How have technological advances impacted the games we love to watch and play? In this 28-minute talk and following science cafe Q&A, Rayvon Fouché takes us through some of the history told in his book; Game Changer: The Technoscientific Revolution in Sports.
Dr. Rayvon Fouche’s scholarship on invention and innovation explores the multiple intersections and relationships between cultural representation, racial identification, and technoscientific design. He has authored or edited several books including Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation and Game Changer: The Technoscientific Revolution in Sports. Now at Northwestern University, at the time of the presentation, Fouché was the Director of the American Studies Program as well as a Professor at Purdue University. He received a B.A. in Humanities from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a Ph.D. from Cornell University in the interdisciplinary field of Science & Technology Studies, and completed a two-yearu post-doctoral fellowship in African and African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. A former elite cyclist, he was one of many hopefuls that competed in the 1992 Olympic trials.
This April 8, 2018 science cafe program was the eigth and last of a series funded in part by a National Science Foundation grant (#1611953) whose principal investigator was Karen Rader, historian of science Virginia Commonwealth University’s College of Humanities and Sciences in Richmond, Virginia.
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