April and May, 2013. Geography, Gendered Social Networks and Well-being: The Case of Forced Migrants in the Republic of Georgia. Co-authors Joanna Regulska, Olga Mayorova, Julia Carboni, Peter Kabachnik. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Los Angeles, CA. April 2013. Also presented at the Sunbelt Conference, Hamburg, Germany, May 2013.

October 12, 2012. Using the Displaced to Claim Place: The Politicization of Displacement in Georgia, Academic Swiss Caucasus Net International Conference, Istanbul, Turkey. Peter Kabachnik, Beth Mitchneck, Joanna Regulska.

2012 Spaces of displacement and (re)placing social networks: Internally Displaced in the Republic of Georgia. Co-authors Olga Mayorova, Julia Carboni, Joanna Regulska. Annual Meeting of the AAG, New York.

February 3, 2012. Invited Speaker, Perpetual – or Perpetuating – Conflict? Perspectives on the Georgia-Abkhazia Conflict, Hokkaido Roundtable: Violence and Reconciliation around Ethnic Boundaries in the Caucasus Region. Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University. Peter Kabachnik. 

June 25, 2011. Wounds that Won’t Heal: Cartographic Anxieties and the Quest for Territorial Integrity in Georgia, Academic Swiss Caucasus Net Annual Conference, Bazaleti, Georgia. Peter Kabachnik.

June 2011 Displacement and Social Networks: Making new friends and keeping the old. Co-author Julia Carboni. World Conference on Humanitarian Studies, Tufts University, June 2011.

April 16, 2011. Displacing Blame: Divergent Accounts of the Georgia-Abkhazia Conflict, Association for the Study of Nationalities World Convention, New York, New York. . Peter Kabachnik, Joanna Regulska, Beth Mitchneck.

April 7, 2011. Traumatic Masculinities: The Gendered Geographies of Georgian IDPs from  Abkhazia, 2011 Regional Policy Symposium: Gender in the 21st Century Eastern   Europe and Eurasia, Washington D.C. Peter Kabachnik, Magda Grabowska, Joanna Regulska, Beth Mitchneck, Olga V. Mayorova.

April 2011 Forced Migrants and Their Social Networks: Effects of Time and Space in the Republic of Georgia. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Seattle,
Washington. April 2011.

March 15, 2011. Perceptions and Constructions of Abkhazia, Living in Displacement: Prospects for Change? Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. Peter Kabachnik. 

March 2011, Living in Displacement Conference

• Beth Mitchneck, Olga Mayorova, Ron Breiger, Julia Carboni "The Geography of IDP Social Networks: From the Transnational to the Translocal" (pdf)
• Beth Mitchneck & Julia Carboni "How Dynamic is the Structure
  of Employment & Well‐being: A Comparison of IDPs from Abkhazia in the 1990s and South Ossetia in 2008" (pdf)
• Julia Carboni "Policy and Experience: Social Networks Over Time and Space " (pdf)
• Arjevanidze, N. "Changing gender relations among displaced households in Georgia" (pdf)
• Hofmann, E. T. & Buckley, C. J. "Global changes and gendered responses: The feminization of migration from Georgia" (pdf)
  
• Iashvili, I. "The Georgian transnational household: Spanning the Georgian - United States divide" (pdf)
  
• Makhashvili, N. "War affected communities: psychosocial needs, challenges and responses" (pdf)
• Mitchneck-Carboni, "PolicyNets" (pdf)
  
• Regulska, J. "Gender and ambivalent identities: The case of Georgian IDPs" (pdf)
• Rusetskaia, E. "One window shop meetings’ model – successful methodology" (pdf)
  
• Tsiskarishvili, L. "Effects of chronic trauma on internally displaced persons" (pdf)
  

August 14, 2010
"Transnational Household as a Livelihood Strategy: Networks of the IDP in the Republic of Georgia." Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA. Olga Mayorova.

August 14, 2010
"Transnational Household as a Livelihood Strategy: Networks of the IDP in the Republic of Georgia." Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA. Beth Mitchneck.

August 14, 2010
"Becoming and Living as an IDP: Case of Georgia", Session: Citizenship's Others.  Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, Atlanta, Georgia.  Joanna Regulska.

August 14, 2010
"Panelist: Citizenship's Others." Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA. Beth Mitchneck.

July 13, 2010
"Traumatic Masculinities: The Gendered Geographies of Georgian IDPs from Abkhazia." Annual Meeting, International Geographic Union, Tel Aviv, Israel, July 13, 2010. Peter Kabachnik. (pdf)

April 18, 2010
"Traumatic Masculinities: The Gendered Geographies of Georgian IDPs from Abkhazia." Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Washington D.C. April 18, 2010. Peter Kabachnik.

April 15, 2010
"Contesting Gender Identities and Practices: Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Search of Self." Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Washington, DC, USA. Joanna Regulska.

April 15, 2010
"Forced Migrants and Their Social Networks: Effects of Time and Space in the Republic of Georgia; " Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Washington, DC, USA. April 15. Beth Mitchneck.

February 25, 2010
"Internally Displaced Population (IDPs) and their Struggle to Survive: Case of Georgia". ACE NET, Rutgers University. Joanna Regulska.

November 18, 2009
"Post-conflict Living on the Margins: Border Displacement in the Republic of Georgia." The University of Arizona Migration Research Dialogue Series, Tucson, AZ. Beth Mitchneck.

November 13, 2009
"Local and Transnational Networks of Long-term Displaced Persons in the Republic of Georgia." Co-authors Olga V. Mayorova, Ronald L. Breiger, and Joanna Regulska. Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, MA. Beth Mitchneck

July 2009
"Local and transnational networks of the long-term displaced persons in Georgia." Capturing Context Conference, New York, NY, June 12-13. Beth Mitchneck and Olga Mayorova.

May 22, 2009
"Gendered Responses to Human Displacement: The Case of IDPs in Georgia." Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, May 22. Joanna Regulska.

May 17, 2009
"Gendered Responses to Human Displacement: The Case of IDPs in Georgia." Cross-Regional Discipline Group Meeting of the Open Society Institute, Istanbul, Turkey, May 17. Joanna Regulska.

May 14, 2009
"Gendered Responses to Human Displacement: The Case of IDPs in Georgia." Bahçes,ehir University, Istanbul, Turkey, May 14. Joanna Regulska.

April 2009
"Traumatic Masculinities: Shifting Gender Roles Of Georgian IDPs From Abkhazia." 14th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, New York. Peter Kabachnik.

April 24, 2009
"Long-term Human Displacement and Social Networks: Place and Space." The University of Arizona Department of Geography and Regional Development Colloquium, Tucson, Arizona. Beth Mitchneck and Olga Mayorova.

March 2009
"Conflicts in the Caucasus: The Fate of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the Republic of Georgia," World on Wednesday Lecture Series hosted by the Pluralism and Diversity program at the College of Staten Island, New York. Peter Kabachnik.

March 2008
"Social Isolation of Forced Migrants: Spatial and Network Perspectives." International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, San Diego, CA, March 9-13. Olga Mayorova and Beth Mitchneck

2008
"Gendered Displacement in Georgia," Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, PA, Beth Mitchneck, Joann Regulska.

2008
"An exploration of long-term territorial displacement and material lives: the case of Georgia, Forum on Displacement in Georgia: Human Impact, Policy Implications, and Lessons Learned." The Harriman Institute, Columbia University, Beth Mitchneck, Peter Kabachnik.

2008
"Gendered Meanings of Displacement: The Redefinition of Traditional Roles, Forum on Displacement in Georgia: Human Impact, Policy Implications, and Lessons Learned." The Harriman Institute, Columbia University, Joanna Regulska, Madga Grabowska.

2008
"IDP Identity and its Psycho-Social Consequences, Forum on Displacement in Georgia: Human Impact, Policy Implications, and Lessons Learned." The Harriman Institute, Columbia University, Nana Sumbadze.

2008
"The August war in Georgia and the new displacement, Forum on Displacement in Georgia: Human Impact, Policy Implications, and Lessons Learned." The Harriman Institute, Columbia University, George Tarkhan-Mouravi.

2008
"Forced Migrants Living in Post-Conflict Situations: Social Networks and Livelihood Strategies, Human and Social Dynamics." 2008 Grantees Conference, National Science Foundation. Beth Mitchneck, Joanna Regulska.

2008
"Mobility and Everyday Practices of Internally Displaced People in Georgia," Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers. London, UK, Beth Mitchneck.

2008
"Post" Conflict Displacement: Isolation and Integration in Georgia: the case of IDPs from the Abkhaz Conflicts," Conference on Caucasus Studies: Migration – Society – Language. Malmoe University, Sweden, Olga Mayorova, Beth Mitchneck, Joanna Regulska.

2008
"Exile and Displacement of Internally Displaced Persons in Georgia: Where is home?" Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Boston. Beth Mitchneck, Joanna Regulska, Peter Kabachnik.

2007
"Governance in Action: the Case of IDPs in Georgia," Opening presentation at the IGU Commission on Geography and Public Policy meeting, "Local Governance and Citizenships" University of Bern. Joanna Regulska, Beth Mitchneck.

2007
"IDPs and Governance Environment: The Case of Georgia," Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA. Joanna Regulska, Beth Mitchneck.

2007
"Forced Migrants in the Caucasus: Social Networks and Livelihoods," Working Group on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies speakers series, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. University of Pennsylvania, Beth Mitchneck.

March 2006
"Household Livelihood Strategies in Post-Conflict Georgia: Social, Economic, and Territorial Displacement." Annual Meeting of Association of American Geographers. Chicago, IL, Beth Mitchneck.