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Distinguished British scholar delivers Ioannides address
Monday, October 26, 2009
Zahra Newby, Reader in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick in the U.K., will give the 23rd Annual Ion Ioannides Memorial Lecture on Friday, Oct. 30 at The University of Western Ontario. (Read more)
Bob Barney discusses historic Canadian Olympic photo and ICOS' role in researching this piece of sport history.
2009 Crocker Lecture - March 27, 2009
The 19th Annual J. Howard Crocker Olympic Studies Lecture will be presented on Friday, March 27, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. in Room 240 of the Arthur & Sonia Labatt Health Sciences Building. Professor Emeritus Robert K. Barney will be presenting Tsar Nicholas' Comrad in Arms: Major General Sir John Hanbury-Williams, Canada's First IOC Member.
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Lecture marks Olympic Studies Centre milestone
In a letter dated March 23, 1989, Jan Van Fleet notified Bert Taylor, Dean of the Faculty of Physical Education, that the Board of Governors on recommendation of the University of Western Ontario Senate had approved the establishment of the Centre for Olympic Studies.
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Antiquity and Sport: American Scholar to give 22nd Annual Ioannides Address
David Gilman Romano, noted American classicist at the University of Pennsylvania will give the International Centre for Olympic Studies’ 22nd Annual Ion P. Ioannides Address on Friday afternoon, October 24th, at 3:30 P.M. , in Room 11 of the Arthur and Sonia Labatt Health Sciences Building.
9th International Symposium for Olympic Research
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Australia's anti-doping authority speaks at Western
Australia's leading authority on anti-doping in sport, who 20 years ago traded barbs with John McEnroe while serving as a tennis chair umpire, will deliver two lectures on Monday, November 12 at The University of Western Ontario including one at The International Centre for Olympic Studies.
ICOS symposium heading to Beijing
For only the second time in 18 years, the International Centre for Olympic Studies (ICOS) will hold its biannual symposium at the site of the Olympic Games. A previous symposium was held in Australia in 2000.
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Colleagues World-wide: It gives the International Centre for Olympic Studies (ICOS) great pleasure to announce its 9th Biennial International Symposium for Olympic Research to be held in Beijing, People’s Republic of China on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, August 5, 6, 7, 2008, immediately before the opening of the Games of the 29th Olympiad in Beijing on August 8th. The 9th Symposium will be hosted jointly by ICOS and Beijing’s Capital University of Physical Education. The Symposium’s theme, “Deconstruction and Discourse: Odysseys in Olympic Socio-Cultural Matters,” focuses on research studies dealing with the history, sociology, anthropology, and philosophy of the modern Olympic Movement. ICOS will be responsible for the academic program, including the edited Proceedings, which, customarily, are published prior to the Symposium and circulated at the opening of the event. Capital University will be responsible for “on-site” logistics, including symposium venues, accommodation in the University’s hotel ($60 US per night per room—twin beds, TV, private bathroom, air-conditioned) during the Symposium and, if desired, for the Olympic Games themselves (at the same rate), some meals, airport pick-up and delivery on arrival and departure, help in securing Olympic Games events tickets, and Symposium opening and closing ceremonies and accompanying entertainments. The Symposium registration fee is $250 US and includes a copy of the fully Edited Proceedings, ground transportation to and from the airport, admission to all Symposium sessions, including opening ceremonies and reception, coffee break amenities, two luncheons, Symposium banquet, and finally, possible complimentary tickets to the final dress rehearsal of the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympic Games themselves. The IOC’s and WADA’s Dick Pound has agreed to deliver the Symposium’s opening address. At this time, the Symposium’s Academic Committee, chaired by Professor Emeritus Bob Barney (rkbarney@uwo.ca), issues a CALL FOR ABSTRACTS.” Abstracts of research studies must deal with subjects of Olympic socio-cultural genre. The deadline for submitting abstracts is Friday, January 31, 2008. Abstracts will be adjudicated by the Academic Committee and successful candidates for the Symposium will be informed no later than February 1, 2008.
Completed texts of all abstracts of studies accepted for presentation at the Symposium must be submitted to the Academic Committee no later than Friday, June 6 (D-Day—Delivery Day), 2008. Acceptance of an abstract guarantees Symposium participation, provided that the full text is received by the due date. Upon acceptance, final Symposium details will be circulated. The Symposium has set a limit of 50 papers/presentations. Please let us hear from you.
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