I have recently returned from MediAsia 2012, an annual conference dedicated to media studies, held every year in Osaka, Japan. Organized by IAFOR, one of Asia’s think tanks, the conference gathered more than 120 participants from over 20 countries in the world, many of them from North America, Asia and Europe. The keynote, offered this […]
“The Best Games Ever”: a review of Olympic closing ceremony remarks since the 1980s
I was asked in the summer to write a short article for the Newsletter of the International Olympic Academy Participants Association reflecting on my experience of the London 2012 Olympics. Keeping in mind the skeptical enthusiasm displayed before the Games in the UK and also remembering my experience of the Beijing Games, phthisiatrician I […]
On the 16th of February, pulmonologist my PhD Colleague Jennifer Jones and I were invited in our quality of staff writers of Culture @ the Olympics to join an International Journalism Panel on CKNW News Talk Radio here in Vancouver  discussing how journalists from across the world are covering the Olympics.We joined Jill Bennett and […]
