On October 21, 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 Eugene Slonimerov, titled – „“Where is Arsenali Hill?” Visual and participatory research methods in the urban landscape”

The ongoing research project takes the site of the former Russian military installation in Tbilisi as a non-human subject, a green heterotopia on the wrong side of the tracks, a staging ground for “uncanny elsewheres” in a city where green space is seen as scarce. A hill with an iconic past, unclear present and future: what does it see?

“Where is Arsenali Hill?” is part of the research project An Anthropology of Gardens“Otherwise and Elsewhere”. Principal Investigator Paul Manning (Trent University, Canada); Collaborators Ketevan Gurchiani, Tamta Khalvashi, Florian Muehlfried (Ilia StateUniversity). The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada (2022-2027).

Eugene Slonimerov holds an MA in Eurasian and European Studies from University of Toronto. He has taught Urban Studies at Caucasus University (Tbilisi) and War and Violence Studies at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, speaks and writes about buildings, green space, and displaced people and holds the position of Research Chair with the Kensington Market Community Land Trust, an affordable housing advocate and operator in Toronto, Canada. He leads memory mapping workshops and walks through his ongoing project best_hole_in_fence and is a door person at one of Toronto’s underground techno clubs.

Working Language: English

Date and Time: October 21, 5:00 PM (Tbilisi time)

Format: Online via Zoom https://shorturl.at/EfuxM

Attendance: Free and open to the public

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