The Heroic, Media and Affect Entanglements in Fictional Forms and Everyday Life
Programme
Friday, 14 December |
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9:00 | Welcome and Introduction Nicole Falkenhayner (Freiburg, G) |
Panel 1: What Do We Medially Construct as Heroic Affect – and Why? | |
9:20 | Alene I Vildmarken – Heroes on Reality TV? Anne Jerslev (Kopenhagen, DK) |
10:10 | Heroic Affect is Not Innocent Benjamin van Tourhout (Leuven, B) |
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11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:20 | "What Does It Feel Like to Be the Hero?" Affect and Heroics in Detroit: Become Human (2018) and Horizon: Zero Dawn (2017) Nicole Falkenhayner (Freiburg, G) |
12:10 | Lunch |
Panel 2: Aesthetics, Affect and the Heroic | |
13:00 | Heroic Affect and the Sublime on Contemporary British Television: Beowulf and the Last Kingdom Barbara Korte (Freiburg, G) |
13:50 | Discovering New Dimensions: Affect and the Heroic in Doctor Who Maria-Xenia Hardt (Freiburg, G) |
14:40 | Coffee Break |
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15:00 | Between Marilyn and Snow White, Celebrity and Myth. The Female Prototype in the Postmodern Theatre Work of the Belgian Playwright Paul Pourveur Geert Kestens (Leuven, B) |
Panel 3: The Heroic, the Political and Mediatized Affect | |
15:50 | Ecothriller Heroics. Disaster, Affect and Spectatorship in Fictions of Climate Change Christiane Hansen (Koblenz-Landau, G) |
19:30 | Diner |
Saturday, 15 December |
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9:15 | Coffee |
Panel 3 (continued): The Heroic, the Political and Mediatized Affect | |
9:30 | "(No) Fauda/(No) Chaos": Affective Immersion and Heroism in the Netflix Series Fauda and Its Reception Michiel Rys (Leuven, B) |
10:20 | Play Moods, Heroes of the Resistance and the Fanization of Politics on Twitter Line Nybro Petersen (Odense, DK) |
11:10 | Coffee Break |
11:30 | Final Discussion |
12:00 | Sandwiches and Farewell |