New publication: Olympic humanitarianism – the fundamental principles of Olympism
The Journal of Olympic History recently features on the cover of its latest number my article “Olympic humanitarianism: the fundamental principles of Olympism”. While I have published shorter articles on the same topic before in Culture @ the Olympics and Sportanddev.org this is the article that contains the research that informed them. This article, […]
You can now find my PhD thesis in the British Library collection of electronic theses. Below is the abstract of my thesis: The Olympic Games is a mechanism through which numerous advocacy and political groups compete to frame the media coverage that it generates. These processes are restricted by the relatively fixed guidelines imposed upon […]
Third Sector Skills: Visual Communication @ BU’s Festival of Learning
The 13th of June in Bournemouth University’s calendar of theFestival of Learning was dedicated to visual communication. Aimed mainly at people working within the third sector the workshop which my colleague Anna Feigenbaum and I ran challenged participants to think about creating images that stick on a shoestring budget. To make the challenge more […]
10+ Free Online Slideshow Resources for Lecturers and Communicators
I have delivered many conference presentations and guest lectures in the past, illness enough to realize that if one can have a slideshow with a twist (not the traditional click through powerpoint) half of the job of capturing the attention of the audience is done (of course, hepatitis this still requires a good presentation concept […]
There were two Olympism sessions at the ISDPA Power of Sport Summit touching mainly on two major topics: youth (as in the Youth Olympic Games and Olympic Education) and Human Rights (as in the Charter as a human rights promotion mechanism and one on the Olympic Truce). To them Dr Mary Hums’ presentation on a […]
The Twitter Olympics? I’d say the digital social activist Olympics.
Just days before the Games were ready to begin talks online were already debating the future of the Olympics and their relationship with the online, viagra approved social media. Many have asserted then that these Winter Games will mark the history of the Olympics by being the first where Twitter, buy as a micro-blogging platform […]
On February 19th, adiposity together with my supervisor Andy Miah and my PhD colleague Jennifer Jones, thumb I have attended the 3rd International Sport Business Symposium organized by UBC and the Johannes Guttenberg University of Mainz.  The symposium brought olympic academics, IOC members and sports practitioners in the same room enabling a fruitful conversation after each […]
On Friday, there December 11, I delivered a lecture to Alan McCusker-Thompson‘s 3rd year students undertaking a BA in Commercial Music at UWS in Ayr. The module in which this lecture was included focuses on Popular Culture and Music. My talk therefore had to show how the internet and Web 2.0 in particular has enabled, through open […]
Last week I was in Coventry, gynecologist UK, to present a paper at Play the Game 2009, one of the biggest communication conferences on sport and society, now at its 6th edition. It was a busy conference with many speakers coming from a very wide range of fields and institutions, starting from sports journalism up […]
Byron Peacock, a friend of mine and master’s student at the Graduate Institute of International and Development studies in Geneva gave me this in reaction to Mr Verbruggen intervention and speech earlier this morning. I am inserting here, without any changes, his comment and question. I have to say though, that due to Mr. Verburuggen’s […]
Two keynote addresses and three presentations scheduled, click one of which being introduced the last minute. The session starts with Hein Verbruggen, pharmacy President of the General Association of International Sports Federations and former Chairman of the Coordination of the Coordination Commission of the Beijing Olympic Games. He started speaking about legacy part of the […]
These days the Czech Centre Bucharest with the help of volunteers and in partnership with One World Prague are organizing in Bucharest, ailment Romania a film festival showcasing more than 40 documentaries from 20 countries. The festival is centered around some thematical programs including globalization in actions, viagra 60mg quest of identity, health care dictatorships […]
I found this ad today after jumping from one blog to another. It is the first of four such ads that TWBAChina and Stink created for Adidas and the 2008 Olympic Games. You can find here and here two slightly different versions of the same concept which heavily emphasizes the support of the great/ numerous Chinese people. Interesting! Â
The readings for the human rights and the Olympics piece are becoming more interesting every day. It might be because the acumulation of knowlegde lead to the creation of a bigger and understandable picture but might also be because the more I read, cystitis the more questions arise and the more challenges come with them. Nevertheless, hemorrhoids […]
The readings for the human rights and the Olympics piece are becoming more interesting every day. It might be because the acumulation of knowlegde lead to the creation of a bigger and understandable picture but might also be because the more I read, the more questions arise and the more challenges come with them. Nevertheless, […]
I have met Dr. Miah two weeks ago and he made me a very tempting and challenging offer: to work with him on an article about the Beijing Olympics, no rx China’s human rights issues and the way one impacts the other. I have already started reading several articles on the topic and realized that […]
Every emblem of the Olympics tells a story. For example, one health the one of the Beijing Olympics represents Beijing’s hospitality and hopes. It is also said that in its dancing (for the emblem is called “Chinese Seal, Dancing Beijing) carries the city’s commitment to the world. Creating an emblem that should satisfy all, and […]
