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SUMMARY:Nana Iashvili's online lecture “Collateralized lives”: Home\, debt\, and financialization in the Republic of Georgia
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, 24 March at 17:00 PM Nana Iashvili will deliver an online lecture “Collateralized lives”: Home\, debt\, and financialization in the Republic of Georgia. \nIn this talk\, Nana will present framework and preliminary findings for her PhD project that investigates credit-debt arrangements in Georgia where individuals use their homes to borrow large sums of money. Examining the roles of creditors ranging from banks to informal moneylenders\, to ‘Giravnoba’\, her work delves into the transformation of housing into a financial asset\, subsequent displacements and dispossessions and how these processes affect households and people’s daily lives. \nNana holds an MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Central European University. Currently\, at the Social and Cultural Anthropology department at the University of Vienna\, Nana’s PhD research centers on housing-related debts in Georgia. Nana is a member of the Landscapes of Extraction: Capital\, Violence and City team and a fellow at the Challenge of the Urban Futures Platform. \nWorking language: English \nFormat: online — for details contact mariam.darchiashvili@iliauni.edu.ge \nTime: 24 March 2026\, 17:00 Tbilisi time \nFree to attend. \n 
URL:https://events.iliauni.edu.ge/event/nana-iashvili-s-online-lecture-collateralized-lives-home-debt-and-financialization-in-the-republic-of-georgia/
CATEGORIES:Events,School of arts and sciences
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260331T170000
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SUMMARY:The Agency and Materiality of Sacred Texts in Armenian Christianity
DESCRIPTION:The Anthropology Research Center of Ilia State University\, together with the PhD Program in Social and Cultural Anthropology\, invites you to a seminar by Konrad Siekierski on March 31 at 17:00: “The Agency and Materiality of Sacred Texts in Armenian Christianity”. \nThe seminar will take place at Ilia State University\, Room A103 32 Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue. \nThis lecture will discuss the social lives of Armenian Christian books and scrolls\, which act as sacred thing-beings endowed with supernatural power and agency\, having life histories and personalities. Drawing on literature on material religion and ethnographic examples from my research\, I will ask what these texts are\, what they do\, and how they relate to people. To respond to these questions\, I will examine the phenomenon of ‘home saints’ venerated in unofficial shrines across several regions of Armenia and in Armenian-populated parts of Georgia\, where they afford the Armenian Christians the experience of a ‘radical presence or realness’ (Orsi 2008: 14) of the sacred. Then\, I will turn to the Matenadaran (the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts) in Yerevan. In this state repository\, research centre\, and museum\, Armenian religious texts have been protected\, renovated\, studied\, and displayed as precious pieces of tangible national heritage. However\, some of these manuscripts have resisted secularisation while preserving the traditional roles of powerful thing-beings which/who attract not only visitors but also pilgrims to the Matenadaran. \nKonrad Siekierski holds a PhD in social anthropology from the Department of Theology and Religious Studies\, King’s College London.  Konrad is a co-editor of Armenia: A Modern Culture from an Anthropological Perspective (2014)\, Armenians in Post-Socialist Europe (2016)\, and a special issue of the Entangled Religions journal on “Religion and Pandemic” (2022).
URL:https://events.iliauni.edu.ge/event/the-agency-and-materiality-of-sacred-texts-in-armenian-christianity/
CATEGORIES:Events,School of arts and sciences
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260407T170000
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SUMMARY:The Ecology of Everyday Life: Local Food Practices in the Face of Environmental Threats in the Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti Region
DESCRIPTION:On April 7 at 17:00\, the Anthropology Research Centre and the Doctoral Programme in Social and Cultural Anthropology invite you to an online seminar by Dr. Natallia Paulovich: “The Ecology of Everyday Life: Local Food Practices in the Face of Environmental Threats in the Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti Region.”\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract:  \nThis presentation outlines the conceptual foundations of the emerging research project “The ecology of everyday life: Local food practices in the face of environmental threats in the Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti region”. The future study will investigate how communities living in an arsenic-affected area of northern Georgia navigate environmental uncertainty in their daily lives\, with particular attention to food sourcing\, preparation\, and consumption. Although geological\, environmental and medical researchers have extensively documented arsenic contamination stemming from abandoned processing facilities\, the social dimensions of this ecological crisis remain largely unexamined. Little is known about how residents understand contamination\, how risk knowledge circulates within households and communities\, or how longstanding culinary traditions are re-interpreted in light of perceived threats. Building on Mary Douglas’s insight that purity and pollution operate as both symbolic and social classifications\, the project approaches toxicity not only as a measurable chemical hazard but also as a lived condition embedded in everyday practices. The presentation maps the conceptual terrain that guides this ethnographic inquiry\, drawing on scholarship in environmental anthropology and studies of foodways under conditions of degradation\, and comparative research on community responses to industrial pollution. It introduces the proposed methodological framework—long-term participant observation\, semi-structured interviews\, household food mapping\, and interdisciplinary collaboration with environmental scientists—designed to trace the interplay between ecological risk and domestic life. By outlining the theoretical rationale and research design\, this presentation sets the stage for a broader investigation into how rural communities in Georgia interpret\, negotiate\, and accommodate environmental threats in their everyday ecologies. The goal is to articulate the analytical questions that will drive the fieldwork and to situate the project within ongoing environmental debates. \nBio  \nDr. Natallia Paulovich is an Assistant Professor at The Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw\, Poland\, specialising in gender studies\, food anthropology sociology\, and Eastern European studies. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2018\, and holds a master’s degree in History. Dr. Paulovich has conducted extensive fieldwork in Georgia and Belarus\, focusing on issues of gender\, social identity\, and post-Soviet transformations. Her work has been published in journals such as Slavic Review and Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia. Her first book called ‘The Taste of Agency: Cooking\, Gender\, and Social Change in Georgia’ appeared in 2025 in Palgrave MacMillan.
URL:https://events.iliauni.edu.ge/event/the-ecology-of-everyday-life-local-food-practices-in-the-face-of-environmental-threats-in-the-racha-lechkhumi-and-kvemo-svaneti-region/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260417T190000
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SUMMARY:Meet the Austrians\, meet the Georgians: Business\, Communication and Culture – what are we talking about? An interactive Workshop
DESCRIPTION:About the workshop \n\nWhat characterizes business today in Austria and Georgia?\nWhich impacts do international settings have on business?\nHow is business affected by cultural differences?\nWhat has to be considered when engaging in intercultural exchange in a corporate context?\nWhat’s an Austrian working style\, what do young professionals think in Georgia?\n\nInteractive Workshop \nAbout the speakers \nAlexander Burka\, Prof. PhD. M.A \nProfessor for international Business Communication at the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland\, Austria. Courses on international competencies\, intercultural management and Russian as foreign language. \nMore than 25 years professional experience in various fields of activity in more than 60 countries worldwide for international organisations and enterprises. \nNina Trinkl\, Prof. MMag. \nProgramme Director of the Master’s program in International Business Relations at the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland\, Austria. Courses in strategic management\, international marketing and research methods. \nMore than 15 years professional experience in higher education as well as consumer marketing in FMCG and telecommunications industry. \nDate: April 17\, 2026 \nVenue: E207\, 45 Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue\, Tbilisi\, 0179\, Georgia
URL:https://events.iliauni.edu.ge/event/meet-the-austrians-meet-the-georgians-business-communication-and-culture-what-are-we-talking-about-an-interactive-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Events,School of business, technology and education
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