Creativity, Book Writing, and Celebrity
This Friday: Seminar on Creativity
This Friday, November 5 at 12:15PM, join us for a seminar on creativity with Professor Hannah Wohl from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prof. Wohl is author of Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged (University of Chicago Press), a sociological study of art. We will discuss the concept of creativity and how creators harness it.
The talk can be caught on YouTube Live and on Zoom.
Seminar on the Writing Business
Last Friday, October 29, the Queens Podcast Lab presented a seminar on the Business of Writing with two renowned scholars: Clayton Childress (University of Toronto) and Dana Weinberg (Queens College). Childress is the author of Under the Cover, a book about the complex world of novel writing and the social factors that influence books’ creation and reception. Dana Weinberg is a sociologist of culture who has published both popular and academic work on digital publishing and is also an author who publishes thriller novels as D.B. Shuster.
The Science of Fame and Celebrity
On Wednesday, Professor Joseph Cohen (Queens College) presented his research on fame and celebrity in the digital age. The presentation discusses the nature of fame, how it is acquired, how it is used, and how it is retained.