The First Oil Boom in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century and Its Impact on the Cosmopolitan Nature of Baku Edited from: “Baku: From Cosmopolitan City to National Capital of Azerbaijan” Keywords: oil, Baku, ethnic minorities, religion, Jews, Russians, Armenians
by Shamkhal Abilov, Qafqaz University
The Ethnic Riots of 1905 and 1918 in Baku and Their Origins Edited from: “Baku: From Cosmopolitan City to National Capital of Azerbaijan” Keywords: Baku, ethnic riots, Musavat, Shaumian, Dashnak Party, March Events, the Wild Division
by Shamkhal Abilov, Qafqaz University
Cosmopolitan Baku During the Soviet Period Edited from: “Baku: From Cosmopolitan City to National Capital of Azerbaijan” Keywords: Baku, Soviet era, proletariat, Bakintsi, Jews, Armenians, ethnic minorities, migration
by Shamkhal Abilov, Qafqaz University
Baku as a National Capital of Independent Azerbaijan Edited from: “Baku: From Cosmopolitan City to National Capital of Azerbaijan” Keywords: Baku, Nagorno Karabakh War, displacement, migration, emigration, refugees, population, diversity
by Shamkhal Abilov, Qafqaz University
Cultural and Social Background of the City of Tbilisi Edited from: “Contesting the Religious Landscape: Social and Cultural Background of Discourses on Georgianization of the Armenian Churches in Tbilisi” Keywords: Tbilisi, multi-ethnic, religious landscape, secularization Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video
by Yulia Antonyan, Yerevan State University
Geographic Crossroads Edited from: “‘The Caucasus is in the Hands of Revolutionaries’: Circulation, Connections, and the Caucasian Armenians” Keywords: Caucasus, Ottoman, Iran, Russian, Eastern Mediterranean, crossroads, multi-ethnic, Silk Road, Ottoman Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Houri Berberian, California State University, Long Beach
Armenian Revolutionaries Edited from: “‘The Caucasus is in the Hands of Revolutionaries’: Circulation, Connections, and the Caucasian Armenians” Keywords: revolutionaries, ARF, socialist, Caucasus, Iran, Ottoman, Dashnaktsutiun, Rostum, Duman, Khachaturian, mujahidin, Caucasus, Iran, Russia, Khecho Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Houri Berberian, California State University, Long Beach
A Brief Characterization of the Azerbaijani Intelligentsia 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: Azerbaijani Turkish intelligentsia, ulema, indigenous elite Text | Video | References
by Aimee Dobbs, Indiana University
Facilitators of Educational and Socio-Conceptual Change in Baku During the Modern Age 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: Urban Reform, Duma, voting enfranchisement, three-tier system, Shi’a məclis, education Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Aimee Dobbs, Indiana University
Modern Schools 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, Modern school, modernization campaign, night schools, Russification, Kaspii Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Aimee Dobbs, Indiana University
The Georgian of Fereydan Edited from: “Fereydan, Saingilo, and the Local Construction of Cross-Border Nationality” Keywords: Fereydan, repatriation, Soviet-Iran relations, K’axet’i Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Claire Kaiser,University of Pennsylvania
The Georgian in Saingilo Edited from: “Fereydan, Saingilo, and the Local Construction of Cross-Border Nationality” Keywords: Saingilo, Ingilo, Forced assimilation Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Claire Kaiser,University of Pennsylvania
Comparison Between the Fereydan and Ingilo Georgians Edited from: “Fereydan, Saingilo, and the Local Construction of Cross-Border Nationality” Keywords: Fereydan, Ingilo, Georgia Text | Video | References
by Claire Kaiser,University of Pennsylvania
Definition of Dekady
Nation Building and the Dekada
Participation of Azeribaijan and Georgia in the Dekady
Music as a Universal Language
International Relief in Transcaucasia: World War I Edited from: “Transcaucasia and Transnational Relief and Resettlement in the Inter-War Period” Keywords: Friends of Armenia , Near East Relief (NER), Lord Mayor’s Fund for Armenian Refugees (LMF), American Relief Administration (ARA), Armenian refugees Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Jo Laycock, Sheffield Hallam University
Emergency Relief and ‘Temporary Measures’ in Transcaucausia in the Inter-War Period Edited from: “Transcaucasia and Transnational Relief and Resettlement in the Inter-War Period” Keywords: Near East Relief (NER), Friends of Armenia, the Friends (Quakers) Armenian Relief Mission, Baqubah refugees Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Jo Laycock, Sheffield Hallam University
The Nansen Scheme Edited from: “Transcaucasia and Transnational Relief and Resettlement in the Inter-War Period” Keywords: Nansen Scheme, International Labour Organization (ILO), resettlement, Lord Mayor Fund (LMF) Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Jo Laycock, Sheffield Hallam University
Kurds Edited from: “Offences of the National Memory: Political Orientation and Ethnic Identity in the Soviet Azerbaijan” Keywords: Kurds, history, Soviet government, Turkey, Azerbaijan | Video |
by Shalala Mammadova, Baku State University
Talyshes Edited from: “Offences of the National Memory: Political Orientation and Ethnic Identity in the Soviet Azerbaijan” Keywords: Talysh, history, Iran, Azerbaijan, Soviet government | Video |
by Shalala Mammadova, Baku State University
Tats Edited from: “Offences of the National Memory: Political Orientation and Ethnic Identity in the Soviet Azerbaijan” Keywords: Tats, history, Turkey, Iran, Azerbajian, Soviet government | Video |
by Shalala Mammadova, Baku State University
The Genocide of the Armenians and the Jews Edited from: “Armenians and Jews: Neighbors in Memory” Keywords: Genocide, Holocaust, massacre Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Harutyun Marutyan, Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
The Duduk as a Symbol of Armenian National Identity Edited from: “‘Light Your Fire!’: Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest” Keywords: balaban, duduk, Armenia, Azerbaijan, UNESCO, Eurovision, music Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Alyssa Mathias, University of California, Los Angeles
Unity and Division: Azerbaijan in the 2012 Eurovision Song Context Edited from: “‘Light Your Fire!’: Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest” Keywords: babalan, duduk, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Eurovision, Garabagh, political, music Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Alyssa Mathias, University of California, Los Angeles
Ethnic Networks in the Informal Economies of Moscow Edited from: “(Un)Welcome Guests: Caucasus Traders in Late Soviet Leningrad and Moscow” Keywords: ethnoscape, ethnic, Azerbaijan, friendship of the peoples, Moscow, bounded solidarity Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video
by Jeff Sahadeo, Carleton University
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