Tuesday, 24 March at 17:00 PM Nana Iashvili will deliver an online lecture “Collateralized lives”: Home, debt, and financialization in the Republic of Georgia.

In this talk, Nana will present framework and preliminary findings for her PhD project that investigates credit-debt arrangements in Georgia where individuals use their homes to borrow large sums of money. Examining the roles of creditors ranging from banks to informal moneylenders, to ‘Giravnoba’, her work delves into the transformation of housing into a financial asset, subsequent displacements and dispossessions and how these processes affect households and people’s daily lives.

Nana holds an MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Central European University. Currently, at the Social and Cultural Anthropology department at the University of Vienna, Nana’s PhD research centers on housing-related debts in Georgia. Nana is a member of the Landscapes of Extraction: Capital, Violence and City team and a fellow at the Challenge of the Urban Futures Platform.

Working language: English

Format: online — for details contact mariam.darchiashvili@iliauni.edu.ge

Time: 24 March 2026, 17:00 Tbilisi time

Free to attend.