From a rostrum in the capital of Georgia, leading Slovak intellectual Michal Hvorecký addresses a Europe-wide audience. As a novelist and essayist, Hvorecký explores the fragility of democracy and the political fault lines of contemporary Central and Eastern Europe with irony, urgency and historical awareness. In his recent book Dissident, he turns to questions of […]
The Blood Donation Day will be held in the buildings A and T of Iliauni on June 15 , it will be organized by the Department of Student Affairs of Ilia State University. As part of the campaign, the mobile teams of the "Natalia Kvantaliani Central Blood Bank" and "Sicockhle" organizations, staffed by professional, experienced doctors, will […]
On June 15 at 15:00, Ilia State University will host the opening of the exhibition "Global Entanglements: German Settlers in Georgia (1817–1941)" and a presentation of ongoing academic collaborations between Ilia State University and Germany in Hall G106. The event will be attended by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Germany to Georgia, Mr. Ernst […]
On June 16, an international workshop titled “Looking Back and Ahead: Turkey and Georgia in Global History and Modern Turbulent Times” will be held at the G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies at Ilia State University, in partnership with Hacettepe University in Ankara. Georgian and Turkish researchers will participate in the workshop. Annotation The event […]
Online Event | Zoom | June 16, 2026 | 15:30 PM, Tbilisi Time History's Revenge: Tsarist and Soviet Legacies in Georgia in the Twenty-First Century Keynote Lecture by Prof. Ronald Grigor Suny The Institute of Social and Cultural Research (Ilia State University) invites you to a public keynote lecture by one of the foremost historians of […]
Public Event | 17 June 2026 | 19:00 Tbilisi Time Ilia State University, Hall G106, G. Tsereteli Entrance N 1-3 Our Current Moment: Three Perspectives from Three Disciplines Our current moment is characterized simultaneously by fragmentation and convergence. The international order put into place after 1945 and further integrated after the collapse of the USSR is […]
The award ceremony of the Vaclav Havel 90 Essay Writing Competition, organized by The Czech Centre Tbilisi and Ilia State University, with the support of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Tbilisi and the Václav Havel Library in Prague, will take place on Wednesday, June 18, 2026, from 19:00 to 20:30 at Ilia State […]
On June 25, on the permanent seminar of the G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies, Julia Jiménez Rodríguez (University of Granada) will deliver a lecture "Love, Concubinage, Religion, and Power: The Global Dynamics of Temporary Marriage". Information about the presenter Julia Jiménez Rodríguez is an MA student in Arabic and Hebrew Culture: al-Ándalus and Contemporary World, at the […]
On July 7–8, a two-day conference titled “Sustaining Academic Freedom: Ilia State University and its Academic Partnership with Germany” will be held in Essen, Germany. The event is organized through a partnership between the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr) Liaison Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and Ilia State University. The primary objective of the conference […]
On 30 July at 6:00 PM, join us in the courtyard of Building E for the 2026 Graduation Ceremony. We will celebrate together one of the most remarkable days of your life - a day that summarizes the successful, hardworking, and unforgettable years of your studies at the university. At 7:00 PM, the festive ceremony […]
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