Register now for the remaining two webinars in the Institute for the Transformation of Sport’s inaugural spring lecture series. Free and open to the public, the sessions are part of the institute’s launch in the University of Kentucky College of Education Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotion.
From 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 29, join Mary G. McDonald, Ph.D., the Homer C. Rice Chair in Sports and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of History and Sociology, and Matthew Hodler, Ph.D., assistant professor of sports media and communication at the University of Rhode Island, as they discuss whiteness, gender, and media in U.S. sport culture. Register to receive a confirmation email with a link to the webinar.
From noon to 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, join Marta N. Mack, Ph.D., lecturer of sport leadership in the UK College of Education Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotion, and Nik Dickerson, Ph.D., lecturer in sport sociology at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, as they discuss their work on the topics of intersections of media, Black masculinities, and cannabis in sport as well as the Black press’ representations of Black baseball’s only woman owner in the mid-twentieth century. Register to receive a confirmation email with a link to the webinar.