M.A. Olympic Studies

Marloes Ekkelboom wins 'Best Paper Award' at international conference

Marloes Ekkelboom, PhD student and staff member, was awarded the 'Best Paper Award' at the seventh annual conference on sport and discrimination at the Université de Franche-Comté in Besancon, France, for her presentation on 'Female Athlete Activism' and social justice advocacy at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. This event...

Olympic Seminar of the International Olympic Academy (IOA) in Bahrain.

The IOA has organized several workshops on Olympic Studies in collaboration with the Bahrain Olympic Committee respectively its National Olympic Academy (BOA). While our colleague from the M.A. Olympic Studies Dr. Emilio Fernández Peña taught on the IOA/BOA programme in April, Stephan Wassong delivered a series of lectures...

Olympism and Olympic Education Book

Explore the multifaceted dimensions of Olympism and Olympic Education in the latest publication edited by Alberto Reinaldo Reppold Filho (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) and Stephan Wassong (German Sport University Cologne).

The book covers a wide range of topics on Olympism such as the "Institutional...

IOC renews commitment to support M.A. Olympic Studies

The GSU's international part-time Master´s programme M.A. Olympic Studies will continue to receive support by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the years 2024 and 2025.

The 7th edition of the Diagoras journal is out!

The electronic journal Diagoras: International Academic Journal on Olympic Studies aims at stimulating a critical interdisciplinary dialogue on the Olympic and Paralympic Movement. The journal is published through a conjoint arrangement between the New Zealand Centre for Olympic Studies, University of Canterbury; the Olympic...

SportAccord

The SportAccord conference took place in Birmingham between 7-11 April. The conference provided a great platform for our Olympic Studies Centre to make valuable connections and promote the M.A. Olympic Studies Programme. We look forward to strengthening the connections made.

Stephan Wassong met Michael Mronz

Stephan Wassong had the opportunity to meet Michael Mronz (Germany), who has been elected a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at the 141st IOC session in Mumbai (India) on 17th October 2023.

In addition to his Olympic responsibilities, Mr. Mronz is a highly successful sport and sport event manager on the...

Visiting scholar at the Institute of Sport History from Ethiopia

Endale Ayele Balcha is a senior lecturer at Arsi University and a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sport Sciences at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Currently, he is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Sport History.

Endale specializes in researching the sports partnership between the International Olympic Committee and...

Publication: Pierre de Coubertin – Life, Vision, Influences and Achievements of the Founder of the Modern Olympic Games

The IOC Olympic Studies Centre (OSC) published the OSC Reference Document “Pierre de Coubertin – Life, Vision, Influences and Achievements of the Founder of the Modern Olympic Games”.

Prof. Dr. Stephan Wassong, in his role as President of the International Pierre de Coubertin Committee (IPCC), was the main editor of the...

Pyeongchang International Conference for Olympic Studies and Research Centres

The Pyeongchang International Conference for Olympic Studies and Research Centres took place from 27th - 30th November 2023 in Pyeongchang, South Korea. It was organized by the PyeongChang 2018 Legacy foundation in cooperatuion with Pyeongchang County and acknowledged by The IOC Olympic Studies Centre (IOC OSC). It hosted...