The Caucasus podcast

How are Georgian landslides connected with the trees in Racha? Should we be even bothered by this as tourists in countries in the Caucasus? Today we focus on Georgian forests and why in some time Georgian mountain slopes may look totally different.

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When I say I work as a Georgian teacher, the next question is am I Georgian? So no, I am not. So how it happened that I learned Georgian in the first place? What helped me when learning Georgian? And how I ended up as a not only Georgian teacher, but also author of Georgian study books?

Link to the article: https://jezykikaukazu.pl/en/the-caucasus-podcast-11/

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You come back home after your holidays in Georgia and want to get to know this country better? Maybe you just need to keep a piece of Caucasus with you at home? One of the ways to have Caucasus atmosphere with you is to read Georgian literature. That is why today we have prepared Georgian books worth reading after coming home from your first holidays to Georgia or when you are preparing for the next one.

Link to the article on website: https://jezykikaukazu.pl/en/the-caucasus-podcast-10/


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The Caucasian Mail (newsletter): https://jezykikaukazu.pl/en/the-caucasian-mail/

We have chosen for you 3 war films about Caucasus, which in our opinion are worth to watch. About which war? 3 different wars that happened in the Caucasus since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Link to the article on website: https://jezykikaukazu.pl/en/the-caucasus-podcast-9/


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The Caucasian Mail (newsletter): https://jezykikaukazu.pl/en/the-caucasian-mail/

A trip to Azerbaijan – that’s my offer for you for today. To be more precise we’ll follow Banine and her childhood depicted in the book “Days in the Caucasus”. So let’s see together Baku and Azerbaijan as it was 100 years ago together with this French-Azerbaijani author.

Link to the podcast in text form on our website: https://jezykikaukazu.pl/en/the-caucasus-podcast-8/


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The Caucasian Mail (newsletter): https://jezykikaukazu.pl/en/the-caucasian-mail/

Languages spoken in Georgia – can I communicate in English outside Tbilisi? Is Russian used in Georgia? What is the official language in Georgia? What about languages of the minorities in Georgia? Those are the main questions we’ll focus on in this episode of The Caucasus podcast.

The text version of the episode: https://jezykikaukazu.pl/en/the-caucasus-podcast-7/


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Once upon a time there was a l Georgian book (and film based on it). The name of the book was Journey to Karabakh and was written by Aka Morchiladze. Then the fil, Trip to Karabakh was made. And this is the piece of Georgian culture that is worth to know. One may even say it’s obligatory to know. That’s why today I will tell you more about it and will reveal why.

The text version of the episode: https://jezykikaukazu.pl/en/the-caucasus-podcast-5/


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The Caucasian Mail (newsletter): https://jezykikaukazu.pl/en/the-caucasian-mail/

Which books about Caucasus are worth reading? This is the question I will try to answer in today’s episode of The Caucasus podcast. What to focus on and notice when choosing a book about this region and why.

The text version of the episode: https://jezykikaukazu.pl/en/the-caucasus-podcast-5/


Study Georgian with us: https://jezykikaukazu.pl/en/learn-georgian-language/

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The Caucasian Mail (newsletter): https://jezykikaukazu.pl/en/the-caucasian-mail/

Which podcasts about Caucasus do I listen to regularly? Which ones I recommend and why? Additionally, how and where look for interesting podcasts about this region? This is what I will cover today in the Caucasus podcast.

The text version of the episode: https://jezykikaukazu.pl/en/3-podcasts-about-caucasus/

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The Caucasian Mail (newsletter): https://jezykikaukazu.pl/en/the-caucasian-mail/

The podcasts I recommend:

1. The history of Saqartvelo Georgia: https://historyofsaqartvelo.com/
2. The Caucasus Digest: https://oc-media.org/tag/the-caucasus-digest/
3. Across the Caucasus: https://www.kaukasiologie.uni-jena.de/podcast

Georgia’s Armenian and Azerbaijani minorities – what is their view on the Nagorno-Karabakh War? What impact does it have on their day-to-day interactions and how they coexist in one country? This is what I’m going to talk about today with my guests, Dr Anna Cieślewska, a social anthropologist, and Klaudia Kosicińska, an anthropologist and a researcher of Georgia.

This episode is the sumary of the interview we had in Polish (available in Kaukazomaniacy podcast). The whole interview was translated and you can read it here:
https://jezykikaukazu.pl/en/georgian-armenians-and-azerbaijanis-and-the-nagorno-karabakh-war/

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The Caucasian Mail (newsletter): https://jezykikaukazu.pl/en/the-caucasian-mail/


About our guests:
Dr Anna Cieślewska – social anthropologist. Currently a lecturer at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, as well as a member of the Centre for International Studies and Development of the Jagiellonian University. As someone whose research interests revolve around the socioeconomic development of Central Asia and the geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as Islam and local traditions in post-Soviet states, she has spent the last 16 years working on research projects and initiatives taking place in the CIS and the Near East.

Klaudia Kosicińska – anthropologist, researcher of Georgia, PhD student at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She studied cultural anthropology and Eastern studies with a focus in the Caucasus at Warsaw University. She is a recipient of scholarships from the Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (2016–2017) and Yeditepe University in Istanbul (2022), as well as a winner of the Preludium research grant (2022–2024) offered by the Polish National Science Centre. Between 2015 and 2017, she co-organised the Georgian Participatory Budget project of the Inna Przestrzeń foundation, as well as the One Caucasus festival. Since 2018, she has researched the mobility and translocal practices of the Azerbaijani community in south-east Georgia. She is affiliated with Kaukaz.net and the Inna Przestrzeń foundation, and has published articles in Nowa Europa Wschodnia, Pracownia Etnograficzna and Chai Khana. Klaudia is also a co-organiser of Gamardżoba kino, a Warsaw-based festival of Georgian cinema.