Ramiro Cabanes Martinez, Perceptions about sports on the two Chinese revolutionary breaks
- Simona Petracovschi, Anamaria Păutu, Physical education, mass sport and gender during communism as reflected in the Journal of Physical Education and Sport
13:45-15:15 Session 4, Room F1:
Olympism
Chair: Juliane Lanz
- Anita Sterea, Konstantinos Georgiadis, Alexandra Nica, Simona Amânar-Tabără, Evangelos Zappa - a personality of the Olympic movement too little known
- Kamil Potrzuski, Arkadiusz Wlodarczyk, Modern panhellenic games in the Polish press in the second half of the 19th century
- Oana Rusu, Women's involvement in the Olympic Movement. A socio-historical analysis
15:20-17:20 Session 5, Room Amphitheatre:
Objects of European Sports History
Chair: Daphné Bolz
- Daphné Bolz, Presentation of the project ‘European history of sport in 100 objects’
- Jan Luitzen, A Red and Black Dutch Cricket Cap, 1881
- Juliane Lanz, The Golden Snowman - Winter Sports Badge An object of European Sports
- Alejandro Viuda-Serrano, Real Madrid 'Chamartin stadium', a communist and socialist arena during the Spanish Civil War
- Kamil Potrzuski, The representational building of Polish YMCA in Warsaw (1932)
- Lidia Lesnykh, What do all competitors have in common? Accreditation badges of the first Universiade (Turin, 1959)
- Richard Mills, The Marshal Tito Cup: Yugoslavia's 'Dearest Trophy'
- Anke Hilbrenner, The photograph of Erich Vöhringer training on horizontal bar on a Stalin Constitution Truck (1930s)
15:20:17:20 Session 6, Room F1:
Workshop ‘Olympic education through sport history’
Speakers: Konstantinos Georgiadis, Anita Sterea, Simona Amânar-Tabără
17:30-17:45 Oina demonstration with the team of the School 112 Bucharest coordinated by prof. Ioana Nedelcu
18:15-19:30 Guided walking tour of Bucharest with Anita Sterea (Asociația Coolturala Nouă ne Pasă). Starting point: Manuc's Inn (Hanul lui Manuc).
Thursday, 22 September 2022
7:00-8:00 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 Session 7, Room F3:
Actors of sports history
Chair: Gerald Gems
- Anita Sterea, Matei Gheboianu, The role of sports champions in political life in post-communist Romania
- Sylvain Dufraisse, Boris Vinogradov, Becoming an international sports leader: national trajectories of Soviet representatives in international sports organizations
- Monica Stănescu, Alexandru Virgil Voicu, Pompiliu-Nicolae Constantin, Romanian notabilities in international sports organisations. Sport diplomacy in communist Romania
- Pascal Charitas, French PES teachers in Africa between colonization and decolonization: from "cooperators" to "developers" of EPS and sport? (1947-1969)
9:00-11:00 Session 8, Room F1:
Competitions and organizations
Chair: André Gounot
- Eugenia Garcia-Sottile, Debora Godoy-Izquierdo, Iconic and not-so-iconic images of competition and solidarity
- Doriane Gomet, Sports competitions in captivity. The case of French prisoners of war during the Second World War
- Valeria Bălan, Luciela Vasile, Ticală Laurențiu Daniel, Ana Maria Mujea, Adrian Rădulescu, History of swimming in numbers and data
- Doriane Gomet, Yohann Fortune, Jean Nicolas Renaud, Michael Attali, Create to exist. The competitions of the Racing Club de France
11:10-12:40 Session 9, Room F3:
Pre-modern and modern sport
Chair: Jürgen Mittag
- Laiber Cristian Ștefan, “Bushido” – nationalist and militarist origins of an “invented tradition” with a radical influence on the evolution of the Japanese martial arts
- Erica Munkwitz, Hold Your Horses: Equestrian Competition, Collaboration, and Innovation in the Late 19th Century
- Dana Ioana Ion-Mușat, The history and the origins of the "white sport"
11:10-12:40 Session 10, Room F1:
Sports histories overview
Chair: Lidia Lesnykh
- Lise Cardin, French handball: an ultimate school sport? (1937-1992)
- Denis Jallat, Au-delà des médailles la camaraderie des régatiers la voile
- Dumitru Eduard Ștefan, Virgil Tudor, The Evolution of Hip Hop Culture
- Baptiste Viaud, Sylvain Dufraisse, La lente reconnaissance des sciences médicales dans (par) les institutions internationales du sport d’élite. L'exemple de la FIMS
12:45-13:45 Keynote Presentation, Room Amphitheatre
Mike Huggins, The Complexities of Sporting Competition: A Tentative Overview
13:50-14:00 Group Photo in front of the Marble Hall of UNEFS
14:00-15:00 Lunch at Calise Restaurant
14:30 -15:00 Meeting of the Fellows of CESH, Room Amphitheatre
15:00-16:15 General Assembly of CESH, Room Amphitheatre
16:20-17:50 Session 11, Room F1:
Sport in ancient times
Chair: Florence Carpentier
- Aikaterini Samara, A moment of competition in Olympia with multiple interpretation
- Claudia Portillo, Behind the circus gates. Manipulation and control under Roman spectacles
- Bruno Deltour, De l`absence de sports collectifs dans les Jeux olympiques antique et de leur succès dans le sport moderne
16:20-17:50 Session 12, Room Amphitheatre:
Romanian sports historiography
Chair: Simona Petracovschi
- Bogdan Popa, Physical education, sport and society in interwar Romania
- Octavian Țîcu, Nicolae Simatoc, the legend of a Bessarabian footballer from Ripensia to FC Barcelona
- Valentin Vasile, Among athletes. The Securitate’s actions in the "Sport" issue
- Stejărel Olaru, Nadia and The Securitate
- László Péter, Forbidden Football in Ceausescu’s Romania
- Pompiliu-Nicolae Constantin, The Rapidism: the history of a sports phenomenon
18:00-19:30 Session 13, Room Amphitheatre
Chair: Roxana Bejan, Pompiliu-Nicolae Constantin
Workshop ‘(Hi)stories and memories of competition and collaboration from former athletes’
Speakers: Ana-Maria Popescu, Narcisa Lecușanu, Arnd Kruger, Octavian Țîcu
20:30-23:00 Official Dinner at Calise Restaurant
Friday, 23 September 2022
9:00-9:30 Coffee break
9:30 – 11:30 Session 14, Room F1:
Recent history
Chair: Juan Antonio Simon Sanjurjo
- Charles Spring, Benefits of wellness interventions. A Case study of Breaking Down Barriers to Martial Arts 2005-present
- Corina Ciolcă, Pompiliu Nicolae Constantin, Symbolic collaboration between football and religion in Romania after 1989
- Rahela Jurković, Competition and collaboration in football as experienced by refugees in Southeast Europe, 2019-2020
- Anna Prikhodko, Sport solidarity and war in Ukraine
10:00-11:30 Session 15, Room F3:
Jewish sport and antisemitism
Chair: Daniele Serapiglia
- Étienne Pénard, Competition as an escape for Jewish children: the case of children's homes (1939-1950)
- András-Péter Killyéni, Alexandru-Virgil Voicu, Andrei Zador, The history of the Jewish sports in Cluj between the two world wars
- Diego Ciobotaru, Episodes of anti-Semitic violence in Romanian stadiums after World War II (1945-1948)
11:35-12:35 Keynote Presentation, Room Amphitheatre:
Fiona Skillen, ‘The referee was generous enough to limit the ordeal’: Some reflections on the development of women’s football in Scotland, 1880-1939.
12:35-13:30 Lunch at Calise Restaurant
13:30 – 15:00 Session 16, Room F1:
The interwar period
Chair: Daphné Bolz
- Vasile-Teodor Burnar, Vlad I. Roșca, Revealing the Rapid-Ripensia football rivalry in interwar Romania
- Michael John, Competition, Spectacle, Propaganda and Subversion. The Function of Sport during National Socialist Rule in Austria
- Erminio Fonzo, The Two Sporting Systems of Fascist Italy: a Competitive Collaboration
13:30-15:00 Session 17, Room F3:
Sport diplomacy
Chair: Florence Carpentier
- Bogdan Popa, Impromptu Sports Diplomacy. Romania at the 1919 Inter-Allied Games in Paris
- Charles Little, Southeast Asia and GANEFO: Exploring the Regional Dimensions of a Global Event
- Elizaveta Zhuk, Co-hosting of sports events as a form of international collaboration: a historical perspective
15:10-16:40 Session 18, Room Amphitheatre:
Workshop ‘Sports historiography perspectives’
Speakers: Daphné Bolz, Erica Munkwitz, Fiona Skillen, Alejandro Viuda Serrano, Arnd Kruger, Mike Huggins, Richard Mills, Bogdan Popa, Gerald Gems.
16:45-17:15 Conclusion of the CESH Congress 2022