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 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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Meeting at the State Language Department of Georgia on October 20 with Director Giorgi Alibegashvili and Tinatin Bolkvadze, Professor at Tbilisi State University and affiliated to the Department . We had an interesting discussion on the language situation and the state and minority languages of Georgia and the […]
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. […]
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 […]
March 21 is an exciting day: The award ceremony of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities takes place at The House of Nobility https://www.riddarhuset.se/360/riddarhuset.html at 16.30. Live stream below. I’m very honoured and proud to receive the Rettig Prize 2022. The prize is awarded every […]
Very honoured and proud to have been awarded the Rettig Prize (Rettigska priset) 2022 by Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities for my contributions to Caucasus Studies! დიდი პატივია და საამაყოა შვედური სამეფო აკადემიისაგან ჰუმანიტარული, ისტორიული და ანტიკური მეცნიერების დარგში “Rettig Prize” 2022 პრიზის მიღება ჩემი […]
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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