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Caucasus Research Forum 2023: People and the Environment

Mar 30, 2023   9:00 am - 12:00 pm  
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People and Environment
Caucasus Research Forum 2023
ALL TIMES IN CENTRAL US TIME (CHICAGO)

Virtually hosted on Zoom: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/87360093515?pwd=ZCtZODJTdVovM2xoNG0yNUFzbk5yZz09 

Day 1: March 30

9:00 am Opening Remarks

9:15 am Panel 1: Rivers and Dams

· The State and Heterodox Environments of Namakhvani: Shaping Discourses of Resistance (Elisabed Gedevanishvili, Ilia State University)

· The River Must Flow? The Future of Georgia’s Water at the End of the Soviet Union (Jeff Sahadeo, Carleton University)

10:15 am Panel 2: Ecological Knowledge and Environmental Protection

· Boosting Resilience in the Fight against Climate Change? A Post-Development Deconstruction of the EU’s Approach to Climate Resilience in the South Caucasus (Laura Luciani, Ghent University)

· Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Georgia, the Caucasus (Zaal Kikvidze, Ilia State University)

11:15 am Discussion: Ethical Data Collection Practices

12:00 pm Day 1 Conclusion

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