Olga Khabibulina

I like big cities, I am fascinated by their openness to otherness and, at the same time, terrified by the possibility of sudden isolation. It is this combination of openness and isolation, integration and alienation, tradition and innovation that I find most interesting for research.

I have experience in social and educational projects in NGOs in Belarus as well as in Georgia and Poland. I am currently focusing on my PhD, in which I am researching from an ethnographic perspective the cultural and linguistic practice of Georgians and Georgian women living in Poland.

I enjoy travelling by train across the widely understood Central and Eastern Europe, which I discover anew each time.

In collaboration with the WOK, I am researching the cultural practices of the Georgian community in Warsaw – the needs of people in this area and their experience of participating in cultural events.