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Centre for Visual Cultures Lecture: Professor Mike O’Mahony

Mike O’Mahony on the 1964 Tokyo Olympics

  • Date 16 Jun 2021
  • Time 5-6.30pm
  • Category Lecture

Professor Mike O’Mahony (University of Bristol) will give a lecture that is a must for film and sports fans, entitled ‘Viewing Figures: Sport, Spectatorship and the Tokyo Olympics of 1964’.

With the delayed Olympic Games due finally to take place in the absence of spectators in Tokyo this summer, the Centre for Visual Cultures is delighted to present this timely lecture by Mike O’Mahony, Professor of the History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of Bristol.

Mike is an authority on the visual representation of sport, and will take us back to the Tokyo Olympics of 1964. He will focus on the question of spectatorship in connection with Kon Ichikawa’s lyrical film documenting the 1964 Games, Tokyo Olympiad. The lecture will be introduced and chaired by Dr Jon Hughes of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.

Tokyo Olympiad can be streamed for free online via the official website of the IOC: https://olympics.com/en/original-series/episode/tokyo-1964-official-film

This will be an online event via Microsoft Teams. Please book through the CVC Eventbrite page or email the organiser.  

Event organised by Dr Jon Hughes. 

If you have questions about the event or accessibility, please email: centreforvisualcultures@rhul.ac.uk.

Find out more about our events and research at Royal Holloway on our Centre for Visual Cultures web pages.

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Image shows Daphne Arden, Dorothy Hyman, Willye White, Edith McGuire, Halina Górecka, Ewa Kłobukowska in the women’s 4 x 100 metres relay final at the Tokyo Olympics,1964.

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