{"id":2814,"date":"2023-03-16T11:50:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T08:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2023-03-16T12:17:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T09:17:25","slug":"colloquium-dealing-with-smallness-in-habsburg-bohemia-ottoman-albania-and-tsarist-georgia-adrian-brisku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/?p=2814&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium: Dealing with Smallness in Habsburg Bohemia, Ottoman Albania and Tsarist Georgia \/ Adrian Brisku"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>\u10e5\u10d0\u10e0\u10d7\u10e3\u10da\u10d8 \u10d5\u10d4\u10e0\u10e1\u10d8\u10d8\u10e1\u10d7\u10d5\u10d8\u10e1 \u10d2\u10d0\u10d3\u10d0\u10d3\u10d8\u10d7&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/?p=2818\" class=\"ek-link\">\u10d1\u10db\u10e3\u10da\u10d6\u10d4<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:22px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">The biweekly research <a href=\"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/?page_id=2111&amp;lang=en\" class=\"ek-link\">colloquium <\/a>of the Institute for Social and Cultural Research at Ilia State University will host Prof. Adrian Brisku\u2019s online seminar on the 22<sup>nd<\/sup> of March, at 7 pm Tbilisi time. Adrian Brisku will give a talk under the title <strong>\u201cDealing with Smallness in Habsburg Bohemia, Ottoman Albania and Tsarist Georgia in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstrac<\/strong>t:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Drawing largely on a recently published chapter under the same tittle in an edited volume entitled, <em>The Politics of Smallness in Modern Europe<\/em> (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), this talk historically reconstructs, compares, and contrasts the language of being a small nation among intellectuals and political activists\/statemen in late imperial Habsburg Bohemia, Ottoman Albanian and Tsarist Georgia. Irrespective of differing historical trajectories and political and economic development of the three cases, which will be highlighted in the discussion, the talk will suggest that there was a similarity in the meaning behind the discourse of smallness and in the strategies to be pursued in dealing with it. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:17px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bio:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Adrian Brisku is Associate Professor in Modern History at Charles University and in Comparative History at Ilia State University. He is the author of several peer-reviewed and impact-factor articles, two monographs: <em>Bittersweet Europe: Albanian and Georgian Discourses on Europe, 1878\u20132008<\/em> (Berghahn Books, 2013), <em>Political Reform in the Ottoman and Russian Empires: A Comparative Approach<\/em> (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), as well as two edited volumes: <em>Sto let \u010desko(slovensko)-alb\u00e1nsk\u00fdch vztah\u016f: vz\u00e1jemn\u00e9 sympatie a rostouc\u00ed interakce<\/em> (Karolinum, 2022) and &nbsp;<em>The Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic of 1918: Federal Aspirations, Geopolitics and National Projects<\/em> (Routledge, 2021, co-edited with Timothy K. Blauvelt).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:18px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The event will take place in English via Zoom. Registration is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To register please follow this link: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3mNEH8S\" class=\"ek-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3mNEH8S<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:23px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/eshmaki-833x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2815\" width=\"833\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/eshmaki-833x1024.png 833w, https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/eshmaki-244x300.png 244w, https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/eshmaki-768x944.png 768w, https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/eshmaki-1249x1536.png 1249w, https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/eshmaki-1666x2048.png 1666w, https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/eshmaki.png 2021w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 833px) 100vw, 833px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A political cartoon printed in the Georgian satirical magazine \u10d4\u10e8\u10db\u10d0\u10d9\u10d8\u10e1 \u10db\u10d0\u10d7\u10e0\u10d0\u10ee\u10d8 (Devil\u2019s Whip), 7 December 1919, featuring two Georgian politicians at the Versailles Peace Conference with the Great Powers symbolized by a great sphinx.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u10e5\u10d0\u10e0\u10d7\u10e3\u10da\u10d8 \u10d5\u10d4\u10e0\u10e1\u10d8\u10d8\u10e1\u10d7\u10d5\u10d8\u10e1 \u10d2\u10d0\u10d3\u10d0\u10d3\u10d8\u10d7&nbsp;\u10d1\u10db\u10e3\u10da\u10d6\u10d4. The biweekly research colloquium of the Institute for Social and Cultural Research at Ilia State University will host Prof. Adrian Brisku\u2019s online seminar on the 22nd of March, at 7 pm Tbilisi time. Adrian Brisku will give a talk under the title \u201cDealing with Smallness in Habsburg Bohemia, Ottoman Albania and Tsarist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colloquium-2","category-event","category-uncategorized-ka-ge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}