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.

Message from our colleague, Professor Holger Preuss & Rob Vanwynsberghe
“We are happy to send you the finalized program of our symposium on February 19th in Vancouver at UBC including the address of the place where we will meet. We soon will launch a webpage for further information, directions, side events and most important the registration for you and your colleagues/students.
Due to the papers we accepted (we had a 30% rejection rate) and the great chance to present three top level key note speakers (Richard Pound – former WADA president and …

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 …

This call for abstracts is directed to researchers of all disciplines. The Third International Sport Business Symposium calls for research directly related to the business of the Olympic Games; the upcoming 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games, as well as prior and future Olympic, Youth, and Paralympic Games. Papers about Olympic media, legacy, tourism, consumers, organizations, finance, economics, environment, Paralympics and others are welcome. The official language for abstracts and the Symposium is English.

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.

Rundown of IOC Congress 2009 – 2nd of October, 2009

Olympic Reform: A Ten-Year Review

The University of Toronto is proud to host a conference on Olympic Reform: A Ten-Year Review from May 18-20, 2009.  Information about the conference and online registration can be found on our website,
http://www.ac-fpeh.com/Olympic_Reform
Early registration rates are good until April 19.
Accommodations information for our conference, including a  special  $32/person/night rate at the University of Toronto’s New College, can be found online.  The conference has also reserved a limited number of  rooms at the nearby Holiday Inn Toronto Midtown which will be held  until April 18.

Keynote speakers and …

Social Science Perspectives on the 2012 London Olympic Games
An Academy of Social Sciences Seminar supported by the ESRC as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science and organised in cooperation with the University of East London.
British Library, Euston Road, London, NW1
14 March 2008
16:30 – 19:00
£10 to include drinks and refreshments
The economic and social impact of the London 2012 Olympics Games is the focus of this debate. It will explore the significance in contexts of symbolic meanings of sport, competition between cities, international tourism, emergence of new hybrid global organizations …

The Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education
at Leeds Metropolitan University invites papers
for the above conference, to be held at
Headingley Carnegie Stadium over 17th and
18th July 2008.
The Olympic Games are probably the most
popular event in the history of sport. The TV
audiences for both the Summer and the
Winter Games now approach saturation point,
the Games generate huge commercial
possibilities for ‘Olympic partners’ and a
deafening cheer goes up in the nominated
country when the venue for the next
tournament but one is revealed. Olympic
history – especially the history dispensed by
the International Olympic Committee itself – is
invariably a …

LONDON 2012 NEVER TOOK PLACE: Re-imagining the Olympic zone is a two-day event to mark the launch of WE SELL BOXES, WE BUY GOLD.
This ongoing project explores the 2012 Olympic site and the Lower Lea Valley as a context for interdisciplinary research and artistic intervention. The event takes place at various venues near the Olympic site in Stratford and includes performances by Mark Wayman, a symposium moderated by Iain Sinclair and Nick Couldry and a sound installation by Richard Crow.
The title London 2012 never took …