MEDIATIZED EU project team participates in the panel: Political Polarization in the EU and EaP Countries in the Context of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, chaired by Lia Tsuladze.
Dr. Lia Tsuladze’s paper: “The Deviation Discourse as a Manifestation of Polarization: The Case of Georgia”.
Dr. Lia Tsuladze, Executive Director of the Center for Social Sciences and Associate Professor of Sociology at Tbilisi State University, participated in the Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) on May 16-18 at Columbia University, United States, with two panels. The first panel was themed “Who Does Russia Appeal to Anymore? Russian Soft Power and Foreign Policy”, and Dr. Tsuladze presented a paper titled “Tracing Georgia’s de-Europeanization: Discursive Opposition to the EU and its Escalation after Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine”. The second was a special event titled “Georgia’s Euromaidan? Making Sense of Mass Protests in Georgia”, in which Dr. Tsuladze discussed the current situation in the country with Dr. Ana Andguladze, Dr. Kristine Margvelashvili, Dr. Aaron Erlich, and Dr. Jesse Driscoll, with the moderation of Dr. Julie George.
Lia Tsuladze gives a keynote speech titled “‘Georgia’s Contested European Trajectory: Instrumentalisation of Europeanisation Discourses by Political and Media Actors’’ at the Oxford-Georgia Forum: “Georgia’s European Aspirations: The Role of Soft Power and Public Diplomacy”
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Center for Social Sciences organizes
Online Panel Discussion
“Pathways to Europeanization: Dominant Media Discourses in Estonia, Georgia, Hungary and Spain”
Date: 9 November 2022, 16:00 GET / 13:00 CET
For registration, please follow the URL: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkdu-sqzMtHNY8—5NpDNn9DhOlG9Ao91
Continue readingOn March 24, 2022 Center for Social Sciences organized an online panel discussion on the implications of Russian invasion in Ukraine for Georgia and the wider EaP region. The panel featured Professor Neil MacFarlane, Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford, Dr. Natalie Sabanadze, Cyrus Vance Visiting Professor of International Relations at Mount Holyoke College and former Head of the Georgian Mission to the European Union and Ambassador Plenipotentiary to Belgium and Luxembourg, and Dr. Maksymilian (Max) Fras, Policy Advisor, and former fellow at Eurasia Democratic Security Network (EDSN). The panel was moderated by Dr. Gela Merabishvili, CSS Affiliated Researcher.