Making Visual History
Amanda Vickery: From the Classroom to the BBC

ADMISSION:
Admission is free. Reservations required. RSVP beginning Wednesday, March 8, at 9 a.m. 

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DESCRIPTION:
Amanda Vickery is a professor of early modern history at Queen Mary University of London. She was inspired to become a scholar by sources that some might deem less than lofty: historical novels, the stories of her great aunts, and the glamour of the Tudor monarchy as presented on television. But we disparage the roles of popular media and personal relationships in generating enthusiasm for history at our peril. After building a reputation as a serious scholar, Vickery came full circle and began writing well-received historical TV and radio programs for the BBC, including At Home with the Georgians and The Many Lovers of Miss Jane Austen. In an engaging talk interweaved with clips from her work, Vickery will discuss how the demands of the medium structure the delivery of history on television, the context within which academic historians work, and the pleasures and pitfalls of translating historical research onto the screen for a mass audience.

This event is presented as part of “Making Visual History,” a series of events exploring the intersection of the arts and humanities and the fascinating work of making history visible through film.  

Additional Links:
Amanda Vickery Twitter

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Presented by USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative. Organized by Vanessa Schwartz (History, Art History, and Visual Studies Research Institute), Daniela Bleichmar (Art History and History), Akira Lippit (Cinematic Arts, Comparative Literature, and East Asian Languages and Cultures), and Michael Renov (Cinematic Arts). Co-sponsored by the Visual Studies Research Institute, Mellon Sawyer Seminar, and USC School of Cinematic Arts.