Irina Koshoridze

 Irina Koshoridze got her degrees from Tbilisi State University at the Faculty of History, Department of Art History and theory. She has been working at Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts as a curator, scientific secretor, head of department and a senior curator. She is the author of many publications, such as: About the Two Royal Palaces in Georgia and Armenia of 18^thc.-Journal of Persianish studies. NY 2008 (Forthcoming, winter);  Visual images of Persian -Georgian Cultural relations at the turn of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centurie-International seminar Qajar Art-Provenance, Sources and Influences, Islamic art week in the Georgian National Museum, June 5-12, 2005, Tbilisi, pp.41-50; and many others.

Margharita Lundkvist-Houndoumadi is of Greek and Danish origin and is currently a Master’s student in Social Anthropology and Ethnography, at Aarhus University, Denmark. She has earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Social Anthropology from the same University. This fall she is conducting her fieldwork in Georgia on how women’s emigration from Georgia affects their families, who stay behind. The focus of the fieldwork is on first how the families in Georgia are affected by the transnational relations that develop with the migrated women, and second what new roles and internal family structures evolve.  

In the spring of 2007 Margharita conducted an internship at the organization CARE Denmark in Ghana, where she worked on documenting and analyzing women’s livelihoods in relation to their access to and control over land in the northern region of the country. She has been actively involved in NGOs - has worked as a volunteer English teacher in Lima’s slum, Peru, for the Danish NGO AXIS, was for one and a half year contact person for the Latin-American group in the NGO IBIS, Aarhus, Denmark, and in the spring of 2008 she was co-organizer of Amnesty International’s Balkan Film Festival #2, held in Copenhagen, Denmark.