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Exhibition: World Games: An Exhibition of Painting from Beijing 2008 — London 2012

When: 25-29 November, 2009

Address:

Bankside Gallery

48 Hopton Street London SE1 9JH

Phone 020 7928 7521

Email info@banksidegallery.com

www.banksidegallery.com

More details below:

Deadline: November 25, 2009

Requirements: abstract (600 words max) and one page Curriculum Vitae to be submitted via e-mail by to Dr. Holger Preuss, E-mail: preuss@uni-mainz.de

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.

There will be a double blind review process of the abstracts. Acceptance will be announced by December 15, 2010. Abstracts or any full papers sent via electronic mail by January 15, 2010 will appear in the Symposium Proceedings.

More details below:

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:

here’s the schedule for the day…

Time Meetings/Events Place
09:00 – 09:15
President’s opening remarks and opening of the
121st IOC Session – followed by the presentations
of the 2016 Candidate Cities
Hall A, Bella Center
09:15 – 10:25 Presentation by Chicago, USA Hall A, Bella Center
10:25 – 10:40 Break
10:35 Press conference by Chicago, USA
Media Briefing Room
Bella Center
10:40 – 11:50 Presentation by Tokyo, Japan Hall A, Bella Center
11:50 – 12:05 Break
12:00 Press conference by Tokyo, Japan
Media Briefing Room
Bella Center
12:05 – 13:15 Presentation by Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Hall A, Bella Center
13:15 – 14:45 Lunch
13:25 Press conference by Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Media Briefing Room
Bella Center
14:45 – 15:55 Presentation by Madrid, Spain Hall A, Bella Center
15:55 – 16:10 Break (Observers leave the Session Hall)
16:05 Press conference by Madrid, Spain
Media Briefing Room
Bella Center
16:10 – 17:40
Election of the host city for the Games of the
XXXI Olympiad in 2016
Hall A, Bella Center
18:30 – 19:00
Announcement ceremony of the host city of the
Games of the XXXI Olympiad in 2016
Auditorium, Bella
Center
19:00 – 21:00
Reception hosted by the IOC President on the
occasion of the election of the host city of the
Games of the XXXI Olympiad in 2016
Bella Center
19:30 – 20:45
Signature of the Host City Contract. IOC press
conference with the host city of the Games of the
XXXI Olympiad in 2016
Media Briefing Room
Bella Center

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

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 panelists include

• Jean-Loup Chappelet, Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration,  University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Giovanni Di Cola, International Labour Organization
• Andrew Jennings, author of The Great Olympic Swindle, The New Lords of the Rings and Foul! The Secret World of FIFA
• John MacAloon, University of Chicago
• Ann Peel, Athletes’ CAN
• Richard W. Pound, International Olympic Committee
• Sam Ramsamy, International Olympic Committee

Questions regarding the conference can be directed to Heather Dichter at heather.dichter@utoronto.ca

With the start of the Summer Olympics drawing near, an expert panel met recently at the Carnegie Council to discuss “Olympic Mettle: Business, Civil Society, and Politics During the Beijing Games.”

The event featured scholar and journalist Ian Buruma; General Electric’s vice president of corporate citizenship Bob Corcoran; Qi Qianjin of the Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the UN; and Minky Worden of Human Rights Watch and editor of China’s Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges. Journalist Thomas Crampton joined the group via video from Hong Kong, and Devin Stewart, director of the Council’s Global Policy Innovations program, moderated.

The very fact that the Chinese government permitted one of their officials to take part in a public discussion like this shows how much China has opened up in the last 30 years. Topics included the challenges corporations face in operating ethically and yet staying competitive, and a debate on whether durable good government and the exercise of human rights are possible in systems where officials are not democratically elected.

This event was part of the Carnegie Council’s Workshops for Ethics in Business series, which brings together top corporations and NGOs to share best practices in addressing ethical problems that organizations face. It was sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton’s strategy+business magazine, with additional support from Eli Lilly and New York University’s Center for Global Affairs.

To see a video of the Olympic Mettle event, click here

To listen to it, click here

To read an event summary with video clips, click here

To read the entire transcript, click here

To see Thomas Crampton’s video in its entirety, click here

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Be sure to check out the Policy Innovations “Fairer Globalization” blog for frequent posts about the Games and other China issues.

Please see these additional resources on the Games (in chronological order):

One World, Many Slogans
Christina L. Madden, Carnegie Council
Just as China is using the Olympic Games to improve its image, some companies are using the Games to improve their corporate responsibility profiles. (Policy Innovations, April 4, 2008)

A Wolf in Monk’s Clothing?
Matthew Hennessey, Carnegie Council
He has reverent followers around the world, but inside China the Dalai Lama is not universally loved. Hennessy sat down with a number of young Chinese-American students to investigate these attitudes. (Policy Innovations, April 3, 2008)

Beijing Serves Up Sports Etiquette
Abigail Paris, Carnegie Council
China is training its spectators in cheering, clapping, and how to handle the occasional volleyball that flies into the stands. Mannered reactions are the goal—China is gunning for a perfect ten in Olympic hosting. (Policy Innovations, April 2, 2008)

Moral Medals: The Summer Games Will be Won Off the Field
Sacha Tessier-Stall, Nin-Hai Tseng, Carnegie Council
With violence in Darfur and Tibet, competition at the Olympics this summer will be political as well as athletic. (Policy Innovations, April 1, 2008)

Will China “Lose” the 2008 Olympics?
Ian Bremmer, Eurasia Group
The Chinese Communist Party hoped to use the Games to showcase the country’s emergence as a dynamic, modern nation. But as China’s leaders begin final preparations for next August, they may be wondering if hosting the event was such a good idea after all. (Policy Innovations, November 29, 2007)

Next Year In Beijing?
Madeleine Lynn, Carnegie Council
When will China publicly acknowledge what really happened on June 4, 1989? Just as in Taiwan, change in China must surely come from within. But the rest of the world has a role to play also, and the Beijing Games provide an opportunity to do so. (Carnegie Ethics Online, June 4, 2007)

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