{"id":467,"date":"2019-07-16T11:30:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T09:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-fr\/events\/anticelebrity-and-the-transnational-interactions-between-politics-and-mass-media\/"},"modified":"2019-07-16T11:30:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T09:30:41","slug":"anticelebrity-and-the-transnational-interactions-between-politics-and-mass-media","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-fr\/events\/anticelebrity-and-the-transnational-interactions-between-politics-and-mass-media\/","title":{"rendered":"&lsquo;Anticelebrity&rsquo; and the Transnational Interactions between Politics and Mass Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\"><p>This lecture is part of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c2dh.uni.lu\/research-activities\/hands-history\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Hands on History<\/a><\/strong> series.<\/p><p>\u2018The return of the strong man\u2019 is a frequent topic in today\u2019s media. Broadsheets decry people\u2019s celebration of authoritarians like Putin, Erdogan and Trump, who cleverly style their virility. Even conventional leadership is thought to require charismatic celebrity as demonstrated by Obama, Blair and Schr\u00f6der. Yet one of the world\u2019s most powerful leaders is \u2018Mutti Merkel\u2019 \u2013 an \u2018anticelebrity\u2019. My objective during the C\u00b2DH Fellowship is to use this novel concept of anticelebrity to study the transnational interactions between politics and mass media in modern history, which would build on my doctoral expertise and provide a new direction towards a larger post-doctoral project.<\/p><p><strong>Betto Van Waarden<\/strong> (KU Leuven) is a visiting researcher at the C\u00b2DH during the summer 2019.<\/p><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This lecture is part of the Hands on History series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":468,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_image_focal_point":[],"show_featured_caption":false,"ulux_newsletter_groups":"","uluxPostTitle":"","uluxPrePostTitle":"","_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"event_start_date":"2019-09-04 14:00:00","event_end_date":"2019-09-04 15:00:00","event_speaker_name":"Betto Van Waarden","event_speaker_link":"","event_is_online":false,"event_location":"Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History\r\nMaison des Sciences humaines- 4th floor","event_street":"11, Porte des Sciences","event_location_link":"","event_zip_code":"L-4366","event_city":"Esch-sur-Alzette","event_country":"LU"},"events-topic":[306],"events-type":[],"organisation":[],"authorship":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.3) - 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