Spring 2024 Georgian GU4042 section 001

Expressive Culture of Soviet and Indepen

Exp Cult of Sov & Ind Geo

Call Number 14822
Day & Time
Location
W 10:10am-12:00pm
707 Hamilton Hall
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Lauren E Ninoshvili
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

Expressive culture in the form of traditional and mediated performing and visual arts, film and literature has reflected and shaped modern Georgian social life in immeasurable ways. This seminar brings anthropological perspectives to bear on how expressive culture has served to articulate national and local senses of identity, grappled with collective trauma, and forged avant-garde creative networks within and beyond Georgia’s borders in the socialist and postsocialist periods. The course is organized in three units: it begins by interrogating the curatorial interventions of international organizations like UNESCO and their role in commodifying Georgian culture for global markets, proceeds by exploring powerful creative responses to colonial and totalitarian experience, and concludes by focusing on the capital city of Tbilisi–its built spaces, ever-changing social configurations, and shifting value systems–as a persistent muse in expressive cultural forms.

There are no prerequisites and the course assumes no prior knowledge of Georgian history, language, or culture.

Web Site Vergil
Department Slavic Languages
Enrollment 22 students (25 max) as of 9:06PM Thursday, December 12, 2024
Subject Georgian
Number GU4042
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Note Partial Fulfillment of Global Core Requirement
Section key 20241GEOR4042W001