GUERNICA AS ORIENT

该项目将首次对1937年对热尔尼卡的袭击进行学术分析，认为这是一次植根于中东和北非殖民暴力并与之持续对话的政治和艺术事件。它将空中轰炸作为殖民控制策略的演变与对Gernika的轰炸以及后来试图掩盖这一点的广泛的造谣运动联系在一起。同时，它还追溯了毕加索的画作《格尔尼卡》(1937)在中东和北非地区的受欢迎情况，在那里，艺术家和活动家立即抓住这幅画，将这幅超现实主义作品重新解读为他们自己困境的象征，成为殖民暴力的受害者。该项目将利用来自整个欧洲和更广泛的中东和北非地区的政府记录、新闻档案、艺术品、私人文件和口头证词，展示对杰尼卡的袭击如何成为战争行为、艺术政治和新闻媒体操纵方面一系列重大转变的支点，我们至今仍在努力应对这些后果。研究人员Erin OHalloran博士是一位研究跨国政治和帝国的历史学家，在欧洲和阿拉伯地区之间有着长期的档案研究经验，他寻求在多学科背景下进行遗产研究的新技能和知识。在剑桥遗产研究中心，她将受益于主管Dacia Viejo-Rose博士的专业知识，以及剑桥大学的其他导师和培训师。确保严格追求项目的多学科方面。该项目及其活动将支持OHalloran博士在学术研究、政策参与和公共宣传方面建立职业生涯的长期目标，重点是过去与当代社会的相关性。

This project will produce the first scholarly analysis of the 1937 attack on Gernika as a political and artistic event rooted in and in ongoing dialogue with colonial violence in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA). It connects the evolution of aerial bombardment as a tactic of colonial control to the bombing of Gernika, and the widespread disinformation campaign which then worked to cover it up. In parallel, it traces the reception of Picasso's painting, Guernica (1937) across the MENA region, where it was immediately seized on by artists and activists who re-interpreted the Surrealist work as a symbol of their own plight, as victims of colonial violence. Drawing on government records, press archives, works of art, private papers and oral testimonies from across Europe and the broader MENA region, the project will demonstrate how the attack on Gernika became the fulcrum for a set of momentous transitions in the conduct of war, the politics of art, and the manipulation of news media, whose consequences we continue to grapple with to this day. The Researcher, Dr Erin OHalloran, is a historian of transnational politics and empire with long experience of archival research between Europe and the Arab region, who seeks new skills in and knowledge of heritage studies set within a multidisciplinary context. Based at the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre, she will benefit from the expertise of the Supervisor, Dr Dacia Viejo-Rose, and additional mentors and trainers at Cambridge. ensuring the rigorous pursuit of the project's multidisciplinary aspects. The project and its activities will support the longterm goal of building Dr. OHalloran's career across academic research, policy engagement, and public outreach focused on the relevance of the past to contemporary society.