Award-winning researcher, professor and author Andrei Markovits will be speaking today at UNBC on how winter sports fit into the broader sports culture.
Markovits will present a free lecture - titled Winter Sports: Sports Culture in Canada, the United States and Beyond -at UNBC room 5-183 at noon today.
He is a professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and author of books including Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States, Gaming the World: How Sports are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture, and Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism.
While most sports that have created large global cultures that extend beyond the playing surface -such as soccer, football and baseball -are spring, summer and fall sports, hockey is an exception among winter sports.
Markovits will discuss how and why a few winter sports have proliferated around the world, as well as discuss the shifts in the cultural sports landscape being seen today.
In addition to his research on sports and sports culture, Markovits is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of comparative politics and German studies at the University of Michigan.
