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Interview on heroizations in British popular culture (in German)
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Heroism as a phenomenon in global popular culture – international conference in Freiburg, 28-30 September 2017
Organized by Michael Butter (Tübingen), Nicole Falkenhayner, Wolfgang Hochbruck, Barbara Korte (Freiburg) and Simon Wendt (Frankfurt) 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 […]
No ‘Insoreckshan’ in the Global City? Representations of London Rioting, 1981 and 2011
a chapter on London post-2011 and the representations (and poetics) of riots in Oliver v. Knebel Doebritz & Ralf Schneider (eds.) London post-2010 in British Literature and Culture, Brill / Rodopi 2017, pp.19-38. chapter link
Program of the Conference “Heroism as a Phenomenon in Global Popular Culture”, 28-30 September 2017, Freiburg
Conference Program Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Popular Culture Organised by Barbara Korte, Simon Wendt, Michael Butter, Wolfgang Hochbruck and Nicole Falkenhayner for the SFB 948 “Heroes, Heroisms and Heroisations”, University of Freiburg, Germany Thursday, September 28, 2017 From 14.00 Coffee, Registration at FRIAS Freiburg 15.00 Introduction 15.00 Barbara Korte […]
New Research on the Role of Media Representations
New research by scholars from Cambridge Universty shows the important role that sloppy and stereotyped reporting has in the growing of hostility towards Muslims in Britain, and the also show strategies to counter this development: Media fuelling rising hostility towards Muslims in Britain I am going to draw on this research for a presentation I […]
