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
Preservation of the Armenian Religious Heritage in Georgia Edited from: “Contesting the Religious Landscape: Social and Cultural Background of Discourses on Georgianization of the Armenian Churches in Tbilisi” Keywords: de-secularization, wars of memory, Georgian Orthodox Church, Armenian Apostolic Church, nationalistic, Georgianization, Father Tariel, Norashen, Surb Nshan, Sahakashvili Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video
by Yulia Antonyan, Yerevan State University
The Armenian Diasporic Community of Tbilisi Edited from: “Contesting the Religious Landscape: Social and Cultural Background of Discourses on Georgianization of the Armenian Churches in Tbilisi” Keywords: diaspora, Armenia, Tbilisi, Vardaton, Sayat Nova,Vernatun, Hayartun, churches question Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video
by Yulia Antonyan, Yerevan State University
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
Revolutionaries and the Printed Word Edited from: “‘The Caucasus is in the Hands of Revolutionaries’: Circulation, Connections, and the Caucasian Armenians” Keywords: Marx, Das Capital, Russian, literacy, Ottoman, Caucasus, Iran, oil fields, Baku, hayduk, literacy, ARF, revolution Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Houri Berberian, California State University, Long Beach
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
A Brief Historical Characterization of 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, Bakinskaia guberniia, oil boom, intelligentsia Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Aimee Dobbs, Indiana University
Role of Women in the Development of Literacy Programs Edited from: “Mountains of Letters: Tracing Literacy Across the Early Soviet South Caucasus” Keywords: literacy, reading rooms, women, Tbilisi, Baku Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video
by Jeremy Johnson, University of Michigan
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
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
Church Architecture: Mren, Zvart'nots' and Ptłni Edited from: “Armenian Art of the Seventh Century and the Problem of Periphery” Keywords: architecture, churches, Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, domed basilica, cruciform, barrel vaults, rotunda, ambulatory, Holy Sepulchre, capitals, domes, Mren, Zvart’nots’, Ptłni Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Christina Maranci, Tufts University
The Golden Age of Architecture in a Shifting Socio-Political World Edited from: “Armenian Art of the Seventh Century and the Problem of Periphery” Keywords: Holy Land, Heraclius, tympanum, Byzantine, Persian, Mren, Ptłni, Zvart’nots’ Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Christina Maranci, Tufts University
Relics and Monuments of the Holy Land: The Churches of Mren and Zvart'nots' Edited from: “Armenian Art of the Seventh Century and the Problem of Periphery” Keywords: Return of the Cross, relief sculpture, Heraclius, Armenia, Persian, Jerusalem, Byzantine, Kren, Zvart’nots’ Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Christina Maranci, Tufts University
Local Visual and Ritual Practices in the Church of Ptłni Edited from: “Armenian Art of the Seventh Century and the Problem of Periphery” Keyworks: social history, Ptłni, Zvart’nots’, Mren, churches, Eucharist, medieval, noble life Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Christina Maranci, Tufts 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
Why and In What Circumstances Did Catholics From Erzurum Come to Western Georgia and Partly to Northern Armenia? Edited from: “‘Franks’: Armenian Catholics in Armenia and Georgia in the 20th Century. Preliminary Results of Historical and Oral History Studies” Keywords: Armenian Franks, Catholics, Ottoman vilayet, Tsarists Russia Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video
by Jakub Osiecki, Pontifical University of John Paul II
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
Elnur Asadov: An Azeribaijan Migrant in Moscow Edited from: “(Un)Welcome Guests: Caucasus Traders in Late Soviet Leningrad and Moscow” Keywords: friendship of the peoples, Brezhnev, Azerbaijan, Moscow, informal economy Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video
by Jeff Sahadeo, Carleton University
The Religious History of the Caucasus Edited from: “St George in the Caucasus: Singular and Plural” Keywords: Christianity, Eastern Georgia, Western Georgia, Greek Deities Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Kevin Tuite, Montréal/Jena
The St. George Cult Edited from: “St. George in the Caucasus: Singular and Plural” Keywords: St. George, History, Iconography, linguistics Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Kevin Tuite, Montréal/Jena
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