Communication and Transportation Edited from: “‘The Caucasus is in the Hands of Revolutionaries’: Circulation, Connections, and the Caucasian Armenians” Keywords: time-space compression, telegraph, railway, tsarist, Caucasus, Armenian, Ottoman, Georgia, ARF, Terakki Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Houri Berberian, California State University, Long Beach
Modern Printing Presses, Newspapers and Cultural Societies in Baku 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” Keywords: Baku, Newspapers Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Aimee Dobbs, Indiana University
Literacy as an Element of Sovietization Edited from: “Mountains of Letters: Tracing Literacy Across the Early Soviet South Caucasus” Keywords: literacy, print socialism, TSFSR, Soviet Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video
by Jeremy Johnson, University of Michigan
Orthographic and Political Literacy Edited from: “Mountains of Letters: Tracing Literacy Across the Early Soviet South Caucasus” Keywords: orthographic literacy, political literacy, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Soviet Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video
by Jeremy Johnson, University of Michigan
Pathways to Literacy Edited from: “Mountains of Letters: Tracing Literacy Across the Early Soviet South Caucasus” Keywords: Baku, Tbilisi, liktpunkt, TSFSR, reading, room, literacy, Armenia Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video
by Jeremy Johnson, University of Michigan
The Georgian Feast: From Structure to History Edited from: “The Literary Origins of the Georgian feast: The Cosmopolitan Poetics of a National Ritual” Keywords: Feast, toast, supra, Banquet, tamada Text | Video | References
by Harsha Ram, University of California, Berkeley
Linguistic Incongruence Edited from: “Incongruent Strategies: Engagements with Humor and Identity in Contemporary Azerbaijani Art” Keywords: Azerbaijan, Arabic, Turkish, Cyrillic Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Monica Steinberg, City University of New York
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