On 11 and 12 October, from 10am to 3pm, an international conference on Wildlife Diseases and Species Conservation will be held at ISU (room G106). Organized by the Tbilisi Zoological Park, the conference will be held with the financial support from ISU. Conference participants include professors from ISU and the Turin and Siena universities, members […]

On October 12, at 17:00, Prof Nebahat Avcıoğlu will deliver a public lecture on the topic “examples of modern and contemporary architecture in Europe, Russia and Turkey.” About the Speaker Prof. Nebahat Avcıoğlu is an art critic and Islamic architecture specialist. His last paper is on mosque-museums in Europe. These unusual buildings are of hybrid nature […]

An exhibition 'So this is the strong Sex.' Women in Psychoanalysis’ from the Sigmund Freud Museum will be launched on 19 October 2018, at 18:30, at ISU B201. Hosted by the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna from October 2015 to July 2016, the exhibition has enjoyed a successful tour around Europe. The exhibition aims to present to […]

A public lecture on Sustainable Forest Management: Growth Models will be held on 16 October 2018,  at 11:00, at ISU G 106. Speakers: Gigia Aleksidze – Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management in Georgia. Lars Drössler – Ilia State University Available Data on Forest Growth Assessment […]

On 22 October 2018, at 18:00, ISU Ligamus Book House will host Professor Hans Ulrich "Sepp" Gumbrecht’s public lecture called “Does Silicon Valley Have and Need An Epistemology? " If Hegel was to re-appear in the 21st century to ask his obsessive question where does spirit dwell?, his attention would be captured by avant-garde engineers […]

On 23 and 24 October ISU will host a conference Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-1921): In Search of Form and Content organized by the ISU Institute of Social and Cultural Studies. The conference aims to highlight the hitherto understudied themes and revisit the methodology and perspectives through which the Social-Democratic Movement and the First Republic […]

On 23 October 2018, at 18:00, Dr. William V. Braun and Dr. Konrad Karcz will deliver public lectures at ISU G106. William V. Braun, Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons, will speak about Complications of Bariatric Procedures. Each method used in bariatric surgery has pros and cons. Dr. Braun will discuss bariatric surgery procedures and […]

On October 24, 2018 the Ilia State University and the University of Tartu convene a discussion session “Georgia in Europe, Europe in Georgia” in the framework of the Jean Monnet Network “Developing European Studies in the Caucasus”. The event is based on two recent publication projects – a special issue of the journal “Region: Regional […]

From 25 to 27 October 2018, ISU will host an international conference The Black Sea as a Literary and Cultural Space. The event was initiated by Professor Alexis Nuselovici of the University of Aix-Marseille (France). Organizers: Professor Mzagho Dokhturishvili, Director of the Research Centre Romance Intercompherension. Intertextual Dialogue; Professor Bela Tsipuria, Director of Comparative Literature; […]

Public lecture on "Right to Privacy in the Era of Transparency and Mass Surveillance" will be held on October 26 at 15:00 Judge of the European Court of Human Rights, Ganna Yudkivska will speak about a development of the notion of privacy and its reasonable expectations, growing requirements to informational space, right to be forgotten, […]