2021-22 Events

Panelists: Dr. Kathryn Franklin, Birkbeck University of London, ARISC Fellow Karen Azatyan, Director, Yeghegnadzor Regional Museum, ARISC Fellow Dr. Astghik Babajanyan, RA NAS Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography Dr. Hasmik Hovhannisyan, History Museum of Armenia Date & Time: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at 7:00-8:30pm Yerevan (10:00am EST) Language: English Registration required: https://bit.ly/3eUaOAs This virtual workshop […]

Speaker: Dr. Aram Yardumian, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Bryn Athyn College Date & Time: September 26, 2022 at 7:00-8:30pm Yerevan (11:00am-12:30pm EDT) Language: English Registration required: https://bit.ly/3TnANPW Karnut, a Bronze Age Kura-Araxes site situated on the eastern edge of the Shirak Plain in northwestern Armenia, has now been subject to archaeological excavation for over ten […]

Speaker: Armen Manuk-Khaloyan, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Georgetown University Date & Time: August 18th, 2022 at 7pm Yerevan time (11:00-12:30am EDT) Language: English The second half of the nineteenth century and first quarter of the twentieth century bore witness to a dizzying array of political, economic, and cultural shocks all across the world, from new state formations in […]

Speaker: Joseph Bohigian, PhD in Music Composition, Stony Brook University Date & Time: August 16, 2022 at 8:00-9:30pm Yerevan (09:00-10:30am PDT) Language: English The Georgian-born, Soviet-Armenian director Sergei Parajanov was a visionary filmmaker who maintains an outsized importance to 20th century filmmaking, especially in the South Caucasus. His signature symbolical style of biography is best represented by his […]

Speaker: Arthur Adamyan, MA student at Yerevan State University Date & Time: Monday, August 22, 2022 at 7:00-8:30pm Yerevan (11:00am-12:30pm EDT) Language: English After the declaration of Armenia’s independence, the country took the path of democratic development, but still, it has many essential problems and gaps as a democratic republic. One of the gaps is the […]

ARISC Armenia invites you to participate in the virtual lecture By Elen Grigoryan Date: July 19, 2022 at 7pm Yerevan time Register in advance for this meeting: https://bit.ly/3c7yMX3 The lecture is presented as part of the Experience the South Caucasus Fellowship Program of the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC). The lecture will […]

Speaker: Yulia Antonyan, Associate professor, Yerevan State University Date & Time: July 11, 2022 at 7pm Yerevan time Register in advance for this meeting: https://bit.ly/3PgSoq6 ARISC Armenia invites you to participate in a virtual lecture” The Armenian Culturescape: when the past shapes the future” by Yulia Antonyan. The lecture is presented within the Experience the […]

Speaker: Dr. Oksana Nesterenko, Jordan Center, New York University Date & Time: July 13, 2022 at 6:00-7:30pm Yerevan (10:00-11:30am EDT) Register in advance for this meeting. Registration required: https://bit.ly/3xLHnG6 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Language: English From the 1960s, Soviet citizens became interested in religion and spirituality, which […]

Ashleigh Haruda, ARISC Fellow, University of Oxford and University of Copenhagen Thursday, November 3, 2022, 6:00-7:30 PM Baku time Overview: While the excavations at the medieval site of Bardha’a concluded in 2018, the analyses of the archaeological artefacts are still ongoing. A variety of archaeological scientific methods including new techniques such as zooarchaeology by mass […]

Michael J. Ernst, ARISC Fellow, PhD student, Temple University November 30, 2022, 7:00-8:30 PM Baku time Overview: This talk will look at gas station prayer-houses in the Azerbaijan Republic.  Along several of the highways in Azerbaijan are to be found rest stops focused around the gas station, often with a small prayer-house attached for Muslims […]

Matthew Zaslansky, PhD Student, UC San Diego, ARISC Fellow October 3, 2022, 6:30-8:00 PM, Baku time Overview: Azerbaijan is home to a large variety of linguistic varieties (both languages and dialects) that are not commonly taught locally or internationally. In this talk I highlight the importance of better understanding dialectal variation in Northern Azerbaijan. I […]

Vusala Azizli  MA, Baku State University, ARISC Fellow Tuesday, August 30, 2022, 7:30-8:00 PM Baku time Overview: Article 17 of the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan declares that the family, as the main core of society, is under the protection of the state, and that the upbringing of children is controlled by the state. […]

James Nadel
PhD Student, Columbia University, ARISC Fellow

Monday, August 15, 2022, 5:00-6:30 PM Baku time

“Proletarian Tourist or Great-Power Chauvinist? Imperial Afterlives and the Legacy of Soviet Touring in Georgia“ By Ben Bamberger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and ARISC Fellow Date: December 7, 2022 at 6:30pm Tbilisi time / 9:30am EST / 8:30am CST Registration required: https://bit.ly/3gaftPl (After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining […]

Formation of the Greater Caucasus Mountains by Ocean Closure and Collision of the Arabian/Eurasian Tectonic Plates By Dylan Vasey, University of California, Davis and ARISC Fellow Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 7:00-8:30PM Tbilisi Time, 8:00AM PDT     An ongoing continental collision between the Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates over the last ~35 million years has […]

“The Gadachrili Gora Regional Archaeological Survey (GGRAS): Predictive Modelling and Survey of Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites in Kvemo Kartli, Georgia“ By Ira Schwartz, University of Toronto September 28, 2022 at 5:00-6:15 PM Tbilisi Time (9:00 AM EDT)  GGRAS is a collaborative project between the University of Toronto and the Georgian National Museum that seeks to […]

Lisa Basishvili, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and ARISC Fellow September 7, 2022 at 5:00-6:30 PM Tbilisi Time (9:00 AM EDT)  This presentation is part of a PhD research project, an interdisciplinary study based on three-phase research that explores the interrelation between television media and democratic processes in Georgia. Despite extreme polarization in the media […]

By Khatuna Buskivadze, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University July 26, 2022 at 5:00-6:30 PM Tbilisi Time (9:00 AM EDT)  The present study aimed to investigate the socio- and applied linguistic functions and frequency of lecturers’ language behaviors (code-switching (CS), code-mixing (CM), and translanguaging) in terms of showing lecturers’ social identity in Georgian educational discourse, namely, […]

Dr. Naomi Caffee, Reed College July 14, 2022 at 5:00-6:30 PM Tbilisi Time (9:00 AM EDT)  (After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting) Born, in his own words, “with a pencil in one hand and a whip in the other,” Oskar Schmerling (1863-1938) was an influential artist from […]

Within the Online Event Series Summer 2022 ARISC presents “Cultural Exhibition Space of Zinobiani“ By Zachary Fabos, Illinois State University and Alexander Kavtaradze, Ilia State University Date: July 7, 2022 at 5:00-6:30 PM Tbilisi Time (9:00 AM EDT)   The creation of a cultural exhibition space in Zinobiani, Georgia’s only Udi community, is intended to […]

Autonomous Political Economies: winemakers, national heritage, and the ethnographic mapping of geopolitics in the Republic of Georgia By Rikki Brown, University of California, Santa Cruz   June 9, 2022 at 6:00-7:30 PM Tbilisi Time Venue: Ilia State University A Block, room #306, Address: 32 ChavChavadze Ave My project, situated in Georgia’s winemaking regions, encompasses anthropological […]

This is a 75-minute discussion and Q&A session on different pathways in academic placement for graduate students specializing in the South Caucasus, Russian and Eurasian Studies, and adjacent fields. This forum will broadly address the academic job search process, from identifying and locating open positions, to preparing application portfolios, to interview strategies. Panelists for this […]

Tuesday, May 3, 2022 12:30–2:30 pm EDT Zoom Registration required: https://bit.ly/3jPWGXy After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Panelists: Fiala Abdullayeva (Azerbaijan University of Languages, Azerbaijani) Lisa Gulesserian (Harvard University, Western Armenian) Tereza Hovhannisyan (UCLA, Eastern Armenian) Lauren Ninoshvili (Columbia University, Georgian) Moderator: Maureen E. Marshall (President, ARISC) […]

This is a 75-minute discussion and Q&A session on different pathways in academic placement for graduate students specializing in the South Caucasus, Russian and Eurasian Studies, and adjacent fields. This forum will broadly address the academic job search process, from identifying and locating open positions, to preparing application portfolios, to interview strategies. Panelists for this […]

with Dr. Lara Fabian, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg ARISC is organizing two identical, online workshops for participants to learn about the grant writing process. By attending the two-hour workshop, participants will Lara Fabian is an archaeologist and ancient historian specializing in Mediterranean/Iranian borderland zones in Southwest Asia with a focus on the South Caucasus in the post-Achaemenid, […]

Tuesday, May 3, 2022 12:30–2:30 pm EDT Zoom Registration required: https://bit.ly/3jPWGXy After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Panelists: Fiala Abdullayeva (Azerbaijan University of Languages, Azerbaijani) Lisa Gulesserian (Harvard University, Western Armenian) Tereza Hovhannisyan (UCLA, Eastern Armenian) Lauren Ninoshvili (Columbia University, Georgian) Moderator: Maureen E. Marshall (President, ARISC) […]