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Oslo’s Caucasological traditions

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IMG_0591 - version 2Maka Tetradze, PhD Candidate at Chikobava Institute of Linguistics and visiting researcher at Malmö University,  and Prof. Karina Vamling (Malmö University) have visited archives in Oslo, an active center for research on the languages of the Caucasus in the mid 1920s up to the beginning of the 1980s. For several decades the Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture in Oslo hosted a programme on Caucasology. The most prominent researchers were prof. Hans Vogt (1903-1986), Alf Sommerfelt (1892-1965) and later Fridrik Thordarson (1928-2005), who were also working at Oslo University. Prof. Hans Vogt is most known as the author of “Dictionnaire de la langue oubykh” (1963) and “Grammaire de la langue géorgienne” (1971), whereas Prof. Alf Sommerfelt focused on North-East Caucasian Languages and Fridrik Thordarson devoted most of his research to Ossetic.

Collaboration with Circassian Cultural Center

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thumbnailProf. Merab Chukhua met with Karina Vamling and Revaz Tchantouria (Malmö University) at Circassian Cultural Center in Tbilisi.

Several issues were discussed – a forthcoming joint event at the Center in June and a project application to a Swedish research foundation.

Furthermore, Karina Vamling met with two Georgian PhD candidates, who will spend the academic year 2016/2017  on Erasmus Mundus scholarships at the Section for Caucasus Studies at Malmö University.

http://circassiancenter.org/permalink/28013.html

Conference – Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic Way

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IMG_0562Prof. Karina Vamling (Malmö University) attended the conference Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic Way, organised by Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic Forum IMG_0546 (1)at Nato Liason Office Georgia on April 19, 2016.

One of the speakes at the one-day conference was Laura Thornton, senior director at National Democratic Institute (NDI), who presented results from the recent public opinion poll in Georgia that notes high support for Nato and EU (https://www.ndi.org/March-2016-Public-Opinion-Issues-Press-Release-Georgia).

IMG_0542The conference was attended by politicians, diplomats and researches. Among the participants – to the left: Professors Valentina Teosa (Moldova State University, Interntional Relations Department), Karina Vamling and Alexandre Kukhianidze (Tbilisi State University, Department of Political Science).

 

Interview with Märta-Lisa Magnusson on Karabakh in Huffpost Brasil

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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

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Seminar – Georgian and Circassian immigrants in Persia and their current situation

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HamedWelcome 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)

http://bambuser.com/v/6143402

Women’s position in the context of sociocultural changes in Western Georgia

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IMG_0445Natallia 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.

Manana Kobaidze translates Georgian poetry into Swedish

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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

 

 

Circassian conference commemorating prof Giorgi Rogava’s 110th anniversary

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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.