Keynote Speakers

Karina Vamling is Professor of Caucasus Studies, Faculty of Culture and Society, Malmö University, Sweden. She holds a PhD in General Linguistics from Lund University. Her research interests, with a regional focus on Georgia and the Northwest Caucasus, include ethnolinguistic minorities and language policy, linguistic typology, language and culture. Vamling has published extensively on the Kartvelian and Circassian languages, with four monographs and seven edited volumes. She is the recipient of several awards and distinctions, such as Supporter of the Georgian Language (Caucasus University, 2024), The Rettig Prize (Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, 2022), The Arnold Chikobava Prize (Georgian Academy of Sciences, 1998), and The Swedish Government’s Research Committee Prize to Merited Young Researchers (1993).