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. Jennifer Gurahian, Adjunct Professor, Westchester Community College, and Teaching the South Caucasus Workshop participant Key words: Peer-reviewed; library database search; Apricot Socialism; legitimated forms of expression; Armenia Module description: Two modules are offered here, one is a library…
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: “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
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: babalan, duduk, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Eurovision, Garabagh, political, music Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF |…
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: “‘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: “‘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: socialism, revolutionary, nationalism, Ottoman, European, Iran, Russia, Armenia, Marxist Text | PowerPoint…
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: “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: “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: “Incongruent Strategies: Engagements with Humor and Identity in Contemporary Azerbaijani Art”by Monica Steinberg, City University of New York. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: Europe, humor, Huseynov, Alakbarov, Rasulov, censorship, arts, Azerbaijan, social contract Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint…
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…