“We witnessed the break-up.” – Six Swedish and Danish researchers on the final years of the USSR seen from the Caucasus The new book is edited by Märta-Lisa Magnusson and myself, and is published in the series Caucasus Studies, Malmö University, 2021. We are a multidisciplinary group of […]
The distinguished and well-known Georgian linguist, Academician Tamaz Gamkrelidze, is no longer with us, he passed away on February 10, 2021, at the age of 91. Prof. Gamkrelidze’s fundamental work will continue to inspire many generations of linguists. Among his many publications the two-volume work “Indo-European and Indo-Europeans” […]
Remembering the first anniversary of the 9 April tragedy (photos from my visit in 1990). One year earlier the Soviet army had brutally dispersed a peaceful anti-Soviet demonstration in front of the Parliament of the Georgian SSR, killing 20 demonstrators. Only two years later, on April 9 1991, […]
Warmest thanks to staff and students at University of Kabardino-Balkaria for sharing so much interesting information about Kabardian and Balkar culture – including some performances in Kabardian/East Circassian: University of Kabardino-Balkaria (KBSU) is one of the major universities in Russian North Caucasus and the State University of the […]
On October 26 I visited Batumi Shota Rustaveli University (https://bsu.edu.ge/) together with Malmö University researchers Jean Hudson and Revaz Tchantouria. During the contact visit we met with colleagues Lali Tavadze at the Dept. of European Studies, Rector’s advisor Revaz Diasamidze at the Dept. of Public Affairs and Political […]
Karina Vamling
Professor in Caucasus Studies, Malmö University, Sweden
PhD General Linguistics, Lund University, Sweden
Co-Director and Co-Founder of the research platform Russia and the Caucasus Regional Research (RUCARR), Faculty of Culture and Socidety, Malmö University
Head of Section for Caucasus Studies, Faculty of Culture and Society, Malmö University
Karina Vamling 