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Article on Georgia in “Ethnographie of Grey Zones in Eastern Europe”

By imkava April 14, 2015 April 14, 2015 Research

PhD Katrine Gotfredsen, senior lecturer in Caucasus Studies (Malmö University) is one of the contributors in the new publication Ethnographie of Grey Zones in Eastern Europe. Relations, Borders and Invisibilities (Anthem Press 2015), edited by Ida Harboe Knudsen and Martin Demant Frederiksen. Her contrition is entitled: “Invisible Connections: On Uncertainty and the (Re)production of Opaque Politics in the Republic of Georgia”.

Read more about the publication: http://www.anthempress.com/ethnographies-of-grey-zones-in-eastern-europe-pb

On the security situation in Chechnya

By imkava March 30, 2015 March 30, 2015 External activities, Interview, Media

Radio P4 interview with Märta-Lisa Magnusson, senior lecturer in Caucasus Studies at Malmö University, on the security situation in Chechnya.

Background
Following a decision by the Swedish Migration Board a Chechen family was sent back to Chechnya from Sweden. A couple of months after their return the father was killed.

Listen to the interview: http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=91&artikel=6129699

Abkhaz in the Lundic project

By imkava March 12, 2015 March 12, 2015 External activities, Field visits, Research

Abkhaz is one of the languages targeted in the research project LUNDIC “Lund Digital Atlas of Language and Culture” (http://project2.sol.lu.se/lundic/). Prof. Teimuraz Gvantseladze at the Institute for Abkhazology, Sokhumi State University (Georgia) http://sou.edu.ge/index.php discusses the process of data collection and the upcoming workshop with prof. Karina Vamling.

Current political dynamics in the South Caucasus

By imkava March 11, 2015 March 12, 2015 Events, Web/campus seminar

Web/campus seminar at Caucasus Studies, Malmö University: March 11  2015. George Mchedlishvili, Associate prof. of University of Georgia, gave a presentation at our web seminar on March 11, 16.15, on the topic “Current political dynamics in the South Caucasus”

Watch the first part of the seminar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZxagU9n3Zc

Workshop: Sochi one year on

By imkava February 13, 2015 March 12, 2015 Events, Other events, Research, Uncategorized

Sochi One Year On: Workshop on the Aftermath of the Winter Olympics of 2014

Malmö, Sweden, 12-13 February 2015
Organizers: Bo Petersson & Karina Vamling, Malmö University
Venue: Malmö City Museum, Linnaeus Room

Thursday 12 February
Alexandra Yatsyk (Kazan/Tartu): Abrading Russia’s sovereignty: from Sochi 2014 to the World Cup 2018
Martin Müller (Zürich): Value for money? Costs and benefits of the most expensive Games ever
Lars Funch Hansen (Copenhagen): Impressions after two field-visits to the Sochi Black Sea coast during 2014: Circassians and ethno-tourism

Friday, 13 February
Bo Petersson & Karina Vamling (Malmö): Fifteen Minutes Long Gone: The Circassians after Sochi
Sergei Akopov (St. Petersburg): Sochi-2014: how Olympics became a magnifier and source of competing symbolic politics
Concluding discussion

(Funding: Åke Wiberg Foundation and Malmö University)

Perspektiv på Ukraina, Ryssland och Kaukasus

By imkava February 11, 2015 February 13, 2015 External activities, Open lectures

Märta-Lisa Magnusson, universitetslektor i kaukasusstudier vid Malmö högskola, höll föredrag på Arvika Bibliotek 11 februari över temat Perspektiv på Ukrainakrisen. Ryssland och de postsovjetiska staterna i Kaukasus.

Det händer på Arvika Bibliotek http://arvika.se/kommunochpolitik/pressochinformationsmaterial/nyheter/nyhetsarkiv/dethanderpaarvikabibliotekv7.5.3278eb23144b2e75ebe17749.html

Welcome to the Spring semester 2015

By imkava January 19, 2015 January 19, 2015 Uncategorized

Today, January 19, is the first day of the Spring semester 2015. We are very happy to welcome all new students to our Caucasus Studies online courses:

Caucasus Field and Case Studies;
Post-Soviet Caucasus:Politics, Civil Society: Economy;
Caucasus Studies I.

We look forward to working with you and wish you a successful and interesting semester!

Caucasus Studies staff at Malmö University

http://www.mah.se/caucasusstudies/courses

Seminar on loanword typology in Lezgian

By imkava December 10, 2014 December 26, 2014 Events, Seminar on campus, Visiting staff

PhD candidate Maka Tetradze, Tbilisi State University & Eminence Erasmus Mundus exchange PhD candidate at Malmö University, outlines her findings on loanword typology on the basis of data collected on the Lezgian language (Northeast Caucasian, Dagestan languages).

When? December 10, 10.15
Where? Malmö University, Gäddan8, Citadellsvägen 7

The Role of Digital Diaspora in the Circassian Revival

By imkava December 2, 2014 December 5, 2014 Events, Web/campus seminar

Caucasus web/campus seminar

On the basis of research from his recently defended doctoral dissertation The Circassian Revival: a quest for recognition at the Dept. of Crosscultural and Regional Studies, Copenhagen University, PhD Lars Funch Hansen will give the seminar:The Role of Digital Diaspora in the Circassian Revival.

When: December 3, 16.15-17.30 (Swedish time)
Where: Malmö University Campus, “Kranen” studio
Online participation: send an email to caucasus.studies@mah.se

Link to the seminar: http://bambuser.com/v/5122978

Welcome!

Seminar: Language names and terminology

By imkava November 28, 2014 December 5, 2014 Events, Seminar on campus

Professor Zaal Kikvidze, Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, Tbilisi Javakhishvili State University, Georgia (http://www.tsu.edu.ge/en/). Title of the seminar – “Language Names: Terminology and Ideology”.

Professor Kikvide is currently on a three month staff exchange at the department (funded by the Erasmus Mundus Ember project, http://www.mah.se/english/Education/Exchange-student/Erasmus-Mundus-EMBER/).

Author: imkava