Programme: Celebrity Culture and Power – Between Culture and Politics

Organized by Nordic Celebrity Studies Network.

Funded by INSS (Department of Nordic Studies, UCPH)

This is a workshop – with limited room for outside participants, but interested students and researchers are most welcome on a first come first served basis.

Lunch and coffee are for delegates only.

Thursday November 17th Room 27.0.49

12.00-13.00 Lunch for delegates only

13.00-13.15 Words of Welcome Helle Kannik Haastrup + Lene Bull Christiansen

13.15- 14.15 Session I: Celebrity Politics – News, Social Media and Activism

Celebrity politics on Instagram: The everyday visual communication of Swedish politicians - Mattias Ekman (Örebro University) and Andreas Widholm (Södertörn University).

Celebrity food activism in the age of the ‘obesity epidemic’ - Food, fat and authority - Katrine Meldgaard Kjær, (University of Southern Denmark).

Chair: Helle Kannik Haastrup

14.15- 14.30 Break

14.30-16.30 Key Note: Professor Hillevi Ganetz, University of Stockholm: The Body of the Queen, Science and the Price of Fame

Chair: Lene Bull Christiansen

16.30- 17.00 Break

17.00-18.00 Book presentation of Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, place and power (Routledge 2016).
(Short presentations by editor Lisa Ann Richey, and contributors Annika Berman Rosamond and Lene Bull Christiansen followed by a discussion)

Chair: Helle Kannik Haastrup

18.00 -19.00 Research Network Meeting: Future collaborations, conferences and plans.

Friday November 18th Room: 27.0.49

9-10.30 Session II: Celebrities, Feminism and Equality

The elderly Jane Fonda’s star persona: cool (post)feminist? - Anne Jerslev (University of Copenhagen)

Beyoncé and Black Lives Matter - Erik Steinskog (University of Copenhagen)

Celebrities, Cultural Authority and Social Media: The Case of Emma Watson and the HeForShe-Campaign - Helle Kannik Haastrup (University of Copenhagen)

Chair: Lene Bull Christiansen

10.30 -10.45 Break

10.45-11.45 Session III: Celebrity Myths and Postmortem Fame

The Many Deaths of Valdemar Psilander - Isak Thorsen (University of Copenhagen)

The “Paco Rabanne Myth”: How Archival Research Can Help us Deconstruct Celebrity Discourses - Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén (Stockholm University)

Chair: Lene Bull Christiansen

11.45- 12.45 Lunch for delegates only

12.45 –14.45 Keynote: The Melodrama of Homosexual Celebrity - Richard Dyer (Professor, King’s College, University of London)

Chair: Helle Kannik Haastrup

14.45-15.00 Break

15.00-16.00 Session IV: Celebrity culture, feminism and politics crossing borders

Celebrity, security and protection: a feminist analysis - Annika Berman Rosamond (University of Lund)

The Celebrity Subaltern: When conventional wisdom in celebrity activism is challenged by the refugee crisis - Lene Bull Christiansen, Roskilde University

Chair: Helle Kannik Haastrup

16.00 - 16.30 Goodbye and thank you