CHAIR
Matvey Lomonosov
(U of Tyumen, Russia)
PAPERS
Olga Breininger-Umetayeva
(Harvard U, US)
breiningerumetayeva@fas.harvard.edu
Competing Visions: Literary Representations of the Caucasus War
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
(Columbia U, US)
Conversions in the Russo-Ottoman-Iranian Borderlands:
Muslims and Armenians in the South Caucasus, 1850–1914
Giulia Prelz Oltramonti
(U Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Secession and Viability in Abkhazia and South Ossetia:
Different Goals, Strategies, Outcomes
DISCUSSANT
Sofie Bedford
(Uppsala U, Sweden)