Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 6.00pm to 7.30pm PDT
The Cambridge alumni community is warmly invited to join St Edmund's College for a special event with new and old friends at The University Club, San Francisco on April 1, 2025. You will be joined by the Master of St Edmund’s College, Professor Chris Young, and the Development Director, Ms Kate Glennie.
Professor Chris Young will be sharing an overview of his research, including his most recent exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum: Paris 1924: Sport, Art, and the Body and the Munich 1972 Olympics which he will be reappraising in his role in the German government’s international Historical Commission. There will be drinks and hors d'oeuvres following the presentation.
If you have any questions, please reach out to the Development Director at development@st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk.
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Time: 6:00-7:30pm PT
Location: The University Club of San Francisco, 800 Powell Street San Francisco, CA 94108
Speaker
Professor Christopher (Chris) Young is a Germanist, medievalist and prize-winning historian of modern sport.
His monograph ‘The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany’ was the first to win both the British and North American Societies for Sports History prizes, and his ‘The Whole World was Watching. Sport in the Cold War’ also won the latter’s anthology prize. He co-founded and edited de Gruyter’s Companions to Modern German Culture series and University of California Press’ Sport in World History series, and is on the editorial team of Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum.
Chris’s current research includes a revisionist account of the 1936 Olympics, German sport in the interwar period, and Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia. He is on the German government’s international Historical Commission to reappraise the 1972 Munich Olympics attack and previously co-curated an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum on the 1924 Paris Olympics (best known through the film ‘Chariots of Fire’).
At the University of Cambridge, Chris is Master of St Edmund’s College, and Head of the School of Arts and Humanities. He is a Fellow of Pembroke College, a Professor of Modern and Medieval German Studies (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics) and Director of the Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership, the Cambridge DAAD Research Hub for German Studies, and the Cambridge-LMU Munich Strategic Partnership.
