Conf/Prog - Transformations in the South Caucasus and its Neighbourhood, CRRC Georgia

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

Conf/Prog - Transformations in the South Caucasus and its Neighbourhood, CRRC Georgia

Caucasus Research Resource Center (CRRC) - Georgia

Event Date:

June 26, 2015 - June 27, 2015

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