The next event in the Spring 2023 International Seminar Series, FIFA Football World Cups – Joy and context, is open for registration. It will be presented simultaneously in person in the Old Main Hall of the Bone Student Center and online via Zoom. The event will take place on Wednesday, April 19, from noon to 1 p.m. All events in this series are free and open to the public. An RSVP is required for in-person attendance.
With the Men’s World Cup taking place last fall and the Women’s World Cup this summer, the spring semester provides an ideal opportunity to take an in-depth look at how these events shape the world stage. International sporting events bring fans together around the world around a shared passion and enthusiasm for players, teams and competitions. However, these events carry a dark connotation of corruption, gender inequality, and violations of human and labor rights. This series aims to examine some of these topics and provide broader context on the impact of these events on issues beyond the world of sports.
The theme of the event is: “Does the World Cup corrupt? The conference will be led by Dr. Oguzhan (Oz) Dincer of the Illinois State Department of Economics. Dincer to discuss impact of World Cup on corruption in host countries. It will focus largely on the high cost of hosting the World Cup, the world’s second-largest sporting event; for example, it cost the Brazilian government around $15 billion. So every time a government spends this amount of money, it creates opportunities for corruption. This discussion will comprehensively examine the question: Does the World Cup corrupt?
Those wishing to attend the event in person must register in advance. A free buffet lunch will be provided to in-person attendees prior to the event at 11:45 a.m. CT.
If you cannot attend in person and would still like to join, you can do so via Zoom. Prior registration is not necessary for online participation.
Anyone with questions, concerns, or needing accommodations to fully participate should contact Emmy Buonomo or call him Office of International Engagement at (309) 438-1651. Allow plenty of time to arrange accommodation.
Speaker biography
Doctor. Oguzhan (Oz) Dinner is a professor of economics and director of the Institute for Corruption Studies at Illinois State University. His research interests lie at the intersection of public economics, institutional economics and development economics, with a focus on corruption. Between 2011 and 2015, he was a nonresident fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard Law School, where (with Michael Johnston) he developed measures of legal and illegal corruption in U.S. states. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oregon in 2004.
