9th November 2010, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford

With the 2012 Games now fast approaching, this year’s conference will explore opportunities presented by the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games to re-vitalise curricula to enhance student learning opportunities and experiences, and to encourage student engagement with learning. Keynote speakers are currently being confirmed and they will be chosen to reflect different perspectives of the Games which can stimulate developmental initiatives, for example:

• “Capturing Olympic and Paralympic Values in the Curriculum”
• “Critical examination of the Olympic Legacies aspired to by the Games organisers – their relevance in the HLST group of subjects and in HE generally”
• “Olympic and Paralympic Research and its implications for curriculum development”

Workshop sessions will provide opportunities to share developmental initiatives in learning, teaching and assessment in which the Games can be used to revitalise the learning experience of students and to engage them with learning. There will also be a display of posters describing further work in this area its impact.

Download the Programme & Booking Form (118kb .doc)

For more information visit the HLST Conference Page.

Special Issue 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS

Sociology and the 2012 Olympic Games

The 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games provide an exciting focus for sociological analyses of the personal and public, local and global. The special issue,
to be published in 2011, provides an opportunity to contribute timely reflections on
the sociological interest and significance of this global event in UK and comparative
context. This special issue aims to bring together strong theoretical, empirical and
methodological contributions from across the field of sociology, demonstrating the
ways in which the discipline can use the backdrop of the games to examine sporting,
political, cultural, economic and global events.

Possible themes and topics include the following:

• Nationhood, participation, identity and citizenship
• Cooperation, competition and global politics
• Work, economy and the service sector
• Sociology of sport and the body
• Children and young people
• Leisure and tourism
• Community and city
• Megaprojects and regeneration
• Crime, safety and surveillance
• Sociology of disability
• Sociology of London

The special issue will be edited by Amanda Coffey, Tom Hall, Sally Power and Amanda Robinson. The editors welcome contributions from sociologists working
across the range of interests published in the journal and from those at early stag
of their career as well as those who are more established.

Deadline for submissions: 31 July 2010
Queries to current editors: sociology@cardiff.ac.uk

Submissions will be accepted via http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/soc

Full submission instructions are available on this site on the Instructions and Forms page. Please read these in full before submitting your manuscript.

All manuscripts will be subject to the normal referee process, but potential authors
are welcome to discuss their ideas in advance with the editors.

Sociology is a journal of the British Sociological Association published by its trading subsidiary BSA Publications Ltd

The British Sociological Association is a Registered Charity (no. 1080235) and a Company Limited by Guarantee (no. 3890729).

CODE Dialogues asked how new technologies shape our individual and collective capacities to think, understand, collaborate, and create. There were discussions on crossing cultural boundaries with the use of new technologies and exploring the notion of organic technology, across transdisciplinary fields of art, science, technology, design, humanities and social science.

Participants included: Bruce Ferguson, Dan Roosegaarde, M. Simon Levin, Don Ritter, Luc Courchesne, Alexandra Samuel, Rafael Lozano Hemmer, Maria Lantin Sara Diamond, Ralph Borland, Faisal Anwar, Dustin Rivers, Galen Scorer, Anais met det Ancxt, Johanna Berzowska, Brendan Wypich, Jer Thorp and Randy Lee Cutler.

For more information about events scheduled for CODE at Emily Carr, and across the wider Vancouver area, please check out the CODE Live website.

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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 and link here.

Fresh Media Olympics Conference

February 22, 2010, 10am-7pm

W2 Culture + Media House

112 W Hastings, Vancouver, BC

The Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games are expected to draw 3 billion worldwide television and 70 million website viewers and will generate more wireless content than any previous Olympics. With an explosion of social media tools in the hands of Olympic fans, and pervasive reporting by citizen journalists and bloggers will social media have its journalistic coming out party this February?

Join with experts from traditional and social media, bloggers and academia to explore the dominant narratives half-way thru this 17-day global event!

With thousands of media makers and storytellers unaccredited by VANOC and the BC government’s media centre, how can the IOC control the message and hand exclusivity to its investor brands? Sport and culture fans will undoubtedly flood online platforms with their own Olympic messages, and cultural festivities and Vancouver’s homelessness issues could gain prominence with traditional winter sports stories. Beijing 2008 failed to uphold pledges for an open media environment, so what will London 2012 learn from Vancouver’s experience with NBC expecting to lose $200 million, and Canwest under creditor protection?

The conference features a keynote from Andy Miah, author of ‘Genetically Modified Athletes’ (2004) and the forthcoming book ‘A Digital Olympics: Digital Games, Ethics & Cultures’ (for The MIT Press), and panels with senior journalists and industry watchers from the USA, UK, Canada, and elsewhere. An afternoon unconference program provides open space for participant led-workshops with an added emphasis on practice and a summary of the first Olympic week.

The conference also brings people face-to-face for networking and sharing tips on theory, practice, legal and operations. W2 will webstream to reach viewers outside Vancouver. The day wraps with a Cinq à sept reception and evening party with Vancouver artists and DJs.

Sure to sell-out, registration opens January 28, and is free for Full Media Access passholders for the W2 Culture + Media House.

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, who have nearly doubled the number of journalists attracted to the Games by establishing large non-accredited media centres, such as British Columbia Media House and Whistler Media House at Vancouver 2010.

We will continue to track these developments to learn more about the Olympic Games and the range of activities it is involved with.

Andy Miah & Beatriz Garcia

Intellectual Muscle

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.

Intellectual Muscle, developed by Vancouver 2010 and the University of British Columbia, in collaboration with universities across Canada and The Globe and Mail, will run from September 2009 until the end of the Games in March 2010.

globeandmail.com/intellectualmuscle

Podcast schedule:

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 political dimensions has produced analyses and reports of research in journals across a number of disciplines and the relationship between tourism and the Olympic Games is gaining wider recognition.  The status of the Birds Nest stadium in Beijing as an important domestic tourist attraction and the detailed plans to monitor the tourism impact of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics are noteworthy but it is also timely to place these recent developments in a broader context.

This special issue seeks high quality papers that address any issue concerning the relationship between tourism and the Olympic Games. Papers can be conceptual or empirical and indicative topics include:
•    The Olympics and tourism demand
•    Adaptive practices of transportation systems and hospitality organisations during the Games
•    Leverage practices to influence the spatial and temporal impacts of the Games on tourism

Requests for further information and expressions of interest should be directed to the Guest Editor for this special issue, Professor Graham Brown.

Manuscripts should be sent electronically as an eMail attachment directly to graham.brown@unisa.edu.au .  All submissions will be subject to JS&T’s standard double-blind peer review process.  Authors should prepare manuscripts according to JS&T’s instructions for authors available on the journal webpages: www.tandf/journals/titles/14775085.asp

Special Issue Contact Details:

Graham Brown
School of Management,
University of South Australia
graham.brown@unisa.edu.au

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