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
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
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
Molla Nǝsrǝddin: A Satirical Magazine Edited from: “Snoopy and the Mulla, or No Laughing Matter?” Keywords: Molla Nǝsrǝddin, Azerbaijan, satire, social criticism, archetype Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video
by Edward J. Lazzerini, Indiana University
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
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
The Poetry of Grigol Orbeliani Edited from: “The Literary Origins of the Georgian Feast: The Cosmopolitan Poetics of a National Ritual” Keywords: Orbeliani, Zhukovskii, toast, bard, supra, tamadoba 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
Humor and Illusion: Bruce Lee and Bruce Lye Edited from: “Incongruent Strategies: Engagements with Humor and Identity in Contemporary Azerbaijani Art” Keywords: Huseynov, Bruce Lee, art, film, actor, Azerbaijan Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video | References
by Monica Steinberg, City University of New York
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