Gender and Sport

Conference Program

15.00 - 15.15: Opening

15.15 - 16.45: Panel 1: Sport Spaces as Safe Spaces? Negotiations of Participation and Safety in Sporting Environments I

  • Rahat Shah (University Frankfurt/Main, Germany) and Sayed Attaullah Shah (Government College, Peshawar, Pakistan): Negotiating Femininity and Participation: Pashtun Women in Community Sports
  • Lucy Piggott (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway): SheRuns: Women’s Running, Safety Work, and Public Space in Norway
  • Val Meneau (University Göttingen, Germany): Gender-based and sexual oppression in competitive Latin DanceSport

17.00 - 18.00: Panel 2: Progress and Backlashes in Gender Equity in Latin America

  • Soraya Barreto Januário (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil): Women's Football in Brazil: The World Cups from a Gender Perspective
  • Lucie Hémeury (University Lausanne, Switzerland): Sportwomen on the Front Line: Advances and Setbacks in the Fight for Gender Equality and Inclusion in Argentina, 2010s-2026

18.00 - 18.30: Break

18.30 - 19.30: Keynote

  • Karolin Heckemeyer (FHNW Switzerland), first spokesperson of the dvs commission 'Gender and Diversity Research': "Looking Back and Thinking Forward: Debates on Gender and Gender Equity in the Field of Sport Studies"

19.30: Dinner on the conference site

9.00 - 10.45: Panel 3: Historical Developments of Gender in Sport

  • Juliane Streit (University Marburg, Germany): Emancipation or Participation in Nazi Germany: The Glider Pilot and Physical Education Teacher Vera von Pirscher
  • Noemi Steuerwald (University Bern, Switzerland): Producing Gender in Sport. Historical Lessons from Equestrianism
  • Franziska Blendin, Sascha Düerkop, Sophia Brauner, Sandra Kreiner (independent researchers, Germany): The Colonial Legacy of European Gender Norms in Football
  • Kim Landfried (University of Graz, Austria): Gender(s) and Bicycles between Performance and Resistance: Two Case Studies on the Early Development of Cycling in Graz

11.00 - 12.30: Panel 4: Conceptions of the Female Sporting Body

  • Solène Froidevaux (University of Lausanne, Switzerland): Sizing the game, gendering the body: Knowledge circulation on equipment fit and lived experiences in football training in Switzerland
  • Corinna Schmechel (University Göttingen, Germany): From Taboo to Trending Topic – Ambivalences in the Discourse on Menstruation in Sport
  • Yvonne Schüpbach (University Bern, Switzerland): From Pathology to Project: How neoliberal Fitness Culture Re-evaluated the Menopausal Body since the 1960s

12.30 - 13.30: Lunch on the conference site

13.30 - 15.15: Panel 5: Masculinities in Sport

  • Sandra Klos (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria): The Early Olympic Games as a ‘Baccalauréat Viril’: Gender as a Constitutive Element in Pierre de Coubertin’s Olympic Idea
  • Bettina Bredereck (University Frankfurt/Main, Germany), Eric Burkart (Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, Germany), Anne Greule (University Göttingen, Germany), Kathrin Klausmeier (University Göttingen, Germany): Martial Medievalism Constructions of Masculinity and Practices of Fighting in Viking Reenactment and Historical Fencing as a Research Desideratum
  • Shaiyena Côté (Malmö University, Sweden) and Sepandarmaz Mashreghi (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway): Backlash After #MeToo: Institutional Closure and Gendered Harm in The Hockey Canada Sexual Assault Case
  • Sanna Erdoğan (University of Lapland, Finland): Empowering Women Coaches in Combat Sports

15.15 - 15.45: Coffee break

15.45 - 17.30: Panel 6: Science and Politics on Sex Categories in Sport and Concepts of Fairness

  • Jiří Mališ (University Olomouc, Czech Republic): Epistemic Risks in Scientific Debates on Gender and Sport
  • Madeleine Pape (University of Lausanne, Switzerland): Insights from a feminist infiltrator: The International Olympic Committee and the regulation of the women’s competition category
  • Ace Van Atta (University of Limerick, Ireland): Addressing metaphysical underpinnings of non-binary inclusion in sport
  • Anna Adlwarth (Nord University Bodø, Norway) and Christine Haupt (PH Kärnten, Austria): On the Onto-Affective Production of Gendered Bodies in Sport

17.30 - 19.30: Dinner and individual transfer to Lumière cinema

19.30: Public screening at the Lumière cinema in the city: “Category Women”, preceded by a brief academic introduction by Anna Adlwarth (Nord University Bodø, Norway) and followed by a Q&A session

09.00 - 10.00: Open discussion meeting on the introduction of mandatory genetic screening for sex testing in the IOC and possible reactions to this (Host: Madeleine Pape, Lausanne/Switzerland)

10.15 - 11.15: Panel 7: Quantitative Analyses of Discrimination in Sport

  • Müller, Amrei; Frühauf, Anika; Schnitzer, Martin; Kopp, Martin; Rausch, Linda (University Innsbruck, Austria): Shaped by Stereotypes? Analyzing the relationship of gender stereotypes and prevention knowledge in sports
  • Luc Mathias Ndjock (Triagon University Munich, Germany) and Britt Hornei (Evangelisches Krankenhaus Oberhausen, Germany): Between Diversity and Challenge: Resilience, Personality, and Their Role in Women's Football

11.30 - 13.15: Panel 8: Sport Spaces as Safe Spaces? Negotiations of Participation and Safety in Sporting Environments II

  • Bart Bloem Herraiz (University Pablo de Olavide Sevilla, Spain): “Nature is such a healing space for us”: Trans people’s experiences in outdoor and adventure recreation
  • Aurèle Pontier (University Paris, France): Are LGBT+ sports spaces truly reinventing sports rules and cultures?
  • Alex Sommer (The Scatter Joy Project Ohio, USA): Heated Rivalry: Heterodominance, Identity Regulation, and the Cost of Conformity in Collegiate Athletics
  • Penelope Murdock (University Kiel, Germany): Gender Equity for Whom? Belonging as Psychological Infrastructure for Black Gendered Bodies in Sport

13.15: Closing and Brown Bag Lunch