At the symposium home and foreign academics took part who are doing their research on the role of great men in making of history, and questions who were great men and celebrities in the past and who are celebrities of today. Of the many perspectives included in discussions of heroes, saints and famous persons, three are particularly noteworthy; they have to do with power, a sense of belonging and with the need for someone who is larger than life. In examining these three perspectives, the authors use examples from Slovenia and Central Europe.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 36169005This thematic issue of Traditiones is dedicated to heroes and national leaders, and is mainly compiled from papers presented at a conference in Ljubljana in December 2013. The publication of these papers in 2014 presents an opportunity to remember the hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the First World War and at the same time offers a framework for reflections on how individual leaders in Europe or on its margins influenced and guided the masses in times of peace and war, and in times of crisis and catastrophe.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 276981248Daniel J. Boorstin defined the celebrity as ‘a person who is known for his well-knownness.’ In this symposium we try to pinpoint such famous individuals within Central and Southeastern Europe, and analyse the foundations of their fame. The symposium focuses on several thematic streams and draws parallels between them. For example, it looks into how managers, politicians, and economists, from the past and present, must constantly re-create their public appearance. It spotlights artists, i.e. musicians, film-makers, and sculptors, who appear in prominent public events and make their fame also through staged ‘pseudo-events.’ It introduces the fame of athletes, whom are applauded when they stand on a podium with a medal, yet often ridiculed when they fall from a highly established position. It is also interested in outstanding scholars who managed to build their central place both inside and outside academia. Finally, the symposium raises a question if a celebrity is necessarily a person and brings attention to non-living things, including vehicles.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 38422317The label "folk heroes" may be from the perspective of different conceptions of folkloristics controversial, but in this context it denotes what type of characters that can not be classified in the group of "real" historical figures whose actions are important to (re)establish the time at which they lived, (re)direct the course of history, contribute to the formation of the nation and raising consciousness about it, either in a group of celebrities who experienced short-lived their glory and it burst like a soap bubble. This does not mean that they have with them some common characteristics / properties.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 41180973In an interview for the main Slovenian daily Delo the leader of the reaserch project showed the importance of the elites and politics in the process of creation of the heroes of folklore.
F.29 Contribution to the development of national cultural identity
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