Starts today @ 5.30pm in the Professor Stuart Hall Building Lecture Theatre LG01

Please find schedule here, this is a free event https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/9e2a76fb-afcc-44f2-9ea6-2753bda68980

London, Rio, Tokyo Olympics Symposium will explore the changes accompanying the 2012 London Olympics, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and the preparations for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

The symposium will focus on existing research and interventions concerning the ways that global events have been accompanied by urban transformations and new forms of social (dis)advantage and exclusions, in different urban/nation-state contexts.

What does the future hold for existing Olympic Cities? Are there ways of holding mega events which bring genuine benefits to cities and their citizens? How might the promises of ‘legacy’ be realised in more open and democratic ways?

Schedule:

Day 01 – Thursday 8th June

5:30 – 6:00pm – Registration Room: PSH LG 01

6:00 – 7:30 – Welcome and Opening: Room: PSH LG 01

7:30-8.30 – Wine Reception + Photo Exhibition Room: Kingsway Corridor

Day 02 – Friday 9th June

9.15 – 3.45 Presentations: RHB 256

4.30 – London Olympic site walking tour with Phil Cohen: Olympic Park – Stratford

Day 03 – Saturday 10th June

10:00-15:30 Olympics Researchers Network Sessions: PSH 305