Tag: sport history

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: From Rikidôzan to the Roku Player: The Evolution of Japanese Television and Puroresu by Jonathan Foye & Lukasz Swiatek (open access).

This postgraduate and professional course travels backward through history, beginning with the modern Olympics of Paris 2024 and Athens 2004, then “digging down” through the modern Olympic revival of 1896, to arrive at the traditional origin of the Games at Olympia in 776 BCE. It is organised around elements common to the ancient and modern games: ceremonies, athletes, contests, and rewards. We look at the historical and philosophical origins of things like the Olympic flame, the athletes’ oath, and the link to peace.

STADION serves as scholarly platform for well-known historians, and is aimed both at experts and at all those who strive for a deeper and more differ entiated understanding of sport, play, physical education and physical culture from an historical perspective. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: (Ernst) Emanuel Simon (1898–1988): Zionist Athlete, Pioneer of Israeli Sport, and the Transmission of German Sports Knowledge to Jewish Palestine by Udi Carmi and Kay Schiller.

STADION serves as scholarly platform for well-known historians, and is aimed both at experts and at all those who strive for a deeper and more differ entiated understanding of sport, play, physical education and physical culture from an historical perspective. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Sports in the Cold War: Doping in East and West Germany by Jutta Braun and Hans Joachim Teichler.

The organisers of the International Football History Conference AKA FootyCon are pleased to announce that their 2026 annual conference will take place at Craven Cottage, Fulham Pier, Fulham Football Club, London, England on Friday the 12th & Saturday the 13th of June 2026. The organisers also welcome delegates to join them for a welcome social event on the evening of Thursday the 11th of June 2026. The conference organisers welcome any topic relating to the history of football of all codes.

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Reading Kristi Yamaguchi: Media, Multiculturalism, and the Double Process of Racialization by Jae Chul Seo, Donghyung Kim, Chengzhu Jin & Chanwoo Park.

To be an athlete (athlētēs) in Ancient Greece meant taking on a challenge (athlos) for the sake of some prize (athlon)—but it extended far beyond sport. Athletic striving was a feature of oratory, politics, jurisprudence, music, drama, education, and even philosophy, which understood moral virtue in terms of excellence (aretē). The purpose of this conference is to explore this athletic ethos in sport and far beyond it by reflecting on the phenomenon of competitive striving in a variety of practices at various times and places in Greco-Roman antiquity.

Sport, both as a cultural phenomenon and as a symbolic field, has played an important but relatively little-studied role in Polish literature and culture. This special issue will explore how sport has been represented, narrated, and interpreted in Polish literary and cultural texts across different historical periods. We are particularly interested in critical approaches that consider sport not only as a subject but also as a cultural phenomenon characterized by national identity, ideology, memory, and artistic expression.

The prestigious Lord Aberdare Literary Prize is awarded each year by the British Society of Sports History for the best book on any aspect of the history of sport which fulfils one or more of the following criteria: Discusses events which took place in Britain or the British world; is written by a British author; and is written by an author working at a British university. The British Society of Sports History appoints a panel of three judges to consider submissions. Here is the shortlist for the 2025 edition.

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Sports Diplomacy Surrounding the IOC’s Response to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Between Political Neutrality and Peace Promotion by Michał Marcin Kobierecki & Geoffrey Allen Pigman (open access).