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

WiP: Post-Communist Collective Memory Debates, July 29 – Jane Kitaevich

28 July, 2015

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”…

WiP: Funerary Horse Races and Chechen Bard Song, July 22 – Ben Wheeler

21 July, 2015

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”…

WiP: Ancient DNA investigations at Samtavro, Republic of Georgia, July 15 – Luka Papac

17 July, 2015

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”

WiP: Georgia – NATO’s Model Pupil, July 8 – Ryan McCarrel

8 July, 2015

American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 22nd talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! Ryan McCarrel, University College Dublin
“Georgia as NATO’s ‘Model Pupil’” Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at 6:30pm
EPF/CRRC-Georgia, Kavsadze St. 3, Tbilisi…

WiP: Challenges to the Preservation of Modern Architecture, July 1 – Angela Wheeler

29 June, 2015

American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 21st talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! Angela Wheeler, Columbia University “Challenges to the Preservation of Modern Architecture: A Photo Survey of Soviet-Era Architecture around Georgia”

WiP: Avant-Garde Intersections in the Democratic Republic of Georgia, June 24 – Marlow Davis

23 June, 2015

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”

WiP: Azerbaijan: Discourse and Self-Perception, June 17 – Chiara Loda

17 June, 2015

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”

WiP: Entangled Nationalisms: Language, Autonomy, and the Brezhnev Constitution in the Georgian SSR, 1977-1978. Claire Pogue Kaiser will hold the talk on June 10

8 June, 2015

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”

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