{"id":13325,"date":"2022-09-08T16:01:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T13:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.cas.bg\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=13325"},"modified":"2025-01-30T12:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:04:28","slug":"luka-nakhutsrishvili","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/profile\/luka-nakhutsrishvili\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Nakhutsrishvili"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>Luka Nakhutsrishvili teaches critical theory at Ilia State University Tbilisi and is a researcher and project coordinator at the Institute for Social and Cultural Research at the same university. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature (Eberhard-Karls-Universit\u00e4t T\u00fcbingen\/Universit\u00e9 Via Domitia Perpignan) and an MA in Philosophy (Bergische Universit\u00e4t Wuppertal\/Charles University Prague\/Universit\u00e9 Toulouse-le Mirail). Between 2015 and 2017, he was a postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation at the Zentrum f\u00fcr Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin. In 2019-2020, the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia awarded him with the Ivane Javakhishvili Fellowship for the Best Young Scientist in the Humanities. As a Visiting Lecturer, he taught at the Goethe University Frankfurt in the winter semester of 2020. In Fall 2021, Luka was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Department of Anthropology at NYU.<\/p>\n<p>Luka is currently engaged in an ethnographically grounded transdisciplinary inquiry into the making of and resistance to different projects of modernization in Georgia from the times of tsarist rule to post-Soviet independence. Within this framework, he published a two-part article on the fraught constellation between peasants, radical intelligentsia, and tsarist administration (\u201cPeasant oaths, furious icons and the quest for agency. Tracing subaltern politics in Tsarist Georgia on the eve of the 1905 Revolution. Part I: The prose of the intelligentsia and its peasant symptoms\u201d, Part II: Agents and items of (counter)insurgent political theology on the imperial borderland\u201d in: Theoretical Practice\/Praktyka Teoretyczna vol. 39\/1, 2021, 15-72). He also headed a collective research project on underexplored aspects of the Georgian Democratic Republic of 1918-1921, with a forthcoming edited volume in Georgian under the title \u201cThe Georgian Democratic Republic 1918-1921 in Search of Form and Content\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Another of his project dealing with issues of modernization is related to the cultural and economic Europeanization of the Caucasus under Russian imperial rule in the mid-19th century, with the introduction of Italian opera and the construction in Tbilisi of the so-called \u201ctheatre-caravanserai\u201d as the privileged site of inquiry. Earlier, Luka has explored entanglements of opera, modernity and cultural-political utopia in the context of mid-19th century Germany and France (\u201eThe promising ruins of the German prima donna. Wilhelmine Schr\u00f6der-Devrient and German musical discourse in the nineteenth century\u201d, in: Tel Aviver Jahrbuch f\u00fcr deutsche Geschichte, \u201cGeschichte und Repr\u00e4sentation\u201c, G\u00f6ttingen, Wallstein, 2018, 33-71; \u201eRichard Wagner als Kulturheros. Metonymien und Inflationen einer br\u00fcchigen Identit\u00e4t\u201c in: Z. Andronikashvili et al. (eds.), Der Kulturheros. Genealogien \u2013 Konstellationen &#8211; Praktiken, Kadmos, Berlin, 2017, 282-308; and the translation from French into Georgian of Charles Baudelaire\u2019s \u201cRichard Wagner and \u2018Tannh\u00e4user\u2019 in Paris\u201d, Tbilisi, Bakur Sulakauri, 2016, with an introductory essay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luka Nakhutsrishvili teaches critical theory at Ilia State University Tbilisi and is a researcher and project coordinator at the Institute for Social and Cultural Research at the same university. 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