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WorldBoston

Chat & Chowder: Basketball Empire

June 1

6:00pm - 7:30pm

The NonProfit Center

The NonProfit Center
89 South Street
Boston, MA 02111

Speakers
Dr. Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff

Join us for Chat & Chowder with Dr. Lindsay Krasnoff and her new book “Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA.”

Chat & Chowder programs are an excellent opportunity to engage with expert speakers and to network with other globally-oriented participants in an informal environment. Each event features a presentation, audience Q&A, dedicated time for networking, and (of course!) a selection of chowders and beverages.

This program will be streamed to Zoom from 6:15 to 7:15. To attend the program virtually, please register for the Zoom webinar here.

Advance registration is required. We cannot accommodate walk-ins for the in-person program.

Disclaimer: WorldBoston is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, non-advocacy, educational organization dedicated to fostering civil discourse on international affairs. Our speakers’ opinions are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of WorldBoston, our affiliates, or our community.


Dr. Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff. Dr. Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff is a globally-recognized sports diplomacy expert and consultant whose pioneering work as a scholar-practitioner of basketball diplomacy and Franco-American sports diplomacy inscribed the power of individual lived experiences into the public record. Thanks to these blueprints, citizens worldwide can be empowered to be better sports diplomats – or to take inspiration from a sports diplomat’s playbook – in leveling-up their leadership, engagement, and storytelling abilities. Author of Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA (Bloomsbury, 2023), “Views From the Embassy: The Role of the U.S. Diplomatic Community in France, 1914,” (U.S. Department of State, 2014), and The Making of Les Bleus: Sport in France, 1958-2010 (Lexington Books, 2013), Krasnoff directs the FranceAndUS project and has written for national and international media like TIME, CNN International, The Athletic, The Washington Post, The New Yorker. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University’s Tisch Institute for Global Sport, leading the institute’s new sports diplomacy track.