DELC Research Seminar Series: Matthew Brown In brief Speakers - Professor Matthew Brown (University of Bristol) and Dr Timo Schaefer (University of Edinburgh) Title - Sports in South America: A History Venue - 50 George Square About the event At this DRSS event, we have the honour of hosting Professor Matthew Brown (University of Bristol), who will present his new book 'Sports in South America: A History', published by Yale University Press (2023). The presentation will be followed by a discussion with Dr Timo Schaefer (History, University of Edinburgh), and a chance for you to ask questions. Coffee, tea and sweet snacks will be provided. About Sports in South America: A History 'Sports in South America' follows the transformation of sporting cultures in South America leading up to Uruguay’s hosting of the first FIFA Men’s World Cup in 1930. The book shows how South American soccer culture, envied worldwide, sprang out of societies that were already playing and watching games well before British sportsmen arrived to teach “the beautiful game.” hese vibrant and distinct sporting traditions, including cycling, boxing, cockfighting, bullfighting, cricket, baseball, and horse racing, were marked by South American societies’ Indigenous and colonial pasts and by their leaders’ desire to participate in what they saw as a global movement toward human progress. Drawing on a wealth of original archival research, Matthew Brown debunks legends, highlights the stories of forgotten sportswomen and Indigenous sports, and unpacks the social and cultural connections within South America and with the rest of the world”. Speaker bios Professor Matthew Brown teaches Latin American History at the University of Bristol. His research interests cover the history of South America, from 1800 to the present day. He has several publications in this area, including 'From Frontiers to Football: An Alternative History of Latin America since 1800' (Reaktion, 2014), 'The Struggle for Power in Post-Independence Colombia and Venezuela' (Macmillan, 2012), 'Aventureros, mercenarios y legiones extranjeras en la independencia de la Gran Colombia' (La Carretera Editores, 2010), and 'Adventuring through Spanish Colonies: Simon Bolivar, Foreign Mercenaries and the Birth of New Nations' (Liverpool University Press, 2006). Dr Timo Schaefer is a lecturer in Latin American history at the University of Edinburgh. His book 'Liberalism as Utopia: The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820-1900', published in 2017 with Cambridge University Press, received the LASA-Mexico best-book prize for a social science book. His latest article is called "Growing Up Indio During the Mexican Miracle: Childhood, Race, and the Politics of Memory" and was published last year in the Journal of Latin American Studies. About the seminar series The DELC Research Seminar Series (DRSS) encourages collaboration and coproduction between staff and students across European Languages and Cultures and beyond. Entry is free and everyone is welcome. No registration is necessary. Are you interested in studying European Languages and Cultures? Our interdisciplinary environment brings together specialists in nine European languages, and the many cultures worldwide in which they're spoken, with experts in film, literature, theatre, translation and intermediality. Working with colleagues elsewhere in LLC, and across the wider University, we are able to support research which crosses boundaries between disciplines and/or languages. Find out more about studying with us Apr 03 2023 15.30 - 17.00 DELC Research Seminar Series: Matthew Brown Join us in person for a talk by Professor Matthew Brown (University of Bristol) about his new book Sports in South America: A History and the transformation of sporting cultures in South America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Edinburgh Find the venue: 50 George Square
DELC Research Seminar Series: Matthew Brown In brief Speakers - Professor Matthew Brown (University of Bristol) and Dr Timo Schaefer (University of Edinburgh) Title - Sports in South America: A History Venue - 50 George Square About the event At this DRSS event, we have the honour of hosting Professor Matthew Brown (University of Bristol), who will present his new book 'Sports in South America: A History', published by Yale University Press (2023). The presentation will be followed by a discussion with Dr Timo Schaefer (History, University of Edinburgh), and a chance for you to ask questions. Coffee, tea and sweet snacks will be provided. About Sports in South America: A History 'Sports in South America' follows the transformation of sporting cultures in South America leading up to Uruguay’s hosting of the first FIFA Men’s World Cup in 1930. The book shows how South American soccer culture, envied worldwide, sprang out of societies that were already playing and watching games well before British sportsmen arrived to teach “the beautiful game.” hese vibrant and distinct sporting traditions, including cycling, boxing, cockfighting, bullfighting, cricket, baseball, and horse racing, were marked by South American societies’ Indigenous and colonial pasts and by their leaders’ desire to participate in what they saw as a global movement toward human progress. Drawing on a wealth of original archival research, Matthew Brown debunks legends, highlights the stories of forgotten sportswomen and Indigenous sports, and unpacks the social and cultural connections within South America and with the rest of the world”. Speaker bios Professor Matthew Brown teaches Latin American History at the University of Bristol. His research interests cover the history of South America, from 1800 to the present day. He has several publications in this area, including 'From Frontiers to Football: An Alternative History of Latin America since 1800' (Reaktion, 2014), 'The Struggle for Power in Post-Independence Colombia and Venezuela' (Macmillan, 2012), 'Aventureros, mercenarios y legiones extranjeras en la independencia de la Gran Colombia' (La Carretera Editores, 2010), and 'Adventuring through Spanish Colonies: Simon Bolivar, Foreign Mercenaries and the Birth of New Nations' (Liverpool University Press, 2006). Dr Timo Schaefer is a lecturer in Latin American history at the University of Edinburgh. His book 'Liberalism as Utopia: The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820-1900', published in 2017 with Cambridge University Press, received the LASA-Mexico best-book prize for a social science book. His latest article is called "Growing Up Indio During the Mexican Miracle: Childhood, Race, and the Politics of Memory" and was published last year in the Journal of Latin American Studies. About the seminar series The DELC Research Seminar Series (DRSS) encourages collaboration and coproduction between staff and students across European Languages and Cultures and beyond. Entry is free and everyone is welcome. No registration is necessary. Are you interested in studying European Languages and Cultures? Our interdisciplinary environment brings together specialists in nine European languages, and the many cultures worldwide in which they're spoken, with experts in film, literature, theatre, translation and intermediality. Working with colleagues elsewhere in LLC, and across the wider University, we are able to support research which crosses boundaries between disciplines and/or languages. Find out more about studying with us Apr 03 2023 15.30 - 17.00 DELC Research Seminar Series: Matthew Brown Join us in person for a talk by Professor Matthew Brown (University of Bristol) about his new book Sports in South America: A History and the transformation of sporting cultures in South America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Edinburgh Find the venue: 50 George Square
Apr 03 2023 15.30 - 17.00 DELC Research Seminar Series: Matthew Brown Join us in person for a talk by Professor Matthew Brown (University of Bristol) about his new book Sports in South America: A History and the transformation of sporting cultures in South America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
