Gaming the World: How Sports in Europe and America Reflect the Global and the Local in Similar and Different Ways
Andrei Markovits
| Date: | 03-28-2012 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall, Room 309 |
| Registration: | Registration is Closed. |
Markovits, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan, will discuss how the culture of what he has come to call "hegemonic sports" — meaning those few ball-centered team sports that billions follow around the globe — arose in the 19th century, how it spread during that period best associated with what Markovits calls "the first globalization" and how this construct is in the process of persisting but also transforming in our current time that Markovits associates with the "second globalization". Following his argument delineated in his book Gaming the World: How Sports are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture (Princeton University Press, 2010) — co-authored with Lars Rensmann — Markovits will present this sports culture's immensely enlightening, inclusive, meritocratic and cosmopolitan aspects while at the same time producing some of the ugliest manifestations of counter-cosmopolitanism, racism sexism, and other prejudices of the advanced industrial world.
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Cosponsored with:
Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, Ohio Humanities Council
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