Workshop: Heroic Masculinities – Intersectional Perspectives, 24.-25.02.2022, virtual space

University of Freiburg, Collaborative Research Centre „Heroes – Heroizations – Heroisms“; Joachim Grage and Vera Marstaller (Web)
Zeit: 24.-25.02.2022
Venue: virtual space, via Freiburg
Registration by: 20.02.2022
The workshop will address the role of masculinity in processes of heroization. It will examine to what extent characteristics such as age, race, social origin, sexual orientation, denomination and (dis)ability determine who can or cannot be heroized in different cultural contexts.
Our ideas of the heroic have an impact on our understanding of masculinity. The ideas of masculinity that are transported and conveyed through the heroic significantly shape the relationship between the sexes. An intersectional perspective shows that ideas of masculinity also have hierarchizing effects. Intersectionality describes the interplay of different social processes of inclusion and exclusion.
Based on the thesis that heroic masculinity represents an ideal that only few can achieve, but which also has an impact on those who do not live up to it, this workshop will explore the intersectional interplay and relations between heroism and masculinity. The international participants will discuss the role of masculinity in processes of heroization and examine to what extent characteristics such as age, race, social origin, sexual orientation, denomination and (dis)ability determine who can or cannot be heroized in different cultural contexts.
Panels

  • HIV and its Consequences
  • Class and Celebrity
  • Catholicism and Race
  • Homosexuality and Gender
  • Ethnicity and Agency
  • Guided Tour of Queer Freiburg (in German)

Read more and source … (Web)
Registration via e-mail by February 20, 2022 to: maskulinitaeten@sfb948.uni-freiburg.de; Contact person: Antonia Wind. You will receive the access data for the online event in good time by mail.