Announcements

The fourth volume in the SFB 948 series "Helden – Heroisierung – Heroismen" (Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg) has been released: "Vom Weihegefäß zur Drohne: Kulturen des Heroischen und ihre Objekte", edited by Achim Aurnhammer and Ulrich Bröckling.

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The first volume in the SFB 948 series "Helden – Heroisierung – Heroismen" (Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg) has been released: "Imitatio heroica: Heldenangleichung im Bildnis", edited by Ralf von den Hoff, Felix Heinzer, Hans W. Hubert and Anna Schreurs-Morét.

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Das Andere der Ordnung: Theorien des Exzeptionellen, edited by Ulrich Bröckling, Tobias Schlechtriemen, Matthias Leanza and Christian Dries, has been released. Bröckling, Schlechtriemen and Dries constitute the research team of the SFB 948’s sociology project, "The Hero as Disturbing Element: The Sociology of Exceptionality" (B7).

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Künstlerhelden? Heroisierung und mediale Inszenierung von Malern, Bildhauern und Architekten, edited by Katharina Helm, Hans W. Hubert, C. Posselt-Kuhli and Anna Schreurs-Morét, has been released. The editors constitute the research teams of the SFB 948’s art history projects (A4 and B3).

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The first volume of the SFB 948’s “Figurationen des Heroischen” series has been released: Heldensoprane: Die Stimmen der eroi in der italienischen Oper von Monteverdi bis Bellini by Thomas Seedorf. Seedorf is the leader of Project A7, “The Voice of the Hero: Vocal Presentation of the Heroic in the Opera During the First Half of the 19th Century”.

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The conference programme for "Heroes and Things: Heroisches Handeln und Dinglichkeit" (Thursday, November 19 – Saturday, November 21, 2015) is now available, along with all other organizational information.

Prof. Dr. Barbara Korte, leader of projects C3 and C4, gave an interview which was published in the first issue of Reihe 5: Magazin der Staatstheater Stuttgart.

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Bröckling, leader of Project B7, "The Hero as Disturbing Element: The Sociology of Exceptionality", gave an interview to the Deutschlandfunk Kultur radio station on August 31, 2015. The program is called "80 Jahre Stachanow-Norm: Wie sieht ein Held der Arbeit heute aus?" (translated: 80 Years of the Stakhanov Norm: What Does a Hero of Labor Look Like Today?) The interview is in German.

The SFB 948 welcomes Prof. Dr. Tolga U. Esmer (Central European University, Budapest) as its next visiting researcher. His research focuses on the history of the late Ottoman Empire, especially the social and political significance of so-called social bandits. He will be at the SFB 948 from August until November 2015, working on his project "Bandits, Saints, and Ethno-Martyrs: Remembering a Muslim Frontier Family in the 'Age of Nationalism' in the Balkans".

The SFB 948 would like to welcome another guest researcher: Benjamin van Tourhout from KU Leuven. Van Tourhout is active as a playwright, author and director, who also reflects on his artistic work in scholarly projects. Along these lines, he will be working on his project "How to Touch the Untouchables? How Can a Historical Hero Shed an Ethical Light on Contemporary Paradigms Through Theatrical Narrative?" during his time at the SFB 948. Van Tourhout is also the head researcher on the project "Recreating the Hero: Research Towards a Contemporary and Present Artistic Interpretation of Archetype Heroes" at the LUCA School of Arts.