Forelæsning: Hvordan redder man verden? – Kendissers arbejde med udvikling

TIME: Wednesday, 9 May, 10.30 – 12.00 (followed by a free lunch)

VENUE: Lecture Room 23.2, Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Universitetsvej 1, 4000 Roskilde

The proliferation of celebrity within development publicity, media events and representations is one of the noteworthy trends within the development sector of the last thirty years.

TIME: Wednesday, 9 May, 10.30 – 12.00 (followed by a free lunch)

VENUE: Lecture Room 23.2, Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Universitetsvej 1, 4000 Roskilde

The proliferation of celebrity within development publicity, media events and representations is one of the noteworthy trends within the development sector of the last thirty years.

This lecture charts the rise of celebrity within development and examines how the presence of celebrity within development is mediated, and what consequences the processes of celebritisation have for the development sector.

Prof. Dan Brockington is the head of the research project ‘Celebrity and Development’ at the University of Manchester.

His research has mainly been on Tanzania but and he has conducted global overviews of the social impacts of protected areas, media and conservation and continental-wide examinations of the work of conservation NGOs in sub-Saharan Africa. Prof. Brockington is the author of Celebrity and the Environment (2009).

Registration to Inge Jensen ([email protected]) no later than Monday the 7th of May. Registration is needed for participation in the free lunch.