The Playing Field: When Sports Go Global
Andrés Martinez and Paul Poast discuss how sports are crossing borders, attracting new audiences, and reflecting broader global trends.
Apr
21
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About This Event
For much of the past century, American sport was a world unto itself, with its own leagues, its own rules, and its own audiences. That appears to be changing. US investors are buying European football clubs, American leagues are playing games abroad, and with the FIFA World Cup arriving in North America this summer, sport has become a window into how American influence travels. What does sport reveal about how America engages with the rest of the world and how the world engages with America? What does it mean for teams, leagues, and fans when the game goes global? Join Andrés Martinez and Paul Poast as they discuss how global trends are transforming sports and what it means for the future.
About the Speakers
Special Advisor and Professor of Practice, Office of University Affairs; Co-Director, The Great Game Lab, Arizona State University
Andrés Martinez is a special advisor to Arizona State University President Michael Crow and a professor of practice at the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is also the co-director of The Great Game Lab, which explores how the US connects to the rest of the world through sport.
Senior Nonresident Fellow, Foreign Policy and Public Opinion
Paul Poast is an associate professor of political science at the University of Chicago. In addition to being a senior nonresident fellow on foreign policy and public opinion at the Council, he's also a foreign affairs columnist for World Politics Review. His research, funded by the National Science Foundation, has received numerous awards and recognitions—notably the Walter Isard Award and the Lepgold Prize.