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Click the image to the left or follow the link below for a full listing of events at the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia this semester.

WCEE Winter Events

Bela Tsipuria

Georgian Modernism Against Socialist Realism: Blue Horns, H2SO4, Galaktion Tabidze
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
6:00-8:30 PM
3308 Modern Languages Building Map
In the early 20th century the new generation of Georgian writers started to seek the aesthetical and philosophical support within the experience of European Modernism. The agenda of cultural modernization was synchronized with the political agenda of establishing a modern, Western-style nation-state. The Symbolist group Blue Horns is a main force in changing the cultural milieu, and individual authors like Galaktion Tabidze, Mikheil Javakhishvili, Konstantine Gamsakhurdia contribute with their texts, as well as group activities. However, the Sovietization of the country changed not only political but also cultural reality. While the Socialist Realism style was enforced and Modernism was banned, it continued to influence the readers' community and served as a channel reconnecting Georgian literature with the Western cultural tendencies.

About Bela Tsipuria

Bela Tsipuria is a Weiser Fellow, visiting University of Michigan. She is professor of comparative literature and Georgian literature, and director of the Institute of Comparative Literature at Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. She earned her PhD in Georgian literature from Tbilisi State University, where she also worked as an associate professor. She was Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Georgia from 2004–08. She has been a visiting scholar at Lund University in Sweden and at Pennsylvania State University, and was a Thesaurus Poloniae fellow at the ICC, Krakow, Poland. She is a specialist in 20th-century Georgian literature and comparative literature, focusing on intercultural contacts; symbolist, modernist, and post-modernist movements; as well as Soviet ideological influences and post-colonialism.
Building: Modern Languages Building
Event Type: Lecture / Discussion
Tags: European, Interdisciplinary, International
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Slavic Languages & Literatures, International Institute, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

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