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 […]
We witnessed the Soviet break-up Five Scandinavian researchers on the final years of the USSR, seen from the Caucasus. A new publication is out, edited by Märta-Lisa Magnusson and Karina Vamling. Publisher Universus Academic Press, Lund (Sweden), 2026. Publisher’s webpage: https://universus.se/arkiv/book/we-witnessed-the-soviet-break-up. With numerous illustrations from the authors’ visits […]
It’s a great pleasure to announce that a publication of which I am a co-editor and co-author “Languages in Conflict and War. Ukraine, the Caucasus, and the Baltics” has been published recently. It is a part of the book series “Palgrave Studies of Languages at War”. Many thanks […]
My warmest congratulations to Academician Mzekala Shanidze on her 100th anniversary! დიდი პატივისცემით ვულოცავ აკადემიკოს ქალბატონ მზექალას იუბილეს! It has been such a privilege and inspiration to meet her and to listen to her at different conferences in Tbilisi, for instance in 2017 and 2019, and to chair […]
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…. […]
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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