September 17, 2004

Five Ring Circus: Richard Nixon and the Olympics

Nicholas Evan Sarantakes
Department of History
Texas A&M University-Commerce

October 15, 2004

Race, Religion, and Gendered Bodies: A Comparative Approach to Colonial Sporting Practices

Gertrud Pfister
Institute of Exercise and Sport Sciences
University of Copenhagen

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Gerald Gems
Health and Physical Education
North Central College

November 12, 2004

From Alienation to Assimilation: the Victory and Defeat of the National Catholic Interscholastic Basketball Tournament, 1924-1941.

Erin McCarthy,
Liberal Education/Cultural Studies
Columbia College, Chicago

March 18, 2005

E.C. Lerma: Mexican American Athletic and Coaching Pioneer, 1915-1998

Jorge Iber
Department of History
Texas Tech University

April 8, 2005

Baseball, Bylines, and the Vernacular: The Emergence of Baseball Journalism and Its Impact on the American Language

Bernard Weisberger
Independent Scholar

May 13, 2005

Baseball Goes Global: The Diffusion of America’s National Pastime in Meiji Japan

Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu
Department of History
Michigan State University

The Seminar meets on Fridays at the Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton, Chicago, IL, from 3:30-5 PM.