უნივერსიტეტის ღონისძიებების პორტალი

PROF ALIONA LEDENIOVA GIVES PUBLIC LECTURE CALLED UNIVERSE FROM BENEATH: MATERIALS FROM GLOBALINFORMALITY PROJECT
2017-09-28 18:30 (Asia/Dubai)
On September 28, at 18:30, at Ilia State University Book House “Ligamus”, acclaimed researcher of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian politics and society, Prof. Alyona Ledeniova will deliver a public lecture on the topic the Universe from Beneath: Materials from Global Informality Project.
Regarding Speaker
Alyona Ledeniova serves as a professor at University College London and is considered world-level expert in informal governance in Russia. She is interested in corruption, economic crimes, Russia’s informal governance, and informal practice of corporate governance and patron-client relationships in Russia, as well as other countries of the world.
Language: English
Date and time: 28 September, 18:30
Venue: Ilia State University Book House “Ligamus” (Chavchavadze Ave. N32).
All are welcomed to attend the event.

PROF STANISLAV SHEKSHNIA DELIVERS PUBLIC LECTURE CALLED ATHLETIC CEO LEADERSHIP FOR TURBULENT TIMES
2017-09-29 18:30
On September 29, at 18:30, at Ilia State University room E207, Prof Stanislav Shekshnia will give a public lecture called ”Athletic CEO Leadership for Turbulent Times”.
Regarding the Speaker
Stanislav Shekshnia is Senior Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at – INSTITUTE EUROPEEN D’ ADMINISTRATION DES AFFAIRS (INSEAD).
Stanislav Shekshnia directs the Leading from the Chair Programme.
His research concentrates on leadership, leadership development and effective governance at emerging markets and organizations.
Stanislav Shekshnia is a senior partner at Ward Howell talent equity advisory, which has offices in Moscow, Paris, St. Petersburg, Kiev, and Alma-Aty. Stanislav provides advice and personal coaching to business owners, senior executives and executive teams.
Dr. Shekshnia is the author, co-author, or editor of 7 books, including Coaching: How to
Manage Free People (2010, 2013, and 2015).
Language: English
Time: 29 September, 18:30
Venue: E207 room (Cholokashvili Ave. N3/5), Ilia State University
All are welcome to attend the event.

RESEARCH ON CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TO BE PRESENTED AT ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY
2017-10-06 15:00
On 6 October 2017, at 15:00, at Ilia State University (ISU) room A 101, ISU students will present to the audience the research conducted in 5 Georgian universities aiming to determine students’ knowledge on and attitudes to civic engagement (activism). The findings and recommendations of the research will be discussed at the meeting.
In Georgia, civic engagement is low among the youth and mainly involves political actions and participation in decision-making processes aiming to address issue of public concerns. Developed democratic countries are faced with significantly different situation in this regard.
The audience will have the possibility to pose questions, share their ideas on civic engagement and get envolved in the discussion.
In October 2016, implementation of three-year international project “Curriculum Reform for Promoting Democratic Principles and Civic Education in Israel and in Georgia”(CURE) was started. Georgian, Israeli, Austrian, Estonian, Swiss, British and Polish universities are engaged in the project.
Civic Development Institute cooperates with students at Georgian universities with regard to empowering practical aspects of civic education and developing civic activism.
The discussion of the research is conducted in cooperation with Ilia State University and Civic Development Institute.

PUBLIC LECTURE BY DOCTOR TENGIZ VERULAVA
2017-10-09 20:00
On October 9, at 20:00, at Ilia State University (ISU), under the aegis of the Institute of Healthcare and Insurance, Doctor Tengiz Verulava will hold a public lecture on the topic “Medical Market: Information and Incentives”.
Health sector, as the branch of economy, is characterized by its specificity. This conditions special forms of economic relations. However, society thinks that the healthcare economy does not differ from ordinary market. The public lecture will be considered a difference between the medical market and the usual market and what is the reason of these difference.
As per prominent American economist William Hsiao, healthcare constitutes “abnormal pathological economics,” i.e., economics market force impact of which on the volume of service, its price and quality is significantly different from ordinary markets (Hsiao, 1995).
The public lecture will focus on the difference between medical and ordinary markets and the causes of the said difference.
Date and Time: October 9, 20:00
Venue: E 207 room (Cholokhashvili Ave., №3/5), Ilia State University
All are welcome to attend the event.

International Research Conference Ilia Chavchavadze: Sacralisation/Secularisation of the Cultural Figure
2017-10-24 16:00
On October 24-25, International research conference dedicated to the 180th anniversary of Ilia Chavchavadze’s birth will be held at the Ilia State University, Ligamus bookstore auditorium. Scholars from Ilia State University, University of Amsterdam, University of Kent, Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies, Hungarian Academy of Science Institute of Literary Studies, Ivane Javakishvili Tbilisi State University, Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature, Free University of Tbilisi, Georgian Technical University, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Gori State Teaching University will participate in the conference.
The conference is organized by the Institute of Comparative Literature, Ilia State University. Organizers: Prof. Giga Zedania, Prof. Bela Tsipuria.
Conference Program

Ilia Chavchavadze is considered Georgia’s most important national figure, the national poet, the major contributor to the development of modern Georgian national identity, the introducer of ideas of secularity, civic culture and modern statehood to his contemporary Georgia. He is a sacral figure of Georgia’s cultural space/a cultural saint, and the saint of the Georgian Orthodox Church.
The tradition of veneration of Ilia Chavchavadze was established in Georgia already in his lifetime, and is carried on nowadays. Within 110 years since his death, most differing and even opposing ideological, political or cultural discourses in Georgia have been claiming the ownership upon his legacy, for the sake of self-legitimation. Ilia Chavchavadze’s literary texts have been interpreted in various, often mutually exclusive ways.
Various issues related to Ilia Chavchavadze, his times and his legacy will be discussed within the Georgian and international context: Ilia and cultural, national, ideological, political and religious discourses in Georgia; Ilia and the problems of interpretation of literary text; sacralisation of cultural figures in Europe and in Georgia; transnational approach to national movements and their leaders; Georgia and Europe since the early 20th century.
Working languages: Georgian, English.
Time: October 24-25.
Venue: Book House “Ligamus”

PARK OF CRIMEAN PERIOD BY SERGEY MEDVEDEV PRESENTED AT “LIGAMUS”
2017-10-24 17:50
Modern Russian polity perceived as the four wars waged by Russian Leviathan for territories, symbols, human body and memory – the well known scholar and journalist from Moscow, professor at higher school of Economics and the host at TV channel “Dozhd“, Sergei Medvedev presented his recent book “The Park of Crimean Period” at Ligamus. The event, hosted by Ilia State University on October 23rd, attracted attention of the faculty members and triggered active discussions. This was one of the noteworthy attempts to decipher “Russian Enigma”.
https://youtu.be/WbJ72tpMFV0

SOCRATEs NOW WITH EMY AWARD WINNER YANNIS SIMONIDES
2017-10-25 19:00
On October 25, at 19:00, at Ilia State University theatre, a popular performance called Socrates Now by Yannis Simonides will be held. The performance commemorates the 25th anniversary of Georgia-Greece diplomatic relations.
Plato’s timeless classic comes to life in a celebrated theatrical experience that captures the essence of Socratic ethic in a play that amazes which amazes the audience with its humor and liveliness.
Yannis Simonides is an Emi Award winner. “Restless, humorous, brilliant and fascinating,” this is how ”Odyssey Magazine’’ (the USA) adorned the performer, whereas ”Luxembourger Wort” said about the lead performer’s acting “the virtuoso inspired performance.”
Event is organized by the Embassy of Greece in Georgia in cooperation with Ilia State University.
“Socrates Now” has held its 450 performances in more than 20 countries.
Date and time: 25 October, 19:00
Venue: Iliauni Theatre (Chavchavadze Ave. N32).
All are welcome to attend the event.

Public lecture called “Between Fear and Awe – the Soviet Union in the Modern Era“
2017-10-26 18:00
On October 26, at 18:00, Professor at Humboldt University Jörg Baberowski will deliver a public lecture on the topic “Between Fear and Awe–the Soviet Union in the Modern Era “at G106 room of Ilia State University (ISU).
Regarding the Speaker
Jörg Baberowski is a German historian and professor of East European History at Humboldt university of Berlin. He specializes in the era of Stalin, in particular, the history of violence of that era, genocide and terror again the eastern and central European people. The professor is also an author of a great number of books and articles. In 2012 Leipzig Book Festival, he was awarded a prize for his book called “The Burnt Land – Stalin’s Violent Government. “
Language: German with simultaneous interpretation being provided.
Date and Time: 26 October, 18:00
Venue: G106 room (G.Tsereteli Str. №1), ISU
All are welcome to attend the event.

Business Idea Competition for the ISU Business School Students- Global Entrepreneurship Week
2017-11-02 11:03
ISU Business School is organizing a Business Idea Competition for the Bachelor’s degree students which will take place in November in the frames of the Global Entrepreneurship Week.
In summer of 2018 the 10 successful entrants will travel to the University of Masaryk (Brno, Czech Republic) or the University of Minos (Gimares, Portugal) for full funding to attend a one-week training programme that enables them to develop their innovative business ideas and business plan.
Who can participate?
If you are a bachelor’s student at Ilia State University Business School and have an innovative and creative idea, can negotiate challenges, are ready, willing and able to work hard and if you believe in your abilities, this competition is made precisely for you.
Why to participate?
Participation in the competition gives you the opportunity to:

gain knowledge to formulate business ideas and present them, develop required skills and be ready to do business;
get in touch with people with interests similar to yours and generate creative and innovative ideas together with them.

How to participate?
Submit a filled out application form not later than November 10th of the current year.
To fill in the application form click the link https://docs.google.com/bic
When?
The competition will be held in three stages:
The First Stage – Review of Applications
Selected candidates will be contacted not later than November 12th;
The Second Stage – Meeting with Mentors
The candidates will meet with the mentors of the Business School and ISU Business Accelerator and will assist them in improving their ideas.
The Third Stage – Demo Day
The contestants will present the jury their innovative ideas, and the 10 winners will be announced.
Prize
With the support of the Erasmus + Project EUCA-INVEST, 10 winners will get full scholarships to attend a one-week training programme at the University of Masaryk (Brno, the Czech Republic) or at the Univesity of Minio (Gimares, Portugal) where they will be able to refine their business ideas and develop their business plans.
For further information:
Gvantsa Tatishvili
Mob: 599 179 330
E-mail address: gvantsa.tatishvili@iliauni.edu.ge
http://gew.iliauni.edu.ge/

Global Entrepreneurship Week at Iliauni
2017-11-13 10:00
On November 13-19, Ilia State University will join the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) initiative and will participate in the Global Entrepreneurship Week, which is held in more than 160 countries, with its partners being more than 20,000 organizations. Within the week, more than 35,000 events are planned, in which millions of people are involved.
Since 2016, Ilia State University has been a partner of the Global Entrepreneurship Week, within which on October 13-19, it will organize different activities, workshops, public lectures and contests.
The events planned within the Week by the university will focus on strengthening entrepreneurial potential of women and the young people.
http://gew.iliauni.edu.ge/

Mining conflicts in Kyrgyzstan: properties of coupled ecological-industrial transactions and their role in shaping institutions as shared beliefs
2018-01-17 19:00
Public Lecture
Beril Ocaklı
Mining conflicts in Kyrgyzstan: properties of coupled ecological-industrial transactions and their role in shaping institutions as shared beliefs
17.01.2018, Tbilisi, 19:00 LIGAMUS (tbc)
Beril Ocaklıa,b will present her recent paper derived from her doctoral research with the working title “Progressing beyond mining as evil: exploring conflict and cooperation in the face of competing claims on land-water systems and territorial transformations in Kyrgyzstan”.
a Doctoral Researcher
Transformations and Uncertainties of Land-Water Systems
IRI THESys | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
b Project Director
‘Mineral Resources of Development in Central Asia’
Federation of German Industry, Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations
Mining conflicts in Kyrgyzstan: properties of coupled ecological-industrial transactions and their role in shaping institutions as shared beliefs
Abstract
With the increase of mining conflicts worldwide, the number of scholars studying trade-offs in mining have also risen. However, integrative, social-ecological systems approaches are scarce. This study aims at contributing both theoretically and empirically to the emerging interdisciplinary literature by analysing mining conflicts in Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyzstan is emblematic of a resource-cursed economy: despite gold mining accounting for nearly 50% of its exports, the country has failed to transform the mineral wealth into growth and sustainable development. The sector is characterised by upheavals, and conflicts that challenge the further development of the sector as well as disputing the very compatibility of mining and the sustainability of human-environment systems. In this paper, we study mining conflict dynamics from the perspective of institutional economics and empirically analyse the interdependence between properties of transactions and institutions. We introduce coupled ecological-industrial transactions as the unit of analysis for studying mining transactions, that is, transactions composed of both industrial and ecological processes. We offer a theoretical framework where properties of coupled ecological-industrial transactions and institutions as shared beliefs interact and provide incentives for conflict or cooperation. We test this theoretical proposition on a case study of shared beliefs of national actors in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Our results suggest that the properties of coupled ecological-industrial transactions and actor beliefs are mutually interdependent, whereby path-dependencies can shape the shared beliefs. Path-dependency is especially influential in contexts like Kyrgyzstan, where drastic governance change has taken place. These shared beliefs – institutions – can incentivise national actors to acknowledge the existence of and the drivers for preventing/mitigating conflicts. Likewise, they can motivate the perpetuation of conflict as it might seem costlier to promote cooperation than conflict if cooperation entails long-term institutional change. For conflict prevention, the complexity of multi-scalar ecological-industrial transactions requires institutions that are responsive to the properties of these transactions. Such institutions, when well-defined and enforced, are indispensable for governing the properties of mining transactions, with the potential to decrease conflict.
Keywords: institutional analysis, social-ecological systems, nature-related transactions, cooperation, path-dependency, Bishkek.
Short bio
Beril Ocaklı is a transdisciplinary professional and a doctoral researcher. She started her doctoral research in June 2015 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys). Alongside her doctoral research, she continues working for the Federation of German Industry, where she is implementing a regional project commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in the Central Asian mining sector.
Beril looks back on more than 10 years of professional experience in international development cooperation, where she managed numerous development projects in the field of private sector development in Germany, East Europe and Central Asia. Beril obtained her master’s degree in Development Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2007. Prior to that she completed her undergraduate studies at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary.
Her scientific work focuses on understanding the underlying factors behind conflicting or cooperative behaviours local communities have towards mining projects in Kyrgyzstan for which studying the human-environment-system transformations caused by resource extraction is a milestone.

Public Lecture by Doctor Irina Marchesini called Are you Immortal? Umberto Eco and others on reading
2018-01-22 18:00
On 22 January, at 18:00, at Ilia State University Book House Ligamus, Dr. Irina Marchesini, lecturer at the University of Bologna, will deliver a public lecture called “Are you Immortal? Umberto Eco and others on reading.”
Short abstract: According to Umberto Eco, Italian novelist and literary critic, “[a]t the age of 70, those who don’t read will have led only one life: their own! Those who read will have lived 5000 lives: they were there when Cain killed Abel, when Renzo married Lucia and when Leopardi admired the infinite… because literature is backwards immortality”. Starting from this premise, the plenary lecture will address the process of reading from a comparative perspective. Case studies will include Italian and Russian-America authors, as Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, Alessandro Manzoni, Vladimir Nabokov. Dr Irina Marchesini is at the Institute of Comparative Literature of Ilia State University within the framework of Erasmus + Teaching Mobility for Academic Staff.
Language: English
Date and time: 22 January, 18:00
Venue: Book House Ligamus (Chavchavadze Ave. #32), Ilia State University

Public Lecture by George Antadze - New Oil Field Development Project in West of Shetland
2018-02-14 16:00
On 14 February, at 16:00, Giorgi Antadze, Lancaster EPS Project Planning Controls Manager will deliver a public lecture on a new oil field development project in the North Sea (West of Shetland) at G106 room of Ilia State University.
At the lecture, new approaches to field development against low oil prices, due to which the international interest of oil industry to the said project is increasing on a daily basis, will be discussed.
Date and Time: 14 February, 16:00
Venue: G106 room, Ilia state university, G. Tsereteli str. #1
All are welcome to attend the event.

SuAVE: a new online system for visual analysis of surveys and image collections
2018-02-21 15:00
On 21 February, 15:00, Director of Spatial Information Systems Laboratory, Ilya Zaslavsky will give a speech on the topic SuAVE: a new online system for visual analysis of surveys and image collections, at Ilia State University room E207.
SuAVE: a new online system for visual analysis of surveys and image collections Survey Analysis via Visual Exploration (SuAVE, http://suave.sdsc.edu) is a free online system developed with support from the U.S. National Science Foundation. It has been already used in several areas, including social and electoral surveys, visual arts and humanities, biology and ecology, and the
geosciences. The SuAVE tool integrates visual, statistical and cartographic analyses and presents an intuitive framework for exploration of surveys and image collections, enabling custom searches, efficient analysis of subsets of data, and Google Maps-like navigation over a gallery of images or survey respondents. Users can publish their own surveys online, annotate patterns they discover, and share those annotations. Tools like SuAVE can help communicate scientific knowledge and develop insights
through guided exploration of relationships between different variables, while engaging students and a broad user audience in sharing their findings. We will present several SuAVE applications, including examples from archaeology and humanities, and international development, and discuss other relevant projects developed with the NSF EarthCube initiative.
Dr. Ilya Zaslavsky is director of Spatial Information Systems Lab at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego. His research focuses on distributed information management systems and spatial and temporal data integration. Zaslavsky received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington (1995), and earlier a Ph.D. equivalent from the Russian Academy of Sciences (1990). He has been leading design and technical development in several large cyberinfrastructure
projects supported by NSF, including the national-scale EarthCube CINERGI/Data Discovery Hub, and Hydrologic Information System. He is a co-chair of the OGC/WMO Hydrology Domain Working Group which develops international standards for water data.

Searching for lost souls - Presentation of the research and documentation project "Soviet and German prisoners of war and internees"
2018-03-14 19:00
PD Dr. Andrea Hilger, German Historical Institute Moscow
Dr. Heike Winkel, German War Graves Commission
The research and documentation project “Soviet and German prisoners of war and internees” was initiated on 22 June 2016 on the basis of a joint declaration by the foreign ministers of Germany and Russia, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Sergey Lavrov. The project aims to resolve the fates of Soviet and German Second World War prisoners of war and internees. Within the scope of this project, all archive material that contains information about the fates of prisoners of war and internees will be examined, digitalized and then entered into databases which will subsequently be accessible to the public.
The presentation of this project will be in English. It will be followed by a presentation by the “Soviet Past Research Laboratory” (SovLab) about their research on prisoners of war in and from Georgia.
Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Time: 19h00 – 20h30
Venue:Venue: Ilia State University, A-Building, Auditory A101, Chavchavadze Ave. 32, Tbilisi

History Dialog. Presentation of the internationl discussion in the history of nation building by terror in Soviet Georgia
2018-03-19 17:00
A book’s presentation:
Marc Junge, Bernd Bonwetsch, Daniel Müller: “Georgia on its way. Shades of Stalinism”, Tiflis 2018 (in Georgian language).
PD Dr. Marc Junge, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
With support from German Volkswagen Foundation a team of German and Georgian historians together with the Archival Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia researched and published sources of the repressions in Georgia in 1937-1938. Over the interpretation of these sources concerning the relationship between ethnos and terror some dispute occurred that is analysed and discussed by 45 Georgian, Abkhaz, Ossetes, Germans, British und US and other scholars that are collected in the book “Georgia on its Way – Shadows of Stalinism”.
After the presentation of this book there will be a possibility to discuss the role of scholars in politically sensitive issues.
Moderator: Prof. Oliver Reisner, Ilia State University
Date: Monday, March 19, 2018
Time: 17h00 – 20h30
Venue: LIGAMUS Book Store, Chavchavadze Ave. 32, Tbilisi

ABITOUR-JOINT SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION BY ILIAUNI BUSINESS SCHOOL AND FORBES
2018-04-10 17:50
Ilia State University Business School, together with the most popular business magazine Forbes, will hold a business idea competition for university entrants called aBItour.
If you are innovative and creative, can negotiate challenges, are ready to work hard, believe in your abilities, and if you are taking the United National Examination this year with the intention of specializing in Business Administration in the future, do not miss this opportunity.
Why?
Participation in the project will enable you to:
✔ get more information on business education and the future profession to make a right choice;
✔ gain knowledge to formulate business ideas and present them, develop required skills and be ready to do business;
✔ get to know people with interests similar to yours and generate creative and innovative ideas together with them to start your business;
✔ Get a scholarship voucher and fund your studies.
How to participate in the project?
If you are taking the United National Examinations in 2018 and are interested in participating in the project, fill out a simple registration form not later than May 6, and we will contact you.
To fill in the registration form, follow the link: https://goo.gl/Qe1KmK
When will the competition be held?
The competition will comprise 3 stages:

At the first stage candidates will be selected; for this purpose, they will have to do practical tasks with no prior knowledge required, since it just checks candidates’ business acumen, creativity and skills required for doing business. The selection stage will be held on May 13.
The second stage involves acceleration (preparation of candidates for the next stage), dividing the participants into groups and formulation of business ideas; this stage will be held on May 16-18.
The third stage, which is voluntary and involves meetings with professional mentors as well as getting further consultations to do tasks, will be held on 2-3 June.
The final stage of the competition, at which candidates will present their business ideas and the winning team will be selected, will be held on June 9.

Prizes
✔ First place – each member of the winning team will be awarded a 1000 GEL scholarship voucher by Ilia State University *;
✔ Second place – each member of the team having been ranked second will be awarded a 650 GEL scholarship voucher *;
✔ Semifinalists – all semi-finalists will visit the Creative Camp and spend three days in the hotel of Iliani; in the camp, in the informal and comfortable environment, successful people will share their experience with them in the field of business.
Our partner companies will award the participants with different prizes.
Media partners of the project are:
The most popular business magazine Forbes and TV programme Business Morning.
Iliauni wishes you success.
*Conditions for using scholarship voucher

You will have an access to your scholarship voucher awarded at Business Idea Competition aBItour, if you get enrolled at Bachelor’s programme at the Business School of Ilia State University;
A scholarship voucher will also be granted in the event of getting a 100% state scholarship at the United National Examination. You will be able to spend the scholarship according to your own priorities (pay the rent, buy a laptop, books, etc.);
A person can be awarded one voucher only; if you meet more than one requirement envisaged by Iliauni scholarship voucher, you will get a scholarship voucher with better conditions. To find out more information on the possibility of obtaining Iliauni scholarship, follow the link:

PRESENTATION OF NODAR LADARIA’S NOVEL “KARIS GAMORCHEVA” AT ILIAUNI LITERARY CLUB
2018-04-12 19:30
On April 12, at 19:30, Ilia State University Literary Club and Bakur Sulakauri Publishing House invites you to the presentation of Nodar Ladaria’s novel “Karis Gamorcheva.”
The book will be presented by its author Mr. Ladaria, writer Lasha Bugadze and journalist Davit Paichadze.
Moderator: writer Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili
“In a nameless and conditional city, which, thanks to its residents, resembles Tbilisi very much, Evdemon and Teofora meet each other…” this is the beginning of this funny and sad, ironic and sincere story in which vigilant readers will discover cureless wounds of our reality or just enjoy themselves by reading the novel.
Date and time: 12 April, 19:30
Venue: Book House LIGAMUS (Chavchavadze Ave.N32), Ilia State University
All are welcome to attend the event.

PUBLIC LECTURE BY ANDREY MAKARYCHEV, PROFESSOR AT UNIVERSITY OF TARTU
2018-04-13 16:00
On April 13, at 16:00, at room C317 of Ilia State University, a public lecture on the topic “Russian Worlds in Baltics: the Case of Russophone Communities in Estonia” will be conducted. The lecture will be led by Andrey Makarychev, who serves as invited professor at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies at the University of Tartu and The Center for Global Politics of Free University of Berlin.
The lecture will focus on the issue of the Russian speaking population in the EU member countries, including Baltic States. Cultural, geopolitical and security related dimensions of the issue, as well as discourses, narratives and ideas widespread in the Russian speaking societies, including the Russian speaking communities’ attitude to right-wing populism, will be discussed.
Language: English
Date and time: 16:00
Venue: C317 room (Chavchavadze N32), Ilia State University
All are welcome to attend the event.

100TH YEARS JUBILEE OF NATIONAL LANGUAGE: FUTURE OF GEORGIAN LANGUAGE IN ERA OF TECHNOLOGY AND GLOBALISATION
2018-04-14 17:00
On April 14, at 17:00, at Ilia State University Book House Ligamus, The Institute of Linguistic Studies of Ilia State University and Mobile and Web Applications Laboratory GeoLab are inviting you to the discussion 100 Years Jubilee of the National Language: Future of the Georgian Language in the Era of Technology and Globalization.
Speakers will present the main issue of discussion from different perspectives: how much the public comprehends its responsibility to Georgian as an official language and how this paramount responsibility is replaced with the tradition of respecting the Georgian language for which the foundation was laid by the historic event of April 14.
Speakers will focus on the issues as follows:

Script as a type of communication and the Georgian script in modern technologies. New initiatives and projects to preserve the Georgian script and develop it;
Georgian and the foreign language textual inheritance (Urartian, Aramaic, Jewish, Greek, etc.) preserved in Georgia in the digital era;
How the world is being developed from the natural language modeling perspective, modeling of the Georgian language and its significance in the era of technology;
Georgian language robots/bots and their role in communication;
Georgian language digital educational resources to get quality education.

The discussion will present less known facts for public from historic events of 1918, namely, the Ordinance on Nationalization of Schools and Institutions, which was published in 1918 and thanks to which Georgian as a national language started to exist legally.
In the discussion will be involved: Sandro Asatiani, Nino Doborjginidze, Giorgi Vakhtangishvili, Tamar Kalkhitashvili, Irina Lobjanidze, Akaki Razmadze, and Zura Jishkariani.
Date and time: 14 April, 17:00
Venue: Book House Ligamus (Chavchavadze Ave. N32), Ilia State University.
All are welcomed to attend the event.

“Visions in Exchange – Urban Transformation Processes in Georgia and Germany”
2018-05-21 16:44
TU Braunschweig, Institute of Sustainable Urbanism (ISU) and Ilia State University, Architecture Program would like to invite you to a collaborative project presentation and discussion, under the title “Visions in Exchange – Urban Transformation Processes in Georgia and Germany” – Soviet and German mass housing projects and their transformation processes.
The event will take place at Goethe Institute on 23rd of May, 2nd floor, at 19:00 o’clock (Sandukeli Str. 16).
At the first part of the event, Diana Felber and Alkistis Thomidou from ISU will present recent and ongoing teaching and research projects. This semester ISU offers a master’s thesis project, which is located in the district of Tbilisi Saburtalo. Students from ISU TU Braunschweig will talk about their analysis and impressions during the excursion week. Later on, Gigi Shukakidze, Tbilisi Architecture Biennial team, will talk about the upcoming event.
At the second part of the event, we would like to open the discussion on issues of urban development and architecture in Germany and Georgia, focusing on the preservation of the built heritage and modernization of the aging housing portfolio.
We believe that the topic can be of interesting to you and your involvement and participation in the event, will be outmost important.

STEM Education: Engaging elementary students through mathematics games and engineering design
2018-06-04 19:00
Drs. Niki Glen and Polina Sabinin are visiting Ilia State University from Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts, USA. They will discuss the role of the growth mindset, project- and game-based collaborative learning, and problem-solving in Elementary STEM Education.
Dr. Glen will share examples of Engineering is Elementary (EiE) curriculum modules she co-authored with Boston Museum of Science for grades 1-5..
Dr. Sabinin will share mathematics educational games in logical and special reasoning for grades 1-5.
Date: 04.06.2018
Time: 19:00
Location: E207 room, (3/5, Kakutsa Cholokashvili Ave, Tbilisi, Georgia), Ilia State University.
Come ready to participate, explore, and play.

In Dark Times: The Power and Promise of Engaged Scholarship
2018-06-06 19:00
Public Lecture at Ilia State University
June 6 2018
In Dark Times: The Power and Promise of Engaged Scholarship
Alisse Waterston
Presidential Scholar and Professor of Anthropology
City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
In this talk, anthropologist and gender studies scholar Alisse Waterston situates the promises and possibilities of contemporary, critical scholarship in context of today’s politically fraught times. Offering a view from the United States, Professor Waterston considers the movements towards critically applied and publically engaged scholarship to confront and transform the condition of ubiquitous violence in the contemporary world.
Professor Waterston has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Ilia State University. The talk will be concluded by a ceremony of honorary doctorate award.
Alisse Waterston is a cultural anthropologist and gender studies scholar who studies the human consequences of structural and systemic violence and inequality. Her areas of specialty include urban poverty and policy issues in the U.S. related to destitution, homelessness and substance abuse, health, welfare and migration, and applied policy-related research and writing. Her most recent cross-cultural work focuses on the processes and aftermaths of political violence, ethnic and religious conflict, displacement and transnationalism, remembering, diaspora, cultural trauma and identity formation.
Professor Waterston was International Scholar of the Open Society Institute (2012-2015), and co-editor with Maia Barkaia of Gender in Georgia: Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation and History in the South Caucasus (Berghahn Books: 2017). She is author of six books, including the award winningMy Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory and the Violence of a Century an intimate ethnography in the Routledge Series on Innovative Ethnographies, and Love, Sorrow and Rage, a study of women and homelessness in New York City.
Professor Waterston is a Trustee of the John Jay College Foundation Board, and co-Director of the John Jay College Vera Fellows Program, for which she also serves as faculty.
Alisse Waterston served as President of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) 2015-2017. She was editor of North American Dialogue, and founding editor of Open Anthropology, AAA’s public journal. She is currently working with artist-anthropologist Charlotte Hollands in developing a graphic nonfiction book based on her 2017 Presidential Address, Four Stories, A Lament, and an Affirmation.
Dr. Waterston received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the City University of New York Graduate Center and her M.A. in Anthropology from Columbia University.

Public lecture by Dr. James W. Ingram
2018-06-20 18:00
Public lecture “Is There a Logic to Politics?” will be delivered by the professor of Political Science Dr. James W. Ingram. “This lecture brings together Max Weber’s great and famous “Science as a Vocation” and “Politics as a Vocation” lectures into one synthesis. The lecture will contend that politics are logical, and that they can thus be subjected to the scientific method, enabling us to ensure that politics works toward the goals that humanity needs to accomplish” – says Dr Ingram.
Biography for James W. Ingram III
Ingram began his career at SDSU in spring 1993, and has taught there continuously ever since. Ingram has taught over 200 different sections of Political Science and began his 16th new course at SDSU in spring 2018, POLS 346 (Law and the Political System). Ingram has won many teaching awards over the years in recognition of his efforts on behalf of his students.
Ingram’s doctoral dissertation won the American Political Science Association’s Urban Politics Dissertation of the Year Award for 2008. His thesis focused on local constitutional reform. As part of his fieldwork he worked for charter commissions in Los Angeles and San Diego and participated in giving both cities strong-mayor charters patterned on the U.S. Constitution. He was a pro bono volunteer, a paid staffer, and a professional consultant on charter change for the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, as well as for the San Diego Citizen Commission. He has also consulted for the California cities of Fallbrook, Pasadena and Sacramento on issues of charter reform.
Ingram has published monographs and articles on charter change, and is the only scholar to both be asked to write and to have written a chapter for both volumes of The Development of Los Angeles City Government: an Institutional History, 1850-2000. Ingram regularly comments on local, state and national politics for NPR, the local TV news stations in San Diego, and journalists seeking material for their newspaper articles. He also regularly writes opinion pieces on politics and government for the San Diego Union Tribune newspaper.
Language: English
Date and time: 2018/06/20, 6:00PM
Venue: Iliauni Bookstore Ligamus (Chavchavadze N32), Ilia State University
All are welcome to attend the event.

Lecture by Dr. Eugen Kogan: “Russia-Turkish Relations and their Impact on NATO and the EU”
2018-06-26 16:00
On June 26, at 4:00 PM Public lecture “Russia-Turkish Relations and their Impact on NATO and the EU” will be delivered by the defense and security expert Dr. Eugene Kogan at the Book House “Ligamus” of Ilia State University.
Dr. Kogan is a noted expert in the field of defense technologies. He has held a series of research fellowships at some of Europe’s most renowned research institutes, including Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Auswaertige Politik, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, the Swedish Defence Research Agency, the Swedish National Defence College, and the Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In addition to all of this he has also conducted research at Harvard University. Recently he was attached as Guest Researcher to the Center for Pacific Asia Studies at Stockholm University and to the Department of International Relations at Middle East Technical University. He was also employed as Guest Researcher at the Vienna-based International Institute for Liberal Policy and as Guest Researcher at the Tbilisi-based Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies. He resides in Tbilisi and work as defence and security expert.
Language: English
Date and time: June 26, 2018; 4:00 PM
Venue: Book House “Ligamus” (Chavchavadze ave. № 32), Ilia State University
All are welcome to attend the event.

Meeting with employees of Czech University of Life Science in Prague
2018-07-11 19:00
On July 11th , 19:00, in room E207, Ilia State University will host employees of Czech University of Life Science in Prague.
Speaker : Martin Kulma, Researcher from Czech University of Life Science in Prague.
The topic of the lecture: How can insects feed the world?
Description : The currently increasing world population, with increasing per capita consumption and
dietary habit changes, poses higher demands on the nutritional resources production for both animals
as well as for humans. In the limited and exploited resources, livestock farming is becoming
unsustainable. Production of sufficient high-quality protein with minimalisation of the environmental
footprint has thus become one of major challenges for humans. Insects are considered to be one of
potential alternatives. The presentation will provide both basic and novel information about their
nutritional value as well as about the experimental usage as feed for farm animals.
Speaker : Veronika Tůmová, aquaponics specialist from Czech University of Life Science in Prague
The topic of the lecture: Sustainable food production using aquaponics – current state and future
perspectives.
Description: Nowadays, building aquaponic systems has become trandy because of its advantage
combining hydrophonic and aquaculture systems together. The presentation will provide you
information about the benefits of aquaponic systems. Following questions will be addressed by the
specialist: Can be aquaponics successful way of producing food? What are the main issues? What are
future perspectives of aquaponics?
Date: 11.07.2018
Time: 19:00
Location: E207 room, (3/5, Kakutsa Cholokashvili Ave, Tbilisi, Georgia), Ilia State University.
All are welcome to attend the event.

Meeting with Intel
2018-08-16 10:30
Description: Are you curious about opportunities that technology makes possible? Join Intel employees to hear what it’s like to work in the technology industry and the amazing experiences they create. Discover a wide variety of career paths, both technical and non-technical, like design, engineering, marketing, fashioneering… that combine problem solving, innovation, and technology to change the world. They’ll share what they love about their jobs and how they got there. You’ll have time to ask any questions you have!
Date and time:August 16, 2018, 10:30-12:00
Venue::Ilia State University, Venue: G106, building G, Ilia State University

International Conference of Kartvelian Studies South Caucasian Chalk Circle-2
2018-09-12 10:00
From 12 to 14 September Ilia State University (ISU) hosted an international conference of Kartvelian Studies South Caucasian Chalk Circle (SCCC) organized by ISU, University of Maryland, US and Université Paris 8, France and funded by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation.
The SCCC was founded by foreign Kartvelologists in 2016. The same year, the first conference (SCCC-1) was held in Paris. From 2 to 11 September 2018, ISU hosted a summer school of the same title, and from 12 to 14 September, a conference that seeks to contribute to the internationalization of Kartvelian studies, creation of joint research platforms for Georgian and foreign scholars, and promotion of Kartvelian and Caucasian studies as important areas of linguistic research among foreign universities. Along with Georgian scholars, around fifteen researchers of US and European universities working in the field of Kartvelian studies took part in the conference.

Workshop on Caucasus biodiversity research at Ilia State University
2018-09-14 14:00
In the frame of the International Visegrad Fund project “V4 & Eastern Partnership cooperation in Biodiversity Conservation for Human Well-being”, the first workshop will take place on September 14th, 2018 in Building G, room 106 at Ilia State University. Experts from six countries will have lectures on the biodiversity research, the importance of biodiversity knowledge and conservation. Participants will present their visions on biodiversity in the Caucasus and discuss the partnership building and cooperation possibilities in biodiversity research in the Caucasus regarding conservation and human well-being.
With professionals from the University of Presov (Slovakia), Hungarian Natural Museum in Budapest, University of South Bohemia (Czech Republic), University of Lodz (Poland), National Academy of Science of Azerbaijan, and Ilia State University, participants can look for the possibility of co-operation in both the field and the lab, to prepare conditions for exchange and internships, and plan other joint projects.
The project and workshop are co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.
The project coordinator is Assoc. Prof. Peter Manko, Ph.D. His research activities focus on ecology and biodiversity of aquatic invertebrates, and selected aspects of fish ecology in different territories (as examples Armenia, Romania, Spain, Ukraine, Slovakia). Except for scientific work, publication, and teaching, he further cooperates with nature conservancy institutions on protected areas biodiversity assessment, protected areas management proposals, and environmental impact assessments. He wants to use his experience from research projects coordination to build an effective network of experts working on the research of the Caucasus biodiversity.

Presentation of Carl Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt International Doctoral Program
2018-09-27 15:00
On September 27, at 15:00, the presentation of the joint transdisciplinary international doctoral program by Ilia State University and The University of Göttingen (Germany) called Carl Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt International Doctoral Program will be held at Iliauni Book House Ligamus.
The program enables doctoral students to defend their doctoral theses through the model based on Cotutelle principle and get double degrees, as well as diplomas from the both universities.
Doctoral students participating in the program are fully funded by The Volkswagen Foundation and Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation.
Date and time: 27 September, 15:00
Venue: Book House Ligamus (Chavchavadze Ave. N32), Ilia State University
Language: German and Georgian (simultaneous interpretation will be provided).
All are welcome to attend the event.
