{"id":3001,"date":"2023-11-29T15:02:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T12:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/?p=3001"},"modified":"2023-11-29T15:03:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T12:03:48","slug":"colloquium-geography-infrastructure-and-the-bridges-of-the-darial-gorge-1769-1917-tyson-sadleir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/?p=3001&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium: Geography, Infrastructure, and the Bridges of the Darial Gorge, 1769-1917 \/ Tyson Sadleir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On December 7, at 7 pm Tbilisi time, the biweekly research\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/?page_id=2111&amp;lang=en\">colloquium\u00a0<\/a>of the Institute for Social and Cultural Research\u00a0will host the first English-language event of this semester. <strong>Tyson Sadleir <\/strong>from Columbia University will present his research project <strong>&#8220;Geography, Infrastructure, and the Bridges of the Darial Gorge, 1769-1917.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:39px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Abstract:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Infrastructures are built networks that facilitate the flow of goods, people, or ideas and allow for their exchange over space. As physical forms they shape the nature of a network, the speed and direction of its movement, its temporalities, and its vulnerability to breakdown (Larkin 2013). In this talk, I examine this last aspect, the breakdown of networks, and its relationship to technological advancement. Specifically, I will explore Russian construction of bridges across the Terek River in the Darial Gorge from 1769 to 1917, their regular destruction by the river\u2019s annual flooding, and the technological advancement that such destruction induced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:34px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Bio<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tyson Sadleir is a PhD candidate in history at Columbia University. He is writing his dissertation on the Georgian Military Highway under Russian rule. He is interested in the relationship between the natural environment and infrastructure in the process of empire building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:32px\" 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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iliauni-edu-ge.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZUlceyorDkrG9zRH_z_CdDn6D_8Bn33OsDw#\/registration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"432\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Aivazovski.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Aivazovski.png 432w, https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Aivazovski-237x300.png 237w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ivan Aivazovsky, <em>The Darial Gorge by Moonlight, <\/em>1868<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 7, at 7 pm Tbilisi time, the biweekly research\u00a0colloquium\u00a0of the Institute for Social and Cultural Research\u00a0will host the first English-language event of this semester. Tyson Sadleir from Columbia University will present his research project &#8220;Geography, Infrastructure, and the Bridges of the Darial Gorge, 1769-1917.&#8221; Abstract: Infrastructures are built networks that facilitate the flow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colloquium-2","category-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001","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=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soccult.iliauni.edu.ge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}