Tag: olympic studies

This postgraduate and professional course travels backward through history, beginning with the modern Olympics of Paris 2024 and Athens 2004, then “digging down” through the modern Olympic revival of 1896, to arrive at the traditional origin of the Games at Olympia in 776 BCE. It is organised around elements common to the ancient and modern games: ceremonies, athletes, contests, and rewards. We look at the historical and philosophical origins of things like the Olympic flame, the athletes’ oath, and the link to peace.

By placing scholars from various disciplines side-by-side on the common topic of the Olympic Games, JOS (available in both print and electronic format and marketed to a global scholarly audience) aims to promote and encourage a multi-disciplinary understanding of the Olympic Movement. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Fifty Years Legacy: The Sport Venues of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games by Maike Weitzmann & Holger Preuss.

Scholars, researchers, students and professionals interested in the sociocultural study of the modern Olympic and Paralympic Games are invited to submit abstracts for conference presentations. Papers in the areas of history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, political science, cultural studies and sports management. as well as other disciplines that contribute to the cultural understanding of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, are particularly encouraged. Proposals for thematic sessions are also invited.

By placing scholars from various disciplines side-by-side on the common topic of the Olympic Games, JOS (available in both print and electronic format and marketed to a global scholarly audience) aims to promote and encourage a multi-disciplinary understanding of the Olympic Movement. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Environmental Sustainability and the Olympics: Crafting the Future by Jeffrey A. Graham, Anton Schulz, Sylvia Trendafilova.

By placing scholars from various disciplines side-by-side on the common topic of the Olympic Games, JOS (available in both print and electronic format and marketed to a global scholarly audience) aims to promote and encourage a multi-disciplinary understanding of the Olympic Movement. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: A Basketball Height Limit? FIBA, the 1936 Olympics, and the Ruling that Saved the Game by Chad R. Carlson.

The objective of this Special Issue is to stimulate and promote more research investigations in an effort to advance the understanding about the Winter Olympic Games’ bidding, staging, operating, and marketing practices. We encourage the use of diverse theories and methodologies in empirical investigations. Additionally, in an effort to better understand the unique perspectives of the Winter Olympic Games, this Special Issue particularly welcomes studies that reveal differences between the Winter and Summer Olympic Games.

The Athens Journal of Sports (AJSPO) is an Open Access quarterly double blind peer reviewed journal and it considers papers from all areas of sports and related sciences. Many of the papers published in this journal have been presented at the various conferences sponsored by the Sport, Exercise, & Kinesiology Unit of the Athens Institute & the Panhellenic Association of Sports Economists and Managers (PASEM). All papers are subject to the Athens Institute’s Publication Ethical Policy and Statement.

This event, following the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, brings together actors working on local and global scale to consider the future of mega-events. In particular, the debate will focus on some of the challenges associated with contemporary mega-events and why change is necessary. We will then move into a discussion of radical solutions for how they should change in the future – including whether such events should continue to exist at all. Finally, we will discuss the role of civil society in pushing for this change and how we can all contribute to developing more sustainable mega-events.

We are happy to announce the publication of «Olympic and Paralympic Analysis 2024: Mega events, media, and the politics of sport», edited by Daniel Jackson, Alina Bernstein, Michael Butterworth, Younghan Cho, Danielle Sarver Coombs, Michael Devlin, Ana Carolina Vimieiro. Featuring 107 contributors from over 130 leading academics and emerging scholars, this publication captures the immediate thoughts, reflections, and insights from the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games from the cutting edge of academic scholarship.

The Esports Olympic Games will become a reality in 2025. In its quest for rejuvenation, the Olympic Movement seeks new disciplines and the audience that follows and plays them. Now it's official. The Esports Olympic Games are coming, sparking many debates about whether or not it qualifies as a sport or if it should be considered Olympic. It is on this Shakespearean dilemma that a section of Olimpianos. Journal of Olympic Studies will be focused.