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Join professors Nathan Kalman-Lamb, Daniel Sailofsky, and Derek Silva and CBC Senior Writer Morgan Campbell for a conversation about the harms of sport under capitalism. Drawing from Kalman-Lamb and Silva’s The End of College Football and Sailofsky’s Playing Through Pain, this panel will look at on and off field violence, exploitation, and inequity in sports, linking these issues to the racial capitalist structure of both sport and society, with cases from college and professional football, hockey, wrestling, and more.
Panelists
- Daniel Sailofsky is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education with an interest in violence, gender, social harm, and the political economy of sport. He is the author of Playing Through Pain: the Violent Consequences of Capitalist Sport.
- Nathan Kalman-Lamb is associate professor of sociology at the University of New Brunswick where he teaches on social theory and sport. He is co-author of The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game (UNC Press, 2024) and author of Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport (Fernwood, 2018). His work has appeared in Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Nation, The New Republic, The Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Daily Beast, Al Jazeera, and many other venues. He is co-host of The End of Sport podcast.
- Derek Silva is the co-author along with Nathan Kalman-Lamb of The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game. His areas of interest include sociocultural studies of sport, critical sociology and criminology, labour, racism, and inequality. His work can be found in many peer reviewed journals and media including The Guardian and The Daily Beast among others. In addition to his scholarship, Derek also serves on the Executive Board of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) and on the editorial board of NASSS’ flagship journal the Sociology of Sport Journal. He is also the co-host of The End of Sport podcast.
- Morgan Campbell is an award-winning journalist, currently a senior contributor at CBC Sports and a contributor to The New York Times. His debut memoir, My Fighting Family: Borders and Bloodlines and The Battles That Made Us, was shortlisted for several major honours, including the Trillium Book Award, and the Balcones Prize for Nonfiction. For over 18 years, he worked at the Toronto Star and established himself as one of Canada’s finest sports writers, displaying both a range and depth of knowledge, finding original stories and telling them with flair and nuance. Campbell’s best work highlighted where sport intersected with off-the-field issues like race, culture, politics and business.
Event Details
Thursday, September 18, 2025
6 - 7:30 p.m.
Music Room (2006), Hart House
Free