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Laura Pozzi
I am a specialist of modern Chinese history and culture, with a focus on comic strips, cinema and museums. I spent my undergraduate years studying Chinese language and culture at the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, and at the Sichuan Foreign Studies University.
I obtained my PhD degree in 2014 at the Department of History and Civilization in the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. My dissertation, which I am now preparing for publication, analyses the production of satirical comic strips in Shanghai between the 1930s and the 1960s, and their employment in public history projects in contemporary China.
Between 2015 and 2018, I held a position of a lecturer at the Centre for China Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in Chinese modern history, popular culture, cinema, and heritage. While in Hong Kong, also edited and curated a digital collection titled “The Cultural Revolution in Images: Caricature Posters from Guangzhou, 1966–1977,” a repository of more two hundred original political posters preserved at the CUHK University Library.
My research interest as postdoctoral fellow at ECHOES is the reframing of the historical memory and the heritage of colonialism in the Shanghai History Museum and in the other city museums of the People’s Republic of China.
Address: "ECHOES - European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities" (Horizon2020)
Instytut Socjologii Uniwersytet Warszawski / Institute of Sociology University of Warsaw
ul. Karowa 18 00-927 Warszawa Poland
I obtained my PhD degree in 2014 at the Department of History and Civilization in the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. My dissertation, which I am now preparing for publication, analyses the production of satirical comic strips in Shanghai between the 1930s and the 1960s, and their employment in public history projects in contemporary China.
Between 2015 and 2018, I held a position of a lecturer at the Centre for China Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in Chinese modern history, popular culture, cinema, and heritage. While in Hong Kong, also edited and curated a digital collection titled “The Cultural Revolution in Images: Caricature Posters from Guangzhou, 1966–1977,” a repository of more two hundred original political posters preserved at the CUHK University Library.
My research interest as postdoctoral fellow at ECHOES is the reframing of the historical memory and the heritage of colonialism in the Shanghai History Museum and in the other city museums of the People’s Republic of China.
Address: "ECHOES - European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities" (Horizon2020)
Instytut Socjologii Uniwersytet Warszawski / Institute of Sociology University of Warsaw
ul. Karowa 18 00-927 Warszawa Poland
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Work package 3 (WP3) focuses on how city museums around the globe represent and engage with the colonial pasts of cities which experienced colonialism or even ‘multiple colonialisms,’ one of the key concepts of the ECHOES project. Do these museum institutions act as cultural brokers able to tackle the problem of representing entangled global histories, identities, and emotions, or conversely do they support more traditional national perspectives? How do city museums in different countries collect, exhibit, study, and engage with urban colonial heritage? Our aim is to answer these questions through qualitative comparative analyses of three city museums, focusing on all aspects such as their histories, development, collections, leading narratives, political-cultural contexts, organizational policies, outreach activities, and the reception of museum products and activities by the public. The three city museums each represent distinct colonial destinies and positions within colonial history.
The research of WP3 centers on three recently reopened or refurbished city museums situated in markedly different geopolitical and epistemic zones: Western Europe (Amsterdam Museum), Central and Eastern Europe (Museum of Warsaw) and East Asia (Shanghai History Museum/Shanghai Revolution Museum: Shanghai lishi bowuguan/ Shanghai geming lishi bowuguan, 上海历史博物馆/上海革命历史博物馆). These institutions were selected for the fact that, while they share several features, they present different alternatives to the representation of colonial pasts. Although to some extent the function and practices of these museums are comparable, each case study presents specific challenges which the individual researchers must tackle.
configured in relationship to the other in the discursive context of the “problem."....
space.”
Work package 3 (WP3) focuses on how city museums around the globe represent and engage with the colonial pasts of cities which experienced colonialism or even ‘multiple colonialisms,’ one of the key concepts of the ECHOES project. Do these museum institutions act as cultural brokers able to tackle the problem of representing entangled global histories, identities, and emotions, or conversely do they support more traditional national perspectives? How do city museums in different countries collect, exhibit, study, and engage with urban colonial heritage? Our aim is to answer these questions through qualitative comparative analyses of three city museums, focusing on all aspects such as their histories, development, collections, leading narratives, political-cultural contexts, organizational policies, outreach activities, and the reception of museum products and activities by the public. The three city museums each represent distinct colonial destinies and positions within colonial history.
The research of WP3 centers on three recently reopened or refurbished city museums situated in markedly different geopolitical and epistemic zones: Western Europe (Amsterdam Museum), Central and Eastern Europe (Museum of Warsaw) and East Asia (Shanghai History Museum/Shanghai Revolution Museum: Shanghai lishi bowuguan/ Shanghai geming lishi bowuguan, 上海历史博物馆/上海革命历史博物馆). These institutions were selected for the fact that, while they share several features, they present different alternatives to the representation of colonial pasts. Although to some extent the function and practices of these museums are comparable, each case study presents specific challenges which the individual researchers must tackle.
Special thanks to the History Department of Leiden University for its support.