The First Republics (1918-1920/21) in the South Caucasus: Brief Experiences of Statehood Published: 20 September 2021 The Heinrich Boell Foundation Tbilisi Office – South Caucasus region, together with Ilia State University and the Soviet Past Research Laboratory (SOVLAB), organizes the South Caucasus Regional Conference on Memory Politics to address the foundations and legacy of the first independent republics in the South Caucasus (SC).
South Caucasus Regional Conference on Memory Politics Published: 11 September 2020 hbs Tbilisi Office – South Caucasus region, together with Ilia State University and Soviet Past Research Laboratory (SOVLAB) organizes the South Caucasus Regional Conference on Memory Politics to address how the COVID-19 pandemic created challenges for researchers working in archives, museums and libraries due to limited digitization.
Call for Small Research Grants - Women and World War II in Soviet Armenia Published: 27 December 2019 The Heinrich Boell Foundation South Caucasus Region, Yerevan Branch Office announces a call for small research grants for students, young researchers, historians and anthropologists from Armenia. Read in Armenian
Call for Small Research Grants - Women and World War II in Soviet Azerbaijan Published: 26 December 2019 The Heinrich Boell Foundation Tbilisi Office – South Caucasus Region announces a call for small research grants for students, young researchers, gender specialists, historians and anthropologists from Azerbaijan.
Call for Small Research Grants - Women and World War II in Soviet Georgia Published: 27 December 2019 The Heinrich Boell Foundation Tbilisi Office – South Caucasus Region announces a call for small research grants for students, young researchers, gender specialists, historians and anthropologists from Georgia.
Regional Conference on Memory Politics Published: 21 November 2019 Heinrich Boell Foundation Tbilisi Office, together with Ilia State University and Soviet Past Research Laboratory (SOVLAB) organized the South Caucasus Regional Conference on Memory Politics.
European History Forum: 30 Years after 1989 Published: 3 July 2019 My research focused on the protest rallies that took place on April 9, 1989. Today in Georgia, on the 30th anniversary of the 9th of April, many associate this day with the restoration of Georgia’s independence. In fact, it is undeniable that the sequence of the events that transpired that day, coupled with all the other circumstances unfolding in 1989, created the preconditions for the restoration of Georgia’s independence. By Katie Sartania
1989: Protest Rallies and their Influence on Georgian History Published: 4 July 2019 The present paper provides an overview of developments preceding the protest rallies of 9 April 1989 in chronological order and their symbolic characteristics. pdf
1989: Change of Memory Published: 4 July 2019 The following paper aims to study and analyze the process of reconsideration of the past in 1988-90 in Soviet Georgia. pdf
8th European History Forum: 30 years after 1989: Freedom from What? Freedom to do What? Published: 4 July 2019 In 1989, a wave of revolutions swept the Eastern Bloc in Europe. The reform movement that ended communism in East Central Europe began in Poland. Solidarity, an anti-Communist trade union and social movement, had forced Poland’s Communist government to recognize it in the 1980s through a wave of strikes that gained international attention. By Eviya Hovhannisyan
