International Workshop

DFG research project „Social and Cultural History of Sport and Physical Culture in the Soviet Union“

September 5th – 6th, 2008
Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg

Thursday, September 4th

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19:00               Convivial opening evening and film presentation 

                    Wladimir Velminski, Humboldt University, Berlin
                    Visible Representation and Organized Formation: 
                    The Role of the Stadium in Soviet Culture

Friday, September 5th

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8:30                Transfer from the hotel to the Helmut Schmidt University 

9:30 – 10:00        Nikolaus Katzer, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg
                    Introduction

10:00 – 13:00       1st Section: Sites, Media, and Modernity

Discussant:         Louise Mc Reynolds, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 
Chair:              Nikolaus Katzer, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg

10:00 – 10:30       Ekaterina Emeliantseva, University of Zurich
                    Sports Visions and Sports Places: The Topography of Sports in Late 
                    Imperial St Petersburg and its Photographic Representation (1890-1914) 

10:30 – 11:00       Burcu Dogramaci, University of Hamburg
                    Heading into Modernity: Sports, Architecture, and Photography in 
                    the Young Turkish Republic 

11:00 – 11:30       Coffee break 

11:30 – 12:00       Sandra Budy, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg
                    Changing Images of Sport in the Early Soviet Press

12:00 – 13:00       Discussion

13:00 – 14:30       Lunch

14:30 – 18:30       2nd Section: Bodies, Strength, and Space

Discussant:         Mike O’Mahony, University of Bristol
Chair:              Sandra Dahlke, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg

14:30 – 15:00       Alexandra Köhring, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg
                    Exploring the Power of the Curve: The Project of an 
                    “International Red Stadium” in Soviet Moscow of the 1920s 

15:00 – 15:30       Bettina Jungen, University of Zurich
                    Frozen Action: The Sport Motive in Soviet Sculpture 

15:30 – 16:00       Coffee break

16:00 – 16:30       Christina Kiaer, Northwestern University, Chicago
                    Deineka and the Vtorova Sisters: The Representation and 
                    Experience of Sport in the 1930s 

16:30 – 17:00       Pat Simpson, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield
                    Liberation and Containment: Re-visualizing the Eugenic and
                    Evolutionary Ideal of the Fizkul’turnitsa in 1944

17:00 – 18:00       Discussion

18:30               Transfer to the city, dinner

Saturday, September 6th

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8:30                Transfer from the hotel to the Helmut Schmidt University 


9:30 – 13:00        3rd Section: Actors, Milieus, and Memory

Discussant:         Robert Edelman, University of California, San Diego 
Chair:              Hans-Joachim Braun, Helmut-Schmidt-University, Hamburg

9:30 – 10:00        Eva Maurer, University of Fribourg
                    An Academic Escape to the Periphery? The Socio-Cultural Milieu 
                    of Soviet Mountaineering from the 1920s to the 1950s

10:00 – 10:30       Robert Edelman, University of California, San Diego
                    The Sal’nikov Affair of 1950: Soviet Football’s Most Scandalous Transfer

10:30 – 11:00       Coffee break 

11:00 – 11:30       Manfred Zeller, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg
                    When Lev Jaschin was Sent off the Field. Soviet Soccer in Retrospect – An Oral History

11:30 – 12:00       Olga Chepurnaya, European University, St. Petersburg
                    Moscow Olympics - Individual Biographies

12:00 – 13:00       Discussion

13:00 – 14:30       Lunch 

14:30 – 17:30       4th Section: Gender, Stereotypes, and Ideology

Discussant:         Irina Bykhovskaya, Russian State University of Physical Education and 
                    Russsian Institute for Cultural Research, Moscow
Chair:              Esther Meier, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg

14:30 – 15:00       Kateryna Kobchenko, National Taras Shevchenko University, Kiev 
                    Emancipation within the Ruling Ideology: Soviet Women in Physical 
                    Culture and Sport in the 1920-1930s

15:00 – 15:30       Anke Hilbrenner, University of Bonn
                    Soviet Women in Sports: The Female Body between Gender Stereotypes 
                    and Equal Opportunity Utopia

15:30 – 16:00       Stefan Wiederkehr, German Historical Institute Warsaw 
                    “… if Jarmila Kratochvilova is the Future of Women´s Sports, 
                    I´m not Sure I´m Ready for it.” Media, Gender, and Cold War

16:00 – 16:30       Coffee break

16:30 – 17:30       Discussion

17:30 – 18:30       Final Discussion

Chair:              Nikolaus Katzer, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg

19:00               Transfer to the city, dinner

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Location

Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/ Universität der Bundeswehr
Senatssaal (Gebäude M1)
Holstenhofweg 85
22043 Hamburg
www.hsu-hh.de

To attend the workshop, please reply to:
Manfred Zeller, mzeller@hsu-hh.de
DFG research project "Social and Cultural History of Sport and Physical Culture in the Soviet Union“ www.fizkultura.de Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Katzer, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr