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News and Upcoming Events:
Symposium on the Contemporary Caucasus
Friday, March 2, 2012 • noon–8:00 p.m.
Belfer Case Study Room (room 020) at the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), located at 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge.
12:00-12:15 Welcome and introductions
- Dr. Laura Adams, Director, Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, Harvard University
12:15-2:00 Roundtable: History and Memory
- Chair: John Schoeberlein, Harvard University, “Identity Up for Grabs: History and Self-Consciousness in the Caucasus”
- Tea Kamushadze, Ilia State University and Tbilisi State University, “Placing the Industrial City of Rustavi in the National History of Georgia”
- Medo Badashvili, Tbilisi State University, “Muslim Women's Identity Issues in Post-Soviet Georgia”
- Nadia Proulx, University of Montreal, “Subversive Literature and Ambiguous Moralities in North Ossetia Alania”
- Krista Goff, University of Michigan, “Ethnic Minorities and the (post-)Soviet Azerbaijani National Imagination”
2:30-4:45 Roundtable: Building State Capacity
- Chair: Robyn Angley, Harvard University, “Georgia's Over-Qualified Opposition: Parliamentary, Extra-Parliamentary, Pro-Western, Pro-Russian, and More”
- Simon Payaslian, Boston University, “Perilous Sovereignty: Human Rights in Armenia”
- Thomas De Waal, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “Dilemmas of State/Society Engagement in the South Caucasus”
- Julie George, CUNY Queens College, “State-building, Ideology and Legitimacy in Georgia”
- Stephen Jones, Mt. Holyoke College, “Georgia's Democracy: What's Working and What's Not”
- Lasha Tschantouridze, Norwich University, “Peace and State Capacity in Georgia”
6:00-8:00 Film, “Mimino” (Georgia, 1977)
This event is open to the public but seating is limited, so RSVP to lbeshear@fas.harvard.edu by Wednesday, February 29, if you plan to attend.
Working Group on Central Asia and the Caucasus
- The Working Group on Central Asia and the Caucasus meets throughout the semester. For more information, please see the Working Group's website.
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