Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events

30th November and 1st December 2012

Winterbourne House, University of Birmingham

Programme Day 1

TIME / ACTIVITY / SPEAKER
09.30 / Registration and Refreshments
10.00 / Welcome
Malcolm Press
Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Birmingham
10.15 / Keynote Lecture: On Leveraging and Legacies
Laurence Chalip (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US)
10.45 / Coffee
11.15 / Panel 1:States Strategies using Sport Mega-Events
  • David Black (Dalhousie University, Canada): Canada’s sports mega strategy
  • Donna Lee (University of Birmingham): ‘ Emerging’ states and sport ‘megas’
  • Joe Maguire (Loughborough): FIFA 2010 and South Africa
Panel Chair: Jonathan Grix, University of Birmingham
12.45 / Buffet Lunch - Winterbourne
13.45 / Keynote Lecture: Wolfram Manzenreiter (University of Vienna): The ‘legacies’ of Beijing
14.15 / Panel 2:Sports Mega-Events and their Legacies
  • Bob Stewart (Victoria University, Australia): Australian ‘legacies’ 2000 & 2006
  • Jon Coaffee (University of Birmingham): The Securitisation of the Olympic Games as a ‘legacy’?
  • Alan Bairner (Loughborough University): Assessing the Seoul Olympics
Panel Chair: Mike Weed (Canterbury Christ Church University)
15.45 / Refreshments
16.00 / Keynote Lecture: South Africa’s ‘coming out party’
Scarlett Cornelissen (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
16.30 / Panel 3: Lessons from London, 2012?
  • Larissa Davies (Sheffield Hallam) The London Olympics and the urban regeneration ‘legacy’
  • John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson (University of Brighton): The Neo-liberalisation of the Olympic Games as a Legacy?
  • Mike Weed (Canterbury Christ Church University): Inspiring a Generation?
Panel Chair: John Horne (University of Central Lancashire)
18.00 / Drinks Reception - End of day 1
19.00 / Conference Dinner, Horton Grange

Programme Day 2: BRAZIL

TIME / ACTIVITY / SPEAKER
9.30 / Registration and Refreshments
10.00 / Welcome:
Brazilian Ambassador in the UK
10.15 / Keynote Lecture: Brazil as a ‘rising’ power
Richard Batley, University of Birmingham
10.45 / Coffee
11.15 / Panel 1: Brazil on Show - what 2014 and 2016 Mean for this ‘Emerging State’
Panel Chair: Marco Vieira
  • Rio 2016 member: Sports ‘Megas’ and Brazil – stakeholders
  • Podium 2012 (Tom Marsh): The Experience of 2012 for the UK
  • Ana Sulzbach Ce (Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul State – PUCRS, Brazil): Urban regeneration
  • Katia Rubio (Sao Paulo University, Brazil): Olympic sports institutions and the athletes

12.45 / Buffet Lunch, Winterbourne
14.00 / Panel 2: The Impact of Brazil’s Sports ‘Megas’ on Education, Gender and Participation?
Panel Chair: David Kirk (University of Bedfordshire)
  • Tbc: The impact of Sports ‘megas’ on Education
  • Otavio Tavares (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil): Olympic education
  • Ana Maria Miragaya (Estacio de Sa University, Brazil): Brazilian women and the Olympics
  • Luciano Castro (Catholic University of Rio Grande do SulState– PUCRS, Brazil): Health benefits of sports ‘megas’

15.30 / Refreshments
16.00 / Roundtable: Looking forward: what are the key ‘levers’ to achieving legacy?
Panel Chair: Laurence Chalip
  • UK Sport/Sport England
  • Luis Antonio Paulino, Football National Secretary, Ministry of Sports (Brazil)
  • Mike Weed (CanterburyChristChurchUniversity)
  • Alan Bairner (Loughborough)
  • Xin Xin (University of Westminster)

17.30 / Drinks Reception
18.30 / End of the event

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