Name: Lyndsey Shelton

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Subject Line: In Media Res – Sports & Politics in the U.S.



This week's In Media Res looks at Sports & Politics in the U.S. (4/8/19-4/12/19)

Here is the lineup: http://mediacommons.org/imr/

Monday, April 8, 2019 – Brett Siegel (University of Texas at Austin) presents: "Brand Ambassadors": Cheerleaders, Gendered Labor, and Institutional Crisis in the NFL

Tuesday, April 9, 2019 – Nathan Kalman-Lamb (Duke University) presents: Defamiliarizing Concussions

Wednesday, April 10, 2019 – Dafna Kaufman (Dafna Kaufman) presents: Invisible Man: Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf's Forgotten Protest

Thursday, April 11, 2019 – Guy Harrison (Youngstown State University) presents: How The Treatment of Women Sportscasters Foretold The Rise of Trumpism

Friday, April 12, 2019 – Kathleen Bachynski (NYU Langone Health) presents: Sports, Politics, and the #MeToo Movement

Theme week organized by Dafna Kaufman (Georgia State University).



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