Research Projects

Project support: Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) (2023-2024)

Research Project:  Crossing borders, building walls. Towards ethnography of Russian war mobilisation. Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Participants: Mariam Darchiashvili, Ketevan Gurchiani

Project: Between the Sea and the Land: Work and Family Lives of Georgian Sailors

Principal Investigator: Elene Gavashelishvili; 

Project support: Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia (2022-2024).

Project: Anthropology of Gardens “Otherwise and Elsewhere” (2022-2027)

Principal Investigator: Paul Manning

Project participants: Ketevan Gurchiani, Tamta Khalvashi, Florian Mühlfried.

Project Support: Social and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2022-2027).

Principal Investigator: Elene Gavashelishvili

Coordinator: Nino Rcheulishvili

Collaborators: Mariam Darchiashvili and Ketevan Gurchiani. 

Project support: Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia (2020-2023).

Project support: European Commission, Erasmus+ Jean Monet Network Programme (2023-2025)

Project: HER-UKR: Challenges and opportunities for EU heritage diplomacy in Ukraine, KU Leuven

Project participant: Ketevan Gurchiani

Project support:  Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia (2020-2023)

Principal investigator: Ketevan Gurchiani

Project coordinator: Ia Kupatadze

Project participants: Tamta Khalvashi, Paul Manning

Project: Infrastructures and Narratives: The Black Sea Connectivity (2019-2020) 

Principal Investigator: Tamta Khalvashi

Project participants: Elene Gavashelishvili, Mariam Darchiashvili, Nino Abakelia. 

Project Support: Ilia State University institutional Development Grant Program (2019-2020)

Principal investigator: Paul Manning 

Project participant: Tamta Khalvashi 

Project Support: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2015-2020).

Principal Investigator: Ketevan Gurchiani

Project Support: Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia (2015 – 2018).

Professors and affiliated academic stuff involved in the program jointly obtain local and intenational funding to conduct anthropological research.

Crossing Borders, Building Walls: Towards Ethnography of Russian War Mobilization
NAWA project; Polish Academy of Sciences; Website: http://iaepan.edu.pl/crossing-borders-building-walls-towards-ethnography-of-russian-war-mobilisation/?fbclid=IwAR1GBBnHk0VQap0fdUuR6vk2ekkemk_d1cWW-GsKy-PaeSbeoMDkQx_rgXg; Collaboration Partner Mariam Darchiashvili and Ketevan Gurchiani.

Between the Sea and the Land: Work and Family Lives of Georgian Sailors.
Principal Investigator Elene Gavashelishvili; Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia (2022-2024).

An Anthropology of Gardens “Otherwise and Elsewhere”
Principal Investigator Paul Manning; Collaborators Ketevan Gurchiani, Tamta Khalvashi, Florian Muehlfried. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada (2022-2027).

Surrogacy As Networked Phenomenon
Principal Investigator Elene Gavashelishvili; Coordinator Nino Rcheulishvili; Collaborators Mariam Darchiashvili and Ketevan Gurchiani. Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia (2020-2023).

Challenges and Opportunities for EU Heritage Diplomacy in Ukraine
Jean-Mone network; KU Leuven, Belgium. Member Ketevan Gurchiani (2023-2026).

Tbilisi As Urban Assemblage
Principal Investigator Ketevan Gurchiani; Coordinator Ia Kupatadze; Collaborators Tamta Khalvashi and Paul Manning. Website: https://urbanassemblage.iliauni.edu.ge(2020-2023).

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