Stephan Wassong, Director of the MA Olympic Studies Programme, participated in the IOC Olympic Education Commission Meeting on November 29th. A member of the commission for the past 10 years, Prof. Wa
Marloes Ekkelboom, doctoral student at the Institute of Sport History, took part in the renowned annual conference of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport from October 30 to November
We are happy to share that Tim Sperber has successfully completed his PhD at the German Sport University. His dissertation, titled „Climate Change and the Olympic Movement: Exploring, Explaining and C
We are happy to share that Hilla Davidov, a past participant of the M.A. in Olympic Studies, has successfully completed her PhD at the German Sport University. Her dissertation, "The Bridge Between Pr
The 8th international Sport and Discrimination Conference examines the intersectional nature of discrimination in sport. This one-day event, 13 June 2025, at German Sport University, Cologne, Germany
From 5–8 October 2025, Marloes Ekkelboom, research associate and PhD candidate at the Institute for Sport History, participated in the Play the Game Conference in Tampere, Finland. The conference brin
On Sunday, September 28, 2025, the Olympic Studies Centre at the German Sport University Cologne (DSHS) hosted a special dual event: the graduation ceremony for graduates of the M.A. in Olympic Studie
From 3 to 5 November 2025 the IOC organised and hosted the IOC Fit for the Future Consultation Commission Event at the Olympic House. It has been a remarkable and constructive initiative which encoura
Our institute is pleased to announce, in collaboration with several co-editors from the Olympic Studies Centre at the DSHS and the Swiss Federal Institute of Sport in Magglingen, the publication of a
We warmly welcome Alina Kulüke and are delighted to have her join our institute as a new staff member. As a project researcher on the “ReLePro – Diversity in School Sports” project, she will be conduc