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I am Professor of Romance Studies and History and the Director of the Forum for Scholars & Publics at Duke University. I founded the Soccer Politics blog in 2009 as part of a course on "World Cup and World Politics" taught at Duke University. I'm currently teaching the course under the title "Soccer Politics" here at Duke. My books include Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France (University of California Press, 2010) and The Language of the Game: How to Understand Soccer (Basic Books, 2018)

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Global France at La Vie des Idées

November 21, 2010 Laurent Dubois

This past May I did a talk at the Collège de France, and was invited to speak about my work and the “Global France” course at the College online magazine, La Vie des Idées. You can watch the portion of the interview about the course in French below. The full interview, available in both French and English, is available at the magazine site.

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