Visiting Scholar to discuss 'Celebrity, Politics, Power' at Marietta College
Marietta, OH (03/22/2023) — Kathryn Lofton, a Yale University professor of history and divinity, will speak at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 11th, at Marietta College on "Celebrity, Politics, Power" as part of the Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar Program.
Lofton, who also serves as Yale's Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies and as its Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean of humanities, will discuss celebrity and political power and explain how those who analyze American politics need to understand - among many politically consequential facts - "what Kanye West is saying and why Madison Cawthorn's marriage matters."
The talk explores, among other issues, how popularity is a resource to be molded as much as it is chased and how studying celebrity culture can help us understand how the world can be influenced within and beyond elections.
Lofton has written much about capitalism, popular culture, and the secular, including in her books "Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon" and "Consuming Religion."
The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be in the Alma McDonough Auditorium. A reception with food will follow.
Located in Marietta, Ohio, at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio rivers, Marietta College is a four-year liberal arts college. Tracing its roots to the Muskingum Academy back in 1797, the College was officially chartered in 1835. Today Marietta College serves a body of 1,200 full-time students. The College offers more than 50 majors and is consistently ranked as one of the top regional comprehensive colleges by U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review. Marietta was selected seventh in the nation according to the Brookings Institution's rankings of colleges by their highest value added, regardless of major.
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