A well known DPF personality from down under forwarded information on this very interesting conference:
NEW PATHWAYS FOR PRO CYCLING
Building the Future Common Wealth of Cycling.
Conference 27, 28 and 29 September 2010
Deakin University, Waterfront Campus,
Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
Presented by the Alfred Deakin Research Institute and the Deakin University School of Law and School of History, Heritage and Society.
In association with the International Network of Humanistic Doping Research (INHDR).
The Conference Objectives.
The conference will coincide with the World Cycling Championships to be held in Geelong which start on Wednesday 29 September 2010 and continue until the Men’s Road Race on Sunday 3 October 2010.
The purpose of the conference is to bring together cyclists, administrators, academics and others interested in the future direction of professional cycling and the problems the sport faces as changes occur within the process of its globalisation.
Presentations and papers.
The conference will be multidisciplinary in its approach and papers and presentations are invited from cyclists, administrators, social scientists, lawyers, philosophers and scientists on any topic affecting the present and future direction of professional cycling.
Such issues might include and be related to the globalisation of pro cycling, health, science and medicine, ethics and the philosophy of cycling, cycling lore and law, the economics of pro cycling, the politics and logistics of race organisation, and technology and rules development.
The conference will also aim to create a space for break out and policy advocacy sessions bringing together interested stakeholders and experts.
Publication of conference papers is currently being negotiated with appropriate publishers. We would also envisage where appropriate publishing papers online.
The conference will also mark the presentation of the Deakin University Law School’s Research Project “Doping and Australian Professional Cycling: Attitudes, Issues and a Pathway to a New Approach.”
Accommodation and logistics.
For the purpose of conference planning if you are interested in attending the conference or giving a paper at the conference please contact Martin Hardie, School of Law, Deakin University mhardie@deakin.edu.au as soon as possible as we envisage that accommodation will become increasingly difficult to obtain as a result of the World Championships.
Full Version: New Pathways for Professional Cycling
Is the UCI involved in any way? I'm conflicted whether I think they should be, and what to do once there; report on the realities of running an anti-doping program, or just turn up and listen.
Sounds like just another pointless talking shop for academics so that they can increment their published paper count.
I'm frequently invited to such dumb-ins ... as if I would !
If this adds any value, I'll eat my bike.
I'm frequently invited to such dumb-ins ... as if I would !
If this adds any value, I'll eat my bike.
I thought this intro to the co-hosts of the conference, the International Network of Humanistic Doping Research (INHDR) was interesting. I wonder what effect it will have on the conference if their founding statements say the cure may be as bad as the disease.
Not saying they're right or wrong, but even academic conferences can be skewed by the organizers, such as by who is invited, and how summaries are offered. For example, I attended a recent conference on sport sociology in Ottawa, and watched a conference leader, a leading academic, incorrectly summarize the Canadian Sport for Life model and it's effects, getting it pretty much completely backwards. I hope some real anti-doping researchers are going, and it's not just a chorus of whiners on procedure.
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The International Network of Humanistic Doping Research (INHDR) was established in 2002 at the University of Southern Denmark. The intention was to share and encourage research on doping practices in their broadest cultural, social and political dimensions. The idea arose from the observation that the doping phenomenon has been put on the political agenda as a cause for concern without sufficient attention to the nature and complexity of the doping problem. The initiative was taken by scholars who share the opinion that the use of doping techniques poses a threat to the integrity of sport and to athletes’ health, but who also hold the view that initiatives undertaken against those threats that are not based on research and rational reflection may be as harmful to sport, to athletes’ health, and to society at large than the problem such initiatives are meant to solve.
Not saying they're right or wrong, but even academic conferences can be skewed by the organizers, such as by who is invited, and how summaries are offered. For example, I attended a recent conference on sport sociology in Ottawa, and watched a conference leader, a leading academic, incorrectly summarize the Canadian Sport for Life model and it's effects, getting it pretty much completely backwards. I hope some real anti-doping researchers are going, and it's not just a chorus of whiners on procedure.
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Not saying they're right or wrong, but even academic conferences can be skewed by the organizers, such as by who is invited, and how summaries are offered. For example, I attended a recent conference on sport sociology in Ottawa, and watched a conference leader, a leading academic, incorrectly summarize the Canadian Sport for Life model and it's effects, getting it pretty much completely backwards. I hope some real anti-doping researchers are going, and it's not just a chorus of whiners on procedure.
Interested in doing a joint (no pun intended) paper?
It seems to me that on DPF we actually have a wealth of information related to doping that has even been cited in at least one AAF hearing. Thus, a research paper based on, say, PR campaigning - including money raising and political pressure on dubious claims - by active dopers could, for example, be an interesting topic. The impact of doping goes well beyond performance distortion.
That could be extended, for example, to other forms of public (i.e. beyond DPF) doping protest by managers and others. There is a great example right in the US of a popular North American team manager defending the decision to hire a first offender. I may be getting the riders mixed up (since there was more than one... on that team), but said rider is now facing a lifetime ban. And, knowing him personally, yes, he was on something.
Dave.
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