Online courses Caucasus Studies I and II (Fall 2016) are open for application – deadline April 15!
– No tuition fee for EU students.
– Instruction in English.
– Flexible: no mandatory meetings on campus.
– Web/campus seminars – see video
More info and application: http://www.mah.se/caucasusstudies/courses
Senior lecturer Märta-Lisa Magnusson is interviewed in the article “Precisamos falar some Karabakh” (We need to talk about Karabakh) by the journalist Igor Patrick Silva, published in Huffpost Brazil on March 10, 2016. Read the article: http://www.brasilpost.com.br/igor-patrick-silva/falar-karabakh_b_9285610.html
Para Märta-Lisa Magnusson, professora sênior em Estudos do Cáucaso da Universidade de Mälmo, na Suécia e especialista em conflitos pós-soviéticos, classificar Khojaly como genocídio demanda especial atenção da comunidade internacional.
(Transl.: According to Märta-Lisa Magnusson, senior lecturer in Caucasus Studies at the University of Malmö, Sweden, and an expert on post-Soviet conflicts, whether the Khojaly tragedy should be viewed as a genocide demands a special investigation of the international community.)
Listen to the whole interview in English with Märta-Lisa Magnusson:
https://soundcloud.com/igor-patrick-silva/entrevista-marta-lisa-magnusson-em-ingles
Welcome to our Web/campus seminar at Caucasus Studies, Malmö University: March 8
2016. Hamed Kazemzadeh, Senior researcher at the Center for East European Studies at University of Warsaw, will give a presentation at our seminar at, 3.15 pm (Swedish time), on the topic Georgian and Circassian immigrants in Persia and their current situation.
Where: Online & Niagara 5th floor, C0502
When: March 8, 3.15 pm (Swedish time)
Natallia Paulovich, PhD candidate at the Polish Academy of Sciences, presents her dissertation work:
Women’s position in the context of sociocultural changes in Western Georgia. Perspective of the anthropology of food.
Natallia is currently on a research visit to Caucasus Studies at Malmö University, funded by a scholarship from the Swedish Institute.
Work of the young Georgian poet Lia Liqokeli is now available in Swedish thanks sto the translators Manana Kock Kobaidze (photo) and Kristian Carlsson. The book Så skrattade jättens fru (How the Giant’s wife laughed) was published at the end of 2015 by Smockadoll Publishing House.
The book is presented and reviewed in the Swedish journal Tidningen Kulturen: http://tidningenkulturen.se/index.php/litteratur-topp/litteraturkritik/20813-litteratur-lia-liqokeli-sa-skrattade-jattens-fru
Georgia Today writes about the Georgian-Swedish cultural event: Modern Georgian Writer Admired by Swedish Critics http://georgiatoday.ge/news/2683/Modern-Georgian-Writer-Admired-by-Swedish-Critics
An international conference dedicated to the 110th anniversary of Prof Giorgi Rogava was organised by the Circassian Cultural Center in Tbilisi on December 12-13 2015. Prof Giorgi Rogava was an outstanding specialist on the Circassian language and the author of numerous works on this language. The theme of the conference was Issue of ethnic identity of Zichis/Jikis and Zichia/Jiketi in the history of Georgia (link). Read more about the opening of the conference, link.
Karina Vamling, Caucasus Studies, Malmö University, held a short opening speech and read the paper In Circassian captivity in 1845. From the Swedish doctor C.G. Fagergren’s memoirs.
Photos by Karina Vamling and Mariam Bezhitashvili.
We have an environment of competence on the Caucasus region on both sides of the Øresund strait between Denmark and Sweden that dates back for several decades. There are probably few regions where so many researchers were interested in the Caucasus at such an early date, long before the collapse of the Soviet Union – Ib Faurby, Helen Krag, Lars Funch Hansen, Märta-Lisa Magnusson, Vibeke Sperling, Søren Theisen, Karina Vamling, to mention some.
They conducted field research in the Caucasus already in the 1980s and 1990s, closely following the development in the region: the struggle for independence and democracy, through wars and ethnopolitical conflicts. In November 2005 the “Center for Caucasus Studies at Øresund University” was founded as a platform and research network (http://www.caucasusstudies.org/center/activities/founding-meeting-in-2005.html). On the basis of this collaboration the first Caucasus Studies courses were developed at Malmö University (https://youtu.be/-khXAXXP1jI).
Photos from the anniversary workshop and seminar on November 26, 2015.
The International Kartvelological Congress was held in Tbilisi on November 10-14, 2015. It was organized by the Georgian Acacemy of Sciences, Tbilisi State University and the Georgian Patriarchate.
Prof Karina Vamling, Caucasus Studies (Malmö University) participated with the paper “These wine wells are just as good as the old Goths’ vats of mead” – historic-ethnographical materials on Georgia in early Swedish newspapers.
The journal Sport in Society. Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics has recently published the special issue When the party is over: developments in Sochi and Russia after the Olympics 2014, edited by Bo Petersson (Malmö University), Karina Vamling (Malmö University) and Alexandra Yatsyk (Kazan Federal University).
Contributions include:
Lars Funch Hansen, senior lecturer at Caucasus Studies, has recently published the article iCircassia digital capitalism and new transnational identities in the first volume of the new Journal of Caucasian Studies.
What is iCircassia? As Lars Funch Hansen sees it “The significantly increased production of Circassian content on the Internet could be labelled as a form of virtual re-territorialisation of Circassia – especially considering the strong focus on identity and history. I apply the label ‘iCircassia’ as an addition to the classical understanding of the Circassian World as consisting of Circassians of the homeland and the diaspora.”
More information at: http://www.jocas.net/index.php/jocasen/article/view/4
