Unemotional, cold and incredibly intelligent. Let’s not forget the deerstalker hat! These are just a few of the characteristics of history’s most loveable sleuth — Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

On Sunday, Nancy West, the director of the Honors College, will give a presentation called “Shades of Sherlock: Film and TV Versions of Literature’s Most Famous Detective.” The event will take place at 2 p.m. at Orr Street Studios.

“Shades of Sherlock” is part of the Honor College’s Speaking of Culture series. Since September, professors have been speaking about a variety of liberal arts topics and how they relate to culture. The series will continue through April.

West’s presentation will explore the history of Sherlock creator Arthur Conan Doyle’s short stories and discuss the relationship between the stories and their ever-changing audience. Her talk will primarily focus on television adaptations of the famous detective, covering everything from Jeremy Brett’s 1984 Holmes all the way to Jonny Lee Miller’s newest adaptation.

This isn’t the first time West has talked about Sherlock Holmes. A few years ago, she taught a class called “The Life — And Afterlife — of Sherlock Holmes.”

“That was a fun class where we read a lot of the stories,” she says.

At the end of the class, her students adapted some of Holmes and Watson’s adventures, made them into children’s books and added their own illustrations.

West is also looking at the history of Masterpiece Theatre on PBS and the relationships the audience has with the shows on television. Many popular shows based in the 19th century are shown on the program, including “Downton Abbey” and the BBC’s updated version of Sherlock Holmes, simply titled “Sherlock.”

From her lecture, West hopes readers will learn a few things about adaptations, their role and how to adapt.

“I have a theory,” West says. “If you have to adapt something, you learn it better than any other way.”