In the Shadow of the Spectacle: Security Legacies in the Olympic City

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Thursday, March 20th, 2014
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM

Ready for a fresh take on the Olympics? This City Talk reflects on the evolution of security in the Olympic city from Munich 1972 to Sochi 2014. Adam Molnar, postdoctoral fellow at Queen�s University, will shed light on where 20 to 50 percent of host city spending now goes. Molnar�s talk, titled �In the Shadow of the Spectacle: Security Legacies in the Olympic City� will be an intriguing end to our series on Security and the City.

Enhancements in urban policing, practices of technological surveillance, civilian-military integration, and widespread intelligence operations have become standard security practices during major Olympic events. Given the dramatic scale of security and policing operations in the Olympic city, Molnar will also discuss how such security transformations contribute to a host of post-event security legacies. This talk draws out both the local and global dimensions to what�s at stake for security authorities as well as more marginalized populations in the Olympic city.