Documenting the Beijing Olympics Conference

Date: 12 September 2008 Time: All Day

Finishes: 13 September 2008 Time: All Day

Venue: SOAS Russell Square: College Buildings Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre

This conference, scheduled to take place within weeks of the Olympics, aims to bring together academics, film-makers and writers from the all over the world to have the one of the most immediate discussions of the 2008 Olympics. Alongside the immediate, the conference will also attempt to locate the Beijing Games within Olympic history and to explore the challenges that lie ahead for the movement before the Games move to London in 2012...more