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
*This paper will be available to attendees upon request on Sept. 10.
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
Steve Riess
Gerry Gems,
Co-Chairs, The Chicago Seminar on Sport and Culture.
For further information, contact Steve Riess at 773 442 5631 or s-riess@neiu.edu.
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