Agenda for Day One

9.30-10.15 Registration
10.15 Opening and Welcome: Richard Palmer CBE (the British Olympic Foundation)
10.30 The rationale and aims of the Colloquium: Professor Ian Henry (Centre for Olympic Studies and Research, Loughborough University)
10.45 – 11.30 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Jim Parry, Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University, Prague ‘Olympic Research – The State of Play’
11.30 – 12.00 ‘The IOC Olympic Studies Centre & IOC Related Research – Plans and Prospects’, by Maria Bogner (Head of the IOC Olympic Studies Centre) & Nuria Puig (Head of University Relations, IOC Olympic Studies Centre)
12.00 Lunch 
13.30 - 15.15 Centre Presentations - Theme : Research on Olympism and Olympic Educations
1. Pedagogy – a new discipline of research and teaching at Olympic Study Centres?
Roland Naul, Director of the Willibald Gebhardt Research Institute and Professor for sport science and sport pedagogy at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
2. Research Initiatives in Olympic Education at the New Zealand Centre for Olympic Studies
Associate Professor Ian Culpan, New Zealand Centre for Olympic Studies, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
3. The New Olympic Education initiative in Japan
Ms Akiyo MIYAZAKI, Centre for Olympic Research & Education (CORE), University of Tsukuba
Mr Toshiyuki OKEYA, Centre for Olympic Research & Education (CORE)/ Jigoro Kano Memorial Int’l Sport Institute
Prof. Hisashi SANADA, Director, Centre for Olympic Research & Education, University of Tsukuba
4. Educating Copacabana: a critical analysis of the ‘Second Half’, an Olympic Education Program of Rio 2016
Jorge Knijnik School of Education, University of Western Sydney (Australia);
Prof. Otávio Tavares, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo – Brasil, ARETE - Centre for Olympic Studies

15.15-15.45 Coffee and tea break
15.45 – 17.15 Centre Presentations - Theme: Youth, Olympism and the Olympics
5. The Innsbruck 2012 Youth Olympic Games Laboratory for Youth and Innovation
Martin Schnitzer , Youth Olympic Games Laboratory for Youth & Innovation (YOGINN 2012), Department of Sport Science, University of Innsbruck

6. The IOC Youth Strategy
Maria Bogner, Head of the IOC Olympic Studies Centre

7. Olympism in the Ivy League -- Olympism and Development Center at Brown University
Eli A. Wolff, Brown University , Cesar Torres, SUNY-Brockport , Ted Fay, SUNY-Cortland, Mary A. Hums, University of Louisville

17.15 - 18.45 Plenary Session – What should be the role of Olympic Studies Centres?
Chair: Ian Henry, COS&R
This session (which will incorporate only one presentation) is principally dedicated to an open discussion of how the system of Olympic Studies Centres might be developed in ways which would enhance the quality of research and education in this field, promote ethically progressive programmes in these fields which would address the needs of the Olympic Movement and increase impact.

8. Proposed Research Directions for the Russian International Olympic University, Sochi
Professor Lev Belousov, Dimitri Bosschman, Russian International Olympic University

18.45 - 19.30 Drinks Reception, Networking and Poster Session* 
19.30 Conference Dinner 

*Poster Session
i. French Centre for Olympic Studies: Aims and Perspectives
Dr. Yoan Grosset, Dr. Arnaud Richard, Dr. Nicolas Chanavat, Dr. Yohan Blondel Centre d’Études Olympiques Français.

ii. The Development of Research on the Olympics and Youth
Speaker from the Jigoro Kano Memorial International Sport Institute, Tokyo, Japan

iii. Olympic Education as Liberal Arts Education in Taiwan
Fang-Lan Hsu, Graduate Institute of International Sport Affairs, National Taiwan Sport University (NTSU)

iv. Olympic Education in Australia: A Focus on the Victorian Olympic Council: “A Grass Roots Approach”
Richard Baka (Ph.D.), Institute for Sport, Exercise and Active Living and the School of Sport & Exercise Science, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia, & Associate of Australian Centre for Olympic Studies Centre & Janet Cahill, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australian Centre for Olympic Studies Centre (Associate)
v. An Analysis of Students’ Awareness of Olympic Movement at National Taiwan Sport University
Fang-Lan Hsu and Kong-Ting Yeh, Centre for Olympic Studies, National Taiwan Sport University (NTSU), Taoyuan, TW
vi. Motivation and Resistance toward a Multicultural Experience: Comparing the 2008 Olympic Equestrian Event and 2012 Rugby Sevens in Hong Kong
Glos Ho, The Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
vii. Meta-evaluation of the Sporting Legacy of the London 2012 Games
Ian Henry & Shushu Chen, Centre for Olympic Studies & Research, Loughborough University
viii. An analysis of the Distribution of Olympic Solidarity Funding
Marie-Therese Zammit, Centre for Olympic Studies & Research, Loughborough University

Delegates can register to attend by visiting the Colloquium of OSCS website.