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, London, 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. 

You can find the full programme of the Symposium here.