Daniel J. Boorstin defined the celebrity as ‘a person who is known for his well-knownness.’ In this symposium we try to pinpoint such famous individuals within Central and Southeastern Europe, and analyse the foundations of their fame. The symposium focuses on several thematic streams and draws parallels between them. For example, it looks into how managers, politicians, and economists, from the past and present, must constantly re-create their public appearance. It spotlights artists, i.e. musicians, film-makers, and sculptors, who appear in prominent public events and make their fame also through staged ‘pseudo-events.’ It introduces the fame of athletes, whom are applauded when they stand on a podium with a medal, yet often ridiculed when they fall from a highly established position. It is also interested in outstanding scholars who managed to build their central place both inside and outside academia. Finally, the symposium raises a question if a celebrity is necessarily a person and brings attention to non-living things, including vehicles. The symposium does not focus only on contemporary celebrities; it includes individuals of the past who used various strategies – appropriate to their time period and socio-cultural environment – to stand out from the crowd.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 38422317The author elaborates a typology of celebrity economists in order to examine the nature and role of this particular group of celebrities that operate at the national and international levels. The author presents examples for each category of celebrity economist, for which she analyzes their professional biographies and their spheres of operation and the ways that they operate as celebrities in order to identify the diverse social roles of celebrity economists and the roots of their status as celebrities.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 38422829An interview with the author of the monograph A Town without Memory.
B.06 Other
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