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Įrašė Moacir P. de Sá Pereira
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2008.02.18 15.48 |
 Lietuvos Taryba. wikipedia I hated V-16 as a kid, as the holiday was always marked with boring minėjimai in the claustrophobic basement of St. Peter’s in South Boston. And now that I’m an adult, the stench of strident nationalism has kept me away (as has abject laziness, academic commitments, Super Mario Galaxy, u.s.w.).
The stark way that Vincas asked the question, though, made me feel odd for not commemorating the event, so I decided to stage an anti-commemoration of sorts on these pages. That is, I’m not so certain that V-16 deserves our commemorating. The establishment of the Republic of Lithuania involved a lot of hard decisions regarding several competing tensions, all tugging away at different views of what that part of Europe should look like. It strikes me that in choosing as they did, the Lietuvos Taryba perhaps did more harm than good, creating animosities that last to this day. And while I hesitate to affix a valuative judgment on the enterprise as a whole, I think that a deeper understanding is very, very useful as a way of refashioning a self-understanding as “Lithuanian.”
The next three posts, then, will hopefully create the space for this anti-commemoration. The first post, which I hope goes up today, will be a sort of contextualization of the different theoretical conflicts in Lithuania at the time. It will be the most generally historical. The second part will be more about the actual results of the declaration of independence, mostly in the way it harmed relationships among various ethnic, religious, and social groups, wondering if the strident nationalist goal of an independent Lithuania was worth it. The third part will be a recovery, trying to imagine what a politically sound V-16 commemoration might feature.
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Paskutinį kartą atnaujinta ( 2008.02.19 12.38 )
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Įrašė Moacir P. de Sá Pereira
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2008.01.29 11.33 |
 Vilnius already has distinct features.
In my first post on this rebranding, this “extreme makeover,” I looked at the basis of the rebranding: forming a new identity for Lithuania based on the principle of boldness. In the second post, I looked at the possibility of renaming Lithuania to something more approachable in English.Now it is time to look at the few concrete examples that have already made it into the press. I have absurdly varying levels of commitment to each of the proposals, but I can already guarantee that the large bulk of this final post will be about the trying to get a Guggenheim Museum to come to Lithuania.
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Paskutinį kartą atnaujinta ( 2008.01.30 09.01 )
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Įrašė Moacir P. de Sá Pereira
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2008.01.27 18.48 |
Sanctus Bruno, qui cognominatur Bonifacius, archepiscopus et monachus XI suae conversionis anno in confinio Rusciae et Lituae a paganis capite plexus cum suis XVIII, VII Id. Martii petiit coelos.
 Excerpt from the Annales Quenlinbergensis. wikipedia
On Friday we learned that, part of Lithuania’s rebranding project, the government is considering a name change in English. In a previous post I discussed the value of pursuing the historical boldness of the Žečpospolita when trying to brand Lithuania as brave and innovative. And in a future post, I discuss the specific plans of raising the nation’s profile. But this post, the most fun one for me, is about renaming.
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Paskutinį kartą atnaujinta ( 2008.01.30 09.13 )
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Įrašė Moacir P. de Sá Pereira
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2008.01.27 14.57 |
 The news broke late last week, and was spun in two different ways to two different news audiences. In lietuviams.com, reprinting an article from Delfi, Mindaugas Jackevičius wrote with his opening sentence that "Lietuva - drąsi šalis." The marketing program that decided on this version of Lithuania also recommended that Lithuania change its English name, which became this lede in Reuters:
Lithuania is thinking about changing its name in English to something easier to pronounce in plans to boost its image, officials said on Friday.
The projects are related, of course. They are parts of a general marketing concept that was developed by a commission led by Gediminas Kirkilas. And they suggest, in their two main recommendations, two things about Lithuania (, Republic of) that gladdens me quite a bit. In this post, I address the branding of Lithuania as a bold nation. I address the actual renaming in greater detail in a later post. In a third post, I address the other, more specific recommendations, particularly the desire for a Guggenheim Museum in Lithuania.
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Paskutinį kartą atnaujinta ( 2008.01.27 19.24 )
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