The Ecology of Everyday Life: Local Food Practices in the Face of Environmental Threats in the Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti Region
On April 7 at 17:00, the Anthropology Research Centre and the Doctoral Programme in Social and Cultural Anthropology invite you to an online seminar by Dr. Natallia Paulovich: “The Ecology of Everyday Life: Local Food Practices in the Face of Environmental Threats in the Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti Region.” Abstract: This presentation outlines the conceptual […]
The Agency and Materiality of Sacred Texts in Armenian Christianity
The Anthropology Research Center of Ilia State University, together with the PhD Program in Social and Cultural Anthropology, invites you to a seminar by Konrad Siekierski on March 31 at 17:00: “The Agency and Materiality of Sacred Texts in Armenian Christianity”. The seminar will take place at Ilia State University, Room A103 32 Ilia Chavchavadze […]
Nana Iashvili’s online lecture “Collateralized lives”: Home, debt, and financialization in the Republic of Georgia
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 […]
Anthropology Seminar Series March – June 2026
Organized by the Anthropology Research Center and the PhD Program in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ilia State University, we invite you to join our Spring 2026 Anthropology Seminar Series. The series brings together lectures and book talks, gathering researchers from Tbilisi and beyond around questions of ethnographic methodologies, everyday life, memory, place, and belonging. […]
Research Seminar in Anthropology: 10th Anniversary
In December 2015, the foundation was laid for meetings of research seminars in anthropology, which over these 10 years has taken the form of a permanent research seminar. Today, it continues to exist as a series of research seminars of the Center for Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Doctoral Program in Anthropology. Over these […]
Katie Rose Hejtmanek’slecture- The Cult of CrossFit: Cultural Christianity in the Gym
On December 16, at 5:00 PM, the Anthropology Research Center and the Doctoral Program in Anthropology at Ilia State University will host a lecture by Katie Rose Hejtmanek, Professor of Anthropology and Children and Youth Studies at Brooklyn College, of the City University of New York(CUNY), titled – “The Cult of CrossFit: Cultural Christianity in […]
Havva Nese Özgen’s online lecture – Stateless Inside and Outside Refugee Camps
On December 9, at 5:00 PM (Tbilisi time), the Anthropology Research Center and the Doctoral Program in Anthropology at Ilia State University will host an online lecture by Dr. Havva Nese Özgen, an associated researcher at IMIS, Osnabrück University, titled – “Stateless Inside and Outside Refugee Camps” This presentation invites a reconsideration of statelessness—not as […]
Irakli Pipia’s public lecture – Dismantling Soviet era Heroes in Rural Georgia
On November 18, at 5:00 PM, the Anthropology Research Center and the Doctoral Program in Anthropology at Ilia State University will host a lecture by Irakli Pipia, PhD at Tbilisi State University, titled – “Dismantling Soviet era Heroes in Rural Georgia”. Prince Alexander Chavchavadze was a 19thC Noble in kingdom of Kartli and Kakheti. His […]
Maria Sakirko’s lecture- Not here and not there: The narratives of belonging among second-generation Georgian migrants in Moscow
On November 11, at 5:00 PM, the Anthropology Research Center and the Doctoral Program in Anthropology at Ilia State University will host a lecture by Maria Sakirko, PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, titled – “Not here and not there: The narratives of belonging among second-generation Georgian migrants in Moscow”. This paper […]
Taras Fedirko’s online lecture- The gifts of war: enmity and violence in the making of Ukraine’s war economy
On October 28, at 5:00 PM (Tbilisi time), the Anthropology Research Center and the Doctoral Program in Anthropology at Ilia State University will host an online lecture by Taras Fedirko, Assistant Professor at the University of Glasgow, titled – “The gifts of war: enmity and violence in the making of Ukraine’s war economy”. Drones, cans […]