Patricia Vertinsky

(Professor)
Human Kinetics, UBC

Presenter, moderator and workshop supporter Prof. Vertinsky, whose research interests include investigating the social and cultural history of the body with a focus on gender, race, aging and disability issues, has published extensively on the moving physical body in sport, dance, physical activity and medicine. Her recent book, Physical Culture, Power and the Body (New York: Routledge, 2007), raises questions about the relation between the ‘natural’ body, the ‘constructed’ body and the ‘alien’ or ‘virtual’ body. As PWIAS affiliate she co-organized the international conference PHYSICAL CULTURE, POWER, AND THE BODY (2004).

http://hkin.educ.ubc.ca/faculty/vertinskyp/vertinskyp.htm

Recent Publications, Performances or Presentations

1) Physical Culture, Power and the Body (with Jennifer Hargreaves), London and New York: Routledge, 2007.
2) "Dancing Class: Schooling the Dance in Colonial and Postcolonial Hong Kong," Sport, Education and Society, (with Alison McManus and Cindy Sit),12, 1, 2007, 73-92.
3) Disciplining Bodies in the Gymnasium: Memory, Monument and Modernism. (with Sherry McKay). London and New York: Routledge, 2004.
4) "Schooling the Dance: From Dance Under the Swastika to Movement Education in the British School," Journal of Sport History, Vol 31, 3, 2005, 401-423.