2nd Carolina Seminar on Russia and Its Empires, East and West

Red Sport, Red Tape: Sports Bureaucracy, the Olympic Games, and Political Practices in the Soviet Union, 1952-1980

Time: Wednesday, December 10, at 5:30 p.m.
Location: UNC FedEx Global Education Center, room 4003

Please join us at the next Carolina Seminar on “Russia and Its Empires, East and West.” We will meet Wednesday, December 10, at 5:30 p.m. in the UNC FedEx Global Education Center, room 4003. (directions follow at the bottom)

Our presenter will be Jenifer Parks, a PhD candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill. Under the direction of Donald J. Raleigh, she is currently finishing her dissertation, “Red Sport, Red Tape: Sports Bureaucracy, the Olympic Games, and Political Practices in the Soviet Union, 1952-1980.” Research for her dissertation was funded by a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program grant (2006-2007), a grant from the Olympic Studies Centre Postgraduate Researcher Grant Programme, International Olympic Committee, (September 2006), a Mowry Dissertation Fellowship from the History Department, and a Doctoral Travel Grant from the University Center for International Studies.

Please contact Sandi Payne Greene at <payne@email.unc.edu> for a copy of the paper.

Directions to the FedEx Global Education Center from Franklin Street coming from the east:

Turn LEFT onto S. Columbia St. from Franklin St. Follow the road through a couple of lights, it will force you to go right at the intersection by the Carolina Inn, and then take a LEFT turn onto Pittsboro St. You will pass the Carolina Inn on your left. At the next light, you will see the building in front of you.  It is next door to the School of Social Work and behind the Pharmacy School. There is free parking after 5pm in the lot below the building, with entrance on McCauley Street.
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