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 […]
Online seminar: Ponichala – the district where Tbilisi ends
On December 17, at 17:00 p.m., the project “Tbilisi as an Urban Assembly” funded by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia and the Doctoral Program in Anthropology invite you to a meeting with Tatia Dvali, Master of Gender Studies in University of Paris 8. Topic: Ponichala – the district where Tbilisi ends “How […]
Online Seminar “Conversations on Rubble: Urban Assemblages in a Danish Rural Periphery”
3rd of December at 17:00 Tbilisi time the project “Tbilisi as an Urban Assemblage” (Funded by the Rustaveli Foundation) and Doctoral Program of Anthropology invite to a talk by Trine Brinkmann, PhD Anthropology, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, University College Copenhagen. Title: “Conversations on Rubble: Urban Assemblages in a Danish Rural Periphery” As a […]
From Armenian Pomegranates to Urban Gardening: Research Perspectives on Gardening, Horticulture and Plants from Transcaucasia and Beyond
Research project “Tbilisi as an Urban Assemblage” (funded by the Rustaveli Science Foundation) and the Frobenius Institute Frankfurt invite to an international webinar on October 8, 11:00 “From Armenian Pomegranates to Urban Gardening: Research Perspectives on Gardening, Horticulture and Plants from Transcaucasia and Beyond”. 8th of October 2021 (Online) OrganizersProf. Dr. Ketevan Gurchiani, Anthropology, Ilia […]