American Sports Culture in Comparative Perspective: Yet Another American Exceptionalism

Type: 
Lecture
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Building: 
Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Room: 
Gellner room
Monday, October 25, 2004 - 6:00pm
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Date: 
Monday, October 25, 2004 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm

The lecture was organized by the Nationalism Studies Program and the CPS Anti-Americanism Program

Andrei Markovits is Professor of Politics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author and editor of many books, scholarly articles, conference papers, book reviews and newspaper contributions in English and many foreign languages on topics as varied as German and Austrian politics, anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, social democracy, social movements, the European right and the European left. He has also worked extensively on comparative sports culture and American sports. One of Markovits's publications is Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism (2001).