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.