Is it time to abolish college football? A conversation with Nathan Kalman-Lamb, Derek Silva, and Lindsey Freeman

Join our upcoming event, 'Is it Time to Abolish College Football?' on Wednesday, November 5, from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM at West Mall Centre (WMC) 2200, SFU Burnaby campus.

Simon Fraser University sociologist and author of Running, Lindsey Freeman, sits down with sociologists Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva to discuss their new book, The End of College Football. The conversation will confront the harm and racialized exploitation that saturate the sport and interrogate whether it belongs within higher education, or, for that matter, without.

About the guest speakers:

Dr. Derek Silva is Professor of Sociology at King’s University College at Western University. His research examines the intersection of sport, labour, inequality, exploitation and social control, with a focus on harm and violence in sport. In addition to his academic work, Silva is an active public writer whose work has appeared in TIME, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Daily Beast, Jacobin, Sportico, and more. He is also co-author of The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game and co-host of, 'The End of Sport' podcast.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick where he teaches on social theory and sport. He is co-author of The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game (UNC Press, 2024) and author of Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport (Fernwood, 2018). His work has appeared in Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Nation, The New Republic, The Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Daily Beast, Al Jazeera, and many other venues. He is co-host of 'The End of Sport' podcast.

Moderator:

Dr. Lindsey Freeman is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Simon Frasr University. Professor Freeman is also an Associate Member of the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University and an Affiliated Scholar, Associated Researcher with Espaces et Sociétés (ESO), Université de Caen, Normandie, France. Freeman is the author of This Atom Bomb in Me (Redwood Press/Stanford University Press), Longing for the Bomb: Oak Ridge and Atomic Nostalgia (UNC Press), and Running (forthcoming from Duke University Press, 2023). 

Dr. Freeman is currently working on Fieldwork. A project on women’s soccer focusing on theorizing the tender moments of the game that often go unnoticed alongside the overt joys and crushing disappointments of wins and losses that centers on the affects, gestures, and stated experiences of queer, trans, and gender non-conforming coaches, players, and fans.