Language, Literature, Social Relations
An International Conference
April 30 – May 2, 2014
Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Welcome address, Professor Marine Chitashvili, Vice-Rector of Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Introductory remarks, Frode Hermundsgård, Norwegian head of the cooperation project in Scandinavian Studies between the University of Oslo (UiO) and Tbilisi State University (TSU)
First session
Chair: Jostein Børtnes, Professor emeritus, University of Bergen, senior advisor for the abovementioned project
Unn Elisabet Rogg, Lecturer, UiO: From Sex-role to Gender in Scandinavian Social Research
Tone Irene Brekke, Lecturer, UiO: “If I cannot be a voter […] I will be a writer of votes”: the Transnational Textual Culture of Norwegian Women Suffrage
Elene Japaridze, Research Fellow, Center for Social Sciences, and PhD Student, TSU:
Stigma of substance abuse among women in Georgia
Maia Barkaia, Research Fellow, Center for Social Sciences, and PhD Student, TSU:
The Presentation of Maia Barkaia on Challenges to Achieving Gender Equality in Georgia is based on the Chapter 2 of the book The Study of Georgian Youths Awareness, Perception and Attitudes of Gender Equality. The book is co-authored by Elene Japaridze, Maia Barkaia, Nino Zhghenti and Mariam Amashukeli. The research project was funded by the Academic Swiss Caucasus Net (ASCN).
Second session
Chair: Frode Hermundsgård
Gudleiv Bø, Professor emeritus, UiO, senior advisor for the abovementioned project: Incompatible Gender Fantasies – Formula Fictions for Men and Women
Ana Kopaliani, PhD Student, TSU: Marriage, Abortion, Maternity in Georgian Female Poets Writings
Ugnius Mikucionis, Lecturer, University of Kaunas, and Post.doc., UiO: Female dwarfs and dwarf children. A neglected aspect of the relationship between dwarfs and humans in the sagas
Ståle Dingstad, Professor, UiO: The Smiling Power. Gender in Ibsens Comedies
Thursday May 1
Third session
Chair: Jostein Børtnes
Else Ryen, Associate Professor, UiO: Language as a Societal Mirror. Language and Gender Revisited
Jorunn Økland, Professor, UiO: Reading the Bible in a State Feminist Context
Nino Popiashvili, Dr., Researcher, TSU: The Female Writer – the Georgian Literary Experience
Per Thomas Andersen, Professor, UiO: A Woman in Paris. Cora Sandels Alberte and her Freedom ( Alberte og friheten)
Fourth session
Chair: Frode Hermundsgård
Even Arntzen, Associate Professor, University of Tromsø: Misogyny and Vampirism in Strindberg’s Authorship
Kakhaber Loria, Professor, TSU: An Examination of Some Scandinavian—Georgian Literary Works in a Comparative Perspective
Torill Steinfeld, Professor, UiO: Nora’s Sisters? Gender and Modernity in Dramas by Scandinavian Women Playwrights in the 1880s and 90s
Friday 2 May
Fifth session
Chair: Jostein Børtnes
Nani Bendeliani, Head of the Gender Equality Research Programme at the Center for Social Sciences, Tbilisi: Assessment of Gender Equality in Georgia on the basis of International Indices and Ratings
Erika Svedberg, Assistant Professor, Malmö University: Uncovering the Everyday Practices in Human Social Relations. The Importance of Understanding the Protector/Protected Binary in National/International Affairs Today
Mariam Amashukeli, Researcher at the Center for Social Sciences, Tbilisi:
Gender Attitudes and Perceptions among Young People in Georgia
The Presentation of Mariam Amashukeli on Gender Attitudes and Perceptions among Young People in Georgia is based on the Chapter 2 of the book The Study of Georgian Youths Awareness, Perception and Attitudes of Gender Equality. The book is co-authored by Elene Japaridze, Maia Barkaia, Nino Zhghenti and Mariam Amashukeli. The research project was funded by the Academic Swiss Caucasus Net (ASCN).
This international conference at TSU is financed and organized within the framework of the cooperation project in Scandinavian Studies between the University of Oslo (UiO) and Tbilisi State University (TSU). The cooperation project (CPEA-2010/10111) is funded by The Eurasia programme of the Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education (SIU) and coordinated by Kakhaber Loria (fromTSU) and Frode Hermundsgård (from UiO).