2014 Archives - Page 12 of 115

WiP: Dissident Movements in the Late Soviet Period, 16 April – Emily Tamkin

15 April, 2014

American Councils, CRRC and ARISC present the ninth talk in the Spring 2014 Works-in-Progress Series! Emily Tamkin, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University
Of Mass and Mind: Identity Formation of Dissident Movements in the Late Soviet Period Wednesday, 16 April, 2014…

Second Languages in the South Caucasus and Georgian Education Policy

14 April, 2014

In his widly read 1983 book, Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson wrote that English now serves “as a kind of global-hegemonic, post-clerical Latin.” In Georgia, knowledge of the English language is often important for educational opportunities as well as employment.…

Alternating Pasts, Changing Futures

3 April, 2014

Note: This blog is re-posted from the MYPLACE project’s blog. The original MYPLACE blog can be found here. Claims to 2000 or even 3000 years of nationhood are not difficult to find in Georgia as has been amply documented (see Pelkmans 2006,…

MYPLACE Project Meeting in Tbilisi

1 April, 2014

A MYPLACE project meeting was held in Tbilisi on March 11-12, 2014. The European Union’s 7th Framework project, MYPLACE, is implemented by a consortium of 15 partners in 14 European countries, including Georgia.

WiP: Georgica: An Open Access Academic Database on Georgia, 2 April – David Sichinava and Irakli Gunia

1 April, 2014

American Councils, CRRC and ARISC present the eight talk in the Spring 2014 Works-in-Progress Series! David Sichinava and Irakli Gunia, Tbilisi State University
“Georgica: An Open Access Academic Database on Georgia” Wednesday, 2 April, 2014 at 6:15pm
EPF/CRRC-Georgia, Kavsadze St.…

This land is my land and this land is your land

31 March, 2014

On June 28, 2013 the Georgian parliament passed a law placing a moratorium on agricultural land sales to foreigners until the end of December 2014. Agriculture has been called one of the pillars of the Georgian economy as 53% of…

WiP: Adoration No More: Perceptions of the West in the South Caucasus, March 26 – George Mchedlishvili

25 March, 2014

American Councils, ARISC and CRRC present the seventh talk in the Spring 2014 Works-in-Progress Series! George Mchedlishvili, University of Georgia and 2013 Robert Bosch Fellow, Chatham House
“Adoration No More: Perceptions of the West in the South Caucasus” Wednesday, 26…

Aspects of Georgian Nationalism

24 March, 2014

In Stephen Jones’ 2013 book, Georgia: A Political History since Independence, he argues that economic issues are more important to the average Georgian than issues related to nationalism. According to Benedict Anderson’s classic exegesis of nationalism, Imagined Communities, a nation…