Please also view the school's seminars page.

Upcoming Conferences

• Sport, Race and Ethnicity: Building a Global Understanding, 30 Nov - 2 Dec 2008.

• 5th World Conference on Women and Sport, will be held in Sydney in 2010.

Past Conferences

• CAUTHE: Tourism - Past Achievements, Future Challenges, 11-14 February, 2007

• NSW Olympic Academy - The Olympic Brand: Is marketing reshaping traditional Olympic values?, 12 October, 2006 

• Third International Event Management Conference, 13-15 July 2005

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Upcoming Conferences

Sport has long been a paradoxical environment with respect to issues of 'race', indigeneity, ethnicity, and social diversity. For much of the 20th century sports around the world were enclaves of difference. Whites and non-whites, for example, were separated on the sports field as they were, in many ways, off the field. Today sport is much more inclusive, with athletic ability of greater importance than skin colour or ancestry. Yet enmity and antagonism still appear in sport via instances of racial vilification or hostility between some ethnic groups. Other problems include the relative absence of minorities from positions of power and influence in sport, as well as folkloric assumptions about athletic ability based upon stereotypes about 'race' or ancestry. The Sport, Race and Ethnicity Conference provides a forum within which to engage the sport industry, journalists and academics in proactive discussion about issues of diversity, equity and capacity in the colourful world of global sport. For further details, please see http://www.business.uts.edu.au/lst/sre/. Inquiries to the Conference Chair, Associate Professor Daryl Adair, can be made via SRE2008@uts.edu.au or by phone on (02) 99514 5498.

Held every four years, the conference attracts a wide range of key international decision makers in sport including members of the UN, IOC, National Olympic Committees, International Sport Federations as well as senior government officials, academics and athletes from around the globe.  The Sydney 2010 World Conference follows those  held in Brighton, U.K. (1994); Windhoek, Namibia (1998), Montreal, Canada (2002) and Kumamoto, Japan (2006).

Co-Chair of the IWG and Director Human Movement Studies and Sport Management at UTS, Johanna Adriaanse, said "This is a conference of immense significance for anyone involved or interested in girls and women in sport.  It provides an opportunity for world leaders to come together to focus on international developments in women and sport and to exchange information.”

The World Conference in Sydney will offer a unique opportunity for participants to share experiences, strengthen international connections and find ways to stimulate action at local, national and international levels.

At UTS Kuring-gai campus, ACOS hosted the NSW Olympic Academy under the title: The Olympic Brand: Is marketing reshaping traditional Olympic values? (PDF 31KB)

Third International Event Management Conference Organised by ACEM (Australian Centre for Event Managment). Conference Proceedings and Keynote Presentations available. Held at the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building - Harris Street, Ultimo.