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4th International Athletes Forum
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Wassong, Chair of the Institute of Sports History and Director of the Olympic Studies Center, was invited as keynote speaker to the 4th International Session for Olympic Medalists or Olympians by the International Olympic Academy (IOA) in Olympia. The session, which ran from July 2nd to July 8th 2018,...
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Olympic Day 2018 – Involvement of the Olympic Studies Centre Cologne
The Olympic Day marks the foundation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on 23 June 1894. The IOC annually calls all stakeholders of the Olympic Movement to celebrate the Olympic values on this day. In Germany, the German Olympic Academy (DOA) organises the Olympic Day activities and in 2018 cooperates with the Olympic...
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Keynote at Wingate College, Israel
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Wassong was invited as keynote speaker at an international conference on sport and Olympic studies organized by and hosted at the Wingate College in Israel from 7th – 10th June 2018. Prof. Wassong lectured on the objectives of the IOC`s Athletes Commission from a historical and contemporary perspective....
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Liverpool Hope University Revisited
Liverpool Hope University, at which Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Wassong was employed as Associate Professor from 2007 to 2009, organized an international conference from 13th to 20th June 2018. The congress was entitled The Big Hope 2. Young Leaders Congress. It was a reedition of The Big Hope 1 which was organized in 2008 when...
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2018 Annual Convention of the North American Society for Sport History
OSC Cologne staff member Dr. Jörg Krieger was a speaker at the 2018 Annual Convention of the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) in Winnipeg, Manitoba on May 25-28, 2018. The Conference took place at the Fort Garry Hotel and was attended by almost 200 sport history experts and sports scholars from around the world....
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Olympic Chair Henri de Baillet Latour & Jacques Rogge
Professor Stephan Wassong has been invited as Visiting Professor to the endowed Olympic Chair Henri Baillet Latour & Jacques Rogge at the Université Catholique de Louvain. This guest professorship is awarded annually to an internationally recognised scholar within the field of the Olympic Movement. During his stay at the...
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4th On-site Module Week of the M.A. Olympic Studies Intake 5
From 11 – 17 March 2018, the 5th intake of the M.A. Olympic Studies came together for the 4th time to undertake the module week Governance, Policy and Olympic Organisations. Led by the M.A.’s partner university, Loughborough University, U.K., the team of Dr. David Howe, Dr. Borja Garcia and Dr. Jamie Kenyon travelled to the...
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Commencement of the M.A. Olympic Studies Intake 6
From 25 February – 3 March 2018, the Olympic Studies Centre (OSC) of the German Sport University Cologne (GSU) played host to the first module week of the 6th intake of the M.A. Olympic Studies. The week began with an opening ceremony which brought together the 25 new participants, coming from 22 different countries, alongside...
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Prof. Dr. Stephan Wassong: President of the International Pierre de Coubertin Committee
Professor Wassong has been elected President of the International Pierre de Coubertin Committee (CIPC) on 20th January 2018 in Lausanne. The CIPC, which is an officially recognized organization of the IOC, was founded in 1975 and since then has continuously developed its profile in the areas of Olympic Education and research on...
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Commission Week of the IOC
The members of the 26 Commissions of the IOC met during the week of 5th to 12th November, 2017 in Lausanne. Prof. Dr. Stephan Wassong represented the Olympic Studies Centre (OSC) of the German Sport University Cologne (GSU) as member of the Olympic Education Commission. Together with Prof. Zintz from the Université catholique...
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