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Gladiators: Reading the Concussion Crisis and Football’s Future through the Visual Arts

Wed, 10/26/2016 - 5:30pm

Lecture by Dr. Michael Oriard, Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture (Emeritus), Oregon State University Oriard walked on as a defensive end at the University of Notre Dame and earned a spot as a starting center. He left Notre Dame with a graduate fellowship to study literature as well as a position with the Kansas City Chiefs. After receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford, Oriard joined the OSU faculty. Long interested in issues of brain trauma, he turned his attention to the history of images and how they give us insights into these important and topical issues.