Academic Discussion Series (WiP)

Works-in-Progress (WiP) is an ongoing academic discussion series based in Tbilisi, Georgia, that takes place at the new office of CRRC at Chkhikvadze St. 1. It is co-organized by the Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC), the American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, and the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC). All of the talks are free and open to the public.

The purpose of the WiP series is to provide support and productive criticism to those researching and developing academic projects pertaining the Caucasus region.

If you would like to present at one of the W-i-P sessions, please contact: mariam.kobaladze@crrccenters.org

WiP: Entangled Nationalisms: Language, Autonomy, and the Brezhnev Constitution in the Georgian SSR, 1977-1978. Claire Pogue Kaiser will hold the talk on June 10

8 June, 2015

American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 18th talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! Claire Pogue Kaiser, University of Pennsylvania, and ARISC Fellow “Entangled Nationalisms: Language, Autonomy, and the Brezhnev Constitution in the Georgian SSR, 1977-1978”

WiP: The Muslim Uprising in Ajara, June 3 – Timothy Blauvelt and Giorgi Khatiashvili

1 June, 2015

American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 17th talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! Timothy Blauvelt, American Councils and Ilia State University Giorgi Khatiashvili, Georgia Regents University “Stalinism and Islam in the Soviet Periphery: The 1929 Muslim Uprising in Ajara”…

WiP: George Welton on Resources and Political Instability, May 20

20 May, 2015

American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 16th talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! George Welton, GeoWel Research “Resource Flows, Politics and Instability in the Caucasus: a Discussion on Identifying Cause”

WiP: Safavid Soundscapes in Socialist Tbilisi, May 13 – Paul Manning

11 May, 2015

American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 15th talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! Paul Manning, Trent University
“Animating the City: Safavid Soundscapes in Socialist Tbilisi” Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 6:30pm
EPF/CRRC-Georgia, Kavsadze St. 3, Tbilisi

WiP: Security and Identity in the South Caucasus – A case study of Samtskhe-Javakheti, May 6 – Lucile Bardin

4 May, 2015

American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 14th talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! Lucile Bardin, Central European University “Security and Identity in the South Caucasus. A case study of the Armenian minority of Samtskhe-Javakheti”

5 Years of WiP! – Keynote Talk by Kevin Tuite

27 April, 2015

American Councils – Georgia, CRRC and ARISC invite you to join us in celebrating the 5th anniversary of the Works-in-Progress series! Prof. Kevin Tuite, University of Montreal “St. George in Georgia – Politics, Gender, Mobility”

WiP: Specific Features of the Georgian Language and Alphabet, April 22 – Nana Shavtvaladze

20 April, 2015

American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 12th talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series!Nana Shavtvaladze, University of Georgia“Specific Features of the Georgian Language and Alphabet”Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 6:30pmEPF/CRRC-Georgia, Kavsadze St. 3, Tbilisi

WiP: The Georgians’ Discourses of National Identity in the Context of Europeanisation, April 8 – Lika Tsuladze

8 April, 2015

CRRC, ARISC and American Councils are proud to present the 12th talk of the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress series! Lika Tsuladze, Tbilisi State University and Social Sciences Center “The Georgians’ Discourses of National Identity in the Context of Europeanisation”

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