The Institute of Sports Science, Department of Sport History and Physical Education at the University of Münster in Germany, will host the 19th Congress of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport (ISHPES). Scholars are invited to submit sessions including three abstracts related to the main topic “Sport for All – History of a Vision Around the World”, or individual abstracts focused upon one of the following subtopics:
- “Sport for all” on various continents, in various regions and nations
- Sports, physical cultures, and physical education in time and space
- Aspects of integration, inclusion and segregation in sports and physical cultures (including disability and sports)
- Sports, movement cultures, and health around the world
- New approaches to Olympic history
- Historical approaches to mega-events in sport
- Gender diversity in various physical cultures and sports
- Religious impacts on physical culture and sports globally
- Sports, industrialization, technology, and social
diversity (including workers’ sports)
- Open papers

Abstract Submission
- Abstract submission is exclusively online on http://www.ishpes.org until February 15, 2018.
- The official language of the congress is English.
- Presenters should be ISHPES members. If you are not a member yet, please fill out the membership form online.
- The paper’s title followed by a 350 words (maximum) abstract of the proposed paper.
- The abstract should include the question(s) addressed in the paper, the evidence to be used, a precise statement of the argument
and conclusions, and what significance the paper has to our understanding of sports history.
- Please specify also to what sub-theme your abstract is related.

Registration
Early Bird Registration: March 20 - May 31, 2018
Regular Registration: starting June 1, 2018

More information can be found on:
http://www.ishpes.org