CONFERENCE: 8th International Symposium for Olympic Research

The International Centre for Olympic Studies at the University of Western
Ontario, in London, Canada announces its 8th International Symposium for
Olympic Research to be held on the Western campus from Thursday evening, 19
October through Saturday, 21 October 2006. This is a call to all scholars
interested in presenting a research paper at the symposium on sociocultural
Olympic themes, to submit an abstract of their study.

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15 May 2006.

Please send submissions to Robert K. Barney, Interim Director of ICOS, School of Kinesiology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A-3K7, and/or by email to , and/or by FAX--519-661-4148.

Notification of those submissions accepted for presentation will be rendered by 15 June 2006.

A fully completed and final text of those submissions accepted for
presentation must be in the hands of the Symposium organizers by no later
than 1 September 2006. The fully refereed and edited Proceedings of the
Symposium, entitled "Cultural Imperialism in Action---Critiques of the
Global Olympic Trust: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium for
Olympic Research" will be available to participants upon arrival at the
Symposium.

This notice is also an advance announcement that ICOS's 9th
symposium will be held in 2008 in Beijing during the week preceding the
opening of the Games of the 29th Olympiad.