Lives in Transit: Visualizing Georgian Migration Across Continents After 1921
Tue., May 12, 2026, 10 – 11:30 a.m. 
Movement and exile are recurring themes in Georgian history. The twentieth century, however, brought a dramatic rupture in the lives of Georgia’s citizenry. The Red Army's invasion of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in February 1921 set in motion waves of emigration that would carry tens of thousands of Georgians to destinations as far apart as Warsaw, Istanbul, Paris, Harbin (China), and New York.
This webinar traces four principal corridors taken by Georgian exiles. We will look at the stories of individual men and women and their extraordinary journeys. Presenters will bring to life the human experience behind the archival records and biographical notes. We will employ an interactive Story Map which will help us visualize their routes and illuminate the wide-ranging dispersal of Georgians following twentieth century wars and revolutions.
Online Location: harvard.zoom.us…
Gazette Classification: Lecture, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center's Program on Georgian Studies, in partnership with the Georgian Association in the US Archives GA, promotes interdisciplinary research and public engagement on the history, culture, and society of Georgia and the wider South Caucasus, including a pioneering digital initiative to document and map the lives of Georgian emigrants scattered across the globe following the Soviet occupation of 1921.
Speaker(s): Stephen Jones, Chairman, Advisory Board, Program on Georgian Studies, Davis Center; Professor of Modern Georgian History, Ilia State University (Tbilisi, Georgia), Eka Imerlishvili, Secretary of the Georgian Association in the US, Markus Vaher, A.M. Candidate in Regional Studies- REECA, Salome Tsereteli-Stephens, President, Georgian Association in the USA, Elene Kekelia, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, George Washington University
Cost: Free
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Harvard Key Required: No
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