One of the earliest historical examples in which peoples from the Caucasus engaged with the notion of federalism was in 1874 when a group of Georgian, Armenian, Dagestani and Russian students organized a conference at the University of Geneva on the question of an independent Caucasian federation. Subsequently, this notion lingered in the minds of political activists of the early twentieth century. For instance, leading figures in the Georgian Social Democratic faction of Mensheviks, who were grappling with questions of socialism, nationality, nationalism and the nation-state, envisaged federalist relations, structures and institutions for the Caucasus: an ‘administrative plan for Caucasia’ and an ‘all-Caucasian Seim’.

Convener: Beka Kobakhidze, Ilia State University, Georgia.

Speakers:

Adrian Brisku, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic;Sarah Slye, University of Cambridge, UK;Timothy Blauvelt, American Councils for International Education.

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