Symposium: “Sport Development and Olympic Studies – Past, Present, Future”

The Olympic Studies Centre of the German Sport University Cologne (GSU) in collaboration with the Institute of European Sport Development and Leisure Studies is honored to host the symposium “Sport Development and Olympic Studies – Past, Present, Future” on 10 July 2017. This academic gathering is the latest in a long line of successful initiatives which have transpired from the tripartite relationship between the GSU, the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. Further progressing the now approaching eight year collaboration (established November 2009), the symposium aims to strengthen the ties between the three partnering universities and stimulate future research activities in the multidisciplinary field of the socio-cultural study of sport. One way by which this aim has already been addressed is that of the event’s contents. The symposium’s nine contributing lecturers are to present on the first results of their current research on the above theme; with the completed findings to be published in 2018 in a Special Issue in the internationally recognized scientific journal, The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Time Line :
09:00 Prof. Dr. Dr. Stefan Schneider (Vice President, German Sport University Cologne)
Official Welcome

09:15 Prof. Dr. Stephan Wassong (German Sport University Cologne)
Introduction to the Symposium and the Speakers

Presentations Part I, chaired by Prof. Dr. Stephan Wassong

09:30 Associate Professor Rob Hess (Victoria University Melbourne)
New Insights from Old Archives: The Avery Brundage Collection and the 1956 Melbourne Olympics

10:00 Dr. Jörg Krieger (German Sport University Cologne)
‘Run the World’: The Sport Aid Initiative between Development Aid and Commerce

10:30 Dr. Karen Petry (German Sport University Cologne)
Sport for Development: The Role of the UN and the IOC in an Emerging Field

11:00 Dr. Richard Baka  (Victoria University Melbourne)
Melbourne’s Olympic Legacy: Past, Present and Future

11:30 Prof. Dr. Jürgen Mittag  (German Sport University Cologne)
Towards a Common Understanding of Sport Development? Trends, Offers, and Constraints

12:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session (Seminar Room Central Library)

13:00 Dr. Gerard King (Head of International Office, German Sport University Cologne)
Official Welcome

Presentations Part II, chaired by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Mittag

13:15 Prof. Dr. Michael Heine  (University of Western Ontario)
Civic and Olympic Spaces at the 2010 Winter Games: A Political Topology of Contestations

13:45 Prof. Dr. Stephan Wassong  (German Sport University Cologne)
The IOC’s Athletes Commission: Its Foundation, Change of Structure and Development of Responsibilities

14:15 Dr. Ansgar Molzberger  (German Sport University Cologne)
An International Paradigm for a Sport University? The German Sport University Cologne’s Institutional Consultant Activity after World War II

14:45 Dr. Till Müller-Schoell  (German Sport University Cologne)
The Diversity of National Sport Development Institutions

15:15 Prof. Dr. Stephan Wassong  (German Sport University Cologne)
Closing Remarks

18:00 Barbecue at the Coaching Academy of the GSU