CREES Noon Lecture. Political Anxieties in the Caucasus: the Georgian National Narrative Between War and Peace
Nutsa Batiashvili, professor of anthropology; Director of the Memory and Anxiety Research Laboratory, Free University of Tbilisi
Against the backdrop of Russian aggression in Ukraine and the renewed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, anxiety about Georgia’s fate and its...
Needs of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the Context of Contemporary Political Processes and Social Modernization Trends
Arthur Atanesyan, Yerevan State University, Armenia
Abstract: This lecture will present findings from field research conducted at the Karekin I Educational Center, Holy Etchmiadzin, between...
CAS Workshop. Becoming and Unbecoming Imperial Subjects: Mobility, Exclusion, and (Real/Discursive) Borders
Keynote Speaker: Jessica Marglin, Ruth Ziegler Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion, Law and History, University of Southern California
This workshop explores the making and unmaking of Ottoman imperial subjecthood, and its legacy in the post-Ottoman states. It investigates...
CAS Lecture. Diluted Wine, Disguised Belief: Catholic Ethnography of the Armenian Rite in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Bogdan Pavlish, 2024-2025 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow in Armenian History, University of Michigan
Bogdan Pavlish, 2024-2025 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow in Armenian History, University of Michigan...
CAS Workshop. From Schism to Union and Back: Eastern Christians and Catholic Expansion in the Age of Confessionalism
In recent decades, there has been a resurgence of scholarship on intensifying contacts between the Catholic Church and Eastern and Oriental...