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Those Without a Homeland: Symbolic Unhoming amid the Epistemic Crisis in Georgia

An article by Ilia State University Social and Cultural Anthropology PhD candidates Lika Jalaghania, Mariam Urdia, and Ketevan Lapachi, together with postdoctoral researcher Esma Berikishvili, was published in the Studies on Central Asia and the Caucasus

Uncanny Remnants: Ruins, Otherness, and Belonging in Northeastern Turkey

The Death and Life of Southern Soviet Cities: Urban Futures and their Afterlives

The Soviet concept of kulʼturnostʼ in the post-socialist and post-migratory context

Benjamin Arenstein “On the Reading of Poetry and the Poetry of Reading: The Literary Lives of the Soviet Jewish Underground in Leningrad and Lithuania”

Workshop “The Protest Affect: Georgia’s Anti-Authoritarian Resistance and the Struggle for Democracy”

Tea Kamushadze Silenced Childhoods: Socialization, Power, and Postcolonial Reflections in Georgian Soviet Ethnography

The Ecology of Everyday Life: Local Food Practices in the Face of Environmental Threats in the Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti Region

The Agency and Materiality of Sacred Texts in Armenian Christianity

Nana Iashvili’s online lecture “Collateralized lives”: Home, debt, and financialization in the Republic of Georgia

Anthropology Seminar Series March – June 2026

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