Biography
Ketevan Lapachi graduated from Tbilisi State university, with degree in Oriental Studies, in 2018. In 2018-2019, she was a Kuwait University scholarship holder for learning Arabic language. In 2021, she received a master’s degree in Religious Studies from Ilia State University. While studying for a Master’s program in Religious Studies, she was awarded an Erasmus+ scholarship to spend one semester at Uppsala University, Sweden. Ketevan presented her master’s thesis “The Impact of COVID-19 Restrictions on Funeral Rites” in 2022 at the summer school organized by the WWU Münster, for young scholars, entitled “Pandemic Ethics in Georgia and Germany”. Ketevan participated in various workshops and summer schools held for young researchers and PhD students: “The struggle for attention in the public sphere”, TU Dresden, Germany, 2023; ” Coexistence Theology”, Orient Institute Beirut, Cairo, Egypt, 2022; “Researching Common Territories”, Marneuli, Georgia, 2022.
Publications
- Ketevan Lapachi, Lala Iskandarli. 2022. “Storoes of Kiosks(Past and Present of Shaumiani)”, Researching Common Territories, https://www.commonterritory.com/rct-2022/publication/stories-of-kiosks/
- Ketevan Lapachi. 2022. “Liminalities: Death, Pandemic, and War,” Indigo, https://indigo.com.ge/articles/sikvdili-pandemia-da-omi
- Ketevan Lapachi. 2021. “Challenges of Memory Based Research(based on the fieldwork in Chiatura and Zestafoni)”, Life by the Railroad: Memory and Contemporaneity of Chiatura and Zestafoni. Forum for Intercultural Dialogue and Cultural Heritage Protection, Tbilisi, pp. 62-65.