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:
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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.