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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.

This symposium brings together academics, activists and artists from a range of disciplines to discuss the relationship between feminism, queer and neoliberalism. We will consider how feminism and queer have resisted neoliberalism, and how feminism and queer have been complicit with it, but we also want to go beyond that conventional binary framing and engage with the many complexities of that dynamic relationship. The symposium will feature panels on feminism as a brand/commodity, on feminism within/against neoliberalism in international development and social movements, and on activism and art.

This event is free and open to all, but participants must book in advance. You can book .

If you have any questions, please email Maria do Mar Pereira on m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk.

The venue is wheelchair accessible with accessible toilets nearby. If you face other access barriers or require more detailed accessibility information, please let us know (by emailing Maria do Mar Pereira on m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk or calling Amy Burdis on 02476524771) so we can support your full participation.

This symposium is organised by the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, and the 鈥淚nequalities and Social Change鈥� Research Cluster in the Department of Sociology, University of 糖心TV.