{"id":9403,"date":"2022-07-14T11:11:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T11:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/?p=9403"},"modified":"2024-03-12T08:37:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T08:37:54","slug":"with-a-pencil-and-a-whip-oskar-schmerling-and-the-satirical-revolution-of-the-south-caucasus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/?p=9403","title":{"rendered":"With a Pencil and a Whip: Oskar Schmerling and the Satirical Revolution of the South Caucasus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Naomi Caffee, Reed College<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>July 14, 2022 at 5:00-6:30 PM Tbilisi Time (9:00 AM EDT)&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lecture on Oskar Schmerling and the Satirical Revolution of the South Caucasus with Naomi Caffee\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AELjyajetVg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born, in his own words, \u201cwith a pencil in one hand and a whip in the other,\u201d Oskar Schmerling (1863-1938) was an influential artist from a prominent ethnic German family that had settled in the South Caucasus in the early nineteenth century. In his home city of Tbilisi, the region\u2019s multi-ethnic, multilingual capital, he became a driving force behind the region\u2019s post-1905 \u201csatirical revolution,\u201d publishing political caricatures and illustrations in the Armenian, Azeri, Georgian, and Russian-language press. With an iconic style that is recognized to this day, Schmerling\u2019s work provided a powerful visual component to hotly debated issues such as language policy, religious institutions, education, Russian cultural and political hegemony, economic development, and more. In this presentation I will discuss my collaborative project with Tbilisi-based scholar Robert Denis, \u201cBeyond Caricature: The Oskar Schmerling Digital Archive,\u201d (schmerling.org), as well as our forthcoming co-authored articles and monograph about Schmerling\u2019s role in the region\u2019s diverse print culture of the early twentieth century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Naomi Caffee is an Assistant Professor of Russian and Humanities at Reed College, and recipient of ARISC Research Fellowship. Her research focuses on Russophone and multilingual authors from Central Asia, the Caucasus, Siberia, and the Russian Far North, from the 19th century to the present. <em>Funding for this fellowship is provided by the US Department of State\u2019s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) through a grant to the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This talk is organized as a part of ARISC Online Event Series that showcase the work of ARISC fellows. ARISC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, physical or mental disability, medical condition, ancestry, marital status, age, sexual orientation, citizenship, or status as a covered veteran.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Naomi Caffee, Reed College July 14, 2022 at 5:00-6:30 PM Tbilisi Time (9:00 AM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-georgia-events-2022"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9403"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11232,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403\/revisions\/11232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}