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On demand streaming
On demand streaming from the conference is now available as video or audio. Videos are streamed via the Danish Broadcast Corporation (DR). More links will be added as videos/audios from more sessions are made available.
More links will be added as videos/audios from more sessions are made available.
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Monday 28 October 2013
13.30-15.00: Opening session: Stepping up for democracy in sport
Video on demand:
- Mario Čižmek - Why I became a match-fixer
- Jens Sejer Andersen
- Morten Løkkegaard
- Arnout Geeraert
- Mario Čižmek
- Johs. Poulsen - Words of welcome
- Marc Perera Christensen - Welcome to Aarhus
- Morten Løkkegaard - The EU Parliament moves against match-fixing
- Arnout Geeraert - Sports Governance Observer: Testing the state of governance in international sport
- Mario Čižmek - Why I became a match-fixer
15.30-18.00: Anti-Doping in Crisis: Are there alternatives to testing?
Video on demand:
- Richard W. Pound - Drug Testing: Why What Should Work Does Not Work
- William Bock - What the Armstrong Case says about the condition of sport
Video of the full session by DR (NB: starts at 1:31:30 in recording)
- Richard W. Pound - Drug Testing: Why What Should Work Does Not Work
- William Bock - What the Armstrong Case says about the condition of sport
- Frédéric Donzé - New Strategies in the Fight against Doping
- Herman Ram - Diversifying, targeting, investigating and cooperating: anti-doping after US Postal
- Perikles Simon - Loopholes in the testing system
- Walter Palmer - Athletes' perspective on the ineffectiveness of testing
19.30-21.30: Match-fixing diagnosis: To the roots of the threat
Video of the full session by DR (starts at 00:03:00 in the recording)
- Chris Eaton - How Betting Fraud Initiates and Funds Match Fixing
- Chris Rasmussen - The size of the global gambling market and the efforts to monitor it
- Wil van Megen - On the FIFPro Black Book and organized crime
- Drago Kos - A life-long career in the fight against corruption in sport
- Dale Sheehan - Combatting Match-Fixing / INTERPOL perspective
21.30: Play the Game award 2013
Video of the award ceremony by DR (NB: starts at 01:51:30 in the recording)
- Jens Sejer Andersen
- Søren Riiskjær
- Award winner Richard W. Pound
Tuesday 29 October 2013
09.00-11.20: Match-fixing cure: Is the mafia invincible?
- Niels-Christian Levin Hansen - NOC and Sports Confederation of Denmark adopts strong regulations against match-fixing
- Nick Garlick - How match fixers operate and what the police can do
- Richard H. McLaren - Match fixing and the sports law
- Harri Syväsalmi - European convention - Global impact
Video by DR - Part II (NB: starts at 00:04:10 in the recording)
- Declan Hill - The Red Flags of Bullshit in the Anti-Match-Fixing Industry
- Panel discussion (including Drago Kos)
11.30-13.00: Action for Good Governance in International Sports Organisations
- Introduction - Arnout Geeraert
- Frank van Eekeren - Transparency: how much openess is needed for good governance
- Michael Groll - Less is more? Checks and balances in sport organisations
- Arnout Geeraert - Sports Governance Observer: A tool to improve sports governance
11.30-13.00: Nordic Sports Law Conference (I)
- Lars Halgreen / Jens Evald - Welcome and introduction to Nordic Sports Law Conference
- Richard H. McLaren - Is Sport Losing Its Integrity?
- Nick Garlick - Match-fixing and organised crime
- Lars Halgreen / Jens Evald - Match Fixing etc. and the Lack of Harmonized Standards of Proof and Sanctions
11.30-13.00: Rethink sports participation: Catching up with new trends in organised sport
Video by DR of the full session (NB: starts at 00:07:20 in the recording)
- Troels Rasmussen - DGI lab - how to absorb new trends and participation patterns in organised sport
- Martin Borch - Changing the beaten track: Development projects of the Danish NOC and sports confederation
- Inge Claringbould /Marjet Derks - "Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing". Ideals of winning in amateur (youth) sport in the Netherlands
- Keld Bordinggaard - Let'em play! How new paradigmes created an impressive increase in Danish youth football
- Ditte Toft - Sport for the elderly. The teenagers of the future
14.15-16.00: Anti-doping: Saving sport, sacrificing athletes?
- Gerhard Treutlein - How the West answered to the East German doping practice: The Freiburg example
- Nils Zurawski - Doping, Sports and Control: An athletes' view
- Daniel Westmattelmann / Marcel Goelden - The Fight against Doping - An Agent-based Analysis
- Herman Ram - Harmony in diversity: Challenges in governing a world-wide antidoping fight
- Leviathen Hendricks - The limits of testing: The evolution of the Gay Games' anti-doping policy
- Lassi Jyrkkiö - Doping and Diving Aren’t Two sides of the Same Coin – The Need for a New Compartmentalization on Sports Cheating
14.15-16.00: Rethink sports architecture and spaces for physical activity
- Jens-Ole Jensen - Can architecture in sports facilities promote democratic formation among children?
- Remco Hoekman - Sport participation and the role of sport facilities
- Laura Munch - Iconic architecture for grass-root sport. How to inspire to new patterns of participation
- Peter Forsberg - The hidden treasures of sports facilities
- Jens Alm - Elite sports stadium requirements - views from Danish municipalities
14.15-16.00: Governance in sport: The good, the bad and the nasty
Video by DR of the full session
- Bonita Mersiades - Playing the Game: Australia's Bid to Host the World Cup
- Tim Walters - The Last World Cup?: Slavoj Žižek and the (Im)Possibility of Democratic Reform of FIFA
- Tolga Senel - Turkish football: Protected by laws, ruled by politics
- Bastien Wallace - Is integrity 'optional'
- Deborah Unger - Playing by the rules: applying international anti-corruption standards to sport
- Daniel Chung - Football can make you a President. The case of Horacio Cartes
14.15-16.00: Combating match-fixing in Nordic sport
- Mads Boesen - The NOC and Sports Confederation of Denmark´s new regulations against match-fixing – from a legal perspective
- Morten Johnsen - The Norwegian National Action Plan against Match-fixing in Sport
- Petri Heikkinen - Finnish Rules and Measures to Combat Match Fixing
16.30-18.15: Rethink sports investment: Who are we building for?
- Henrik H. Brandt - Sport and facilities: Building for the chosen few?
- Jörg Joppien - Building bodies: How architects can make the world move more
- Bo Vestergård Madsen - Rethinking sports facilities and architecture
- Rasmus B. Andersen - Activity as generator of urban quality and urban life
Wednesday 30 October 2013
09.00-11.20: FIFA reforms - fact or phantom?
Video by DR - Part I (DR website)
and on youtube.com (starts at 00:03:15)
- Osasu Obayiuwana - Football governance the African way
- Roger Pielke Jr. - An Evaluation of the FIFA Reform Process
- Mark Pieth - FIFA reforms: End of story or work in progress?
- Walter de Gregorio - "And yet it moves"
Video by DR - Part II (starts at 00:03:15)
- Panel discussion
11.30-13.00: Mega-events and lost legacies
Video by DR of the full session
- Søren Bang - The globalisation of sporting events: Myth or reality?
- Harry Arne Solberg - Hosting major sporting events: The challenge of utilizing stadiums after the party is over
- Trish Audit /Eamonn Molloy - The Rocky Road to Legacy: Lessons from the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Stadium Programme
- Francisco Pinheiro - Euro 2004: success, white elephant’s and other ideas
- Jan Haut - The Meaning of Medals: A Study on Social Costs and Benefits of National Sporting Success
11.30-13.00: Europe on the run I: Who can catch the runners?
- Jeroen Scheerder - The running landscape of Europe. Why is running growing so fast?
- Hanna Vehmas - Running in Finland – from the elite to the masses, from the clubs to the market
- Mette Lykke - Endomondo: Taking a virtual fitness club from zero to 20,000,000 members
- Peter Forsberg - Is time running out for clubs?
11.30-13.00: Sports media research - Beyond the International Sports Press Survey 2011
- Thomas Horky /Jörg-Uwe Nieland - International Sports Press Survey 2011 - an overview
- Tatiane Hilgemberg- 500 days to the 2014 World Cup –What is in the Brazilian media agenda?
- Ditte Toft - Sports journalism in the sporting landscape: Blind spots of journalists
- Peter English - Sports journalism ethics in broadsheet newspaper organisations in India, Australia and the UK
14.15-16.00: Four EU projects on sports governance share results and experiences
- Arnout Geeraert - Good governance in international sports: what can the EU do?
- Mathias van Baelen - Sport 4 Good Governance (S4G²)
- Mogens Kirkeby - Good governance in grass-root sport
- Mikkel Larsen - Better Boards, Stronger Sport
- Ben Shave - Improving Football Governance through Supporter Involvement and Community Ownership
- Michael Mrkonjic - Switzerland and International Sports Organisations
14.15-16.00: Mega-events, legislation and legacy
Video by DR of the full session (NB: starts at 00:11:15 in the recording)
- Karolina Tetlak - Legal legacy of the Olympic Games – an emerging issue
- Carolina Cézar Ribeiro - The impact of the 2014 World Cup on Brazilian law
- Ryan Gauthier - Hosting Sporting Mega-Events in the BRICS - Labour Law Concerns
- Stephen Frawley - Sport Legacy and the Hosting of Mega-Sport Events
- Gorana Gavrilov - Managing Sports Event Volunteers
14.15-16.00: Match-fixing: Stories from around the world
- Gamze Bal - Turkish Match Fixing Scandal in 2010-2011 and Beyond: Fair Play or Fairy Tale?
- Kevin Carpenter - Match-Fixing and the Olympic Movement
- Salomeja Zaksaite - Match-fixing: Criminalisation vs. the Ultima Ratio Principle
- Katarina Pijetlovic - The Kafkaesque Enforcement of a Uniform Tennis Anti-Corruption Programme
- Deborah Unger - Staying on Side: anti-corruption + sports organisations working to prevent match-fixing through education
- Karen Jones - WANTED! Reward for Injury: Bounty Scheme in the NFL as a form of Match-Fixing?
14.15-16.00: Europe on the run II: The front runners of mass sport events
- Peter Brix - The world's toughest October Fest. Behind the scenes of a "men's only" cross country race
- Jakob Larsen - We can all be heroes: How the IAAF realised the potential of mass sports events
- Finn Lyck - The benefits and challenges of mass sport events from a host city perspective
- Szilvia Perenyi - Running in Hungary
- Leonidas Petridis - Mass running in Greece: A new trend from ancient times?
16.30-18.15: Sports participation: A lost cause for sports organisations?
- Koen Breedveld - Sporting events and sportparticipation: a realistic view
- Yves le Lostecque - The Erasmus+ programme and the future sports priorities of the EU
- Hanne Vandermeerschen - Towards level playing fields? A time trend analysis of the social stratification of club organised sports participation among adolescents from 1989 to 2009
- Guy Osborn/ Steve Greenfield - Law’s contribution to Youth Sport: Over Regulating and Undermining Participation?
- Trygve Buch Laub - The trickle-down effect revisited: Who find elite sport inspirational?
- Eduardo Uhle - Move Brasil: Mega-events as a leverage for increasing sports participation
16.30-18.15: Sochi 2014: Winter games with a political touch
Video by DR of the full session (NB: Starts at 00:04:10 in the recording)
- Andreas Selliaas - The Geopolitics of the Olympics
- Alexey Konov - A global alliance against corruption in sport
- Dmitry Tugarin - Positively Proud: Managing Media Expectations in an Olympic Host Nation
- Jean-Paul Marthoz - Mega-events and media restrictions
19.30-21.30: Sports reform: How to change the tone at the top?
Video by DR of the full session
- Jens Sejer Andersen - A farce turned into tragedy? On Mario Goijman, Ruben Acosta and the FIVB
- Christer Ahl - The Despotic Regime of the IHF Just Continues
- Grit Hartmann - The weightlifter's burden - the curious case of IWF's vanished billions
- Jaimie Fuller - Why corporate sponsors should engage in sports governance
- Finn Baagøe Hansen - Siemens Compliance System – Track Record and Challenges
- Yves le Lostecque - The efforts of the European Union in the field of sports governance
- Richard H. McLaren - The remit of CAS in sports governance
Thursday 31 October 2013
09.00-11.20: Mega-events and democracy: The Brazilian challenge
Video on demand:
- Andrew Jennings - Who wants to go to Qatar? Hands up!
- Saint-Clair Milesi - FIFA World Cup in Brazil: Legacy, myths and (mis)perceptions
- Brenno d'Aguiar de Souza - The challenges of hosting major sports events: The case of Brazil
- Katia Rubio - Brazilian sport through the athletes' lens
- Andrew Jennings - Who wants to go to Qatar in 2022? Hands up!
11.30-13.00: ICSSPE partner session: Managing conflicting agendas - profit, participation or performance?
- Koen Breedveld - Comparative Sport Policy Research – Approaches and Concepts
- Karen Petry - The Role of Governmental Actors in the Sport-political Infrastructure
- James Dorsey - Regions and Cultures - Sport Policies and Systems in the Middle East
- James Dorsey - Regions and Cultures - Sport Policies and Systems in the Middle East
- Ben Weinberg - The Role of International Sport Governing Bodies – The Case of the Asian Football Confederation
- Margaret Talbot - Holistic sport policies - must, mirage or myth?
11.30-13.00: Social media - how do they change sport?
- Thomas Horky - Social Media Agenda Setting in Sport. The thematisation of German sports in Social Media during the Olympic Games 2012
- Roy Panagiotopoulou - Social media usage in Beijing and Sochi Olympic Games: a delicate balance between power and communication imperatives
- Christoph Grimmer - Media usage patterns in professional football. How members inform themselves about their club
- Joerg-Uwe Nieland - Sexualization or empowerment? - A study on the self-presentation of tennis players and Arab athletes in the Social Web
- Steve Menary - Facebook Fakers, LinkedIn liars and twaddle on Twitter: Football scammers on social media
11.30-13.00: Mega-events and discrimination
Video by DR of the full session (NB: Starts at 00:07:50 in recording)
- Osasu Obayiuwana - Fighting racism in FIFA
- Javier Szlifman - The tension between sport’s mega-events and every day sport violence in Latin America
- Leviathen Hendricks - A Pride House at the Olympics: How some people play
- Elizaveta Zhuk - Racism in Russian Football: A Challenge to the World Cup 2018
Global sports governance, challenges and alternatives
- John Nauright - Making the World Safe for Capitalism: A Critique of Global Sport and Development
- Peter Donnelly - The Democratization of Athletes: What if athletes determined who governed their sports?
- Poul Broberg - Global Sports Political Power Index - how much international influence does Danish sport have?
- Benjamin Bendrich - The Doom Loop of Intercollegiate Athletics and Its Parallels to the IOC and FIFA
- Michael Mrkonjic- Manageable Sports Governance: the Case of Swiss Based European Sports Federations
14.15-16.00: Brazil 2014 and 2016: Power games or people's games?
Video by DR of the full session
- Christopher Gaffney - “Não vai ter Copa”: Brazilians vs. Brazil 2014
- Dennis Pauschinger - Brazilian Public Security for whom? Cultural Implications of the Global Security Models at the World Cup 2014
- Elizabeth Martin - Killing for you: How Brazil is preparing for the World Cup and the Olympics
- Kimberly S. Schimmel - Extending the Reach of US Counter-Terrorism Policy Through Sport Mega-Events
14.15-16.00: Sport as a development factor
- Bonita Mersiades - Playing in the Main Game
- Pamela Boteler - Is it Really A New Era for Women’s Sport? The International Canoe Federation's Dirty Little Secret
- Dawood Hashem - Gender policy and organizational change in Disability Sport in UAE
- Nova Alexander - Cold hard facts: Physical activity as a tool for crime and poverty alleviation in the Caribbean
- Kurt Wachter - Setting up the rules of the Game: North-South partnerships in Sport for Development. The case of Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA)
- David Hindley - On the Piste: the challenges facing the voluntary sport of petanque in the United Kingdom
- Charlie Raeburn - Community (and School Sport) in Scotland - a misunderstood lost cause?
- Panel discussion
16.30-18.30: Global outlook: Who holds the keys to the future of sport?
Video by DR of the full session
- Jens Weinreich - Money, Power and Marionettes: The shift of Olympic Power
- James M. Dorsey - Challenges of Asia and the Middle East
- Margaret Talbot - The challenges of Physical Education and Science
- Niels Nygaard - The challenges seen from a NOC perspective