CHAIR

Dominik Massicotte

(U of Ottawa, Canada)

dominik.massicotte@umontreal.ca

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PAPERS

Shota Bekadze

(Indiana U, US)

sbekadze@iu.edu

Contested Belonging:
Meskhetian Identity and Displacement in the Post-Soviet Space

 

Tinatin Bolkvadze

(Tbilisi State U, Georgia)

tinatin.bolkvadze@tsu.ge

Megrelain and Svan Languages in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Georgia

 

Nino Chikovani

(Tbilisi State U, Georgia)

nino.chikovani@tsu.ge

Making Heroes, (Re)shaping the Past:
Memory Construction in Georgia in the First Years of Independence

 

Irakli Chkhaidze

(Tbilisi State U, Georgia)

irakli.chkhaidze@tsu.ge

Between Identity Discourses:
Rebranding the National Hero in the Wake of Georgia’s Independence Movement

 

Megi Tedoradze

(U of Illinois Urbana, US)

megit2@illinois.edu 

Queer Resistance and National Anxiety in Magda Kalandadze’s The Second Room:
Politics, Protest, and Literature in Contemporary Georgia

 

Giorgi Ghvinjilia

(Ilia State U, US)

giorgi.ghvinjilia@iliauni.edu.ge

Rumor as a Mechanism of Social Boundary-Making :
Identity and Mobilization in the 2017 Batumi Riot

 

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