HGGS – Us and Them
HGGS - Us and Them
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In the Us and Them podcast series, we invite scholars of different fields and discuss their approaches to the theme “Us and Them,” including concepts like integration, tolerance, mutual understanding and the value of conflict. Our podcast invites academics from diverse disciplines to reflect on the formation of boundaries—and to consider whether those boundaries ought to be challenged or crossed.
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Explores concepts of integration, tolerance, mutual understanding, and the role of conflict through diverse academic lenses, with episodes covering topics such as the portrayal of war heroes in cinema and their societal implications, as seen in discussions about films like Zero Dark Thirty and American Sniper.
In the Us and Them podcast series, we invite scholars of different fields and discuss their approaches to the theme “Us and Them,” including concepts like integration, tolerance, mutual understanding and the value of conflict. Our podcast invites academics from diverse disciplines to reflect on the formation of boundaries—and to consider whether those boundaries ought to be challenged or crossed.
Our first episode introduces our theme “Us and Them” and opens the series with an interview between Sinan and PhD candidate Laura Herges (Heidelberg University): The traumatized war hero has become a well-known film trope. But how does the image of the suffering veteran influence our opinions on wars that happened in real life? Laura, who writes her thesis in American studies, discusses two movies about the War on Terror: Zero Dark Thirty (2012), which justifies the CIA’s torture of prisoners, and American Sniper (2014), which turns a controversial Navy SEAL into a patriotic martyr-icon. How strongly do films influence our judgement and moral values? Find out in the first episode of “Us and Them.“
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