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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dear colleagues, it has been such a great pleasure for me hosting the Symposium “Language in Conflict and War – Ukraine, Caucasus, Russia”, November 6-7 together with Prof. Bo Petersson and Dr. Manana Kobaidze. A few glimpses in the slide show below from the campus and online panels […]
Participated in the 2nd International Linguistic-Anthropological Congress of Caucasologists, held at Tbilisi State University on October 17-19. The congress is unique in bringing together scholars from the whole Caucasus and from abroad. I was very happy to have the opportunity to listen to and meet with colleagues from […]
It was very interesting to participate in the symposium “Digital Caucasiology – a Change of Paradigm?” at Frankfurt University, October 4-7. The symposium spanned several generations of caucasiologists, from senior scholars to young PhD candidates. My presentation was entitled “The linguistic landscape of Batumi. The Case of Luka […]
Enjoying meeting with members of RUCARR’s advisory board and other colleagues in Tallinn on March 16 [RUCARR = “Russia, Ukraine and the Caucasus regional research” https://rucarr.mau.se/%5D. Chair of RUCARR’s advisory board, Sweden’s ambassador to Estonia, Ms Ingrid Tersman (center), hosted us at Sweden’s Embassy to Estonia in Tallinn’s […]
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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