2010 Exposure & Discussion

As the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games approaches, UBC is encouraging people to ask provocative questions about what the Olympics and Paralympics means to our society, and what will the impact be on the community and country at large.

The following speaker series offers a diverse mix of scholars and athletes and will explore the upcoming mega-event through a variety of lens, such as gender, diversity, ethics, science and sustainability. All events are open and free to the public.

Even Mascots engage in meta-analysis! (2010 Winter Olympic mascots the work of Vancouver-based Vicki Wong and Michael Murphy of Meomi Design.

School of Human Kinetics Seminar Series

• December 17, 2009 – 12:30pm
  Dr. Matt Fedoruk (Manager, Anti-Doping Operations, VANOC)
  Vancouver 2010: A state-of-the-art anti-doping program
  
• January 21, 2010 – 12:30pm
  Dr. Rob Vanwynsberghe (School of Human Kinetics, UBC)
  Olympic Games Impact Research
  
• February 4, 2010 -12:30pm
  Dr. Patricia Vertinsky (School of Human Kinetics, UBC)
  Ski Jumping Women
  
• March 4, 2010 – 12:30pm
  Dr. Jim Rupert (School of Human Kinetics, UBC)
  Genetics in Sport: Detection, Correction, Perfection
  
• April 15, 2010 – 12:30pm
  Dr. Jean Harvey (School of Human Kinetics, UBC)
  The Olympics, Globalization and New Social Movements

Ethics and the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games: Dismissing the Dis in Disability.

• December 3, 2009 – 7pm
  Liu Centre for Global Issues, Multi Purpose Room – 6476 Northwest Marine Drive
  
  Panelists:
  Dr. Andrei Krassioukov, MD, Ph.D
  Clinical Associate Director, ICORD
  Department of Medicine, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, UBC
  
  Dr. Gary Birch, O.C. Ph.D, P.Eng
  Officer of the Order of Canada
  Executive Director, Neil Squire Society
  Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UBC
  
  Ms. Peggy Assinck
  Masters Candidate, Department of Neuroscience, UBC
  Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Trainee, CIHR
  Captain, Women’s Ice Sledge Hockey Team, Canada

Joan Carlisle Irving Lecture Series: IM/Perfect Bodies

• March 8, 2010 – Time TBA
  UBC Robson Square
  Barbara Evans, Olympian and UBC Dean of Graduate Studies
  The Aesthetics of Performance

2009-2010 Ziegler Visiting Speaker Series

• January 14, 2010, 4pm
  Bozena Karwowska (University of British Columbia)
  Poland and the 1936 Winter Olympics