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Atlanta, GA | Posted: March 12, 2021
Bianchini, a PhD student in the School of History and Sociology, will be speaking about his paper "The Perfect(able) German Body: Sport as Technological Utopianism in East Germany" at the History of Technology Working Group. The paper examines sports rhetoric and psychology, standardized training, and human-machine questions in the GDR.
The meeting will be held from 6:00 - 7:30 CST on Tuesday, March 16th. The paper and link to the meeting can be found at: https://www.chstm.org/content/history-technology