CRRC, American Councils and ARISC are pleased to announce the 15th talk of the Spring/Summer 2024 Tbilisi Works-in-Progress series!
The talk will take place in hybrid format in-person at American Councils Georgia and online.
Academic Discussion Series (WiP)
Works-in-Progress (WiP) is an ongoing academic discussion series based in Tbilisi, Georgia, that takes place at the new office of CRRC at Chkhikvadze St. 1. It is co-organized by the Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC), the American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, and the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC). All of the talks are free and open to the public.
The purpose of the WiP series is to provide support and productive criticism to those researching and developing academic projects pertaining the Caucasus region.
If you would like to present at one of the W-i-P sessions, please contact: mariam.kobaladze@crrccenters.org
CRRC, American Councils and ARISC are pleased to announce the 14th talk of the Spring/Summer 2024 Tbilisi Works-in-Progress series!
The talk will take place in hybrid format in-person at CRRC Georgia and online.
“Societal Sources of Ontological Security in Georgia”…
CRRC, American Councils and ARISC are pleased to announce the 13th talk of the Spring/Summer 2024 Tbilisi Works-in-Progress series!
The talk will take place in hybrid format in-person at CRRC Georgia and online.
“Elites and Networks in Hybrid/Autocratizing Regimes: Continuity…
This talk focuses on the rituals and traditions of the peoples of the Northwestern and Central Caucasus, based on the results of field expeditions conducted in the fall of 2018, spring of 2020, and spring of 2022. These studies were…
The essence of the Soviet economy is one of the central issues in contemporary historiography. Even if scholars do not address this problem directly, they still engage in the debates by using certain terminology to define the Soviet economy. The…
How does national identity develop? Identity development has long been a focus of political scientists, historians, and sociologists. Despite such prominent attention given, the topic persists as questions over nationhood and national identity formation continue to be illusive. Paralleling this…
Despite the rich scholarship on Muslim realms of the Russian empire and Russian imperial politics towards Islam published in recent decades, only a few works have focused on the South Caucasus. This talk will specifically discuss the lives and trans-imperial…
In 1967, the Soviet People’s Ministry of Merchant Marine decided to decentralize the merchant fleet and give every coastal republic its own ministry and maritime infrastructure. This was the birth of a Soviet success story, as within less than 10…
