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THE CHICAGO SEMINAR ON SPORT AND CULTURE
Schedule of Presenters 2007-2008
• October 26, 2007
"Mexican Cockfighting, Working .Class Masculinity, and Culture."
Jerry Garcia, Michigan State University
For a copy of this paper, please contact Steven Riess.
• November 16, 2007
"'Marvel of Fleetness and Grace': Paavo Nurmi and his 1925 American Exhibition Tour."
Daniel Nathan, Skidmore College
• March 7, 2008
"Tales of Class and Character: Caspar Whitney and the Policing of Amateurism and Sportsmanship, 1888-1913."
Tara Kathleen Kelly, Mayers Fellow, Huntington Library
• April 11, 2008
"The National Bowling Association and Black Bowlers in Southern California."
L'Tonya Rease Miles, UCLA
May 16, 2008
"Dear Mr. Atlas': The Construction of the Masculine Self through the Bodybuilding Autobiography and Letter Writing, 1899-1945."
Dominique Padurano, The Horace Mann School
• June 6, 2008
"Technologies of Gender & Active Female Physicality."
Jaime Schultz, University of Maryland
For more information, contact:
Steven A. Riess Gerald R, Gems Jenny Butler
Northeastern Illinois University North Central CollegeNewberry Library
773/442 5631 630/637-5502 312/255-3524
s-riess@neiu.edu grgems@noctrl.edu butlerj@newberry.org
The seminar meets at the Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton, Chicago, from 3:30-5 PM. The sessions are free and open to the public.
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