People and Environment
Caucasus Research Forum 2023
ALL TIMES IN CENTRAL US TIME (CHICAGO)
Virtually hosted on Zoom: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/87537553157?pwd=RHVBdUo4WENpMGFIM1R1QzZHSkhjQT09
Day 2: March 31
9:00 am Opening Remarks
9:15 am Panel 3: Environment and Identity
· Naturalists in exile - Polish explorers of the Caucasian nature in the 19th century: The case of Abkhazia region (Agnieszka Tomczyk, University of Warsaw)
· Discourses of Oil, Environment, and Ethnicity in the Diaries of Polina Zherebtsova (Madelyn Scarlett, University of Colorado, Boulder)
10:15 am Panel 4: Nature in Literature
· Awareness of the Earth. Changes in Cultural Landscape of the Caucasus (on the example of Dagestani villages) (Joanna Kula, University of Wroclaw)
· Vaja Pshavela's Literary Genius in contemporary context (Maia Simonishvili, National Parliamentary Library of Georgia)
· “Nature in the works of a famous Armenian writer Aksel Bakunts” (Anna Manukyan)
11:15 am Discussion: Publishing in Caucasus Studies
12:00 pm Day 2 Conclusion
