Monday, December 9, 2024, 6.00pm to 8.30pm EST
The Cambridge alumni community is warmly invited to join St Edmund's College for a special event with new and old friends at The York Club on December 9. 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, which looks back on the pivotal moment when traditions and trailblazers collided, fusing the Olympics’ classical legacy with the European avant-garde spirit.
We hope to see you there
Date: Monday, December 9, 2024
Location: The York Club, 135 St. George Street | Toronto, Canada | M5R 2L8
Time: 6:00pm-8:30pm
Tickets: $15 CAD
The Yale Club Guest Rules (See attached document below)
Dress Code: Unless otherwise indicated, Business Attire is the dress code in effect at all times. Suit, or tailored blazer or sports jacket and slacks, worn with collared, long-sleeved dress shirt, tie preferred and with dress shoes; dress, skirt and blouse, tailored pantsuit or jacket and slacks, worn with dress shoes; cultural, religious and military dress. Dress turtleneck permitted.
Use of Electronics: Phones and other devices must be on silent mode when entering the Clubhouse.
Media Policy: Please note that photography and video are not permitted outside of the private room in question, i.e. in the general Clubhouse or on the Club premises, without the prior permission of the General Manager. Photos and/ or video are not permitted to be used on any social media platform.
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.
At the University of Cambridge, Chris is Head of the School of Arts and Humanities, and from 1 October 2024, Master of St Edmund’s College. 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.
Booking information
Booking for this event is now closed.
