Olympic agent and marketing executive Peter Carlisle, managing director of Octagon’s Olympic and Action Sports division, will be the next executive-in-residence at the Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management in the Isenberg School of Management.
Carlisle, who most notably managed the career of Olympic swimmer and gold medalist Michael Phelps, will speak on "Marketing an Olympic Icon: Behind the Business of a Global Sports Superstar" on Tuesday, Nov. 27 at 7 p.m. in the Campus Center Auditorium.
A member of the Sports Business Journal’s Forty-Under-40 Hall of Fame, Carlisle has
This semester’s Honors Faculty Lecture Series concludes with “The Writer’s Perspective: Literary Imagination and Living History” by English professor Sabina Murray on Monday, Nov. 26 at 6:30 p.m. in the Campus Center Auditorium.
Early childhood and care scholar Judith Duncan will present the lecture “Standardization and Conformity: A Critique of New Zealand’s Early Childhood Neoliberal Politics” as part of the Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Series on Wednesday, Nov. 28 at 3:30 p.m. in 917 Campus Center
This year's Classical Legacy Lecture at the Renaissance Center will be given by writer Alison Brown, author of "The Renaissance, The Medici in Florence: The Exercise of Language and Power, and The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence," on Tuesday, Nov. 27 at 4 p.m.
Brian Walsh of Yale University's English department will give a lecture, “Local Reformations and London City Comedy: Middleton’s The Puritan Widow," on Thursday, Nov. 29 at 4:30 p.m. n the Renaissance Center's Reading Room.