Nargiza Arjevanidze

Talented professional considered knowledgeable leader and dedicated problem solver. Brings 10 years of valuable expertise to forward company objectives. Attentive to detail with experience in coordinating projects, programs and improvements.

• Arjevanidze,N. (2023) “Antigender movements and Georgia” Politics of Injury” Heinrich Böll Foundation, Tbilisi.
• Arjevanidze,N. (2022) “Politics of Injury” – Bodies and Emotions During the War. Heinrich Böll Foundation, Tbilisi.
• Arjevanidze, N. (2021) War as Embodied and Emotional Experience. New Europe College Yearbook.
• Arjevanidze, N. (2020) Feminist Perspectives on War and Forced Displacement. In Women during and after Wars. Heinrich Böll Foundation Tbilisi Office.
• Arjevanidze, N. (2020) Cultural Domination and the Signs of Minority Culture Erasure in Kvemo Kartli Region. In Religion, Politics and Social Contexts, EMC.
• Arjevanidze, N. (2020) Vulnerability and Resilience: Experiences of Forced Displacement in Narratives of Internally Displaced Women from Abkhazia In Women’s Everyday Lives in War and Peace in the South Caucasus. Edited by Ulrike Roberts. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Arjevanidze, N. (2017) Remembering the Past: Narratives of Displaced Women from Abkhazia In Gender in Georgia:Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation and History in the South Caucasus. Edited by Maia Barkaia and Alisse Waterston. Berghahn Books.
• Arjevanidze, N. (2017) Experiences of protracted displacement in narratives of Internally Displaced women from Abkhazia. Heinrich Böll Foundation, Tbilisi.
• Conference “Religion, Politics and Social Contexts”. EMC-Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center. October, 2020. Conference talk: presentation of research findings: Cultural Domination and the Signs of Minority Culture Erasure in Kvemo Kartli Region.
• 8-10 March, 2017 - International Gender Workshop (IGW) 2017 Gender and (military) conflicts in Eastern-European countries through feminist lenses. Presentation: “Experiences of Forced Displacement in Narratives of Internally Displaced Women”.
• 9 November, 2016 - Annual Gender Studies Symposium: Gender and Inequality: Global challenges, local negotiations. Lund University, Department of Gender Studies. Lund, Sweden. Presentation: Remembering the Past: Narratives of Displaced Women from Abkhazia.
• 6 December, 2012 - Center for Social Sciences. 4th Annual Conference in Gender Studies: “War and Peace: Power and Representation of Men and Women”; Conference paper: "Women's Voices in Peace Processes".
• 13 July, 2012 - Center for Social Sciences. Conference - Gender Equality in Georgia, Presentation: Gender Equality - An overview of Georgian and International Legislation.
• 15-16 March, 2011 - International Conference - Living in Displacement: Prospects for Change? (organizers: University of Arizona; Rutgers University; Institute for Policy Studies; Center for Social Sciences, Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.) Conference presentation: Changing Gender Relations among Displaced Households in Georgia.
• 8 December, 2010 - Center for Social Sciences, Tbilisi State University. 2nd Annual Conference in Gender Studies: Ghost of Violence: Women Facing Boundaries. Conference presentation: “Sexual Violence: Effective Weapon for Warfare”

• Ilga Europe; Framing our rights and affirming common values. 11-13 September, Brussels.2015
• European Asylum Support Office; Online Training module on Inclusion. October,2013 - November,2013
• International Training Program on UNSCR 1325 – Women, Peace and Security. Stockholm, Sweden. 2013 May Follow-up seminar in Cape Town, South Africa. October, 2013.
• Strengthening of Protection Capacity, Local Integration, and Prevention of Secondary Movements. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), United Nations Association of Georgia (UNAG). 2010 November
• Workshop on “Researching Country of Origin Information”; Austrian Centre for Country of Origin & Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD). UNHCR Global Learning Centre, Budapest. 2010, January.
• Nansen Dialogue Seminar on Democracy, Human rights and Peaceful Conflict Resolution; Norway, Lillehammer. 2009, June.
• University of Oslo; International Summer School (ISS); Gender Equality in the Nordic Countries (Certificate 2009 June-August.

• New Europe College Institute for Advanced Study (NEC) Bucharest, Romania October-February, 2020-2021
• Visiting scholar, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA January - February 2018
• Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden. Visiting Research Fellow within the Swedish Institute (SI) Visby Programme. September 2016 – August 2017
• Fribourg University, Switzerland. Visiting research fellow within the Academic Swiss Caucasus Network (ASCN). March 2016 - June 2016
• Open Society Georgia Foundation (OSFG) Academic Fellowship Program (AFP) 2010-2015

• Translated from English into Georgian:
• “Cruel Optimism”. Laurent Berlant. In Queer Feelings – collection of translated articles. Heinrich Böll Foundation. 2020.
• “Killing Joy – Feminism and the History of Happiness”. Sara Ahmed. In Queer Feelings – collection of translated articles. Heinrich Böll Foundation. 2020.
• Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses. by Chandra Talpade Mohanty. Heinrich Böll Foundation, January 2017, Tbilisi http://www.feminism-boell.org/ka/2016/11/10/kulturis-arsi-da-istoriis-azri-kulturuli-esencializmis-peministuri-kritika
• Essence of Culture and a Sense of History: A Feminist Critique of Cultural Essentialism. by Uma Natayan. Heinrich Böll Foundation. November, 2016. Tbilisi http://www.feminism-boell.org/ka/2017/01/31/dasavluri-mzeris-kvesh-peministuri-kvleva-da-koloniuri-diskursebi
• Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod. Chapter 1. EMC - Human Rights and Monitoring Center. December, 2016. Tbilisi https://emc.org.ge/2016/12/27/emc-195/