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 […]
The Inaugural Forum of the Association for the Advancement of North Caucasus Studies (AANCS) took place on June 25 at Princeton University, with campus and Zoom participation.. I’m honored to have been invited as Senior Advisor to the Association, and it was a great pleasure to participate in […]
It’s a pleasure to share my recent contribution to The Conversation UK: ”I was in Georgia in the late 1980s: I observed how tradition survived harsh Sovietisation and rapid transformation.” The full text is available here. Many thanks for the invitation to this forum. In the paper I […]
მეხუთე სამეცნიერო კონფერენცია – „ქართულ-კავკასიურ ურთიერთობათა ისტორიულ-ფილოლოგიური ასპექტები“ It was a pleasure meeting colleagues in Tbilisi and giving a presentation of our recent book “We witnessed the Soviet break-up”. Five Scandinavian researchers on the final years of the USSR, seen from the Cucasus (Universus, 2026) at the 5th […]
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. With numerous illustrations from the authors’ visits to the Caucasus […]
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 […]
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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