The colloquium is intended as a series of regular interdisciplinary seminars, which offers scholars in various stages of their academic career a chance to present their ongoing or past work on a topic related to the Institute’s core research areas. Therefore, we welcome topics that relate, temporally and spatially, to the present and the past of Georgia and the Caucasus. The colloquium is also open to subject matter focusing on metropoles and peripheries that might be distant from the Caucasus, but that have shared – or currently share – regional and political belongings with the Caucasus (Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, post-Soviet space). Thus the main goal of the colloquium is to help facilitate the exchange and production of knowledge, to provide opportunities for interdisciplinary and transregional interactions and to support scholars in their academic work.

Beginning in the fall semester of 2022/23 academic year, the colloquium hosts, as its sub-division, a special working group on “The Caucasus and the Imperial Matrix in the Long Nineteenth Century.” The working group’s thematic focus is directly related to one of the Institute’s core research areas, “Imperial Paradigms”, and its goal is to encourage interchange between scholars in different fields working on the Caucasus of the Tsarist period and on the imperial framework that shaped local political, economic, legal and cultural circumstances.  

The colloquium is open to events of different kinds, including standard presentation, discussion of ongoing research and writing projects, roundtable on a topic of shared interest, or seminar on a selected scholarly text deemed particularly noteworthy by the respective presenters for their research.

Working language, depending on the needs of the speaker, is Georgian and English.

Currently, meetings are mostly conducted online, through Zoom. Registration is required.

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