Workshop: ‘Two Olympic Cities: London and Tokyo’

Image: Tokyo National Stadium construction. Source: Japan Sport Council.

Professor Mike Featherstone and Dr Tomoko Tamari were invited to the workshop on ‘Two Olympic Cities: London and Tokyo’ at Tokyo University of the Arts, which was part of the series workshops on Tokyo-London: a Critical Approach towards (Post-) Creative Cities.

This is an international collaboration project since 2013 with the University of Tokyo (Professor Shunya Yoshimi) and the Tokyo University of the Arts (Professor Yoshitaka Mouri). The aim of the research project was to examine the social impacts of the Olympics, focusing on the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics as case studies to generate speculative and productive research avenues for examining the emerging social implications of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

As the project is developing and expanding, with the 2016 Rio Olympics now completed, ICCE’s Mike Featherstone and Tomoko Tamari are currently organizing the three day symposium, ‘London, Rio, Tokyo Olympics’ June 8-10 at Goldsmiths, University of London with Professor Caroline Knowles (Sociology/CUCR) and Dr Angelo Martins Jr (Sociology/CUCR).

Workshop

Two Olympic Cities: London and Tokyo

How do the Olympic Games transform the faces of cities? How should we understand the relations between the Olympics, politics, economy, society and ideology? As a preparatory project for the international symposium ‘London, Rio, Tokyo Olympics’ held in Goldsmiths, University of London on 8-10 June 2017, this workshop focuses on the media archives and the Paralympics through the comparative studies of two Olympic cities; London and Tokyo.

Date: Thursday, April 27, 2017
Time: 13:00-16:00 Venue: Room 5-410, Department of Music, Ueno Campus, Tokyo University of the Arts
Address: 12-8 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo

Speakers

Mike Featherstone [Professor, ICCE, Goldsmiths, University of London]
Tokyo Olympic City Archiving Processes: Exclusions and Possibilities

Shunya Yoshimi [Professor and Vice-President, IIIS, University of Tokyo]
Tokyo Olympics Contrasts: 1964  Development, Militarization and Modernization; 2020 Diversity, Conservation and Sustainability

Hajime Shiraishi [Journalist, Director of OurPlanet-TV – NGO alternative media]
2020 Tokyo Olympic Archiving Project from the perspective and practice of an alternative media NGO

Tomoko Tamari [Lecturer, ICCE, Goldsmiths, University of London]
Star disabled athletes and Reconsidering Paralympism