This panel will consider various implications of the March 22 terror attack outside Moscow for Central Asians and Central Asia, focusing on issues of migration, counter-terrorism, and transnational repression.
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.
Unlike centrally promulgated Soviet atheism, the atheism encountered in Central Asian languages was far more contradictory, often embracing Islam and denigrating it at the same time. This talk will chart the phenomenon's birth in the 1950s and its development as a body of literature in the 1960s.
Join the Program on Georgian Studies for a screening of "Will There Be a Theatre Up There?!" — a film about the impact of Stalinism on the people of Georgia — followed by a discussion with the director Nana Janelidze.
