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e-Commerce Marketing & Ecotourism in Georgia

by Prof. Courtney Ahrenholtz, Associate Professor, Austin Community College, and Teaching the South Caucasus Workshop participant Key words: Marketing; social media marketing; e-commerce; customer relations; Georgia Module description: This module is centered on marketing communications that use electronic tools to…

The Poetry of Grigol Orbeliani

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: Orbeliani, Zhukovskii, toast, bard, supra, tamadoba Text | Video | References

Molla Nǝsrǝddin: A Satirical Magazine

Edited from: “Snoopy and the Mulla, or No Laughing Matter?”by Edward J. Lazzerini, Indiana University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: Molla Nǝsrǝddin, Azerbaijan, satire, social criticism, archetype Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video

The Duduk as a Symbol of Armenian National Identity

Edited from: “‘Light Your Fire!’: Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest”by Alyssa Mathias, University of California, Los Angeles. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: balaban, duduk, Armenia, Azerbaijan, UNESCO, Eurovision, music Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video…

Revolutionaries and the Printed Word

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,…

Orthographic and Political Literacy

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

Pathways to Literacy

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

Linguistic Incongruence

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

Humor and Illusion: Bruce Lee and Bruce Lye

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: Huseynov, Bruce Lee, art, film, actor, Azerbaijan Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video…