The North Caucasus: Histories, Diasporas and Current Challenges

The Papers and abstracts in this volume were originally presented at a two-day conference, entitled "Towards a New Generation of Scholarship on the Caucasus," and held in Sukhum, Abkhazia on October 30-31, 2007. The conference was co-organized by the SSRC, Circassianacademia (a scholarly listserv) and The Center for Strategic Studies (Sukhum).

 

The overall purpose of the conference was to explore the themes and issues that are emerging in recent scholarship, especially by younger schoars, and the ways in which they speak to contemporary challenges faced by the various small republics and states of the region. A range of academic discplines--and regional traditions within these general disciplines--was represented: sociology, demography, linguistics, anthropology, political science and history as well as specialists working with NGOs and with government research agencies.