Physical Cultures of the Body, 2023
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Below is a list of the 2023 Physical Cultures of the Body conference participants that have provided written consent to the publication of a recording of their presentation. Clicking on the title of each presentation will begin playing its video recording.
Dr. Basudhita Basu
Physical Exercise as Preventive Medicine: Looking Back at Colonial Bengal (circa 1860 – 1947)
Maria (Natascha) Louw, Francois Johannes Cleophas, and Wilbur Kraak
Reconstructing Performance Narratives of Three Herstorically Significant Springbok Women Rugby Players Between 2002 and 2016
Una Tamlyn Visser, Francois Johannes Cleophas
Rhythmic Gymnastics: A Woman’s World?
Airnel T. Abarra, Tamás Doczi, and Janice Juaban
Dynamics of Coaching Female Bodybuilders vis-à-vis On-Site and Virtual Environments: An Ethnographic Approach
Elsa Richardson
Diversions Day by Day: Gamification and the Edwardian Workplace
Harry Hayfield
A History of Muscle: From the Dawn of Time to the Modern Age
John Fair
“On The Horns of a Dilemma”: The Beleaguered Life of Hitler’s Greatest Weightlifter
Conor Heffernan
Professor Szalay and the Birth of British Weightlifting
Adam Mills
Edward ‘Ned’ Hanlan: A Role Model of Canadian Values
Charles Stocking
The Meaning of Marathon: New Evidence on an Old Problem
Eduardo Galak
A Transnational Image of the Educated Body: Physical Culture in Newsreels from Argentina, Spain, and Italy (1934-1944)
Graham Hudson
The Art Work Out
Rachel Ozerkevich
Glamorous, Feminine, and Muscular: The Problem of the Strongwoman in French Advertising Posters, 1879-1899
David Chapman
Wrestling at the Fête Foraine: Force, Farce, and Film
