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Julia Friday <jfriday1@binghamton.edu> Using press photographs, publications and public monuments, this dissertation examines Czechoslovakia’s post-war development, the period of the Prague Spring and the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet and the Warsaw Pact forces. Additionally, this study traces the way the Prague Spring and the 1968 invasion were recuperated during Czechoslovakia’s 1989 Velvet Revolution and beyond. The reading of the archival material is rooted in an understanding that each object is a product of complex institutional transactions, social practices and ideological assumptions. While most studies treat archival material from the Communist era as simply the result of repressive propaganda, this dissertation investigates how the enlistment of this material by the apparatus of the state produced its own unique forms of knowledge and subjectivities. Deploying Michel Foucault’s archaeological approach, this study examines not only the internal consistency of the archive but also how it defines what counts as a meaningful statement in a given historical context and how moments of traumatic rupture exceed the frame of the archive’s coherence. The introductory chapter outlines theoretical hypotheses that lay the groundwork for the dissertation’s case studies. A key part of this chapter is to re-consider the notion of collective memory as a theoretical model for understanding a specific historical event. The second chapter examines the various systems of control that shaped the Czechoslovak Communist media, specifically the press. The analysis offers a genealogical study of the Soviet media coupled with a consideration of its historical and legislative evolution. The third chapter examines the way public spaces function as mechanisms for composing memory, spatiality and subjectivity. The fourth chapter deals with memorials, their deployment, social function and their appropriation during the 1968 invasion. The fifth chapter juxtaposes two publications, a pro-Soviet text and a dissident Czechoslovak magazine, analyzing specific rhetorical strategies deployed by the press to produce an interpretation of the 1968 invasion. The sixth chapter deals with the politics of recollection and with the apparatuses that enlist memory in the service of specific historical and ideological narratives. |
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| Interests: | Cultural History / Studies European History / Studies German History / Studies Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies Humanities Literature Philosophy |
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Bio: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Comparative Literature. Date: August 2010. Binghamton University, SUNY Dissertation: CZECHOSLOVAKIA FROM THE PRAGUE SPRING TO THE VELVET REVOLUTION: THE COMPOSITION OF MEMORY, PUBLIC RECORD AND ARCHIVE. Advisors: John Tagg (Chair), Gisela Brinker-Gabler (Chair), Neil Christian Pages. Master of Arts (M.A.) in English Literature. Date: May 2002. State University of New York at Oswego M.A. Thesis: William Blake’s Representations of the Female Will: A Critical Analysis. Advisor: Donald Masterson. Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in English. Date: December 1999. State University of New York at Oswego Comenius University, College of Education, Bratislava, Slovakia. English as a Foreign Language. Honors, Fellowships, Awards 2009 Comparative Literature Research Award Binghamton University, SUNY January 2008 – May 2008 Dissertation Fellowship Comparative Literature Department Binghamton University, SUNY 2007 Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research Binghamton University, SUNY September – December 2006 DAAD 04-Month Short-Term Graduate Research Scholarship Berlin, Germany Fall 2002 - Spring 2005 Graduate Teaching Assistantship Comparative Literature Department Binghamton University, SUNY Publications Accepted “Prague 1968: Spatiality and the Tactics of Resistance” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, University of Texas, Austin. August 2009 “Investigations of the Suburban” Afterimage: The Journal for Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. May/June 2006 “Mapping the Trajectory of Vision: New Photography ’05: Carlos Garaicoa, Bertien van Manen, Phillip Pisciotta, Robin Rhode” Afterimage: The Journal for Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. Summer 2004 Compilation of Index for the following publication: Brinker-Gabler, Gisela and Markus Zisselsberger, eds. If We Had the Word: Ingeborg Bachmann, Views and Reviews. Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 2004. Presentations and Conferences March 26-29, 2009 ACLA Annual Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Panel: City At War. Paper: Re-Writing the Occupied City: Prague, August 1968 October 10-12, 2008 1968: A Global Perspective Conference, University of Texas, Austin. Panel: The Prague Spring: A Central European 1968. Paper: Prague 1968: Spatiality and the Tactics of Resistance April 10, 2008 Brown Bag Lunch Series, Women’s Center, Ohio University. Presentation: Sparks and Pioneers: Growing Up Female Under Communism February 5, 2008 Lecture, WS 410 Global Feminisms Seminar, Ohio University. Presentation: Women in International Context: Women During and After Communism – A Case Study February 12, 2007 Women’s Studies Colloquium Series Presentation, Ohio University. Paper: The Political Expression of the Traumatic – Gendered Discourse in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Todesarten and Theodor Adorno’s The Authoritarian Personality and The Dialectic of Enlightenment April 12, 2006 Lecture, WS 300 Women in International Contexts, SUNY Oswego. Presentation: Living under Communism: Czechoslovakia before the Velvet Revolution February 14, 2005 Lecture, Advanced Art Design Seminar, SUNY Oswego. Presentation: Cinematic Gaze, Body, Apparatus, and Spectatorship: The Politics of Representation January 15, 2005 8th Annual Graduate Student History and Theory Conference, UC Irvine. Paper: Resisting the Irresistible? Memory-Making in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and On the Natural History of Destruction October 22-23, 2004 Women, Power & Politics Conference, Southern Connecticut State University. Presentation: The Political Expression of the Traumatic-Gendered Discourse in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Todesarten and Theodor Adorno’s The Authoritarian Personality and The Dialectic of Enlightenment October 16, 2004 1st Annual Graduate Student History Conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Paper: The Historical Traumatic – Gendered Discourse in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Todesarten and Theodor Adorno’s The Authoritarian Personality and The Dialectic of Enlightenment Teaching Experience 2007 – 2008 Ohio University: Women’s Studies Program. Visiting Assistant Professor. WS 100 – Introduction to Women’s Studies. WS 200 – Issues in Feminism. WS 350 – Feminist Theory. WS 460/560 – Gender, Culture, Society (cross-listed; graduate seminar) Fall 2005 - Spring 2006 SUNY Oswego: Art Department. Lecturer. ART 100: Introduction to Art. Fall 2004 – Spring 2005 Binghamton University, SUNY: Comparative Literature Department. Ph.D. Student and Instructor of Record. COLI 331E: Cinema and Violence. COLI 280Z: Translating Literature into Film. COLI 211B: Literature and Psychology. Teaching Competencies Literary Theory History and Theory of Photography Visual Culture Studies and Critical Theory Visual Culture and Literature in the post-communist context Women’s and Gender Studies World Literature Holocaust Literature in the Eastern-European context German and Austrian Post-War literature |
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