The conference explores how ‘modernisation’ was practised and experienced in the Caucasus region during the 19th and 20th centuries, and the extent to which ‘modernisation’ was both a product of and a challenge to imperial rule.

Programme (pdf)

Organization: Dr. des. Kai Johann Willms

Assistance: Saskia Heyn, Chanda Nadeem, Micha Steiner

Venue:  Institute for European Global Studies, Riehenstrasse 154, 4058 Basel, Room 00.022