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 […]
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 