Rumours classically enjoy a bad reputation: as imaginative embellishments on stories or as collective speculations in times of unclear information, they seem to merely distract from objective facts or prevent a constructive discussion of history. For historians, however, they offer the possibility to better understand how historical actors, especially in crisis situations and communicative states in emergency, tried to make sense of their environment and thereby gained agency. The role of rumours, false reports and uncertain knowledge, however, goes beyond purely functional \"emergency solutions\": they served as distractions and entertainment, they could be used strategically or tactically to exert political influence, they can be used to analyze the values and fears of historical actors, they were imaginaries of the future, hope and fears and they had a socially inclusive and exclusionary effect. With these emotive and socially constructive qualities, rumours themselves go beyond the mere communication of historical circumstances or events - for historians, they themselves become events that performatively opened up spaces for action.<\/p>\n
In our section, we will examine, from a comparative regional and cross-epochal perspective, the significance of rumours as forces of historical change. To what extent did rumours reflect an individual struggle to make sense of empirically uncertain situations? What do rumours tell us about the social realities and cultural images of past societies? Could rumours, as self-empowerment, also create truths?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-2540","ht_section","type-ht_section","status-publish","hentry","ht_section_category-gender-history","ht_section_category-methods-and-theories-of-history","ht_section_category-cultural-history","ht_section_category-modern-history","ht_section_location-hs4","ht_section_speaker-caroline-mezger","ht_section_speaker-felix-berge","ht_section_speaker-katrin-horn","ht_section_speaker-olaf-stieglitz","ht_section_speaker-sebastian-jobs","ht_section_language-deutsch"],"acf":{"event_start":"2023-09-19 14:00:00","event_end":"2023-09-19 16:30:00","section_category":[{"term_id":87,"name":"NNG","slug":"modern-history","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":87,"taxonomy":"ht_section_category","description":"Modern History","parent":0,"count":28,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":95,"name":"GeschG","slug":"gender-history","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":95,"taxonomy":"ht_section_category","description":"Gender History","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":93,"name":"KultG","slug":"cultural-history","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":93,"taxonomy":"ht_section_category","description":"Cultural History","parent":0,"count":12,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":98,"name":"GMT","slug":"methods-and-theories-of-history","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":98,"taxonomy":"ht_section_category","description":"Methods and Theories of History","parent":0,"count":10,"filter":"raw"}],"section_head":[{"id":1317,"ID":1317,"object_type":"term","PostClass":"Timber\\Post","TermClass":"Term","_children":null,"name":"Sebastian Jobs","taxonomy":"ht_section_speaker","term_id":1317,"slug":"sebastian-jobs","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1317,"parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","firstname":"Sebastian","lastname":"Jobs","location":"Berlin","email":""},{"id":1318,"ID":1318,"object_type":"term","PostClass":"Timber\\Post","TermClass":"Term","_children":null,"name":"Caroline Mezger","taxonomy":"ht_section_speaker","term_id":1318,"slug":"caroline-mezger","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1318,"parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","firstname":"Caroline","lastname":"Mezger","location":"Berlin\/M\u00fcnchen","email":""}],"section_location":{"term_id":1089,"name":"HS4","slug":"hs4","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1089,"taxonomy":"ht_section_location","description":"","parent":0,"count":6,"filter":"raw"},"section_talks":[{"speaker":[{"id":1319,"ID":1319,"object_type":"term","PostClass":"Timber\\Post","TermClass":"Term","_children":null,"name":"Felix Berge","taxonomy":"ht_section_speaker","term_id":1319,"slug":"felix-berge","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1319,"parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","firstname":"Felix","lastname":"Berge","location":"M\u00fcnchen","email":""}],"title":"Funktionen und Folgen der \u201eGer\u00fcchtemacherei\u201c in der nationalsozialistischen Mehrheitsgesellschaft im Zweiten Weltkrieg","abstract":"
Der Vortrag blickt auf die gesellschaftlichen Funktionen und Folgen der \u201eGer\u00fcchtemacherei\u201c in NS-Diktatur und Kriegsalltag. Ger\u00fcchte wurden nicht blo\u00df \u201egestreut\u201c oder \u201eliefen\u201c durch das Land, sondern wirkten abh\u00e4ngig von konkreten Austauschsituationen von Versorgung bis \u00dcberleben. Als Deutungshoheit vermochte es die informelle Kommunikation, so die Annahme, Gesellschaft situativ zu konstituieren. Dabei artikulieren die Informationsformen \u2013 als eigensinnige Aneignung und bewusste Verbreitung \u2013 differenzierte Zug\u00e4nge zum Agieren der Bev\u00f6lkerung: Wer sich in einer unsicheren Krisenzeit die Ger\u00fcchte gezielt aneignen konnte, erschloss sich eigene Vorteile.<\/p>\n"},{"speaker":[{"id":1320,"ID":1320,"object_type":"term","PostClass":"Timber\\Post","TermClass":"Term","_children":null,"name":"Katrin Horn","taxonomy":"ht_section_speaker","term_id":1320,"slug":"katrin-horn","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1320,"parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","firstname":"Katrin","lastname":"Horn","location":"Bayreuth","email":""}],"title":"\u201eSaid to be\u201c - Schreiben \u00fcber Ger\u00fcchte, Vorurteile und Vorw\u00fcrfe","abstract":"
Um die Bedeutung von Ger\u00fcchten als Quellen f\u00fcr historische Diskurse zu beleuchten, widmet sich dieser Vortrag zwei Bildhauerinnen, die in den 1850ern bis 1870ern in Rom lebten, dabei aber US-amerikanischen K\u00e4ufer*innen bedienten: Harriet Hosmer und Edmonia Lewis. Beide waren in der zeitgen\u00f6ssischen Berichterstattung enorm pr\u00e4sent, jedoch nicht immer positiv: Hosmer wegen ihres maskulinen Auftretens und Beziehungen zu Frauen, Lewis auf Grund ihrer Chippawa-\/afroamerikanischen Abstammung. Diese \u201efragilen Fakten\u201c von Ger\u00fcchten und Vorurteilen in der transnationalen Berichterstattung werden Basis f\u00fcr die Analyse von Charakteristika des sich ausdifferenzierenden Printmarktes der USA.<\/p>\n"},{"speaker":[{"id":1321,"ID":1321,"object_type":"term","PostClass":"Timber\\Post","TermClass":"Term","_children":null,"name":"Olaf Stieglitz","taxonomy":"ht_section_speaker","term_id":1321,"slug":"olaf-stieglitz","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1321,"parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","firstname":"Olaf","lastname":"Stieglitz","location":"Leipzig","email":""}],"title":"Bettgefl\u00fcster \u2013 Sexuelle Ger\u00fcchte und ihre produktive Rolle f\u00fcr eine Kulturgeschichte der USA nach 1945","abstract":"
J. E. Hoover, der Direktor des FBI, f\u00fchrte eine Kartei \u00fcber die sexuellen Vorlieben prominenter Landsleute \u2013 mit vermeintlichem Wissen \u00fcber Sexualit\u00e4t wurde im Kalten Krieg Politik gemacht. Auch jenseits der politischen Dimension, spielten sexuelle Ger\u00fcchte eine produktive Rolle in den USA dieser Zeit. Der Beitrag zeigt, wie sexualisierte Sprache und das Etikett angeblich \u201adevianter Sexualit\u00e4t\u2018 die Neuaushandlung der Geschlechter- und Sexualit\u00e4tsordnungen strukturierten. Der Vortrag wird auf Basis von Prim\u00e4rquellen verdeutlichen, wie dicht Menschen in den USA von einem Gewebe sexueller Ger\u00fcchte umgeben waren, das ihnen Gewissheit \u00fcber ihre Sexualit\u00e4t sowie diejenige ihrer Nachbarn versprach.<\/p>\n"}],"section_language":[{"term_id":1078,"name":"Deutsch","slug":"deutsch","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1078,"taxonomy":"ht_section_language","description":"","parent":0,"count":132,"filter":"raw"}]},"yoast_head":"\n