Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Popular Culture

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Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Popular Culture

Veranstalter
SFB 948 "Helden - Heroisierungen - Heroismen", Barbara Korte (Freiburg), Nicole Falkenhayner (Freiburg), Michael Butter (Tübingen), Wolfgang Hochbruck (Freiburg), Simon Wendt (Frankfurt)
Veranstaltungsort
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Albertstraße 19, 79104 Freiburg
Ort
Freiburg im Breisgau
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
28.09.2017 - 30.09.2017
Deadline
24.09.2017
Website
https://www.sfb948.uni-freiburg.de/globalheroes
Von
Meurer, Sebastian

In an age of globalization and transnationalism, heroes transcend their cultural spheres of origin and are re-rooted, adapted and translated in new local contexts across the world. We understand (male and female) heroes as a phenomenon of exceptionality that has a positive significance in relation to the values, ideals and norms of the communities in which these figures are admired, followed, functionalized but also debated. In this process of “glocalization,” popular culture, with its world-wide markets and media, is a driving force.
Such different media as films, comics, graphic novels, computer games, or internet blogs construct and disseminate narratives about heroes and heroisms across the globe and are consumed in the Global North as well as the Global South. At the same time, there are centres of dissemination – including Hollywood, Bollywood, or Hongkong – that continue to dominate processes of production and dissemination of hero narratives.
This multidisciplinary conference aims to highlight the complex and interrelated processes of creation, marketing, consumption, and impact, of globalized hero narratives, as well as the numerous cultural flows of exchange that have made them possible since the end of World War II.

Please register for the conference by sending an e-mail to globalheroes@sfb948.uni-freiburg.de

Programm

Thursday, September 28, 2017

From 14.00 Coffee, Registration

15.00 Introduction
15.00 Barbara Korte (Freiburg) & Simon Wendt (Frankfurt a. M.): ‘Global and Popular Heroism’: Theoretical Concepts and Approaches

American Heroes Go Global I
15.30 Nicole Falkenhayner, Maria-Xenia Hardt, Julia Ditter, Özlem Sarica (Freiburg): One Hero Fits All? The Case of ‘Doctor Strange’ and New Frictions in Cultural Translation
16.00 Dietmar Neutatz (Freiburg): ‘Guardians’ [Zaščitniki]: A Russian-Soviet Answer to Superman and Batman
16.30 Plenary Comments

16.45 Coffee

American Heroes Go Global II
17.15 Michael Butter (Tübingen): The Transnational Heroization of Donald Trump
17.45 Wolfgang Hochbruck (Freiburg): Axe and Helmet: The Increasing Range of New York Firefighters as (Super)Heroes
18.15 Plenary Comments

Friday, September 29, 2017

From 9.30 Coffee

Travelling Traditions
10.00 Nadja Gernalzick (Mainz): The Hagakure between Japan, Germany and the US
10.30 Ricardo Mak (Hong Kong): Shaolin Martial Arts Heroes in Industrial Hong Kong
11.00 Binoy B. Agarwal (New Delhi): Reinventing Superheroes: Global Superheroes with an Indian Twist
11.30 Plenary Comments

Heroes or Villains?
13.15 Sugata Nandi (Kolkata): Gangsters are Desi: Indianization of a Hollywood Stereotype
13.45 Ken Chitwood (Gainesville, FL): Hero and/or Villain?: ‘The 99’, Mixed Reception, & the Study and Popular Conceptualizations of Global Islam
14.15 Ariel Heryanto (Monash, AUS): The Transnational Interface of Heroes, Villains, and Those in Between
14.45 Plenary Comments

15.00 Coffee

(Post)Imperial Heroes
15.30 Konstanze N’Guessan (Mainz) & Mareike Späth (Frankfurt a. M.): ‘Y’a bon?’ Popularizing tirailleurs africains as heroes of (anti) colonialism
16.00 Michael Goodrum (Canterbury): Biggles, Britain and (Imperial?) Heroism
16.30 Sonjah S. Niaah (Mona, West Indies): ‘Outlaw Hero’ – Bob Marley, Reggae and Rastapolitism into the New Millennium
17.00 Plenary Comments

20.00 Film Screening at KoKi, Freiburg: Dainipponjin (2007)

Saturday, September 30, 2017

From 9.00 Coffee

Politics and Popular Culture
9.30 Sotirios Kimon Mouzakis (Freiburg): Princess at Home, Heroine Around the World. Disney’s Female Protagonists as a Phenomenon of Global Heroism
10.00 Shuxi YIN (Hefei): Narratives about Heroes in Chinese Cinema: Analysis of Hero (2002)
10.30 Rüstem Ertug Altinay (New York): Gay Alien Seeking Democracy: Queer Adaptation, Heroism, and Political Critique in Turkey
11.00 Plenary Comments

11.15 Final Comments and Discussion

Kontakt

Sebastian Meurer

SFB948, Hebelstraße 25, 79104 Freiburg i.Br.

+49(0)76120367602
+49(0)76120367606
sebastian.meurer@sfb948.uni-freiburg.de

https://www.sfb948.uni-freiburg.de/globalheroes
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