On the 6th of February, 2010, to coincide with the opening of CODE Live at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, the Cultural Olympiad 2010 and Emily Carr presented a one-day forum that brought together national and international artists, (many of which were exhibiting work within CODE) curators and thinkers for a series of dialogues on the relationships between digital technologies and creative practices today.

Continuing from the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, Andy Miah, Co-Editor in Chief for C@tO, will be writing again for the Huffington Post during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games. The HuffPo is one of the USA’s leading political blogs, recognized as the second leading in 2009 by TIME magazine. We’ll be featuring some of these posts during Games time.

During Vancouver 2010, C@tO will be working with W2 in Vancouver to run a series of debates and the Fresh Media conference on 22nd February. The focus for this conference will be to discuss how the media is changing and bringing about change via new, social and traditional forms of journalism.
Speakers are now being confirmed and will likely include a range of people from the Vancouver new media community, professional journalists covering the Games, international experts on Olympic media and students from the BC area. For more information, see below …

A note from our editors
Since the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, C@tO has developed a niche for studies of the Olympic Movement, focusing on the intersection between practioner, scholar and media. It has had a presence at each Winter and Summer Olympic Games, where it has worked with the non-accredited media centre.
This decade has shown remarkable change in the Olympic Movement, notably around the development of digital technology, which continues to be a focal point of our work.
The democratization of broadcast technology and journalism practice has been exploited by host cities, …

Intellectual Muscle is an eclectic series of talks by prominent and up-and-coming Canadian intellectuals on topics related to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Public lectures will be delivered at universities across Canada and made available online in podcast form. The online program will include polls, discussion forums and other interactive features, providing Canadians with a unique opportunity to participate in a series of national dialogues.

Call for Papers
Journal of Sport & Tourism
Special issue:  Sport, Tourism and the Olympic Games
Deadline for submission:  8 January 2010
Purpose of the special issue:
Every four years the gaze of the public around the world turns towards the Olympic Games and the level of media interest generated by the event provides opportunities for the host city to raise its profile as a tourist destination. This moment in the sun can be contrasted with ongoing investment associated with the bidding process, Games planning and legacy management. The complexity of economic, social, environmental and …

The International Olympic Committee and the Olympic System
The governance of world sport
Series: Global Institutions
Jean-Loup Chappelet, Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, Lausanne, Switzerland
This book provides, in a clear and readable form, an informative and fascinating account of the institutional history of the Olympics: its history, its organization and its actors.
Part of the popular Global Institutions series, this book is based on a forty year observation of the Olmpic Movement and contains information on the International Olympic Committee that has never been published before.
May 2008: 216×138: 224pp
Hb: 978-0-415-43167-5: £65.00
Pb: 978-0-415-43168-2: £14.99

The ISOH has recently started a blog:
http://blog.isoh.org/

In November 2007, academic researchers around the world gathered in Olympia to pay tribute to the villagers of Ancient Olympia who saved the Academy from devastation during the wildfires.

A full research day for both of us. Andy spends time in the ZPC working on new archival material, promotion for the public communication of our work, articles for newspapers and subsequently visits the archaeological site in Athens. Despite it being summer and Games week, it is relatively empty.
Beatriz has to go through a real marathon of interviews at the Hellenic Culture Organisation (HCO) headquarters. This is the group in charge of the Cultural Olympiad on behalf of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. The meetings start at 1pm and do …