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Seminar

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

On February 25, on Wednesday at 14:00 in the room 101 at the University of Georgia Leila Kiknadze gave a seminar on the topic:

 

“Minorities in the Near East”

 

It was attended by CBSR staff and the centre members, students of the School of Humanities at the University of Georgia and others. The seminar was followed by a discussion on the topic. 

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Seminar

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

On February 18, on Wednesday at 14:00 in the room 101 at the University of Georgia Tamar Koridze gave a seminar on the topic:

 

“Catholitry of Abkhazia”

 

It was attended by CBSR staff and the centre members, students of the School of Humanities at the University of Georgia and others. The seminar was followed by a discussion on the topic. 

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Seminar

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

On February 16, on Monday at 14:00 in the room 101 at the University of Georgia  PhD Candidate from Central European University in Cultural Anthropology Andrea Weiss gave a seminar on the topic:

 

“Problems and Issues on Ethnicity”

 

It was attended by CBSR staff and the centre members, students of the School of Humanities at the University of Georgia and others. The seminar was followed by a discussion on the topic. 

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CBSR First International Conference

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Conflict and Transformation: State Rhetoric, Search for Identity, and Citizenship in South Caucasus

 

 

September 3-4 Tbilisi, Georgia

  

 

For further information, please, see the attached letter from the director of CBSR letter-from-director

 

Centre for the Study of Caucasus and Black Sea Region (CBSR) at the University of Georgia First International Conference.

 

Date: 3-4 September 2009

Location: Tbilisi, Georgia

Deadline is extended until: June 20 

Contact: cbsrconference@gmail.com  

 

The Conference is organized by the Centre for the Study of Caucasus and Black Sea Region at the University of Georgia. 

 

Find attached the program of CBSR 1st International Conference: cbsrconferenceprogram

 

The Centre for the Study of Caucasus and Black Sea Region (CBSR) is pleased to invite paper abstracts for First International Conference, September 3-4, 2009. Papers relating to humanities and social science scholarship on conflicts in South Caucasus are welcome. The event will be held at the University of Georgia, Tbilisi. The general topic of the conference is State Rhetoric, Search for Identity and Citizenship in the South Caucasus. This year, due to the generated conflict between Georgia and Russia centered over South Ossetia, we especially encourage proposals that touch on conflicts in Georgia.

 

For further information, please visit the following link: conference_cbsr

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Director

Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Tina Ghudushauri
Tina Ghudushauri

Tinatin Ghudushauri obtained her BA in History and MA in Ethnology and Foreign Languages, special subject German language from Tbilisi State University. In 2001 she defended her PhD in Ethnology at the same university.  She participated in various scientific projects at the University of Vienna (1991), at the Independent University of Berlin (1996) and the University of Zaarbruken (2002 & 2004). In 1980 she joined  the faculty of Ethnology at Tbilisi  State University and is presently  Senior Researcher (Associate Professor). Since 2005 she is  Dean of the School of Humanities at the University of Georgia and Director of Centre for the Study of Caucasus and Black Sea Region. Tinatin has published numerous important scientific works and articles such as Forms and Characteristics of Interpretation of Cultures in American Anthropology (2007): Dynamics of Syncretization of Religious Thinking of Georgian Highlander According to XIX century German Ethnologists (2004). Fireplace: the symbol of sacred centers in the religious thinking of Highlanders (2003).

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Executive Director

Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Tamta Khalvashi
Tamta Khalvashi

Tamta Khalvashi is an Executive Director of the Centre for the Study of Caucasus and Black Sea Region. She is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Georgia. Her research is concerned with cultural transmission, borderland imagination and citizenship in north-eastern border region in Turkey.  In 2008, she was a Visiting Study Fellow at International Gender Studies Centre, Department of International Development, University of Oxford.  Recent publications include ‘Ideal Scheme’ or ‘Passing over the Rainbow’: Transmission of Georgian Cultural Identity among the Fereydani Gorjis in the peer reviewed Journal Iran and the Caucasus, Volume 12, 2008. She gave her paper, “Being Between Two Waters”: Transmission of Georgian Ethnic Identity, State Official Narrative and Imagination at  the Conference on Caucasus Studies, University of Malmo, Sweden.

Contact: t.khalvashi@ug.edu.ge

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Seminar

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

On February 12, on Thursday at 14:00 in the room 101 at the University of Georgia Maka Chkheidze gave a seminar on the topic:

 

“Frame Semantics and External World”

 

It was attended by CBSR staff and the centre members, students of the School of Humanities at the University of Georgia and others. The seminar was followed by a discussion on the topic. 

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Seminar

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

On February 4th, on Wednesday at 14:00 in the room 101 at the University of Georgia Tamaz Beradze gave a seminar on the topic:

 

“From the History of Georgian-Russian Relationship (From “Georgievsky’s Treatise” until today)”

 

It was attended by CBSR staff and the centre members, students of the School of Humanities at the University of Georgia and others. The seminar was followed by a discussion on the topic.  

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