Invitation to 2025 Caucasus Studies Forum

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 […]

Workshop on European Philology

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 […]

2024 – Looking back

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 […]

Symposium – “Kartvelian Studies: History, Modernity, Perspectives”, Tbilisi University

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 […]

4th International Kartvelological Congress, Tbilisi

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 […]

Defense of PhD thesis on Tsova-Tush, Frankfurt U

It was a priviledge to be a member of the defense committee: Congratulations to Jesse Wichers Schreur on defending his very interesting PhD thesis on Tsova-Tush — Intense language contact in Eastern Georgia: The case of Tsova-Tush at the Institute for Empirical Linguistics at Goethe University, Frankfurt am […]