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Ingham Memorial Lecture is March 30
3/13/09
Dr. Alan G. Ingham
“Leaner and Meaner? The Perils of McDonaldizing the Academy and Kinesiology” will be the topic of the Alan G. Ingham Memorial Lecture at 7 p.m. Monday, March 30, in 322 McGuffey Hall.
The speaker is Dr. David L. Andrews, professor in the Physical Cultural Studies Program at the University of Maryland and author of Sport-Commerce-Culture: Essays on Sport in Late Capitalist America (Peter Lang Publishing, 2006).
The talk brings together the late Dr. Ingham’s insightful and prophetic critiques of knowledge production within the academy and kinesiology and George Ritzer’s conceptualizing of the process of McDonaldization.
The thesis framing the discussion is that the accelerated rationalization of society associated with late capitalism has led to an epistemological McDonaldization: the implicit and explicit privileging of centrally controlled, efficiency oriented, rationally predictable, and empirically calculable ways of knowing and of knowledge generation.
This lecture recognizes the contributions and achievements of Dr. Alan G. Ingham, who passed away in 2005. He came to Miami in 1984 as a professor in Sport Studies. Both his research and teaching emphasized social justice ideals, and he was among the first scholars to apply a critical perspective to the sociology of sport.
He earned an international reputation for his scholarship and also for his advocacy of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of kinesiology and health. Given his numerous contributions to the field, he was frequently invited as a keynote speaker and academic consultant across the globe. Despite this international acclaim, his students, both past and present, remained his top priority, according to colleagues.
The memorial lecture is sponsored by the Department of Kinesiology and Health (KNH), School of Education, Health and Society, Western Program, Honors and Scholars Program, Department of Educational Leadership, American Studies Program, Women’s Studies Program, and the Center for American and World Cultures. KNH extends a special thank you to Christine Ingham and family.
A reception will follow the presentation. For additional information, contact Mary McDonald at mcdonamg@muohio.edu.