NES 6530

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NES 6530
The Caucasus: Captives, Cultures, Conflicts

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

The Caucasus occupies a distinctive place in the historical and cultural imagination, a region long anchored to tropes of disobedience, punishment, and redemption. It is also a place in which liminality, betwixt and between Europe and Asia, endures as both a perceived geographic imaginary and an experienced condition in the detritus of Persian, Ottoman, Russian, and Soviet imperialisms. This course explores the Caucasus through its anthropology, history, and cultural production, with a particular focus on the Russian conquest, Soviet socialism, and the conflicts and capitalist formations of the post-Soviet decades. We will examine the entanglements of the region's history, political economy, and geopolitics in order to get a sense of the array of forces shaping the Caucasus today.


Exploratory Studies (CU-ITL)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2018SP

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 4030, ANTHR 7030, NES 4530

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  7944 NES 6530   SEM 101

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    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Khatchadourian, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person