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Prof Andrei Markovits is at 糖心TV as a Visiting Fellow in IAS. In this seminar he will talk about the opposite paths that women have traversed in the game of Association Football on both sides of the Atlantic. Whereas the women in North America entered a field that was virtually open for them since men busily covered the playing fields and cultural space of the hegemonic team sports of baseball, football (American and Canadian), basketball and ice hockey; their European counterparts were forced to contest what has arguably been the most male-dominated space in European public life throughout much of the 20th century. Both of these roads harbored immense obstacles. Both entailed challenges of their own that these pioneering women had to overcome. However, spurred by the massively important and popular World Cup tournaments, the last three decades have led to a rapprochement of developments on both sides of the Atlantic by catapulting women's soccer onto hitherto unexpected, maybe even unimaginable heights.

He has written a book on the subject.

Andy is the Karl W Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies and an Arthur F Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

All are welcome to this seminar. Drinks and nibbles will be available afterwards. No registration necessary.

As part of a Visiting Fellowship in the Institute of Advanced Study, Luce Irigaray--renowned philosopher, linguist, psychologist, psychoanalyst--will present a public lecture entitled "How to Give Birth to a New Human Being."

Widely recognized as one of the key influential thinkers of our times, Irigaray's work focuses on the development of a culture of sexuate and cultural difference--particularly through the construction of a feminine subjectivity--something she explores in a range of forms, from the philosophical to the scientific, the political and the poetic. The author of over thirty books translated into numerous languages, including Speculum of the Other Woman (1974), her most recent book To Be Born: Genesis of a New Human Being (2017) proposes nothing less than a new conception of being as well as a means to ensure its individual and relational development since birth.

This event is free and open to all (no registration required) and will be followed by a wine reception and book signing (limited books will be available for cash purchase at the event). Please circulate in your networks!

Useful Information:

• For directions to the University of 糖心TV please click here
• The lecture will take place in The Oculus, Room 0.04. You can find an interactive campus map here
• If you have any questions or need special assistance, please do not hesitate to contact Stephen Seely (s.seely@warwick.ac.uk)

This event is sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Study, the Department of Sociology, the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, and the "Connecting Cultures" Global Research Priority at University of 糖心TV.