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Mariel Aquino, “‘A unique case in the world of football”: Athletic Club de Bilbao, Nationalism, and Basque Exceptionalism.”
January 9, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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The Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster invites all to attend a paper workshop by Mariel Aquino. The paper explores the construction of masculinity and Basque nationalism through an examination of football (soccer), specifically the Athletic Club de Bilbao. This is a paper workshop so please try to read the paper in advance.
Mariel Aquino is graduate student in the history department, writing a dissertation on Basque immigration and national identities in the American West in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
Click Here to Download Paper: Aquino