Name: A Conversation with Polish Basketball Legend Kent Washington
Start: 2022-05-03T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 501 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University

A Conversation with Polish Basketball Legend Kent Washington

The Harriman Institute at Columbia University is one of the world's leading academic institutions devoted to Russian, Eurasian and East European studies. Our mission is to serve our community at the university and beyond by supporting research, instruction, and dialogue, sponsoring vibrant and multidisciplinary events that bring together our extraordinary resources of faculty, students, and alumni. We are committed to training the next generation of regional specialists to play leadership roles in setting the academic and scholarly agenda, making policy and challenging accepted truths about how we study our rapidly changing world.

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A discussion with Kent Washington, the first African-American and first American to play professional basketball in Cold War Eastern Europe.

501 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University

Join the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a conversation with Kent Washington, the first African-American and first American to play professional basketball in Cold War Eastern Europe. Recruited into the top Polish league in 1979, Washington went on to play five seasons in the Solidarity-era communist country. His story told for the first time in his new memoir, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Kentomania-Basketball-Virtuoso-Communist-Poland/dp/B09P3ZRN5G/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Kentomania: A Black Basketball Virtuoso in Communist Poland</a> (2021), is unprecedented, weaving together professionalism, race, and politics in powerful and daring ways. Washington will appear in conversation with Columbia University Lecturer in Polish Christopher Caes, to be followed by audience Q &amp; A and book-signing.<h2>Important Note</h2>This is a hybrid (in-person/virtual) event. Pre-registration and proof of vaccination for COVID-19 are required for in-person attendance. Virtual attendance options are also available to registrants. <a href="https://visit.columbia.edu/content/maps-and-directions-update" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Columbia University Campus Map &gt;</a><h2>Virtual Attendance</h2><a href="https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/95047592714?pwd=OENsZHhIOUI1NnpNQzFHazZ0a3R5UT09" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Join Zoom Webinar</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM3vmIWb0OY" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Watch on YouTube</a>

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