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3:30 - 5:00 pm 3/5/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 300 -
3:00 pm 3/24/2024Spurlock Museum of World Cultures - 600 Gregory St., UrbanaSwami Tyagananda will be presenting a public lecture at Spurlock, “Learning from Rāmāyana.”
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12:00 pm 3/28/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210Undergraduates of any major are invited to this informal lunch talk with Pulitzer Prize-winner David Maraniss (New York Times bestselling author and associate editor at The Washington Post). Lunch provided!
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7:30 pm 3/28/2024Alice Campbell Alumni CenterJoin us for an evening with Pulitzer Prize-winner David Maraniss as he delivers his keynote talk, “Lombardi, Clemente, and Thorpe: Illuminating American History Through Sports.” A book signing will follow. This talk is part of the symposium Sporting Publics: History, Sports, and American Culture, which is taking place March 28–29, 2024.
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9:30 am 3/29/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210Runstedtler’s presentation draws on her 2023 book Black Ball, exploring how African American basketball players challenged the status quo on the court and in US society. Part of the symposium Sporting Publics: History, Sports, and American Culture, which is taking place March 28–29, 2024.
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11:00 am 3/29/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210Professor Louis Moore will present on his book I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, 1880-1915 and Daniel Nasset (Editor-in-Chief, University of Illinois Press) will share the editor’s perspective on working with Moore to turn his idea into a book that speaks to sporting publics.
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1:30 pm 3/29/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210Frank Guridy (History, Columbia University) will be presenting, with Augustus Wood (Labor and Employment Relations) commenting. Guridy will preview part of his forthcoming book The Stadium, which examines the intersections of activism, sport stadiums, and political change. Part of the symposium Sporting Publics: History, Sports, and American Culture...
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3:00 pm 3/29/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210Shakeia Taylor is a Chicago-based award-winning writer and storyteller, whose work focuses on the intersection of sports, history, and culture.
