ილიას სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი
ძებნა
- არგუსი
- ელ. ფოსტა
- კონტაქტი
ძებნა
ილიას სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი
დოქტორანტის სახელი და გვარი: ანა ლოლუა
ფაკულტეტი: მეცნიერებათა და ხელოვნების ფაკულტეტი
ხელმძღვანელი ილიაუნი: ოლივერ რაისნერი
ხელმძღვანელი გოტინგენი: ანკე ჰილბრენერი
My research aims to analyze how myths produced in the Soviet center – incarnated in institutional decrees and policies- were understood and translated locally in the Soviet Periphery of Georgia. Then it looks at how were put into perspective and presented in the exhibition halls at Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia. As my case studies I look at the exhibition opened in 1961 where Georgian past is historicized and presented as a linear narrative for the first time; at the exhibition of the Museum of People’s Friendship (under the auspices of Simon Janashia Museum) and the exhibition of the Museum of Soviet Occupation (colloquially referred to as a “Museum inside the Museum”) opened in 2006 again in Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia. These exhibitions can be viewed as identity forging spaces for visitors and the museum staff alike. Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia was also one of the sieges of cultural intelligentsia driving the Cultural Revolution forward.
In the period of Destalinization this new class was faced with new challenges of balancing between rising nationalism (particularly in the context of denunciation of Personality Cult by Khrushchev understood as national humiliation in his native Georgia) domestically and external pressure coming from the party bosses in Moscow. Simon Janashia Museum as a site of national memory is the showcase to understand how nationhood was negotiated during the period of transformation by those responsible to communicate historical memory to broader masses. Exhibition planning and its final scenography unravels the complex story of how local bureaucrats and cultural elites sought to come to terms with the ongoing political changes and what was their actual agency in the process orchestrated by the authoritarian state. I assume that continuities in representation forms and the habitus of curators although layered with different historical experiences, persist throughout this period.
In order to analyze visual and textual sources collected at the Communist party archives and the Museum archives as well oral history interviews, I will apply Achim Landwehr’s historical discourse analysis method. For parts of my dissertation when discussing the musealization processes I will also rely on an interdisciplinary model developed by Ruth Wodak et al. for the volume “The Discursive Construction of History: Remembering the Wermacht’s War of Annihilation”.
სამეცნიერო სტატიები:
სამეცნიერო კონფერენციები:
