Lorenzo Posocco – Exhibiting the Nation. Museums, Power and National Mythology in Turkey under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) Rule

U Centru za jugoistočnoeuropske studije (CSEES) Sveučilišta u Grazu u utorak, 30. listopada 2018. Lorenzo Posocco održat će predavanje o političkoj upotrebi muzeja u suvremenoj Turskoj.

 

This presentation targets the political use of State-sponsored institutions in Turkey, in particular museums. A number of studies have pointed to the recent building of museums in Turkey as the cultural symbol of a political change that matches chronologically with the coming to power of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party: the AK Party. New public museums (especially historical ones) built in the AKP era have been seen as rituals of the State that exhibited a new national ideology – Turkish Muslim Nationalism – aimed to build a new Turkey and new Turks. I will present a research that looked into three of these museums, investigating the links between the AKP, which promotes Turkish Muslim Nationalism, and new museums, which exhibit it.

 

30.10.2018 13:00 – 14:00

 

Zentrum für Südosteuropastudien

 

RESOWI centre, SR.15.33

 

https://suedosteuropa.uni-graz.at/