People, Place, Enterprise http://olympiclegacy.wordpress.com A blog to accompany a series of annual conferences on the legacy of the 2012 Olympic and Parlympic games Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:24:22 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/5537adb7f95ea89691298a7ba8931bcc?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png People, Place, Enterprise http://olympiclegacy.wordpress.com 2009 conference http://olympiclegacy.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/2009-conference/ http://olympiclegacy.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/2009-conference/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:38:39 +0000 James Kennell http://olympiclegacy.wordpress.com/?p=38 ]]>

The 2009 event on the legacy of the 2012 Olympics will be held at the University of Greenwich on June 5th, 6th and 7th.   Keynote speakers and a provisional programme will be posted on here over the coming months.

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Professor Graeme Evans’ presentation, given on Friday 9th May

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Alex Homfray’s presentation, given on Friday 9th May

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Dr Beatriz Garcia’s presentation, given on Friday 9th May

 

]]> http://olympiclegacy.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/the-creative-legacy-of-the-olympics-beatriz-garcia/feed/ 1 jameskennell New media legacies for 2012 – Andy Miah http://olympiclegacy.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/new-media-legacies-for-2012-andy-miah/ http://olympiclegacy.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/new-media-legacies-for-2012-andy-miah/#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 10:07:36 +0000 James Kennell http://olympiclegacy.wordpress.com/?p=33 ]]>

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Click on the photo to go to a flickr album of photos from the conference

James Kennell, Gareth Smith, Maggie Gold and Kerry Brown

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Click here to view/download the keynote presentation “Leveraging Olympic tourism” by Professor Mike Weed.

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You can download / view slides from the ’learning from experience’ presentation session on Thursday 8th May by following the links below:

Alessandro ‘Chito’ Guala – “Monitoring public opinion: A serendipity effect of the Torino Winter Olympic Games 2006″

Piervincezo Bondinio & Alfredo Mela – “Which legacies of Torino 2006 for the Olympic movement and local society?”

Pedro Moeira – “A mega event inside the great wall of China: Expectations and possible impacts of the Beijing 2008 games”

Peter Vlachos – “The Big Owe: Politics and financial management in the 1976 Montreal games”

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Click here to download the presentation by Councillor Chris Roberts, Leader of Greenwich Council on “the legacy for Greenwich”, given at the conference on Friday 9th May.

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Click here to view / download  Professor John Gold and Maggie Gold’s presentation ‘Riding the Mexican wave: deciphering the meaning of Olympic legacy’, given on the first day of the conference last week.

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