RUCARR Caucasus Conference 2018

By imkava December 7, 2018 December 8, 2018 Azerbaijan, Conference, Georgia, Other oountries, Russia

Thank you to all participants at the conference ‘Promoting International Dialogue and Protecting Cultural Heritage in the Caucasus’ December 5-6 at RUCARR, Malmö University. It has been two days of most interesting presentations and engaging discussions and comments with participants from all parts of the Caucasus! And many thanks to the Swedish Institute for making this event possible.

3rd Annual RUCARR Conference 8-9-Nov

By imkava November 11, 2018 November 11, 2018 Armenia, Azerbaijan, Conference, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine

Thank you very much to all participants at the Third Annual RUCARR Conference, Malmö University, for joining us on November 8-9, 2018, and for all great presentions and lively discussions!

PROGRAMME — Book of Abstracts

Video Intro & Keynote 1, Prof Ghia Nodia — Video Keynote 2, Prof Madina Tlostanova

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Student of Caucasus Studies, Joseph Schloesser

Samir, Henrik, Natia

Special thanks to interns Samir Salimzade and Henrik Johnsrud Odden, joined by PhD candidate Natia Gamkrelidze

Yulia Gradskova

Dr. Yulia Gradskova: “Where all the rights for women are embodied in laws”. Soviet “emancipation of woman of the East” and WIDF’s work for rights of women in the Third World

Natalia Paulovich

Dr Natalia Paulovich: A breadwinner or a housewife: Agency in everyday image of the Georgian woman

Ekaterina Markovich

Ekaterina Markovich: The Special Path or censorship in a name of protection?

Eleonora Narvselius

Dr. Eleonora Narvselius: Bandera Debate II: Scrutinizing Lessons of the Authoritarian Past in Post-Maidan Ukraine

Prof. Madina Tlostanova

During the discussion

Question from Ghia Nodia

During the discussion

Madina Tlostanova

Prof. Madina Tlostanova: “Democracy” -“Authoritarianism” – “Decoloniality”: A Decolonial Reflection on the Post-Truth World

Prof. Bo Petersson

Chair Prof. Bo Petersson introduces keynote speaker Madina Tlostanova

Aneta Strzemżalska

Aneta Strzemżalska: Traditional Music and Nationalism. Dual Nature of Contemporary Azerbaijani Meykhana

Aneta and Katrine

Dr. Katrine Gotfredsen and Aneta Strzemżalska:

During the discussion

Chair Christofer Berglund and Prof Ghia Nodia during the discussion

Klaudia Kosicińska

Klaudia Kosicińska: Participatory budget in Georgia between democracy and authoritarianism – discourse analysis

Ppt presentation

From paper by Turkay Gasimova: Transmission of the democratic ideas from Europe through Russia to the Caucasus: Nineteenth century Muslim intellectuals in South Caucasus.

Arpi Muradyan

Arpi Muradyan: Russia’s South Caucasian Structural Policy in the Context of Democratization Tendencies from 1991 to 2018

Natia Gamkrelidze

Natia Gamkrelidze: Georgia’s transition from ENP to EaP and the challenges associated with Georgia becoming a candidate State

Karli Storm

Karli Storm: “‘Who are We and Where Do We Belong?’ Contesting Labels, Landscapes, and Memory in the Georgian Region of Kvemo Kartli”

Derek Hutcheson

Chair, Dr Derek Hutcheson

Svetlana L’nyavskiy

Svetlana L’nyavskiy: Battle for Language Rights: the case of Russian speakers in Ukrainian social network’s discussion

Alexander Osipov

Dr. Alexander Osipov: The Soviet legacies in diversity policies vs European standards of minority protection – is there a dichotomy?

Prof. Ghia Nodia

Keynote speaker, Prof. Ghia Nodia: Common Past and Divergent Futures: Democracy and Autocracy in the Post-Communist Area

Rebecka Lettevall

Dean of the Faculty, Rebecka Lettevall, opens the conferenece

Karina Vamling

Welcome to RUCARRs 3rd Annual Conference, – Co-director, Prof Karina Vamling

Seminar – Declarations of Independence in the Caucasus 100 years

By imkava May 22, 2018 May 24, 2018 Armenia, Azerbaijan, Events, Georgia, Seminar

Thank you to all presenters and participants for a very interesting and rewarding day with the whole Caucasus present – Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and the North Caucasus Mountainm republic.
RUCARR seminar May 22: “Declarations of Independence in the Caucasus – 100 years Anniversary”-
Read the news article: https://www.mah.se/english/News/News-2018/Ambassadors-attend-100-year-anniversary-of-independence-in-the-Caucasus-/

Programme: http://wpmu.mah.se/rucarr/2018/05/15/preliminary-programme-100-years-anniversary-seminar/
Photos: Elnur Aliyev

Preliminary programme for the 100 years anniversary seminar

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By Khalil Mutallimzada May 15, 2018 May 22, 2018 Armenia, Azerbaijan, Events, Georgia, Russia, Seminar

Declarations of Independence in the Caucasus – 100 years Anniversary, May 22. PROGRAMME

Following the disintegration of the Russian Empire and the turbulent political development during the end of the First World War, several entities that had been part of the Russian Empire, declared their independence in 1918. In the Caucasus this applies to Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, as well as the North Caucasian Mountain Republic. Hundred years have passed since these events and RUCARR will devote a one-day seminar commemorating this period and discussing the contemporary role and importance of these short-lived periods of independence.

See the LIVE FEED from the event here

Compulsory registration no later than May 17 by https://form.jotformeu.com/72362326539358

For more information, please contact rucarr@mah.se

Time
9:30 – 10:00	Greeting and introductory speech	Prof. Karina Vamling, Malmö University
10:00 – 11:00 Chair: Prof. Bo Petersson, Malmö University	Georgia in focus	Malkhaz Kakabadze,Ambassador of Georgia to Sweden and Finland Natia Gamkrelidze, Executive Director, Special issue of the Diplomat magazine
11:00 – 11:15	Refreshments
11:15 – 12:15 Chair: Dr. Katrine Gotfredsen (TBC)	Azerbaijan in focus	Adish Mammadov, Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Sweden Dr. Ziyad Amrahov, Baku State University
12:15 – 12:25	Information regarding afternoon sessions and lunch break
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch break
13:45 – 14:45 Chair: Dr. Aram Terzyan, Yerevan University	Armenia in focus	Artak Apitonyan, Ambassador of Armenia to Sweden Prof. Alexander Markarov, Yerevan University
14:45 – 15:00	Refreshments
15:00 – 16:00 Chair: Dr. Minna Lundgren, Mid Sweden University	North Caucasus Mountainous Republic in focus	Dr. Lars Funch Hansen, Malmö University Cem Kumuk, United Caucasus Association, Istanbul
16:00 – 16:15	Summation	Dr. Katrine Gotfredsen, Malmö University (TBC) Dr. Lars Funch Hansen, Malmö University
16:15 – 17:00	Mingling

Time: May 22, 09:30-16:15

Venue: Malmö University, Niagara building, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1 (meeting-point on the 5th floor, in front of the C elevators).

Compulsory registration no later than May 17 by https://form.jotformeu.com/72362326539358

For more information, please contact rucarr@mah.se

Declarations of Independence in the Caucasus – 100 Years Anniversary Celebration

By Khalil Mutallimzada April 29, 2018 May 20, 2018 Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Seminar

Hundred years have passed since these events and RUCARR will devote a one-day seminar commemorating this period and discussing the contemporary role and importance of these short-lived periods of independence.

The seminar includes presentations from researchers, politicians as well as representatives from the embassies of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan to Sweden. The two morning sessions are devoted to Georgia and to Azerbaijan, and the two afternoon sessions will focus on Armenia and the North Caucasus Mountain Republic

Preliminary program: http://wpmu.mah.se/rucarr/2018/05/15/preliminary-prog…iversary-seminar/ ‎

Time: May 22, 09:30-16:15

Venue: Malmö University, Niagara building, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1 (meeting-point on the 5th floor, in front of the C elevators).

Compulsory registration no later than May 17 by https://form.jotformeu.com/72362326539358

For more information, please contact rucarr@mah.se

Second Annual RUCARR conference 22-23 Nov

Gallery

By imkava November 26, 2017 December 2, 2017 Armenia, Azerbaijan, Conference, Events, Georgia, Other oountries, Russia

The Second Annual RUCARR conference was hosted by the research platform Russia and the Caucasus Regional Research (RUCARR) at the Faculty of Culture and Society, Malmö University, November 22-23, 2017. The specific focus of the event was on ethnicity, ethnic conflict, and nationalism issues, with keynote speaker Dr. Paul Goode of Bath University. The conference included the panel discussion “New authoritarian tendencies in Europe and Eurasia?” (co-organiser: Europe Direct)

(Photos: Elnur Aliyev, Karina Vamling)

Opening of photo exhibition about the Budukhs

By imkava May 24, 2017 June 28, 2017 Azerbaijan, Events, Visiting researchers

: Organiser of the event, Elnur Aliyev, PhD Candidate

: Ingrid Tersman (left), Sweden’s Ambassador to Azerbaijan, opened the exhibition. Prof. Karina Vamling (right)

: Dean Rebecka Lettevall and Ambassador Ingrid Tersman

On May 23 a photo exhibition about the North Caucasian minority the Budukhs opened at Caucasus Studies & RUCARR, Malmö University. The exhibition includes photos by three photographers: Zaur Mirzayev, Taleh Valehov, Elnur Aliyev. It was opened by Ingrid Tersman, Sweden’s Ambassador to Azerbaijan and also chairmaan of the Advisory board of the research platform “Russia and the Caucasus regional research (RUCARR).

In connection with the photo exhibition the film project “Homeland” about the Budukhs was shown, created by Orkhan Hajiyev.

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