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-Georgia, American Councils and ARISC present the 6th talk of the Fall 2015 Works-in-Progress season: “Gender Assignment in Tsova-Tush” Thomas Wier, Free University of Tbilisi
CRRC-Georgia, American Councils and ARISC present the 5th talk of the Fall 2015 Works-in-Progress season: “What is a Modern State? Insights from Conceptual History” Dr. Poul Fritz Kjaer, Copenhagen Business School
CRRC-Georgia, American Councils and ARISC present the 3rd talk of the Fall 2015 Works-in-Progress season: “Female Political Representation in Georgia” Ramaz Kutateladze, Yerevan State University and Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University  
CRRC-Georgia, American Councils and ARISC present the 2nd talk of the Fall 2015 Works-in-Progress season: “Nationalism and its Explanation: Insights from Students in Georgia” Markus Sattler, Humboldt University of Berlin, Free University Berlin and University of Potsdam
CRRC Georgia, American Councils and ARISC present the opening talk of the Fall 2015 Works-in-Progress season: “A Conversation with Cinematographer Thomas Burns” Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 6:30pm EPF/CRRC-Georgia, Kavsadze St. 3, Tbilisi
American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 25th and final talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! Jane Kitaevich, University of Michigan “Facing the Skeletons in the Closet During Political Transition: Post-Communist Collective Memory Debates in Estonia and Georgia”…
American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 24th talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! Ben Wheeler, Sayat Nova Project and University of Illinois “Funerary Horse Races and Chechen Bard Song: Workings of Musical Memorial in Northeastern Georgia”…
American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 23rd talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! Luka Papac, University of Melbourne “Ancient DNA investigations at Samtavro, Republic of Georgia”