Doctoral student Dato Lagidze took part in the global mobility conference in Seoul

Dato Laghidze, a PhD student at Ilia State University’s Doctoral Program in Social and Cultural Anthropology, participated in the Global Humanity Mobility Conference held from 24 to 26 October 2024 in Seoul, South Korea. Dato Laghidze Participated in the symposium Aspirational Infrastructure Research: Mobilities, Airports, Place (AIR-MAP) organised by the International Institute of Asian Studies […]

Anthropology professor Ketevan Gurchian gave a public talk at Binghamton University

Anthropology professor Ketevan Gurchian gave a public talk at Binghamton University on November 18, entitled “Creeping dead and adopted graves: what cemeteries do in Tbilisi”. How did death-related practices and ideas about the afterlife shape cemeteries and their influence on urban life in Tbilisi? This talk explores how cemeteries act as both gardens and non-gardens […]

Professor Tamta Khalvash presented a forthcoming book, Peripheral Shame at Warsaw University

In the framework of the seminar series, “Postcolonial Perspectives – Postdependence Entanglements” at Warsaw University on November 19, Tamta Khalvashi presented her forthcoming book, “Peripheral Shame: Affective City and Nation on the Edge of Postcolonial Georgia”. Based on the forthcoming book Peripheral Shame: Affective City and the Nation on the Margins of Post-Colonial Georgia, Tamta […]

Anthropology PhD candidate Esma Berikishvili became a fellow at the Center for East European Studies of the University of Zurich

Esma Berikishvili, PhD student of Social and cultural anthropology at Ilia State University, received a four-month residential fellowship at the Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES) at the University of Zurich. At the CEES she will work on a project titled “The City of Eternal Promises – Navigating Infrastructure, Informal Economies, and Geopolitical Dynamics in […]

The Fluidity of Infrastructure: Emotions, Bodies and Social Transformations – Doctoral Students’ Panel at ASIAC – 2024 conference

PhD students of Social and cultural anthropology at Ilia State University are organizing the panel at the XVIII ASIAC Annual Conference at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in December 2024. This year’s ASIAC conference will examine various aspects of connections, mobilities, and infrastructures in Central Asia and the Caucasus, including, but not limited to, studies […]

Doctoral students of the PhD Programme in Social and Cultural Anthropology participated in the EASA conference

Esma Berikishvili and Mariam Shalvashvili, doctoral students of social and cultural anthropology at Ilia State University, presented the results of their doctoral studies at the international conference organized by the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) on July 23-26 in Barcelona. Esma Berikishvili presented her paper “Disrupted Waves: Undoing Maritime Livelihoods and State Reforms in […]

“Fishing Ban at Lake Sevan: Surveillance, Arbitrariness and the Multilayered State” – Online Talk by Arev Papazian

On December 8, at 5:00 p.m., a series of anthropology research seminars with the doctoral program will host Arev Papazian, a PhD candidate at the Central European University, presenting her research titled “Fishing Ban at Lake Sevan: Surveillance, Arbitrariness and the Multilayered State”. FISHING BAN AT LAKE SEVAN: SURVEILLANCE, ARBITRARINESS AND THE MULTILAYERED STATE About […]

Towards Decolonial Perspectives: Rethinking Peace within Syrian Refugee Communities in Jordan A Public Lecture by Bayan Arouri, researcher Tampere Peace Research Institute at Tampere University

On April 28th, at 17:00, Ilia State University Anthropology Seminars and gender Research Center host Bayan Arouris’ public lecture “Towards Decolonial Perspectives: Rethinking Peace within Syrian Refugee Communities in Jordan”. Bayan Arouri is a PhD student at Peace Research Institute at Tampere University. She graduated MA  program in  Human Rights and Development in Jordan. Her […]

The ‘post’ in perspective: global reconfigurations of law, politics and religion

On March 31, 2023 at 5:00 pm, a presentation by Vlad Naumescu will be held as part of the PhD program in Anthropology. The research seminar will be conducted online via the Zoom platform. The title of the lecture is: The ‘post’ in perspective: global reconfigurations of law, politics and religion This exploratory talk draws […]

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