PHE's next workshop, "Sports as American History: Urban Development and Race Relations," is just in time for the Super Bowl. While you may talk with your colleagues around the water cooler about "last night's game," you can also use the game to start a conversation with your students.
This workshop will broaden our understanding of sports in the United States history and culture. Why is it that some cities lose their professional sports teams and other cities acquire them? Dr. Roger Lotchin of UNC's History Department will show us how urban rivalry, urban development, and urban decline can be shown by the development of professional sports teams. He'll also talk about how the role of sports brings together different groups of society.
Greg Kaliss, a Ph.D. candidate in UNC's History Department, will talk about how those different groups, particularly racial groups, clashed over playing sports. He will link the integration of collegiate sports and the American public's reaction to them to the end of segregation in American society in the 1960s.
Register now for PHE's next workshop. It will be held on Saturday, February 2, 2008 from 10am to 3pm at the Frank Porter Graham Student Union located on UNC's campus. Continental breakfast, a full lunch, and free on-campus parking will be provided. Directions and a campus map will be sent to you closer to the workshop.
And don't forget about our travel grants! The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation graciously provides a small stipend to interested teachers who live more than 100 miles from Chapel Hill to attend workshops. This stipend will be paid at the end of the academic year 2007-08.
We encourage you to let your friends and colleagues know about this workshop. Please direct them to our weblog or download our flyerto email them.
To register please send an email to phe@unc.edu by Tuesday November 27th.
We'll see you there!