Celebrity: Historical Perspectives

An HRC Interdisciplinary Seminar investigating the cultural value of celebrity, past and present.

 

Autumn Term

 

10^th October What is the cultural value of celebrity? [Panel discussion]

 

24^th October Steven Connor (Birkbeck), 'Defiling Celebrity'

 

14^th November Geoff Wall (York), 'Flaubert: The Invisible Man'

 

28^th November Su Holmes (Kent), ''Torture, Treacle, Tears and Trickery':Celebrities, 'Ordinary' People, and This is Your Life (1955-65)'

 

Spring Term

 

23^rd January James Thomas (Cardiff), 'Celebrity and Monarchy in the Diana age'

 

30^th January Ludmilla Jordonova (Kings, London), 'Portraiture and Celebrity'

 

20^th February Uta Kornmeier (Oxford), TBA

 

27^th February Deborah Jermyn (Roehampton), 'Bringing Out the Star in You: SJP, Carrie Bradshaw and the evolution of television stardom'