Thursday, 24 February

Joachim Grage
HIV and its Consequences
Chair: Joachim Grage
9.45 Keynote: Karsten Schubert (Political Science, Freiburg): Between Reason and Excess. Gay Heroic Masculinities of HIV/AIDS
11.15 Rebecca Heinrich (Literary Studies, Freiburg): Gay Veterans. Hans Pleschinski’s Novel Portrait of an Invisible Man (D, 2002)

Class and Celebrity
Chair: Olmo Gölz
13.30 Max Jones (Modern History, Manchester): From Debunking to Celebration? Psycho-biography, Sexual Norms and British Heroes since 1950
14.30 Jörg Arnold (Modern History, Nottingham): Activism, Violence and Ostracism in the 1984/85 UK Miners’ Strike. An Intersectional Perspective

Catholicism and Race
Chair: Johanna Pink
16.00 Claudia Danzer (Catholic Theology, Freiburg): Heroic Masculinity in Karl Adam’s Construction of Jesus of Nazareth
17.00 Vera Marstaller (Modern History, Freiburg): Machismo and Marianismo. Latin American Perspectives on a Stereotype

Friday, 25 February

Homosexuality and Gender
Chair: Dorna Safaian
10.00 Joachim Grage (Scandinavian Studies, Freiburg) Heroic Traces in Early Homosexual Literature in Germany and Scandinavia
11.00 Dag Heede (Literary Studies, Odense): Villains and Heroes in Early Danish and Norwegian Homosexual Literature and Drama

Ethnicity and Agency
Chair: Olmo Gölz
13.30 Andreas Plackinger (Art History, Freiburg): Limited Heroizations? Blackness in French Art around 1800
14.30 Elena Fellner (Islamic Studies, Freiburg): They Live in Us – We Live for Them. An Intersectional Analysis of Protest Movement Heroes in Iran 2009–2021

16.00 – 17.00 Final Discussion
Chair: Joachim Grage and Vera Marstaller

18.00 Guided Tour of Queer Freiburg (in German)
with Lio Okroi (https://queere-geschichten-freiburg.de/)