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Stephen Jones made two presentations in October: 1.) “Building Social Democracy: The First Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-21)” Russia and the Caucasus Regional Research Center (RUCARR), Malmö University, Sweden, October 26, 2020. 2).  ” (A panel Discussion) Carnegie Foundation Europe, October 15, 2020.

And Neil Macfarlane co-edited a volume published by the University of Toronto Press this month (September). See Jones, S.F.,& Macfarlane, Neil. (2020) Georgia: from Autocracy to Democracy, Toronto, Canada: Univ. of Toronto Press. It includes a contribution from alum Natalie Sabanadze, the current Georgian ambassador to the EU and Luxembourg in Brussels. Jones also published with David Darchiashvili): Darchiashvili, D. & Jones, S.F. (2020, September 28) , Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, OUP. doi: 

“Social Democracy in Georgia,” Lecture to Georgian Association in the USA, July 22, 2020.

Stephen Jones “Recurrent Patterns in Georgian Politics: Culture, Geography and Institutions,” Keynote Speaker, 8th International Scientific Conference, “Space, Society, Politics” Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University,  25-27 June, 2020

Stephen Jones “The Democratic Republic of Georgia, 1918-1921: Europe Comes to Georgia,” Keynote Speaker for 10th Anniversary of WIP (Works in Progress) Series, (ARISC and CRRC), Tbilisi, May 13, 2020

Invited guest on the podcast This Queer Book Saved My Life, with guest Saraid de Silva (aired June 2024).

Invited to serve as an Advisory Board member of the Anisfield-Wolf Fellowship in Writing & Publishing at the Cleveland State University Poetry Center (2021-present)

Served as a Fiction Mentor for the Periplus Collective in 2023-2024.

Was an invited judge for a number of literary contests or prizes from 2021-2024, including for Lambda Literary, the Publishing Triangle, and the Columbia University's Undergraduate Fiction Prize.

Was an invited presenter at a number of conferences in 2024, including the CUNY Grad Center’s Rainbow Book Fair (New York, 2024), "Transfigured Flesh: Shapeshifting, Embodiment and the Nonhuman in Trans Narratives" and "Writing the Literary Sex Scene: Dethroning the Male Gaze" at the Association of Writers & Writing Program’s Annual Conference. (Kansas City, KS. 2024).