CRRC Methodological Conference on Transformations in the South Caucasus and its Neighbourhood
June 26th and 27th, Tbilisi, Georgia
Rooms Hotel Tbilisi
14 Merab Kostava Street
DAY 1
08:30 – 09:00 Registration & coffee
09:00 – 09:15 Opening remarks. David Lee, Chair of the Board of Trustees of EPF and CRRC
09:15 – 10:00 Keynote speech 1: Why mixing is a bad idea: the challenges to equivalence of mixing data collection modes in cross-national surveys
Rory Fitzgerald, ESS
Q/A
10:00 – 11:30 Session 1: Enhancing research on education
1. School readiness study: findings and further research – Lela Chakhaia
2. INTES - a methodology for assessing the integrity of education systems, and its application in Armenia – Mihaylo Milovanovitch
3. Inequality in Armenian Higher Education, 2004-2013 – Koen Geven
Moderator of the panel: Heghine Manasyan
Q/A
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 – 13:00 Session 2: Visual research highlights
1. Territorial Claims and Gold Mining in Georgia: A Videographic Geography – Jesse Quinn
2. Rephotography: Documenting changes in the built and natural environment using photography – Vrej Haroutounian
Moderator of the panel: Tinatin Zurabishvili
Q/A
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:00 Parallel workshops
1. The graphical visualization of regression output using Stata– Alexi Gugushvili
2. Most-Similar Systems Design: Issues and Potential Remedies – Anar Ahmadov
16:15 – 18:00 Parallel workshops
1. How to Use a Process-Tracing Methodology in Theory Testing? – Nino Dadalauri
2. Getting your article published – Timothy Blauvelt
18:30-20:30 Dinner
DAY 2
09:00 – 9:30 Coffee
9:30 – 10:15 Keynote speech 2:The Role of Assimilation, Emigrant Networks and Destination in Ukrainian Emigrants’ Transnational Political Engagement - Anar Ahmadov
Q/A
10:15 – 11:45 Session 3
1. Azerbaijan: Discourse and Self-Perception – Chiara Loda
2. Validation of the Azerbaijani Empowerment Scale – Alexander Cheryomukhin
3. Online versus Offline Civic Activism: the Case of Armenia – Valentina Gevorgyan and Armine Bagiyan
Moderator of the panel: Yulia Aliyeva
Q/A
11:45 – 12.30 Keynote speech 3:
“Money Can’t Buy Me Love”: Foreign Land Ownership Regime and Attitudes in Georgia - Alexi Gugushvili
Q/A
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:30 Workshop: The Challenges of Cross-national Surveys: The example of the European Social Survey (ESS)
Rory Fitzgerald, ESS (Coffee – to be provided during the workshop)
15:30 – 16:00 Closing remarks – Timothy Blauvelt, Koba Turmanidze