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Shrove Tuesday - 8 March 2011 |
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Taking the Sting out of the Ring
Masculinity and White-Collar Boxing
Allen Frantzen,
Loyola University
Tuesday,
March 8 , 5:30-8:30pm
19 South Wabash, 2d floor
 SMACK
IN THE MIDDLE OF CHICAGO'S GOLDEN GLOVES TOURNAMENT, Allen
Frantzen will join the Cigar Society to talk about White
Collar Boxing---a fairly new branch of amateur boxing
that is adjusted to the capabilities of those 40 and up.
Some of the adjustments reduce the physical risks, while others
are meant to lessen the psychological blows that come with
training for and performing in the ring. Boxing, Frantzen
believes, puts the spotlight on masculinity, stripping conflict
and competition to the bare essentials. White collar
boxing brings the challenges of the one-on-one fight to age
groups and professional circles in which violence is usually
only verbal. White collar boxing is a way for mature men
to think about competition, strength, and what it means
to fight.
Allen
Frantzen is the author of Bloody Good: Chivalry,
Sacrifice, and the Great War (University of Chicago Press,
2004), which examines martyrdom and heroic masculinity
 in
manuals of chivalry and explores the incorporation of chivalric
images and icons into posters, postcards, and memorials from the
Great War. Creative projects related to his work on the war
include lyrics for a song cycle called Circles of Grief,
with music by the French composer Pierre Thilloy, that was
performed in France on Veterans Day in 2005, and a play called
A Son at the Front, based on a novel by Edith Wharton,
that he produced at the Athanaeum Theater in 2009. Professor
Frantzen teaches English at Loyola University Chicago and is
founding director of the Loyola Community Literacy Center. He
received his PhD from the University of Virginia and taught at
Oberlin College before coming to Loyola University in 1978. He
has held fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,
the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim
Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
$40 includes drinks, two cigars, and sandwiches. Jacket
and tie recommended.
Reservations are required.
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Coming up
Tuesday, March 22
Augustus Higginson, The Rise of the Skyscraper in
Chicago: 1955 to the present.
19 S. Wabash, 2d floor.
Tuesday, April 5
Tony Grosch,
The Ideal of Brotherhood in Four
Classic Chicago Novels in the '30s and '40s.
19 S. Wabash, 2d floor.
Tuesday, April 12
Lauren Viera,
New Cocktails for Spring: A Lesson in
Mixology.
19 S. Wabash, 2d floor.
Tuesday, April 26
Michael Turner,
God, the Multiverse, and Cosmic
Arrogance.
19 S. Wabash, 2d floor.
Tuesday, May 10
Robert Wallace,
Why did the Athenians Kill
Socrates?
19 S. Wabash, 2d floor.
Tuesday, May 24
Alfred Rasho,
Making Short Documentary Films.
19 S. Wabash, 2d floor.
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About
the Cigar Society of Chicago
ONE OF THE OLDEST AND greatest
traditions of the city clubs of Chicago is the discussion of
intellectual, social, legal, artistic, historical, scientific,
musical, theatrical, and philosophical issues in the company of
educated, bright, and appropriately provocative individuals, all
under the beneficent influence of substantial amounts of tobacco
and spirits. The
Cigar Society of Chicago embraces this tradition and
extends it with its Informal Smokers,
University Series lectures, and Cigar Society Dinners,
in which cigars, and from time to time pipes and cigarettes,
appear as an important component of our version of the classical
symposium. To be included in the Cigar Society's
mailing list, write to the Secretary at
CigarSociety@logicophilosophicus.org.
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