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Between Vernacular and Academic Discourses: Cooperation and Competition in Knowledge Production in Georgia
Panel 1
14:10 – 14:30 Florian Mühlfried (Ilia State University)Decolonizing Terminology: Anthropology in and of the Caucasus.
14:30 –15:00 Megi Kartsivadze (UCL) Georgia in the Soviet Archive: Power, Language, and the Politics of Silence.
15:00 –15:20 Tea Kamushadze (GIPA / TSU / University of Oxford) Epistemologies of Exclusion: Colonial Logics and the Silencing of Child-Rearing Practices in Soviet Georgian Ethnography.
15:20 –15:40 Tamta Khalvashi (Ilia State University)Patchwork Epistemology: Rethinking Anthropological Knowledge Production from Postcolonial Margins.
15:40 –16:00 Q&A
16:00 –16:30 Coffee and Tea Break
Panel 2
16:30 – 17:00 Nana Kobidze (Central Europian University) “If you want to study the Caucasus, you should go to Russian Studies programs”: Understanding Postsoviet Area Studies from the Postcolonial Perspective.
17:00 – 17:20 Anna Cieślewska (University of Lodz) Territories of Belonging: Alternative Citizenship and Religious Infrastructure of Azerbaijanis in Georgia.
17:20 – 17:40 Teona Lomsadze (Tbilisi State Conservatoire) Soviet Cultural Epistemologies and Their Afterlives in Education and Research of Georgian Traditional Music.
17:40 – 18:00 Sandro Shar (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance) Soviet Disfigurement of Georgian Vernacular Musical Practice and Its Enduring Influence.
18:00 – 18:20 Q&A
Chaired by Dr. Madeleine Reeves (University of Oxford) and Dr. Eleanor Peers (University of Oxford)
Convened by Dr. Tea Kamushadze (GIPA / TSU / University of Oxford)
Date:
22 October 2025, 14:00
Venue:
Syndicate Room, St. Antony's College
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department:
Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://forms.office.com/e/q4SPja75NN
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Lisa Haynes
