Malkhaz Toria

Areas of Expertise

Malkhaz Toria (Ph.D. 2009) is an associate professor of history and the director of the Memory Study Center at Ilia State University (Tbilisi, Georgia). He teaches courses on topics including: contemporary historical studies; historical sociology; imperial legacies, boundaries, and genealogy of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict; and collective memory, identity, and politics. In 2021 he began working toward a doctoral degree in sociology at the New School for Social Research and studying how contested historical narratives and primordial historical imaginaries still fuel and contribute to ongoing conflicts (political, ethnic, interstate) in post-totalitarian societies struggling with a “difficult past,” including Georgia.

My Events:

Visiting Scholar Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies

Tuesday, April 30, 2024
12 to 4pm EDT

In person

Six scholars currently based at the Davis Center will present their research, ranging from Eurasian history to the Middle Corridor to visual art.

Khasan Redjaboev

Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dana Masalimova

Harvard Kennedy School Policy Analysis and Communications Exercise Coach

Ewa Sułek

Postdoctoral Fellow, The Institute for East European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin

Chia-Yun Po

Fellow at the Global Justice Program, Yale University

Natia Chankvetadze

Ph.D. Candidate, George Mason University

Malkhaz Toria

Associate Professor, Head of the Memory Studies Center, Ilia State University

Terry Martin

George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies, Harvard University

Nargis Kassenova

Senior Fellow; Director, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center

Mark Kramer

Director, Cold War Studies Project

Stephen Jones

Director, Program on Georgian Studies, Harvard University; Professor of Modern Georgian History, Ilia State University, Tbilisi

Michał Matejko

Foreign Agents Law: Georgian Democracy at a Crossroads (Again!)

Tuesday, April 23, 2024
12 to 1:30pm EDT

Online

The legislation making its way through Georgia's parliament is widely seen as a challenge to democracy in the country. What does the so-called foreign agents bill say? What are its implications? Is it a danger to Georgia’s EU candidacy?

Stephen Jones

Director, Program on Georgian Studies, Harvard University; Professor of Modern Georgian History, Ilia State University, Tbilisi

Beka Kobakhidze

Professor, Ilia State University

Malkhaz Toria

Associate Professor, Head of the Memory Studies Center, Ilia State University

Natia Chankvetadze

Ph.D. Candidate, George Mason University

Film Screening: 'Liza Go On'

Tuesday, April 2, 2024
4:30 to 7pm EDT

In person

Join the Program on Georgian Studies for a screening of "Liza Go On" — a controversial film on the 1992-1993 war in Georgia's Abkhazia region — and a subsequent discussion with film director Nana Janelidze.