Caucasiology in the Digital Era is a festschrift honouring Prof. Manana Tandaschwili and celebrating her formative influence on Caucasiology, (digital) Kartvelology, scholarly exchange, and the promotion of early-career scholars. The volume gathers contributions from international scholars covering translation studies, Kartvelology, corpus linguistics, digital philology, and manuscript research. By bridging Tbilisi and Frankfurt, it stands as an exemplary statement for the scholarly and cultural connections that Prof. Manana Tandaschwili has built over the course of decades.
This volume is conceived as a Festschrift for Professor Manana Tandashvili, an outstanding linguist whose work has set new standards at the interface of linguistics, digital humanities, literature and cultural mediation. Her research on Caucasian languages and her commitment to digital language resources have received international recognition. As a passionate university teacher and mentor, she influenced generations of students at universities in Georgia and Germany. Furthermore, she made a significant contribution to Georgian-German cultural exchange through literary projects and cultural initiatives. This Festschrift honors a life dedicated to language, scholarship, and cultural understanding and presents linguistic, paleographical, literary, and interdisciplinary contributions from Caucasian studies.
Dr. Mariam Kamarauli was born in 1990 in Tbilisi, Georgia. She studied Empirical Linguistics – with a specialization in Caucasian Linguistics – as well as Ethnology at Goethe University Frankfurt, where she completed her Bachelor’s degree in 2013 and her Master’s degree in 2015. From 2015 to 2018 she pursued her doctoral studies within the Graduate Research Group "Nominal Modification"; her dissertation was subsequently published under the title The Nominal Domain in Georgian: A diachronic analysis. Currently, she works as a postdoc on the project "The Development of Literacy in the Caucasian Territories" at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the University of Hamburg. Additionally, she heads the Georgian Studies program at Goethe University Frankfurt, where she was awarded the “1822 University Prize for excellent teaching” in 2024. Her research interests focus on Caucasian linguistics, particularly syntax, semantics, diachronic language development, and typology.
http://www.mariam-kamarauli.de/
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