Wednesday, September 22, 3:00 pm

How are athletes ‘made’ in the world today? How have features of globalization (including global media) changed the way men and women, boys and girls, become athletes?

Do the training grounds for athletes, including universities in the U.S. as well as soccer academies in Europe, Africa, and other countries, provide opportunities for individuals, or are these exploitative? What happens to those who don’t make it?

Listen to the panel audio on iTunesU.

Participants:

Laurent Dubois
Romance Studies and History, Duke University

Kim Krawiec
Duke Law School

Michael Gillespie
Political Science, Duke University

Achille Mbembe
Wits Institute for Social & Economic Research, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Visiting Professor of Roman Studies, Duke University

Moderator:
Wayne Norman
Professor of Ethics in the Kenan Institute for Ethics and Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Part of the Institute’s What is Ethics? seminar on Elevating the Game: A Series on Sport. The series seeks to provide an informal setting for students, academics, and sports enthusiasts to talk about some of the most pressing and interesting issues in sport today.