by Professor Henry R. Shapiro, Assistant Professor, Ibn Haldun University, and ARISC Junior Research Fellowship awardee. Key words: Early modern Ottoman Empire; Eremia—the Ottomanist, the Medievalist, the Author, the Translator; Armenia; history; biography; Armenian language and literature; Classical Armenian Module…
by Edward C. Holland, Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, and ARISC Junior Research Fellowship awardee Key words: South Caucasus; North Caucasus; region; de facto states; human geography; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Module description: This module provides an overview of the…
by Prof. Layla Goushey, St. Louis Community College, and Teaching the South Caucasus Workshop participant Key words: Novels, historical fiction; indigeneity; nationalism; Sovietization; imperialism; colonialism; extractivism. Module description: World Literature is an English course that offers an introduction to classic…
by Dr. Rebecca Mitchell, Assistant Professor, Middlebury College, and ARISC Junior Research Fellowship awardee Key words: Georgia; liturgical chanting; sacred polyphony; national identity; intangible cultural heritage; Georgian Orthodox Church. Module description: The module explores the questions of how and why…
by Professor Oksana Nesterenko, Visiting Scholar, New York University, and ARISC Junior Research Fellowship awardee. Keywords: Spiritual music; sacred text; symphony; Soviet Union; Soviet policy; Armenia; Avet Terterian; Tigran Mansurian; and David Haladjan. Module Description: This module examines spiritual music…
by Professor Isabelle Kaplan, Howard University and ARISC Junior Research Fellowship awardee. Keywords: Soviet Union; ethnic minorities; Azerbaijan; opera; cultural experience; cultural legacy Module Description: Even as Russian language and cultural hegemony dominated the Soviet Union, there were spaces in…
by Professor Geoffrey Durham, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison and ARISC Junior Research Fellowship awardee. Keywords: Russian imperialism; political economy of occupation; violence; policy; administrative practices; metric system Module Description: This module focuses on imperial Russia and its entanglement…
Edited from: “‘Franks’: Armenian Catholics in Armenia and Georgia in the 20th Century. Preliminary Results of Historical and Oral History Studies”by Jakub Osiecki, Pontifical University of John Paul II. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: Armenian Franks, Catholics, Ottoman vilayet, Tsarists…
Edited from: “St. George in the Caucasus: Singular and Plural”by Kevin Tuite, Montréal “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: St. George, History, Iconography, linguistics Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
Edited from: “St George in the Caucasus: Singular and Plural”by Kevin Tuite, Montréal “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: Christianity, Eastern Georgia, Western Georgia, Greek Deities Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
Edited from: “Contesting the Religious Landscape: Social and Cultural Background of Discourses on Georgianization of the Armenian Churches in Tbilisi”by Yulia Antonyan, Yerevan State University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: diaspora, Armenia, Tbilisi, Vardaton, Sayat Nova,Vernatun, Hayartun, churches question Text…
Edited from: “Transcaucasia and Transnational Relief and Resettlement in the Inter-War Period”by Jo Laycock, Sheffield Hallam University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: Nansen Scheme, International Labour Organization (ILO), resettlement, Lord Mayor Fund (LMF) Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF |…
Edited from: “Baku: From Cosmopolitan City to National Capital of Azerbaijan”by Shamkhal Abilov, Qafqaz University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: oil, Baku, ethnic minorities, religion, Jews, Russians, Armenians Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | References
Edited from: “Offences of the National Memory: Political Orientation and Ethnic Identity in the Soviet Azerbaijan”by Shalala Mammadova, Baku State University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: Tats, history, Turkey, Iran, Azerbajian, Soviet government | Video |
Edited from: “Offences of the National Memory: Political Orientation and Ethnic Identity in the Soviet Azerbaijan”by Shalala Mammadova, Baku State University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: Talysh, history, Iran, Azerbaijan, Soviet government | Video |
Edited from: “The Dekady of the Art of the Caucasian Republics, 1937-1944″by Isabelle Kaplan, Georgetown University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: dekada, socialism, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Stalin, opera, Ker-oglu, Arshin Mal Alan, Leyli & Mejnun, Nizami Text | Video
Edited from: “The Dekady of the Art of the Caucasian Republics, 1937-1944″by Isabelle Kaplan, Georgetown University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: dekady, Soviet, opera, Druzhba Naradov, campaign, Moscow, music, nationalities policy, Armenia, Azerbaijan Text | Video
Edited from: “Offences of the National Memory: Political Orientation and Ethnic Identity in the Soviet Azerbaijan”by Shalala Mammadova, Baku State University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: Kurds, history, Soviet government, Turkey, Azerbaijan | Video |
Edited from: “Contesting the Religious Landscape: Social and Cultural Background of Discourses on Georgianization of the Armenian Churches in Tbilisi”by Yulia Antonyan, Yerevan State University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: Tbilisi, multi-ethnic, religious landscape, secularization Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint…
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: revolutionaries, ARF, socialist, Caucasus, Iran, Ottoman, Dashnaktsutiun, Rostum, Duman, Khachaturian, mujahidin, Caucasus,…
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, reading rooms, women, Tbilisi, Baku Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video
Edited from: “Baku: From Cosmopolitan City to National Capital of Azerbaijan”by Shamkhal Abilov, Qafqaz University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: Baku, Soviet era, proletariat, Bakintsi, Jews, Armenians, ethnic minorities, migration Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | References
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: Marx, Das Capital, Russian, literacy, Ottoman, Caucasus, Iran, oil fields, Baku, hayduk,…
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, Bakinskaia guberniia, oil boom, intelligentsia Text |…
Edited from: “(Un)Welcome Guests: Caucasus Traders in Late Soviet Leningrad and Moscow”by Jeff Sahadeo, Carleton University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: friendship of the peoples, Brezhnev, Azerbaijan, Moscow, informal economy Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video
Edited from: “Baku: From Cosmopolitan City to National Capital of Azerbaijan”by Shamkhal Abilov, Qafqaz University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: Baku, ethnic riots, Musavat, Shaumian, Dashnak Party, March Events, the Wild Division Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | References
Edited from: “Contesting the Religious Landscape: Social and Cultural Background of Discourses on Georgianization of the Armenian Churches in Tbilisi”by Yulia Antonyan, Yerevan State University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: de-secularization, wars of memory, Georgian Orthodox Church, Armenian Apostolic Church,…
Edited from: “Transcaucasia and Transnational Relief and Resettlement in the Inter-War Period”by Jo Laycock, Sheffield Hallam University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: Friends of Armenia , Near East Relief (NER), Lord Mayor’s Fund for Armenian Refugees (LMF), American Relief Administration…
Edited from: “Transcaucasia and Transnational Relief and Resettlement in the Inter-War Period”by Jo Laycock, Sheffield Hallam University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: Near East Relief (NER), Friends of Armenia, the Friends (Quakers) Armenian Relief Mission, Baqubah refugees Text | PowerPoint…
Edited from: “Armenians and Jews: Neighbors in Memory”by Harutyun Marutyan, Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: Genocide, Holocaust, massacre Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
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: “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: “The Dekady of the Art of the Caucasian Republics, 1937-1944”by Isabelle Kaplan, Georgetown University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: dekada, Moscow, Stalin, Friendship of the Peoples, nationalities policy, bratskii Text | Video
Edited from: “The Dekady of the Art of the Caucasian Republics, 1937-1944”by Isabelle Kaplan, Georgetown University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: dekady, nationalities policy, Soviet, Stalin, imagined community, Moscow, Azerbaijan Text | Video
Edited from: “Armenian Art of the Seventh Century and the Problem of Periphery”by Christina Maranci, Tufts University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: architecture, churches, Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, domed basilica, cruciform, barrel vaults, rotunda, ambulatory, Holy Sepulchre, capitals, domes, Mren, Zvart’nots’,…
Edited from: “Armenian Art of the Seventh Century and the Problem of Periphery”by Christina Maranci, Tufts University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: Holy Land, Heraclius, tympanum, Byzantine, Persian, Mren, Ptłni, Zvart’nots’ Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video |…
Edited from: “Armenian Art of the Seventh Century and the Problem of Periphery”by Christina Maranci, Tufts University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: Return of the Cross, relief sculpture, Heraclius, Armenia, Persian, Jerusalem, Byzantine, Kren, Zvart’nots’ Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint…