Tag: cultural olympiad

• Abandon Normal Devices 29th August – 2nd September

  

  I’ll be speaking at a salon event at this festival of new cinema, digital culture and art on Saturday 1st September.  Also speaking will be Jennifer M Jones, the coordinator for #media2012, a national-wide citizen media network for London 2012.  We’re contributing to Salon #3 ‘Too big to fail?’, a debate on the costs of […]

  James Kennell

  August 10, 2012

  2012, art, conferences, olympics

  2012, conferences, cultural olympiad, cultural regeneration, olympics

• Blogging for the Metro Newspaper on the 2012 Olympics

  

  Over the next few months, I’m going to be blogging for the Metro Newspaper about the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London.  I’m going to concentrate on the non-sporting aspects of the Olympics, as I’m no sporting expert, and I’ll have a focus on issues surrounding the impacts of the Games, economically, socially and […]

  James Kennell

  May 28, 2012

  2012, cultural regeneration, economic development, events management, London, olympics, politics, regeneration, Tourism

  2012, cultural olympiad, cultural regeneration, events management, legacy, regeneration, Tourism

• Event: The tourism legacy of the 2012 Olympic Park – 8th December 2011

  

  I’ll be giving a talk at the University of Greenwich on 8th December 2011, on the tourism legacy of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London.  The talk will be part of an Olympic Park Legacy Company event that we’re hosting at Greenwich and also speaking will be Clive Little, the new Director of […]

  James Kennell

  August 10, 2011

  2012, conferences, cultural regeneration, economic development, London, olympics, Tourism

  2012, conference, cultural olympiad, cultural regeneration, cultural tourism, legacy, olympics, presentations, Tourism

• New publication on Olympic legacies

  Along with two colleagues, Elizabeth Booth and Charles Bladen, I have edited a collection of papers from our Olympic Legacy conference held last year at the University of Greenwich. The collection contains seven substantial, refereed papers on Olympic legacy issues, including information about London 2012, Beijing 2008, Torino 2006, the Cultural Olympiad, volunteering and an […]

  James Kennell

  November 12, 2009

  conferences, olympics, publications

  2012, Beijing 2008, conference, cultural olympiad, legacy, olympics

• Cultural Olympiad review published

  An article that I have written with a colleague has just been published in the journal Cultural Trends.  You can view the article’s abstract by clicking here.  You will need the appropriate permissions to read the full text.   The article is based on a review of more than 50 documents from the grey literature relating […]

  James Kennell

  March 2, 2009

  cultural regeneration, olympics, publications, regeneration, Social Justice, Tourism

  2012, cultural olympiad, cultural regeneration, olympics

• Conferences update

  You can view all the presentations from the 2008 ITSA conference in Shanghai, including mine, by going to this web page.  The theme of the conference was ‘Globalisation, mega events and urban tourism’ and there are a wealth of useful case studies, theoretical perspectives and non-western viewpoints on tourism and events available to download as powerpoint […]

  James Kennell

  December 17, 2008

  conferences, olympics, publications, regeneration, seaside, Tourism

  aalborg, cultural olympiad, itsa, olympics, regeneration, seaside, shanghai, Tourism

• Memetics and the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

  You can download the full paper that we gave at the ITSA conference in Shanghai by clicking here.   You can also view our presentation below:

  James Kennell

  November 16, 2008

  olympics, regeneration, Tourism

  2012, conference, cultural olympiad, memetics, olympics, paper, shanghai, Tourism

• Memetics and the Cultural Olympiad

  I will be giving a paper at the 2nd ITSA bi-annual conference on “Globalisation, mega-events and tourism”, 6-9th November in Shanghai.  The paper is the latest output from the research I have been carrying out with a colleague, Nikki MacLeod, into the Cultural Olympiad of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.  In this paper, we […]

  James Kennell

  October 21, 2008

  olympics, Theory, Tourism

  2012, conference, cultural olympiad, memetics, olympics, shanghai

• A memetic understanding of the Cultural Olympaid for the 2012 games

  This presentation explains some research that a colleague and I are carrying out into the Cultural Olympiad being planned for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games.  It contains some brief notes on a memetic framework we are developing as a way of engaging with the Cultural Olympiad as an evolving system with a heritage and a future […]

  James Kennell

  May 20, 2008

  olympics, regeneration, Theory, Tourism

  2012, cultural olympiad, memetics, olympics