Launch of the monthly CEO&GS webinar

Prof. Patrick Clastres (Lausanne university) is pleased to announce the launch of the monthly CEO&GS webinar, Building bridges within and outside the history of sport for the academic year 2022-2023.

8 conferences will be offered from October 2022 to May 2023: you can find out about them via the attached programme which will be completed. During each session, a guest speaker, who has recently completed a PhD thesis on the history of sport, will present his/her doctoral research for approximately 45 minutes. Each seminar runs from 16:30 to 18:30 (Zurich UTC+1) entirely in English via a zoom link so that researchers from around the world can follow the seminar. Every webinar will be the subject of a presentation of the thesis (45mn), the intervention of a discussant (15mn) and a question and answer session (45mn).

Thesis supervisors and new PhDs in sport history are invited to contact us to be included in our next webinar programme.

For more information, please contact Raphaël Benbouhou : raphael.benbouhou@unil.ch

Webinar CEO&GS – Andreas Praher, “Austrian Skiing in National Socialism” – 6th webinar 11 May 2022

Dear colleagues,

The Centre for Olympic Studies & the Globalisation of Sport of the University of Lausanne and its director Prof. Patrick Clastres are pleased to invite you to the sixth session of the webinar Building bridges within and outside the history of sport which will take place on Wednesday 11 May 2022, from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm.

The guest speaker will be Andreas Praher, PhD in Contemporary History at the University of Salzburg (Austria) and Research Associate in History at University of Linz (Austria). He will present his doctoral thesis in 2019 Austrian skiing in national socialism. Adaption-persecution-collaboration. Andreas Praher’s discussant will be Christof Thöny, teacher of religion and history at the federal high school in Bludenz and archivist of the city of Bludenz (Austria)

To follow the webinar, please register with raphael.benbouhou@unil.ch.

A Zoom link with the access code will be provided to follow the conference.

Honorary doctorate Tommie Smith & John Carlos, Leuven

KU Leuven will give an honorary doctorate to Tommie Smith & John Carlos on Thursday 23 June 2022.
Please welcome at this event, as announced hereunder the ceremony will be live-streamed (5 pm CEST).

People who register for the live-stream will receive a personal confirmation including entrance link and practical details.


You can find information and register here : 

 https://faber.kuleuven.be/eng/honorary-doctorate 

or view the web version

https://www.kuleuven.be/apps/mailtemplates/previews/25083-622f405001959.html