News and Announcements Archive
Hunt continues for Canada’s Olympic history
January 14, 2010
While Bob Barney has a keen interest in the athletes representing Canada at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, his academic curiosity is for Olympic athletes from a century ago - the members of Canada’s first Olympic team in 1908. (read the Western News article)
A photo in a shoe box: In this video, Bob Barney tells the story of the historic photo that precipitated the "search for the 1908 Canadian Olympic Team."
Vancouver 2010: 'Illusion of Inclusion'
November 17, 2009
Dr . Janice Forsyth examines the position of Aboriginal cultures in the run-up to the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. Her commentary (mp3) is part of the Globe and Mail series, Intellectual Muscle - University Dialogues for Vancouver 2010.
Vancouver 2010: Hosting the Olympic Games
November 17, 2009
Former ICOS Director Dr. Kevin Wamsley comments on the history of hosting mega-events such as the Olympic Winter Games. His talk (mp3) is part of the Intellectual Muscle - University Dialogues for Vancouver 2010, hosted by the Globe and Mail Newspaper.
Distinguished British scholar delivers 23rd Annual Ioannides Address
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)
Lecture marks Olympic Studies Centre milestone
March 24, 2009
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. (Read a copy of the Western News story here)
2009 Crocker Lecture - March 27, 2009
March 1, 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. (Download a copy of the program)
Antiquity and Sport: American Scholar to give 22nd Annual Ioannides Address
October 1, 2008
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.
Australia's anti-doping authority speaks at Western
November 8, 2007
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. (Read the press release here.)
Announcement: 9th International Symposium for Olympic Research
November 15, 2007
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. A pdf copy of the announcement can be accessed here.
ICOS symposium heading to Beijing
July 17, 2007
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. (Read the Western News story)
Stepen Wenn Gives 15h Annual J. Howard Crocker Lecture
March 1, 2006
Professor Wenn will deliver a lecture titled "Friend or Foe?: John Hancock's David D'Alessandro and the IOC Collide over Organizational Reform 1998-1999". Everyone is welcome. The lecture will be given Friday, March 31 at 3 p.m. in Room 322 - Arthur and Sonia Labatt Health Sciences Building. (Read more about our lectures)
Kevin Wamsley steps down
January 15, 2006
After six years at the helm of Western's International Centre for Olympic Studies, Kevin Wamsley has left his role as director to concentrate more on his position as Associate Dean (Programs) in the Faculty of Health Sciences.
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