The CSSGJ is pleased to be welcoming Professor Niko Besnier to give this highly topical talk on The Sports Industries in the Neoliberal Age and the Reconfiguration of the Future in the Global South.

Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University, Melbourne.

He has previously taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1986–88), Yale University (1989–95), Victoria University of Wellington (1996–2002), and UCLA (2002–05). He has held visiting appointments or fellowships at the University of Hawai’i, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, University of Auckland, Kagoshima University, Waseda University (twice), University of Melbourne, École normal supérieure Paris, Université de Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, University of Manchester, La Trobe University Melbourne, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.

This online talk will be held live on Zoom and all who register to attend the event in advance will be able to access the talk using Zoom through your eventbrite ticket registration.

The event will consist of an approximately 40 minute talk, followed by a 40 minute Q&A.