It was a great honour to receive the Rettig Prize (Rettigska priset) from H.R.H. Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden at the annual meeting of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. The ceremony took place in the House of Nobility in Stockholm. Photos: Pelle T Nilsson/SPA […]
Dear friends and colleagues, I would like to extend Season’s Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year 2026Önskar alla ett Gott Nytt År 2026ძვირფასო მეგობრებო და კოლეგებო, გილოცავთ შობა-ახალ წელს 2026 Looking back at 2025, it has been a challenging year in many respects. Let us hope […]
Happy to be invited to speak at the International Conference Emigration and Literary Discourse (https://conference.litinstituti.ge/en/speaker/) , organized by the Shota Rustaveli Instutute of Georgian Literature & Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, September 29-30. Conference program (link). The title of my presentation at the conference was “Emigrant culture […]
The special issue on Georgia of the European Journal of Minority Studies has appeared. My contribution together with Manana Kobaidze is entitled “Language Use among speakers of Tsova-Tush. A field study in the late 1990s.” Many thanks to the editors for a fruitful collaboration. https://biblioscout.net/journal/ejm/18/1-2 Language Use among […]
It was a pleasure and an honor to be invited to present at the 2025 Caucasus Studies Forum, April 23-24, Slavic Reference Service at Illinois University. I held a presentation about our research group Russia, Ukraine and the Caucasus Regional Research (RUCARR), with a special focus on regional […]
It was an inspiring day at the European Studies and European Philology Workshop of the CEMES network “Thinking the European Republic of Letters”, bringing together researchers from the universities of Copenhagen, Lund, and Malmö. Many thanks to the organizers. Link to the event. It was a pleasure to […]
The year 2024 is coming to its close. As always, it has been a year of ups and downs. . Now, towards the end of the year, against increasing tensions in many parts of the world, my thoughts are in particular with friends and close colleagues in Georgia […]
I have much enjoyed being part of the team of supervisors of Filip Larsson’s highly interesting and creative PhD thesis “Nominal and Verbal Affixation in the Caucasus” in General Linguistics, Lund University. Opponent was Prof. Diana Forker, Friedrich Schiller University Jena. And what a party in the evening…. […]
It was a pleasure to be invited as keynote speaker to the VI International Interdisciplinary Symposium of Young Scholars in the Humanities – “Kartvelian Studies: History, Modernity, Perspectives” , Tbilisi, October 11-13, 2024 https://sites.google.com/tsu.ge/isysh-2024/home. I gave the presentation “Language Use. Among Svanetians in the late 1990s. A Questionnaire […]
Participating in the 4th International Kartvelological Congress, Tbilisi, Georgia, September 25-27, 2024 with my presentation “Exploring the linguistic landscape of Old Batumi. The Case of Zviad Gamsakhurdia Street”. A glimpse, below. Many thanks to the organizers at the Georgian Academy of Sciences and to colleagues Academician Avtandil Arabuli […]
Two great days spent together with the members of the board of the Friends of Georgia Society, Sweden! It was a pleasure to host the group at Malmö University and to moderate the meeting at Caucasus Studies & RUCARR. Thank you to all colleagues for interesting presentations on […]
Karina Vamling
Professor of Caucasus Studies, Faculty of Culture and Society, Malmö University, Sweden. PhD General Linguistics, Lund University, Sweden
Co-Founder of the research platform Russia, Ukraine and the Caucasus Regional Research (RUCARR), Faculty of Culture and Socidety, Malmö University
PhD supervision, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University
Member of the research collegium of the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII)
Karina Vamling 
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