Brasilidade, class, gender, futebol força versus futebol arte, tropical modernity, the 2014 World Cup, and globalizing “brand Brazil” were just some of the topics discussed with historian Roger Kittleson in the Football Scholars Forum’s inaugural session of 2014-15.

Joining the author of The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil, were: Danyel Reiche, Christoph Wagner, Lindsay Krasnoff, David Kilpatrick, Rwany Sibaja, Andrew Guest, Brenda Elsey, Javier Pescador, Austin Long, Chris Henderson (all via Skype), and Nubia Rodrigues, Liz Timbs, David Glovsky, Alejandro Gonzales, and Peter Alegi in the Michigan State University History Department‘s new LEADR Digital Lab.

Click here to listen to an audio recording of the session. (For educational/personal use only.)

FSF’s next event is on October 30 with James Montague (@JamesPiotr), aka the “Indiana Jones of soccer journalism,” author of Thirty-One-Nil: On the Road With Football’s Outsiders: A World Cup Odyssey.