UBC experts are available to comment on the arrival of the 2010 Winter Games Olympic torch in North America on Friday, Oct. 30.
UBC will join more than 1,000 Canadian communities as part of the Olympic Torch Relay on Feb. 11, 2010.
Arun Mohan
UBC Olympic Studies Research Team, UBC Faculty of Law
Cell: 604.375.3901
Email: arunmohan1@hotmail.com
- History of Olympic torch relay
- Protest history of the event
- Route, logistics and ceremony
- Sponsorship, law and the Olympics
Prof. Ira Nadel
UBC English Department
Tel: 604.822.4254
Cell: 604.512.4867
Email: nadel@interchange.ubc.ca
- Origin of the Olympic torch relay at the 1936 Berlin Games
- At 6 p.m. tonight (Oct. 28), Nadel will deliver a UBC Arts Wednesdays free public lecture on the Olympics, film and propaganda at UBC Robson Square.
Prof. Richard Menkis
UBC Depts. of History and Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies
Tel: 604.822.1374
Email: menkis@interchange.ubc.ca
- Origin of the Olympic torch relay at the 1936 Berlin Games
- Jewish archeologist Alfred Schiff, “forgotten father of the torch relay”
- Menkis co-authored the More Than Just Games: Canada and the 1936 Olympics exhibit, on display at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre until June 18, 2010. www.vhec.org
Find more UBC 2010 experts at: http://bit.ly/UBC2010experts.
Learn about Prof. Nadel’s lecture – Art and Propaganda: The Olympic Films of Leni Riefenstahl – and other upcoming UBC Winter Games Event Series at: http://bit.ly/UBC2010Events.