Two new publications by Revaz Tchantouria have appeared in 2025/2026. Both books focus on Basque and Kartvelian languages. The ebook Basque-Kartvelian Parallels: A Contrastive Grammatical Study of the Basque and Kartvelian Languages (right) was published at Malmö University and appeared as No 9 in the series Caucasus Studies. The publication is available in Open Access...Read More

We witnessed the Soviet break-up Five Scandinavian researchers on the final years of the USSR, seen from the Caucasus Recently published: We witnessed the Soviet break-up. Five Scandinavian researchers on the final years of the USSR, seen from the Caucasus. The anthology is edited by Märta-Lisa Magnusson and Karina Vamling. The book is illustrated with numerous photos from...Read More

Happy to have been invited to give a presentation at the International Conference Emigration and Literary Discourse (https://conference.litinstituti.ge/en/speaker/) , organized by the Shota Rustaveli Instutute of Georgian Literature & Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, September 29-30. Conference program (link). The title of my presentation at the conference was “Emigrant culture in Sweden with focus on Georgian-Swedish...Read More

The special issue on Georgia of the European Journal of Minority Studies has appeared.The contribution by Karina vamling and Manana Kobaidze is entitled “Language Use among speakers of Tsova-Tush. A field study in the late 1990s.” Many thanks to the editors for a fruitful collaboration. https://biblioscout.net/journal/ejm/18/1-2Read More

Co-editors Märta-Lisa Magnusson and Karina Vamling are happy to have received funding from the Åke Wiberg Foundation for the publication of an English version of the anthology “We witnessed the break-up – Six researchers on the final years of the USSR seen from the Caucasus”, where a group of Swedish and Danish researchers recount their...Read More

Prof Karina Vamling participated as keynote speaker in the VI International Interdisciplinary Symposium of Young Scholars in the Humanities – “Kartvelian Studies: History, Modernity, Perspectives” , Tbilisi, October 11-13, 2024 with the presentation “Language Use. Among Svanetians in the late 1990s. A Questionnaire Study in Kemo-Svaneti”.Read More

Prof Karina Vamling participated in the 4th International Kartvelological Congress, Tbilisi, Georgia, September 25-27, 2024 with her presentation “Exploring the linguistic landscape of Old Batumi. The Case of Zviad Gamsakhurdia Street”. Many thanks to the organizers at the Georgian Academy of Sciences. Academy of Sciences.Read More

Creative meeting with Märta-Lisa Magnusson and Karina Vamling in Värmland, planning for an English version of the anthology “Vi såg sammanbrottet”, based on fieldwork in South and North Caucasus in the late Soviet period. —— ნაყოფიერი შეხვედრა შვედეთის მშვენიერ მხარეს ვერმლანდში, სადაც ვიმუშავეთ ჩვენი ანტოლოგიის ინგლისურ ვერსიაზე, რომელიც ეფუძნება საველე გამოკვლევებს სამხრეთ და ჩრდილოეთ კავკასიაში...Read More

Congratulations to Dr Nana Janashia on publishing the new monograph კავკასიის ხალხთა უსაფრთხოების საკითხები 1914/1921 წლების ქართული პრესის მიხედვით (Security issues of the Caucasian peoples in 1914-1921 as reflected in the Georgian press). The book is based on her doctoral dissertation in massmedia communication. https://www.librarything.com/work/book/268974977 Consultant to the monograph is Prof. Karina Vamling.Read More

Caucasus Collegium researcher, Prof. Karina Vamling, participated as a member of the defense committee on May 27 for Jesse Wichers Schreur’s PhD thesis on Tsova-Tush — Intense language contact in Eastern Georgia: The case of Tsova-Tush at the Institute for Empirical Linguistics at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. The thesis compares Tsova-Tush, Chechen and Ingush and the influence...Read More