Kaukasiologie / Caucasus Studies Jena

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Kaukasiologie / Caucasus Studies Jena Kaukasiologie Jena Die Studierenden können aus einem reichen Angebot an methodisch-theoretischen Sprachkursen sowohl zu den kaukasischen Sprachen (z.B.

Kaukasiologie in Jena (english version below)

Das an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena angebotene BA-Ergänzungsfach Kaukasiologie und der darauf aufbauende Masterstudiengang Kaukasiologie/Kaukasusstudien sind europaweit einzigartig und vermitteln Kenntnisse zum Kaukasus in einem individuell betreuten Studium. Durch das Bachelor-Ergänzungsfach Kaukasiologie werden Grundkenntnisse zur Kaukasusregion vermittelt, die den Studierenden eines sprach-, kultur-, politik- oder religionswissenschaftlich ausgerichteten Bachelor-Kernfachs eine außergewöhnliche Profilierung ermöglichen. Der Masterstudiengang bietet eine wissenschaftliche Spezialausbildung auf dem interdisziplinären Wissenschaftsfeld der kaukasiologischen Forschung und besteht aus einem sprach- und einen regionalwissenschaftlichen Schwerpunkt. Wir bieten:
• Ausbildung durch Spezialist/inn/en zu Spezialist/inn/en
• Individuelles Betreuungsverhältnis
• Eigenständige Schwerpunktwahl
• Enge Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Fachbereichen innerhalb der FSU, sowie Universitäten im In- und Ausland. Das Studium

Neben Wissen zu den im Kaukasus befindlichen Regionen und Bevölkerungen werden grundlegende religions-, politik-, sprach- und geschichtswissenschaftliche Kenntnisse vermittelt, die für die Beschäftigung mit der Kaukasusregion unentbehrlich sind. Georgisch und Armenisch) als auch den Kontaktsprachen im Kaukasus (z.B. Russisch) wählen. What are Caucasus studies? Caucasus studies, also known as Caucasiology, is a regional science concerning language, culture, living and history of Caucasus related ethnic groups. Why Caucasus studies? The Caucasus geographical region is not just a natural border, but has also been a cultural bridge between Europe and Asia for hundreds of years. In this historic conflict area the region has become a contact room melting pot characterized by the coexistence of religions such as Christianity and Islam, as well as significant ethnic, lingual, and cultural diversity. This distinctive cultural blending calls out for unique researches to participate in a regional science that is willing to identify transnational, transcultural, and transconfessional processes. Caucasus studies in Jena:

The Friedrich-Schiller University is the only university in Europe that offers not only a bachelor additional subject Caucasus studies but also a master course based on the bachelor subject. Both convey knowledge about the Caucasus Region with individual supervised studies. As a bachelor subject Caucasus studies leads to basic knowledge, in addition to which students can choose their own focus by taking a language, or create a cultural, political or theological profile. The Master program offers a scientific specialization on the interdisciplinary science field of the Caucasian research. Here we offer a language and a regional science focus. We offer:

-education by specialists
-individual supervision
-independent focus choice
-linked research and teaching
-practical relevance
-cooperation with other subject of the local and other universities national and international

The studies:

In addition to the knowledge about the Caucasian regions and ethnic groups we impart basic knowledge about religion, political science, languages and history, which is necessary for the engagement with the Caucasus area. Students can choose from a rich offering of methodological-theoretical Caucasian language classes (for example Georgian and Armenian) and contact languages like Russian .

🎊📢German Georgian Science Network (DGW) Lecture Series During the 2026/2027 winter semester, the German Georgian Science...
14/10/2026

🎊📢German Georgian Science Network (DGW) Lecture Series

During the 2026/2027 winter semester, the German Georgian Science
Network (DGW) is running a public lecture series titled “Tbilisi–Jena:
Contact, Cooperation, Competence—Multidisciplinary insights into
scientific collaboration and current research” in German and English. In
a diverse series of lectures, scholars from Friedrich Schiller
University Jena and Georgia’s two largest universities, Tbilisi State University (TSU) and Ilia State University (ISU), are presenting research projects and findings. The lectures reflect the diversity of academic collaboration between Jena and Tbilisi and offer interdisciplinary perspectives on shared research topics.

ℹThe lecture series takes place on Wednesdays from 4:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
at Ernst-Abbe-Platz 8, Room E028 (MMZ E028), starting on October 21,
2026. Online participants need to register once in order to attend the
lectures: https://uni-jena-de.zoom.us/meeting/register/0XeLsvv_THCA8HB2DHjPlQ #/registration

🗞You can find more information in the poster and here:
https://www.kaukasiologie.uni-jena.de/627/aktivitaeten-activities ).

Die Universität Jena darf sich ab 2027 Exzellenzuniversität nennen.
05/10/2026

Die Universität Jena darf sich ab 2027 Exzellenzuniversität nennen.

LIGHT. LIFE. LIBERTY. – Connecting People and Ideas

🎊Still time to register for ceecon 2027 until tomorrow ℹceecon, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde  Congress o...
29/09/2026

🎊Still time to register for ceecon 2027 until tomorrow

ℹceecon, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde Congress of Central and East European Studies, is the largest multidisciplinary congress in the German-speaking world dedicated to the study of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Bringing together scholars from around 30 countries, the congress showcases the latest research on the region and provides a forum for international academic exchange.

📆8-9 October 2026, Berlin

🗞️At the conference, there are several panels and presentations dedicated to the Caucasus. Three of our institute members will present (Bidzina Lebanidze, Erik Davtyan and Veronika Pfeilschifter) in panels on foreign policy, small states and social movements.

🌐Find the program, link to registration and further information here: https://ceecon.de/

📢New publication: "Unpacking the precarity-resilience nexus: The case of Georgia" by Veronika Pfeilschifter & Bidzina Le...
21/09/2026

📢New publication: "Unpacking the precarity-resilience nexus: The case of Georgia" by Veronika Pfeilschifter & Bidzina Lebanidze in Contemporary Security Policy 🎊

📰 In this article, the authors analyse "how resilience operates as a governing rationality in competitive authoritarian regimes. Linking resilience to precarity, the unequal distribution of insecurity" they "distinguish state resilience, the capacity of ruling elites to absorb shocks, contain contestation, and consolidate power, from transformative resilience, bottom-up practices through which societal actors reclaim agency under adversity"

🌐Read the article (open access) here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13523260.2026.2731437 -Section1

ℹThe article is part of a special forum "The politics of precarization in times of war and crisis: From paralysis to transformative resilience", edited by Albena Azmanova and Elena Korosteleva

This article asks how resilience operates as a governing rationality in competitive authoritarian regimes. Linking resilience to precarity, the unequal distribution of insecurity, we distinguish st...

Panel discussion Connectivity or Naivety: What Role for the EU in the South Caucasus?📆Tuesday, 29. September 2026 7:00 p...
14/09/2026

Panel discussion Connectivity or Naivety: What Role for the EU in the South Caucasus?
📆Tuesday, 29. September 2026 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
🏠Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Headquarters Berlin and Online

Further details and registration at: https://calendar.boell.de/en/event/connectivity-or-naivety-what-role-eu-south-caucasus

Welcome remarks
Jan Philipp Albrecht, Co-president, Heinrich Böll Foundation Berlin

Book based input
"Authoritarian and Illiberal Influence: Russia's and Turkey's Threats to Democracy in Wider Europe"
Sonja Schiffers, Director, Heinrich Böll Foundation Tbilisi, book author

Discussion
Tamta Mikeladze, Social Justice Center, Tbilisi, Georgia
Mikayel Zolyan, analyst and former Member of the Armenian National Assembly, Yerevan, Armenia
Azerbaijani speaker, TBC
Robin Wagener, MP, Special rapporteur on Eastern Europe for the parliamentary Group of Alliance 90/The Greens
Sonja Schiffers, Director, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Tbilisi Office

Chair
Walter Kaufmann, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin

The South Caucasus is experiencing profound political change.

📢Call for Papers: Jena-Cauc Closing Conference 2027📆26-27 April 2027 (Deadline for application: 6 November 2026)🏠Friedri...
09/09/2026

📢Call for Papers: Jena-Cauc Closing Conference 2027
📆26-27 April 2027 (Deadline for application: 6 November 2026)
🏠Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

We are excited to invite you to the Jena-Cauc Closing Conference!
Keynote will be by Dr Eduard Abrahamyan (King's College London)

Find our call for papers below.

To apply to participate, please send your abstract of 300-400 words to [email protected] with “JENA-CAUC Conference 2027” in the email subject line. Please also indicate your panel preference, and include a short author biography. Funding for travel is available for a limited number of participants.

Deadline for abstracts: 6 November 2026

Notification of acceptance: 20 November 2026

We look forward to seeing you in Jena next year!

🎊🥳👩‍🎓We are thrilled to share with you that our doctoral student Veronika Pfeilschifter successfully defended her PhD th...
04/09/2026

🎊🥳👩‍🎓We are thrilled to share with you that our doctoral student Veronika Pfeilschifter successfully defended her PhD thesis this week at University of Jena! Congratulations! 💜

Veronika's thesis was on the topic "In Quest for Otherwise: Young Left-Wing Subjects and Political Imagination in the South Caucasus" and examined what it means for a young person in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan to be left-wing under conditions of neoliberalisation, authoritarianism and (post-)war. Supervisors were Prof. Dr. Diana Forker (Institute for Caucasus Studies) and Dr. Félix Krawatzek (ZOiS - Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien).

We wish Veronika all the best and look forward to continue working with her in the Jena-Cauc 2.0 project, alongside other colleagues at our Institute!

📢 Panel discussion "A New Chapter for Armenia and Azerbaijan: Dialogue, Peace and the Role of Europe" (in German and Rus...
27/08/2026

📢 Panel discussion "A New Chapter for Armenia and Azerbaijan: Dialogue, Peace and the Role of Europe" (in German and Russian)

📆 3 September, 18.30 CET, Berlin

What is needed to turn a political peace process into sustainable peace between Armenian and Azerbaijani societies?
How can civil society, independent media and direct dialogue help rebuild trust after decades of conflict? And what role can the European Union play in supporting societal dialogue, democratic resilience and long-term cooperation in the South Caucasus?

Panelists:
🎙 Hovsep Khurshudyan - Chair of the Free Citizen Civic Initiatives Support Center (Armenia). His work focuses on civil society development, democracy, European integration and Armenia-Azerbaijan dialogue.
🎙 Nataliya Novakova - Executive Director of the Civil Society Forum (Germany). Her work focuses on human rights, democracy, strengthening civil society resilience, and fostering cross-border cooperation and solidarity.
🎙 Emin Huseynov - Director of the Institute for Human Rights (Switzerland/Azerbaijan). His work focuses on human rights, freedom of expression, independent journalism and dialogue between Armenian and Azerbaijani civil society.
🎙 Moderator: Dr. Tsypylma Darieva - a senior researcher at Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), a co-founder of the ZOiS Caucasus Network and a member of the scientific advisory board of the JENA-CAUC project Resilience in the South Caucasus.

🗣 Languages: Russian and German with simultaneous interpretation.
📍 Venue: 10115 Berlin. The exact address will be shared upon registration.
👉 Participation is free, but registration is required: https://shorturl.at/dGjtK

The panel discussion takes place within the framework of “Common Ground: Armenia-Azerbaijan Dialogue”, implemented by Dialogue for Understanding in partnership with the Free Citizen Civic Initiatives Support Center and the Institute for Human Rights.

📢It is our pleasure to share the newly published "Forum: Bridging divides—Georgia, the European Union, and the challenge...
31/07/2026

📢It is our pleasure to share the newly published "Forum: Bridging divides—Georgia, the European Union, and the challenges of cooperation amid conflicts" with the contribution of our research associate Irena Gonashvili-Münch!

🤓In this special format, which is published at the journal Conflict and Cooperation, the non-linear dynamics of the Georgia–EU relationship are being examined. Focusing on various dimensions, such as geopolitics, civil society, territoral divides and policy sectors, the contributions analyse in particular how the relationship can be characterised since 2022 until today.

♻Irena Gonashvili-Münch's article analyses the Europeanization of waste management in Georgia and finds that up to 2023 "the perception of contractual obligation under the [European Union Association Agreement] and the common goal toward EU integration have served as a catalyst for reforms in waste management".

👥The Forum contains further contributions by Gaëlle Le Pavic, Elia Bescotti, Ana Andguladze, Ariane Bachelet, Aron Buzogány, Marek Carvell, Laure Delcour and Sofia Gavrilova. Congratulations to all authors on the publication!

📰The Forum articles are accessible via open access here:

This forum examines the recent evolution of the relationship between Georgia and the European Union (EU), which has developed over the past 35 years. In Decembe...

🎙 New interview with our research associate Veronika Pfeilschifter for E-International Relations (interviewer and editor...
28/07/2026

🎙 New interview with our research associate Veronika Pfeilschifter for E-International Relations (interviewer and editor: Laura Innocenti). In this interview, she talks about her work on sociology of youth and the New Left in the South Caucasus.

Read the interview here: https://www.e-ir.org/p/interview-veronika-pfeilschifter

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