SFB 948 "Helden - Heroisierungen - Heroismen", Universität Freiburg
Thursday, 26 February 2015
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS),
Großer Seminarraum, Albertstr. 19, 79104 Freiburg
14:00 – 14:30
Introduction
Panel 1: 1650
14:30 – 15:15
Women in writings on the heroic in 17th century academic instruction
Joseph S. Freedman (Montgomery, AL, USA)
15:15 – 16:00
Anti-heroes. Masculinity and civic ethics in literary academies of 17th century Florence
Eva Struhal (Québec, CA)
16:30 – 17:15
Gendering fear. Transformations of courage and masculinity in heroic drama
Christiane Hansen (Freiburg, DE)
17:15 – 18:00
Testing times for anxious he-roes. Tracing the end of a heroic figuration in England and France, ca. 1650
Andreas Schlüter (Freiburg, DE)
Evening lecture
18:30 – 19:30
From viragos to valkyries. Transformations of the heroic woman from the 17th to the 19th century
Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly (Oxford, UK)
Friday, 27 February 2015
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS),
Großer Seminarraum, Albertstr. 19, 79104 Freiburg
Panel 2: 1750
9:30 – 10:30 (Keynote lecture)
When heroes sigh... Sentimental heroism in 18th century opera
Melanie Unseld (Oldenburg, DE)
11:00 – 11:45
A reigning woman as a heroic monarch? Maria Theresa and the roles of emperor, wife and mother
Anne-Marie Wurster (Freiburg, DE)
11:45 – 12:30
Creating and subverting German models of 'Galanterie'? Heroes and heroines in texts by Christian Friedrich Hunold and Maria Aurora von Königsmarck
Madeleine Brook (Oxford, UK)
Panel 3: 1850
14:00 – 14:45
Heroism of a melancholy look from blue eyes
Petra Polláková (Prague, CZ)
14:45 – 15:30
What is the Polish peasant hero's gender? Representations of peasant citizenship in Polish culture, ca. 1850
Alicja Kusiak-Brownstein (Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
15:30 – 16:15
Untangling the heroic from the sacrifice. Malwida von Meysenbug's attempt to appropriate a common female topos in and for her political novel "Phädra" (1885)
Birgit Mikus (Oxford, UK)
Lecture and round-table discussion
16:45 – 18:45
Rethinking the heroic. Difference as a tracer?
Monika Mommertz (Freiburg, DE)
Haus "Zur lieben Hand", Großer Saal
Löwenstr. 16, 79098 Freiburg
Concert talk
20:00 – 21:00
'En travesti' – the female as male in early 19th century operas
Thomas Seedorf (Karlsruhe/Freiburg, DE)
Mezzosoprano: Felicitas Brunke
Piano: Freya Jung
Saturday, 28 February 2015
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS),
Großer Seminarraum, Albertstr. 19, 79104 Freiburg
Panel 4: Connections
09:30 – 10:15
Gendering the operatic sound of the heroic. 1647 – 1749 – 1843
Anke Charton (Leipzig, DE)
10:15 – 11:00
Victorian male heroes and romance in Elizabeth Bowen's short fiction
Laura Lojo-Rodríguez (Santiago de Compostela, ES)
11:15 – 12:00
The tragic hero and the gendered imaginary in early modern German drama
Barbara Becker-Cantarino (Columbus, OH, USA)
12:15 – 13:00
Closing session
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CONFERENCE VENUES
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS),
Großer Seminarraum, Albertstr. 19, 79104 Freiburg
Haus "Zur lieben Hand", Großer Saal,
Löwenstr. 16, 79098 Freiburg
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REGISTRATION
Please register by an informal e-mail or by phone:
info@sfb948.uni-freiburg.de
Tel.: +49 761 / 203-67602
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CONTACT
Andreas Friedrich
andreas.friedrich@sfb948.uni-freiburg.de
Tel.: +49 761/203-67602
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http://www.sfb948.uni-freiburg.de/gender