CHAIR
Dominik Massicotte
(U of Ottawa, Canada)
dominik.massicotte@umontreal.ca
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PAPERS
Shota Bekadze
(Indiana U, US)
Contested Belonging:
Meskhetian Identity and Displacement in the Post-Soviet Space
Tinatin Bolkvadze
(Tbilisi State U, Georgia)
Megrelain and Svan Languages in Soviet and Post-Soviet Georgia
Nino Chikovani
(Tbilisi State U, Georgia)
Making Heroes, (Re)shaping the Past:
Memory Construction in Georgia in the First Years of Independence
Irakli Chkhaidze
(Tbilisi State U, Georgia)
Between Identity Discourses:
Rebranding the National Hero in the Wake of Georgia’s Independence Movement
Megi Tedoradze
(U of Illinois Urbana, US)
Queer Resistance and National Anxiety in Magda Kalandadze’s The Second Room:
Politics, Protest, and Literature in Contemporary Georgia
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DISCUSSANT
Olesya Vartanyan
(George Mason U, US)
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