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
Chris Young is a Professor of Modern and Medieval German Studies at the University of Cambridge. Prior to his appointment as Master of St Edmund's College, he served as Head of the School of Arts and Humanities. A trained Germanist, Professor Young is also the Director of the Cambridge DAAD Research Hub for German Studies and the founder and Director of the Cambridge-LMU Strategic Partnership, Cambridge’s first institution-wide partnership between Cambridge and any other university.
His primary teaching and research interests focus on medieval German literature and language, as well as the history of European sport, with a particular emphasis on German sport. He has been a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Cologne), a Permanent Visiting Fellow of the Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien der FU Berlin (2010-12), a Visiting Fellow of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte Munich (2018) and an Honorary Fellow of the Historisches Kolleg Munich (2018). His monograph ‘The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany’ (UC Press, 2010, with Kay Schiller) was the first book to win the prizes of both the British and North American Societies for sports history. In 2021, his ‘The Whole World was Watching. Sport in the Cold War’ (Stanford University Press, 2020) also won the latter’s anthology prize. He curated a major exhibition this summer at the Fitzwilliam Museum on the 1924 Paris Olympics (best known through the film ‘Chariots of Fire’) and serves on the German government’s Historical Commission on the terrorist attack at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
Booking information
Booking for this event is now closed.
