Dear all,
Please see below and attached details for an interdisciplinary one-day workshop at the University of Winchester in June.
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Interdisciplinary One-Day Workshop
at The University of Winchester
24th June 2016
Ordinary Times? Everyday Lives and Social Dynamism in the South
Caucasus
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the societies of the South Caucasus have experienced protracted
conflict, social upheaval and political turbulence. Grand theories most often involving ethnic conflict,
transition and international relations have dominated scholarly perspectives on change in the
region. Geopolitical frames deriving their cues from Russian-Western relations in other theatres
continue to dominate understandings of the region as a site of endemic instability. The workshop
aims to bring together an emerging body of research going beyond the structuring binaries of ethnic,
national or geopolitical frameworks. We welcome papers developing new perspectives on the
experience of everyday life, society and politics in contexts of profound social change in the South
Caucasus. While the workshop’s principal objective is to to encourage inter-disciplinary dialogue, we
are particularly interested in sociological, anthropological, historical and critical theory perspectives
and welcome contributions from postgraduates and early career scholars and scholars working in
the South Caucasus region.
Potential themes include:
• Gender and social change
• Individualisation and consumption after socialism
• Beyond politics and conflict – home and family
• Place-making, localities and identities
• Legacies of conflict and the past in everyday life
• Everyday experiences of politics
• Migration, displacement and belonging
• Everyday implications of development and rights activism
We plan to publish a special issue of Caucasus Survey based on papers from this workshop.
Limited funding will be available for postgraduates and scholars from the South Caucasus.
Abstracts (no more than 250 words) should be sent by Thursday, 31st March 2016 to the following email
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