Seminar G: Celebrating the Nation
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Analyse one history painting of your choice.
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What are (national) celebrations for?
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What are the functions of national holidays?
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What use is the analysis of national celebrations for historians?
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Do you perceive any peculiarities in Polish, Ukrainian, Russian celebrations?
Essential Reading
Etzioni, Amitai, ‘Towards a Theory of Public Ritual’, Sociological Theory, 18 (2000), pp. 44-59.
Dabrowski, Patrice M., Commemorations and the Shaping of Modern Poland (Bloomington/Indianapolis, 2004), pp. 159-210.
Wortman, Richard, Scenarios of Power. Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy, vol. 2 (Princeton, 2000), pp. 439-480 [= Chapter 13: ‘The Tercentenary Celebrations of 1913’].
Additional Reading
Sandler, Commemorating Pushkin, pp. 85-135.