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 […]
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 […]
It was a great pleasure to organize a meeting in Tbilisi and invite colleagues with whom I have cooperated for a long time at Lund and Malmö universities, with some for more than 30 years. So happy to meet all, thank you for coming! At the occasion, this […]
It was a great honor for me to receive an award from Caucasus University (Tbilisi) for my contributions to the study of the Georgian language. The festive ceremony took place on April 15, and the prize was awarded by Kakhaber Shengelia, Rector of Caucasus University, . I’m most […]
The second volume of Digital Kartvelology has been published with papers from the symposium symposium “Digital Caucasiology – a Change of Paradigm?” My contribution: “An Exploration of the Urban Linguistic Landscape of Batumi: The Case of Luka Asatiani Street.” https://adh.ge/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Vamling_DiKa2.pdf The paper explores multilingualism in the public space […]
One of my favourite Georgian toasts is the toast to our memories: მოგონებებს გაუმარჯოს mogonebebs gaumarjos! Skål för våra minnen! Beautiful, warm, or sometimes sad memories fill our minds, and now, approaching the end of the year 2023, we can look back on many happy and interesting events […]
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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