Dear colleagues, welcome to the Caucasus Studies seminar on May 7, 15.15-17:

Guranda Bursulaia, PhD Candidate at Free University in Tbilisi (Georgia) and Swedish Institute visiting researcher at Caucasus Studies, Malmö University, will give the presentation: Silence as a Narrator: The Case of the Georgian History Textbooks. 

When: May 7, 15.15-17
Where: Room C0502

The seminar is about the construction of collective memory about the 1992-1993 war in Abkhazia in the Georgian school history textbooks. Guranda will discuss the transformation of the textbooks throughout the last 25 years marked with major political and social changes in the country. Besides, silencing, as an instrument of major narrative formation, and masterminds behind it will be analyzed using the example of the Georgian textbooks.

More info: http://caucasusstudies.mau.se/2019/04/27/seminar-on-may-7-with-guranda-bursulaia/