SPorts & Human Rights:
The Legacy of Human Rights Discourse at the Olympics 

76th Anniversary Celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Sports & Human Rights

Tuesday, December 10, 2024, Live Oak Pavilion A-D | Florida Atlantic, Boca Raton

• 11:30 am-12:20 pm:
  Roundtable discussion: The Legacy of Human Rights Discourse at the Olympics with Jermaine Scott, Luisa Turbino Torres, & Robert Caputi. Moderated by Jon-David “JD” Delcastillo
  
  

Robert Caputi I have been an instructor in the department of Sociology at FAU since January 2019. I teach a wide variety of classes including Gender and Society, Human Sexuality and Social Change, Sociology of Popular Culture, and  Sociology of Sports. In my Sociology of Sports class, students learn what it means to take sports seriously as an academic subject even though it is often viewed as simply fun and games. I am thrilled to have helped organize this conference, just as I have been thrilled to see a new wave of activism that is framing  organized sports as a “contested space”. Many fans of spectator sports claim that it should be a place free from politics, but I do not think that it is possible.

 

 

 

Jon-David “JD” Delcastillo (bio coming soon!)

 

Jermaine Scott is an Assistant Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University. His research and teaching interests include African American and African Diaspora History, Sports History, Black Politics, Black Popular Culture, and Postcolonial Studies. His manuscript-in-progress, Black Soccer: Football and Politics in the African Diaspora, is a racial history of soccer across the African Diaspora that reveals how Black footballers have historically used the game as a site of Black politics. His writings have been included in the "Journal of Sports History," the "Journal of African American History," the "African American Intellectual History Society’s Black Perspectives," and ESPN’s The Undefeated.

 

 

 

 

Luisa Turbino Torres (she/they) is an Assistant Professor of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies and Political Science at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Delaware in 2022 and completed both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Her research and teaching are deeply informed by a commitment to inclusivity in higher education, where she emphasizes the importance of representing a broad range of voices in academia. Guided by a sensitivity to lived experiences, she analyzes intersections of gender, class, race, sexuality, ability, and other identities to bring a nuanced understanding to the complexities of global and local issues. Dr. Turbino Torres is currently working on her first book, which uses soccer as a lens to explore issues of gender, sexuality, and race in Brazil and their connections to broader political and social movements. Through interpretivist methodologies, her research investigates how women soccer fans mobilize to implement socio-political change, highlighting the intersections of feminism, soccer, and activism. With over eight years of experience collaborating with activist groups around soccer in Brazil, her research has culminated in a manuscript that emphasizes the political significance of fan-led efforts to reimagine soccer spaces. Additionally, she is co-editing a forthcoming book, Feminist Responses to Crises and Dehumanization: Transnational Perspectives, with Dr. Susanne Zwingel and Brianna Hernandez, under contract with Routledge. This volume, part of the Gender in a Global/Local World series, brings together feminist scholars and activists to discuss border-crossing perspectives on justice, care, and sustainability for a more equitable future.