Dr. Dmitri Tsiskarashvili
Assistant Professor/Head of Discipline, Russian & Slavonic Studies
Biography
After receiving his PhD from the Pushkin Institute of Russian Studies in Moscow, Dmitri lectured at the University of Tartu in Estonia. He later moved to Ireland to take up a post at the Trade Management Institute in Blackrock, Co. Dublin. The Institute was established by the Irish-American group EGB Management Ltd., a subsidiary of the General Atlantic Group whose founding director was Charles (Chuck) F. Feeney. At the Institute, Dmitri was responsible for the development and implementation of the intensive program in Business Russian and International Commerce, designed to prepare Irish university graduates for careers in Russia. He was also a guest lecturer for the Master of Arts Program in European Union Studies in the Department of Modern History at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His subject area was "Central and Eastern Europe: Prospects, Problems and Future Relationship with the EU". Dmitri supervised MA dissertations and essays relating to the preparation of the CEE countries for EU accession. In October 1992, the Business Studies and a Language (Russian) degree program was initiated at Trinity College Dublin. This program is designed to provide students with the business and linguistic skills and cultural knowledge necessary to communicate and operate successfully in the commercial environment of modern Russia. Since 2000, Dmitri has been the lead lecturer and coordinator for this interdisciplinary program. He initiated and developed a collaborative working relationship with the Graduate School of Management (GSOM) at St. Petersburg State University. Until 2022, Dmitri was responsible for the administration and coordination of international exchanges between the GSOM and Trinity Business School. Over years, more that 170 TCD students participated in this exchange program. In 2022, Dmitri facilitated the launch of a new exchange partnership between TCD and the School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Dmitri Tsiskarashvili, Business Russian: Textbook for advanced learners, St. Petersburg, Russia, St. Petersburg, ZLATOUST, 2020, 1 - 248pp
Dmitri Tsiskarashvili, A Business Russian textbook for advanced learners:criteria for the selection of materials, International Conference on Russian Studies, University of Barcelona, 20-22 June 2018, 2018, pp1011 - 1014
Dmitri Tsiskarashvili, Razraborka programm po russkomu jazyku dlia russko-govoriashchih studentov, http://ru.mapryal.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/MAPRYAL_T10_A5.pdf, The XIII International Congress of the MAPRYAL , The University of Granada, Granada, Spain, 14-20 September 2015, edited by Verbitskaya L.A., Rogova A.K. , Volume 10, MAPRYAL, St. Petersburg, 2015, pp1090 - 1093
Dmitri Tsiskarashvili, The new Russian fast-track citizenship law in light of recent events in Ukraine, 14th Annual Aleksanteri Conference" RESTRUCTURING STATE AND SOCIETY IN RUSSIA", University of Helsinki, 22-24 October 2014, 2014
Tova Hojdestrand(ed.), ICCEES VIII World Congress "Eurasia: Prospects for Wider Cooperation", Stockholm, 26-31 July 2010, The Swedish Society for the Study of Russia, Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia , 2010
Dmitri Tsiskarashvili, Itaalia keele opik, Second edition, Tallinn, Estonia, Valgus, 2008, 1 - 420pp
S. Vasil'eva, I. Ljubenova, A. Mavrova, S.Pejcheva " Programma kursa po delovoj kommunikatsii (prodvinutyj uroven')" (ed.), XI International Congress of the MAPRYAL ( The international Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature, Mir Russkogo Slova i Russkoe Slovo v Mire, Varna, Bulgaria, 6 (1), 17-22 September 2007, Heron Press Ltd. Sofia, Bulgaria, 2007, 481-485 p
Azimov E.G " Struktura i kriterii otsenki gosudarstvennogo vypusknogo ekzamena po russkomu jazyku v irlandskoj shkole"(ed.), International Forum for Specialists in Russian Language Studies from Northern Europe, Mezhdunarodnyj Forum Rusistov Severnoj Evropy, Helsinki, 13-14 October 2006, IKAR Press, Moscow, 2006, 147-153 p
Dmitri Tsiskarashvili, Recent Migration to the Baltic States:Stalin's Legacy in Estonia and Latvia, Irish Slavonic Studies, Stalin. His Times and Ours, University College Cork, May 2003, edited by Geoffrey Roberts , Published by the Irish Association for Russian and East European Studies, 2005, pp203 - 215
Thomas Bremer, Inken Dose(ed.), ICCEES ( International Council for Central and East European Studies) VII World Congress , Europe-Our Common Home?, Berlin, 25-30 July, 2005, Weltkongress 2005 e.V, 2005, 435-436 p
Dmitri Tsiskarashvili, Russian-speaking Minorities in the Baltic States and the Implementation of the State Integration Programmes in Estonia and Latvia, National Committee for Modern Language Studies, 30th Annual Research Symposium, "Intercultural Spaces: Language,Culture, Identity, Dublin City University, 7-8 November 2003, Royal Irish Academy, 2003
Research Expertise
Recognition
Memberships
President of the Irish Association for Russian and East European Studies (IAREES)
Member of the Academic Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES)
Associate member of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)
Member of the Teaching Council (Further Education Section)