Announcements
S3 Workshop: Heroic Masculinities – Intersectional Perspectives
When: 24.02. - 25.02.
Where: Online
Registration / Participation:
Please send an email to: maskulinitaeten@sfb948.uni-freiburg.de till February 20, 2022
Contact person: Antonia Wind
You will receive the access data for the online event in good time by e-mail.
For more information see here
New visiting researcher: Dag Heede (Odense)
From 24.1. until 28.2. belongs to Prof. Dr. Dag Heede (Odense) joined the SFB 948 as a visiting researcher. At the CRC he is researching the project "Heroes and Villains in Early Modern Gay Danish Literature" and is collaborating in particular with sub-project S3: Masculinity(s).
Website & contact: https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/heede
Colloquium politicum-lecture series „Für eine Universität der Vielfalt: Gegen den Hass“ (24.11.2021)
An interdisciplinary examination of the topics of hate and exclusion against the background of Carolin Emcke's book "Gegen den Hass"; In cooperation with the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft and the Rectorate of the University of Freiburg.
For more information click here...
Weimar rendezvous with history (November 12-14, 2021)
The general theme of the big history festival “Weimar Rendez-vous with History” is “Heroes (m / f / d)” in 2021.
The SFB is involved with a podium:
Podium: strong men, brave women. Heroic personalizations in politics (Clara Arnold, Ulrich Bröckling, Josef Früchtl, Dorna Safaian) More information...
Another panel with SFB participation deals with the historical changeability of the heroic in the 19th and 20th centuries from a Franco-German perspective, with Benjamin Marquart, among others. More information here...
Sebastian Meurer answered questions about the SFB on the festival blog.
Les silences du miroir (Stage play and panel discussion)
The Collaborative Research Center 948 “Heroes - Heroizations - Heroisms” and the ACT Africa Center at the University of Freiburg invite you to a special encounter between art and science. On October 28 The award-winning Senegalese artist and human rights activist Pape Samba Sow “Zoumba” presents his play “Les silences du miroir”, a poetic spectacle in the search for heroines and heroes. The performance will be followed by a panel discussion on the subject of “Art and Science! How do we shape global dialogues?"
New visiting researcher: Martin Clauss (Chemnitz)
Prof. Dr. Martin Clauss will be a visiting researcher at the SFB in September 2021. The Medievalist is working at the SFB on the research project "The Battle of Mühldorf (1322) as a heroic area".
About Martin Clauss: https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/iesg/professuren/gdma/professur_clauss.php
International symposium: Ice (St)Ages 2 (28. & 29. July)
New E-Journal Issue: 8.2 (2020)
Issue 8.2 (2020) of the SFB 948 e-journal helden. heroes. héros. has been published. Download it here.
New Release | Olmo Gölz and Cornelia Brink "Gewalt und Heldentum"
by Olmo Gölz und Cornelia Brink:
Gewalt und Heldentum, Helden - Heroisierungen - Heroismen, Vol. 16
Heroic tales recount violence, which can be defined as a deliberate assault on the body of another against their will. The act of violence is a culmination of courage, determination, contempt for rules and the power to act; violence appears as a paradigmatic test of the individual. Violence forces those involved to position themselves in relation to it – perpetrators as well as victims, participants as well as bystanders, contemporaries as well as descendants. In this volume, three perspectives on the heroization, endurance and avoidance of violence structure different literary, historical, cultural and sociological approaches to identifying the relationship between the heroic and physical violence. An introductory essay identifies theoretical intersections between violence and heroism.
Further information on the SFB Publications page.
New Release | Christiane Hadamitzky "Heroism in Victorian Periodicals 1850–1900"
by Christiane Hadamitzky:
Heroism in Victorian Periodicals 1850–1900. Chambers’s Journal – Leisure Hour – Fraser’s Magazine, Helden - Heroisierungen - Heroismen, Vol. 15
Nineteenth century Britain was an age of rapid technological, political and societal change. This was also reflected in the media: Industrially-produced print media opened a mass market with publications for almost any (niche-) interest one could think of. The societal changes also resulted in a growing need for orientation which in many publications was answered using the semantics of the heroic. As guiding figures, heroes were supposed to offer role models for a variety different readerships. By analysing Chambers’s Journal, Fraser’s Magazine and Leisure Hour, this study analyses different conceptions of the heroic on the Victorian print market and shows how the heroic was used for different didactic, social and political purposes in addressing different readerships within the context of changing power structures.