Join us for this talk featuring visiting speaker Laurent Dubois, an author and professor at University of Virginia. Soccer presents us with a unique opportunity to engage in a global language while simultaneously serving as a potent symbol of local and national community. Through a comprehensive examination of soccer’s historical trajectory, this discourse explores how the sport both reflects the complexities of our contemporary world and provides us with glimpses of alternative possibilities grounded in mutual respect and solidarity transcending borders and boundaries. There will be time for questions following the talk. 

This event is sponsored by the KU Department of African and African-American Studies, the Kansas African Studies Center and the Lawrence Public Library.