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New anthology on Soviet Caucasus

We witnessed the Soviet break-up Five Scandinavian researchers on the final years of the USSR, seen from the Caucasus. A new publication is out, edited by Märta-Lisa Magnusson and Karina Vamling. Publisher Universus Academic...

Presentation at the Conference on Emigration and Literary Discourse

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...

New publication on language use among the Tsova-Tush

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...

Progress with the English version of Swedish/Danish anthology

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...

Participation in the symposium Kartvelian Studies: History, Modernity, Perspectives

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...

Conference presentation, Georgian Academy of Sciences

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...

Planning the English version

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...

New publication by Nana Janashia

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...

Thesis defense

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:...
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