Heroes in Contemporary Popular Culture: Figures, Forms, and Functions is an interdisciplinary conference exploring how hero narratives shape, reflect, and challenge contemporary cultural values. Hosted jointly by McGill and Concordia Universities in Montréal, this event invites critical engagement with hero figures across media—comics, film, television, games, literature—and across positionalities, including race, gender, ability, and the posthuman. As hero narratives evolve beyond the archetypes of Campbell’s monomyth or the American lone savior, this conference fosters conversation across disciplines about the social work of storytelling in our time. Scholars, creators, and students are encouraged to interrogate how popular culture reimagines heroism amid shifting global and local realities.