The Chicago Seminar on
Sport and Culture
Co-sponsored by Northeastern Illinois University and the Dr. Wm. M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture
Seminars are held Fridays from 3:30–5:00 PM at the Newberry Library,
60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois.
All sessions are free and open to the public
2008-2009
September 19, 2008—“A Battle Between Men”: Boxing and Race Relations between African Americans and Spanish speakers before the Second World War
Brian D. Bunk, University of Massachusetts
October 17, 2008— Modern Diana: Women and the Making of Sport Hunting, 1870–1920
Andrea Smalley, Northern Illinois University
November 14, 2008— The Borders of Free Agency: Dominican Athletes in the Baseball World, 1975–2006
Daniel Gilbert, Yale University
December 5, 2008— Leutwiler’s Indian: Creating “Indian” Tradition
Jennifer Guiliano, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
April 3, 2009— Body by Weimar: Athletes, Gender, and German Modernity
Erik Jensen, Miami University of Ohio
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 more information, please contact the Scholl Center at scholl[at]newberry.org or 312-255-3524.