Workshop “The Caucasus in Global History”
Events
On May 5, from 10:00 to 19:00, a workshop on "The Caucasus in Global History" will be held in Auditorium S 507 at Ilia State University, organized by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The world's leading historians and Iliauni professors will participate in the workshop.
At the workshop, you will have the opportunity to listen to the lectures by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad and Prof. Dr. Thomas Ertl, keynote speakers representing the Free University of Berlin.
At the meeting, we will discuss current global historical research trends and combine them with ongoing Georgian research topics within the field of Global History.
Programme Workshop
May 5 th, 10:00 – 19:00
Tbilisi, Georgia
10:00 - 10:15 Introduction from the Organizers
10:15 - 11:15 First Keynote Lecture by Thomas Ertl (FU-Berlin) “How far is global in the Middle Ages”
11:15 - 11:45 Q&A’s
11:45 - 12:15 Coffee break
12:15 - 13:45 Panel 1: “The Caucasus in Global History - Session I”
- Chair: Oliver Reisner (Ilia State University)
- George Sanikidze (Ilia State University) “Reflecting on Georgia and the Islamic Heartlands, ca. 1300-1800”
- Konstantin Peradze (N.A.) “Returning home: When a former Georgian Slave commanded the Tunesian Forces in Batumi during the Crimean War (1853-56)”
- Tilmann Kulke (Ilia State University) “Enlightenment and Reform in 18th-Century Georgia”
13:45 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30 Second Keynote Lecture by Sebastian Conrad (FU-Berlin) „Globalizing the beautiful body in the 19th century”
15:30 - 15:45 Q&A’s
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 - 18:15 Pannel 2: “The Caucasus in Global History - Session II”
- Chair: Tilmann Kulke (Ilia State University)
- Oliver Reisner (ISU) “Global News for the Caucasus: The national intelligentsias' self-positioning in Tbilisi's print media around 1900”
- Jonas Löffler (University of Cologne) “Between the City and the Nation. The Persianate Music of Tiflis/Tbilisi around 1900”
- Evgeniya Prusskaya (Ilia State University) “Caucasian Muslims in trans-imperial history”
- Alexander Mikaberidze (Lousiana State University) “The Caucasus as Imperial Borderlands, 1700-1917”
18:15 - 18:45 Roundtable discussion
18:45 Cocktail
Date and time: May 5, 10:00-19:00
Location: Auditorium S507, 3 G. Tsereteli St
Working language: English
Join Zoom Meeting https://iliauni-edu-ge.zoom.us/j/84199288015
Meeting ID: 841 9928 8015
Attendance is free.
2023