RESEARCH WORKSHOP: BETWEEN METAPHORS AND ONTOLOGICAL CONNECTIONS: HOW TURKISH MIGRANTS CARE FOR PLANTS AND MAKE HOMES IN GERMANY
Hilal Alkan, a researcher at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, will conduct an online research workshop on the topic “Between Metaphors and Ontological Connections: How Turkish Migrants Care for Plants and Make Homes in Germany” on September 30, at 17:00 within the framework of the project “Tbilisi as an Urban Intersection Space” funded by the Doctoral […]
MARUSIA FERRI’S REPORT “THIEF IN LAW” AS AN AMBIVALENT MORAL HORIZON FOR GEORGIAN TRANSNATIONAL THIEVES
This Wednesday, the 6th of July 2022, at 5 pm Tbilisi time, the research seminars in anthropology and the doctoral program in anthropology will host Maroussia Ferry with her talk on The “thief-in-law” as an ambivalent moral horizon for Georgian transnational burglars. Maroussia Ferry is an anthropologist by training, with a Ph.D. from the EHESS in […]
Tbilisi as an Urban Assemblage Professor Jeff Sahadeo’s Seminar “Memory, Significance: Mtkvari and Other Rivers of Georgia
Professor Jeff Sahadeo’s (Carlton University, Canada) seminar on “Memory, Significance: Mtkvari and Other Rivers of Georgia” will be held at Ilia State University within the “Tbilisi as an Urban Intersection” project (funded by the Rustaveli Science Foundation) on June 10, at 17:00. About the Seminar Rivers function as critical markers of place and identity in […]
research seminar: ‘Managing the crisis — Georgian care-workers in Thessaloniki’
We continue with our research seminars on the 20th of May, 2022, 5 pm (Tbilisi time) with the talk ‘Managing the crisis — Georgian care-workers in Thessaloniki’ In the last three decades tens of thousands of Georgian women endeavored the risky project of migration to Greece. Migrant care-workers are one of the most vulnerable groups […]
PUBLIC LECTURE: “CORPOREAL APPROACH TO RECONCILIATION AND PEACEBUILDING”
Friday, May 13th, at 5 pm in room A103 at Ilia State University, 32 Chavchavadze Avenue, Élise Féron (Tampere Peace Research Institute, Finland) will talk about the corporeal approach to reconciliation and peacebuilding. Conflict and war are, in essence, corporeal experiences: human bodies take center stage as the terrain of struggle upon which the intent and consequences of political […]
Surviving in Academia post-PhD: Research Agenda, Project Proposals and Publications Matthew Blackburn
21st April 2022, Time 5pm. Location: Ilia State University, room A103 One of the most challenging aspects of being a PhD student in the social sciences is that one not only has to execute a significant original piece of research; it is also necessary to plan the post-PhD future. While the training, procedures and support […]
Tiflis as an example of Imperial Modernization
We continue with our research seminars on the 25th of February, 2022, 5 pm Tbilisi time with the talk Tiflis as an example of Imperial Modernization Abstract: Medine Rasimgil will give a presentation related to her doctoral thesis entitled ‘Tiflis as an example of Imperial Modernization’ funded by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of […]
Arboreal Atmospheres: Phantom Pains and the Transformation of Tashkent’s Urban Natures
On the 18th of February 2022, at 17. 00 Tbilisi time, the project ‘Tbilisi as an Urban Assemblage’ (financed by Rustaveli Science Foundation) and the Anthropology Doctorate program invites to a talk Arboreal Atmospheres: Phantom Pains and the Transformation of Tashkent’s Urban Natures by Nikolaos Olma (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin) Abstract: Approaching post-socialist urban natures […]
‘Tbilisi as an Urban Assemblage’
The project ‘Tbilisi as an Urban Assemblage’ (financed by Rustaveli Science Foundation) and the Anthropology Doctorate program presents research seminar which will be held via zoom session on 11th of February, 2022. The title of the presentation will be “Re-thinking Urbanism in Armenia”. Presenter – Sarhat Petrosyan. Sarhat will present UrbanLab which is a Yerevan-based […]
Politics of Representation: Housing, Family, and State in Baku
The project “Tbilisi as an Urban Assemblage” (funded by the Rustaveli Science Foundation) and the Doctoral Program in Anthropology on January 28, 2022, at 17:00, invite you to another research seminar. Sascha Roth, an associate researcher at the Max Planck Institute, presents his research: Politics of Representation: Housing, Family, and State in Baku In this […]