International Symposium

Second International Symposium: Female Fighters. Media Reception, Re-Mediatization, Fictionalization

Second International Symposium of NFG 024: Junior Research Group "Discourses of Justification in Turkey's Recent and Contemporary History on the Participation of Women in Armed Struggle"

This is the second international symposium of NFG 024 (Junior Research Group "Discourses of Justification in Turkey's Recent and Contemporary History on the Participation of Women in Armed Struggle").
The event will focus on the representation and reception of female soldiers and fighters in various (mass) media, but also on the "pre- and re-mediatization" (Astrid Erll) and fictionalization of the topic in narrative literature or film.
In the mass media, there are always "waves of attention" in which, for example, images of Kurdish or Ukrainian female soldiers suddenly dominate war coverage. But while men and their manhood are presented as the unquestioned soldierly norm, female soldiers are questioned and shown in terms of their emotions and morals, their physical appearance and sexuality, their womanhood. (An approach to the everyday (war) reality of soldiers, regardless of gender, rarely succeeds anyway.)
Movies and series have long since discovered the female soldier and armed fighter, but here, too, the focus seems to be on heroization and mythologization. The heroines have outstanding mental abilities and manage to look attractive even in combat.
The symposium combines empirical studies with a clear focus on Turkey with comparative cases from other geographical areas and theoretical approaches. Presentations based on extensive field research on the political, legal and biographical situation of female armed fighters and veterans will enable a comparison between the perspectives of field research on the one hand and reception or fictionalization research on the other, and raise the question of the reciprocal relationship between reality and re/mediatization.

Registration: lsoezer@smail.uni-koeln.de 

Vom 10.02.2025, 11:00 Uhr
bis 11.02.2025

Ort: University of Cologne, Seminar Building, Tagungsraum, Universitätsstraße 37, 50931 Köln

ZS Köln/Bonn

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