Chicago Seminar on Sport & Culture

The following comes from Steve Riess at Northeastern Illinois University; his contact information is at the end:

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CHICAGO SEMINAR ON SPORT AND CULTURE

SPONSORED BY NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AND THE

NEWBERRY LIBRARY

2008-2009 SCHEDULE

We are pleased to invite you to the Chicago Seminar on Sport and Culture at the Newberry Library, co-sponsored by Northeastern Illinois University and North Central College. All sessions begin at 3:30 PM. The lectures are open to the public at no charge. The Newberry Library is located at 60 W. Walton, Chicago, IL.

Sept. 19, 2008

“A Battle Between Men”: Boxing and Race Relations between African Americans and Spanish speakers before the Second World War

Brian D. Bunk,
Dept. of History,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Oct. 17, 2008

Modern Diana: Women and the Making of Sport Hunting, 1870-1920

Andrea Smalley, Ph.D
Instructor
Dept. of History
Northern Illinois University

Nov. 14, 2008

The Borders of Free Agency: Dominican Athletes in the Baseball World, 1975-2006

Daniel Gilbert
Ph.d Candidate
Dept. of History
Yale University

Dec. 5, 2008

Leutwiler’s Indian: Creating “Indian” Tradition at the University of Illinois.

Jennifer Guiliano
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of History
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

April 3, 2009

Body by Weimar: Athletes, Gender, and German Modernity

Erik Jensen
Dept. of History
Miami of Ohio University

May 8, 2009

Governing Baseball: A History of the Relationship between Government and Major League Baseball

Christopher W. Schmidt
Visiting Scholar
American Bar Foundation
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
Chicago-Kent College of Law

For further information, contact Steve Riess at 773 442 5631 or s-riess@neiu.edu.