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

American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 20th talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! Marlow Davis, Columbia University  “Avant-Garde Intersections in the Democratic Republic of Georgia”
American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 19th talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! Chiara Loda, Dublin City University  “Azerbaijan: Discourse and Self-Perception”
American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 18th talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! Claire Pogue Kaiser, University of Pennsylvania, and ARISC Fellow  “Entangled Nationalisms: Language, Autonomy, and the Brezhnev Constitution in the Georgian SSR, 1977-1978”
American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 17th talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! Timothy Blauvelt, American Councils and Ilia State University  Giorgi Khatiashvili, Georgia Regents University “Stalinism and Islam in the Soviet Periphery: The 1929 Muslim Uprising in Ajara”…
American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 16th talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! George Welton, GeoWel Research  “Resource Flows, Politics and Instability in the Caucasus: a Discussion on Identifying Cause”
American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 15th talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! Paul Manning, Trent University
“Animating the City: Safavid Soundscapes in Socialist Tbilisi” Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 6:30pm
EPF/CRRC-Georgia, Kavsadze St. 3, Tbilisi
American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 14th talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! Lucile Bardin, Central European University  “Security and Identity in the South Caucasus. A case study of the Armenian minority of Samtskhe-Javakheti”
American Councils – Georgia, CRRC and ARISC invite you to join us in celebrating the 5th anniversary of the Works-in-Progress series! Prof. Kevin Tuite, University of Montreal “St. George in Georgia – Politics, Gender, Mobility”