by Professor Kyle Estes, Assistant Professor, Bradley University, and ARISC Junior Research Fellowship awardee. Key words: Ethnic politics; distributive politics; public goods; Georgia; Azerbaijan; Kvemo Kartli Module description: This module enables students to explore what and who determines access to…
by Prof. Bryan Shuler, Assistant Professor, Hillsborough Community College, and Teaching the South Caucasus Workshop participant Key words: Maps; cartography; Armenia; populations; ecology; physical geography; linguistics; natural resources. Module description: The focus of this three-week module is the Caucasus region,…
Edited from: “‘The Caucasus is in the Hands of Revolutionaries’: Circulation, Connections, and the Caucasian Armenians”by Houri Berberian, California State University, Long Beach. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: time-space compression, telegraph, railway, tsarist, Caucasus, Armenian, Ottoman, Georgia, ARF, Terakki Text…
Edited from: “The Move South: the Emergence of Baku as a Socio-Cultural and Educational Center of the Late-Nineteenth-Early Twentieth Century Azerbaijani Turkish Intelligentsia”by Aimee Dobbs, Indiana University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: Baku, Newspapers Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF…
Edited from: “Mountains of Letters: Tracing Literacy Across the Early Soviet South Caucasus”by Jeremy Johnson, University of Michigan. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: literacy, print socialism, TSFSR, Soviet Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video
Edited from: “Mountains of Letters: Tracing Literacy Across the Early Soviet South Caucasus”by Jeremy Johnson, University of Michigan. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: orthographic literacy, political literacy, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Soviet Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video
Edited from: “Mountains of Letters: Tracing Literacy Across the Early Soviet South Caucasus”by Jeremy Johnson, University of Michigan. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: Baku, Tbilisi, liktpunkt, TSFSR, reading, room, literacy, Armenia Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video
Edited from: “The Literary Origins of the Georgian feast: The Cosmopolitan Poetics of a National Ritual”by Harsha Ram, University of California, Berkeley. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: Feast, toast, supra, Banquet, tamada Text | Video | References
Edited from: “Incongruent Strategies: Engagements with Humor and Identity in Contemporary Azerbaijani Art”by Monica Steinberg, City University of New York. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: Azerbaijan, Arabic, Turkish, Cyrillic Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References