Category: Seminar on campus

Sign-up for RUCARR Symposium November 6-7

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Language in Conflict and War – Ukraine, Caucasus, Russia

November 6  (online zoom panels) and November 7  (campus & webinar)

Registration required for zoom and webinar links. [check for program updates]

Sign-up link for November 6 and 7

NOVEMBER 6

10.00 Opening of the Symposium

10.15-11.45 Language in conflict and war – focus: Ukraine Abstracts

Dr. Liudmyla Pidkuimukha (Justus Liebig University Giessen) Weaponizing Language: How Russia Commits Linguicide on the Occupied Territories of Ukraine

Svetlana L’nyavsky (Lund University): I am a Russian Ukrainian, but I will not learn Ukrainian just for you! Language ideological debates, linguistic vigilantism, and Internally Displaced People at the time of war

Solomija Buk, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Department of General Linguistics: Ukrainian for Foreigners in Russian-Ukrainian War: Changes and Challenges

13.00-14.30 Central Asia’s Complex Tapestry: Language, Education, Colonial Legacies, and Decolonial Perspectives   Abstracts

Juldyz Smagulova and Kara Fleming (College of Humanities and Education, at KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan): Shame and struggles for power: New speakers of Kazakh in Kazakhstan

Edward Lemon (Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University) and Oleg Antonov (visiting researcher at GPS and RUCARR, Malmö University; visiting researcher at Södertörn University): Academic Diplomacy: The Educational Aspects of Russian Soft Power in Tajikistan

Victoria Clement Central Asian Insights): Avoiding a Reckoning: Memory Days and History in Turkmenistan

PhD candidate Dina Kucherbayeva and Prof. Juldyz Smagulova: Language Revitalization: Challenges for Kazakh in Higher Education

14.45-16.15. Language in conflict and war – focus: North Caucasus and Turkey  Abstracts

Emre Pshigusa (U.S. State Department, English Language Fellow): The Circassian language and identity created a feeling of illegality in us” Language Ideologies, Policies, and Circassian Language Rights in Turkey

Lars Funch Hansen (Circassian Studies) The marginalisation of Circassian language through local history teaching, with cases from Krasnodar Krai including the Black Sea coast

Valeriya Minakova (Penn State): “It all starts in the family”: Placing discourses on the role of families in Circassian language preservation into a historical-political context

16.30-17.45. Historical perspectives   Abstracts

Otari Gulbani (Central European University MA): Russian Imperial Orientalism in Svaneti: A Discursive Analysis

Sam Tarpley (Tulane University, Grad stud): Contemporary Deconstruction: Post-Soviet Monuments and the American South

NOVEMBER 7   (campus and webinar)  Abstracts 

Sign-up link for November 6 and 7

10.15 Welcome  (Niagara, 5th floor, C section (Nordenskiöldsgatan 1)

10.30-11.45. Morning session 

Giorgi Alibegashvili (State Language Department of Georgia) & Maka Tetradze. (State Language Department of Georgia & Tbilisi State University):: Street Georgian – as a Reflection of functioning of the State language in Georgia

Tinatin Bolkvadze (Tbilisi State University & State Language Department): How to assess the functioning of the Russian language in Georgia (online)

13.00-14.15 Afternoon session 1 

Nadiya Kiss (JLU Giessen): Languages at war: Language shift, contested language diversity and ambivalent enmity in Ukraine

Andrey Makarychev (University of Tartu): “Estonian Russophones: A Biopolitical Story”

14.30-15.45. Afternoon session 2

Mariam Manjgaladze (Caucasus University): Issues of the Official Language Ecology in Contemporary Georgia  

Lidia Zhigunova (Tulane University, USA): Russia’s War on Indigenous Languages: The Case of Circassian in the North Caucasus

15.50-16.20. Concluding Roundtable

Moderator: Professor Barbara Thörnquist-Plewa, Central and Eastern European Studies, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University

Roundtable discussion on translating Georgian and Swedish literature

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A roundtable discussion with translators of Georgian literature into Swedish and Swedish literature into Georgian was organized on March 7. Panel participants:

  • Dr. Manana Kock Kobaidze, Senior lecturer in Georgian, Malmö University, and also translator and writer
  • Dimitri Gogolashvili, based in Tbilisi and working as a translator in Swedish/Georgian
  • Tamara Tchikovani, based in Sweden and working as a translator in Swedish/Georgian, specializing on children’s literature and Astrid Lindgren
  • Kristian Carlsson, publisher (at publishing house Smockadoll) and writer, translator English/Swedish and also working on translations from Georgian into Swedish.

The discussion was moderted by Teresa Tomasevic, Malmö University

Seminar on Georgian literature

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Welcome to a seminar on Georgian literature –
Due to unforeseen circumstances the first part of the seminar has been rescheduled to March 6:

– March 6, 15.00-16.00
Part I Kakhaber Loria’s guest lecture
– March 7, 15.15-16.30
Part II Roundtable on Georgian/Swedish literary translations

Prof. Kakhaber Loria, Tbilisi Sate University, will give a guest lecture on central lines of development in the Georgian literature from earlier periods up to today,  followed by a round-table discussion with translators of Georgian literature into Swedish and Swedish literature into Georgian (the seminar will be held in Swedish/Norwegian).

(1)  Gästföreläsning med Prof. Kakhaber Loria. Hovedlinjer i den georgiske literaere prossesen fra de eldste tider til og med dagens literatur. Kakhaber Loria är professor i litteraturvetenskap och ledare av Centret för skandinaviska studier vid Tbilisis statliga universitetet (TSU)

(2)  Rundabordssamtal kring georgisk litteratur i Sverige och svensk litteratur i Georgien.
I samtalet deltager Dimitri Gogolashvili, Manana Kock Kobaidze, Tamara Tchikovani och Kristian Carlsson, alla verksamma som översättare av skönlitteratur mellan georgiska och svenska. Samtalet kommer att hållas på svenska/norska. Moderator: Teresa Tomasevic.

  • Dr. Manana Kock Kobaidze, universitetslektor i georgiska vid Malmö universitet, författare och översättare 
  • Dimitri Gogolashvili, verksam som översättare mellan bl a svenska/georgiska
  • Tamara Tchikovani, verksam som översättare mellan svenska/georgiska
  • Kristian Carlsson, förläggare och verksam som översättare mellan bl a svenska/georgiska

Plats: Niagara vån 10, C1029 (Nordenskiöldsgatan 1)
Tid: Del 1. mars 6, 15.00-16.00
Tid: Del 2. mars 7, 15.15-16.30 (externa deltagare: 15.00 vid Receptionen på bottenvån)
Anmälan till Teresa Tomasevic senast mars 6 kl 12 (teresa.tomasevic@mau.se)

Evenemangen ordnas i samband med lärarutbyte inom ett Linnaeus-Palme-projekt för samarbete mellan Centret för skandinaviska studier vid Tbilisiuniversitetet och Svenska som andraspråk samt Kaukasusstudier vid Malmö universitet (projektledare Teresa Tomasevic).

Ongoing work on “Audio/Video Archive of the Budukh Language”

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Today’s Caucasus seminar was special. PhD Candidate Elnur Aliyev gave a presention to colleagues of Caucasus Studies, Malmö University, and Linguistics at Lund University about ongoing work on his project “Audio/Video Archive of the Budukh Language.

Elnur is soon returning to Tbilisi State University after two years at Malmö University (thanks to funding from Erasmus Mundus and the Swedish Institute).

We look forward contunued cooperation and wish Elnur good luck in his thesis work and other ongoing projects on endangered Dagestani languages.

Seminars: Declarations of Independence in the Caucasus – 100 years

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RUCARR and Caucasus Studies, Malmö University (Sweden) are celebrating the 100 years’ Anniversary of the Declarations of Independence in the Caucasus on May 22 with participation from all three South Caucasian republics – Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. Sign up by tomorrow, May 17. Welcome!
Programme and sign-up link: http://wpmu.mah.se/rucarr/2018/05/15/preliminary-programme-100-years-anniversary-seminar/

 

Presentation of Diplomat Magazine and Panel discussion

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In connection with the Second Annual RUCARR Conference, the bilingual Diplomat Magazine of Georgia organized a presentation of its October issue, which has a special focus on Georgian-Swedish relations. 

Katrine Gotfredsen, Caucasus Studies, participated in the following panel discussion Human Rights in Peace-building: Exploring the conflicts in the South Caucasuswith George Mchedlishvili (Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs & International Black Sea University), Malkhaz Kakabadze (Ambassador of Georgia to Sweden and Finland), Gigi Gigiadze (Ambassador of Georgia to Denmark) and Alexandre Kukhianidze (Professor, Tbilisi State University). The panel was moderated by Natia Gamkrelidze, Executive director of the Diplomat Magazine.

When: 2017-11-22 10:00 — 2017-11-22 11:30
Where: GÄDDAN8, Citadellsvägen 7, room – Storm

Lecture by visiting professor Kazim Azimzade

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Professor Kazim Azimzade (Azimov) is visiting professor at the Section for Caucasus Studies (Malmö University). On Tuesday October 17, 15.00-16.00, he will give a presentation on multiculturalism in Azerbaijan. All are welcome to the lecture in room 0826, Niagara building. The title of the presentation is The Azerbaijani multiculturalism model. 

Professor Azimzade’s home institution is Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Psychology, Baku State University, Azerbaijan. He will visit Malmö University for three months.

 

Open lecture on defence towers in Georgia

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the-tower-at-parsma_-768x576Welcome to attend historian Søren Theisen‘s open lecture on the theme “North Caucasian defence towers in Georgia“.

The event is organized jointly with the research platform “Russia and the Caucasus Regional Research” (RUCARR) at the Faculty of Culture and Society, Malmö University.

Photo: Søren Theisen.