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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The new article with co-author Dr Märta-Lisa Magnusson Russia versus Turkey in Nagorno-Karabakh is written against the recent dramatic development in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. It is published in the popular science journal Forskning & Framsteg (2023-09-26). Read it here: https://fof.se/artikel/ryssland-mot-turkiet-i-nagorno-karabach/
Today, 25 years ago – in 1998 – the prominent Circassian scholar, Prof. Mukhadin A. Kumakhov was promoted to Honorary Doctor of the Faculty of Humanities, Lund University (Sweden). Prof. Kumakhov was my colleague and coauthor for many years, and he spent several longer periods at Lund University. […]
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine one year ago has had devastating humanitarian and far-reaching security policy consequences . One year ago on February 24 2022, together with coauthor Märta-Lisa Magnusson, we published the article “The world must be more attentive to patterns in Russia’s actions in the former Soviet […]
The monograph Дополнительные конструкции в кабардинском языке – Complementation in Kabardian – is now available online in full version. It was published (in Russian) already in 1998 at Lund University, coauthored with Prof. Mukhadin Kumakhov at the Institute of Linguistics in Moscow. Abstract The monograph is a study […]
“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 […]
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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