Events

The Department of Anthropology and The Sports and Society Initiative at Ohio State University bring Tracie Canada to campus to discuss her book: Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football. Limited copies of the book will be available for free to students.

Get ready for an exciting virtual event where sports meets activism.  Hear from renowned, passionate speakers, athletes, and changemakers who  are using the power of sports to make a real difference. Whether you’re a  fan, an athlete, or just curious about how sports can inspire social  change, this symposium has something for you.

The Department of Kinesiology at UNC Greensboro is pleased to welcome Dr. Tracie Canada (Duke University) for this month’s Graduate Student Colloquium. Drawing from her recent book, Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football, Dr. Canada presents ethnographic research about how Black college football players navigate the exploitative systems that structure their  everyday lives, and who helps them do it.

Join us for a talk with Dr. Tracie Canada, cultural anthropologist and professor at  Duke University, as she shares her research and insights.

On day 2 of RJF, we gather at Amherst for an evening of Black feminist lab-making, dialogue, and intergenerational exchange.

Join us for: Black Feminist Lab Making — Building Worlds Through Pedagogy, Practice, and Partnership. Together, Dr. Jallicia Jolly of the BREHA Collective (Amherst College), Dr. Chelsey Carter of The LEITH Lab (Yale University), and Dr. Tracie Canada of The HEARTS Lab (Duke University) will be in conversation about lab-making as a site of knowledge production, community partnership, care, and Black feminist futurity.

Join the International Network of Sport Anthropology's Seminar Series for a conversation about Tracie Canada's new book. 

The Sports & Society Initiative at Wash U is thrilled to be joined in conversation by Tracie Canada. Dr. Canada will discuss her new book: Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football. Excerpts from the book will be distributed in advance and select copies will be available for purchase.

Rev. Craig Glover Hines (Duke Office of Black Church Studies) will moderate this session with Drs. Wylin Wilson and Tracie Canada about their work focusing on the various dimensions Black motherhood.

We are excited to welcome our 2026 plenary speakers, Dr. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez and Dr. Tracie Canada. They will reflect on this year's conference theme: "Care and the Sociological Vocation: Learning About, Through, and With Care."