უნივერსიტეტის ღონისძიებების პორტალი

Public Lectures Minimally Invasive Surgery
2018-10-23 18:00 (Asia/Dubai)
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 postoperative complications, as well as improvements in psychological and nutritional status following the procedures. The speaker will review the Australian healthcare system and surgical training opportunities.
W. Konrad Karcz, Professor, Dr. med. PHM, Head of Minimally Invasive Surgery at Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich will deliver a lecture on Boundaries of Laparoscopic Oncosurgery.
The main objective of minimally invasive surgery is to reduce surgical traumas. Performed in 1987, the first laparoscopic cholecistechtomy was a breakthrough in abdominal surgery. Reduction of surgical traumas improves the outcomes of surgical treatment. Advancements in imaging and robotic technologies have contributed to the development of laparoscopic and minimally invasive surgery, significantly expanding the boundaries of endoscopic and laparoscopic treatment of benevolent diseases. Moreover, minimally invasive surgery has become crucial in diagnosing and treating malignant diseases. Nevertheless, many questions related to the scope, potential and limitations of laparoscopic oncosurgery still remain to be addressed. Professor Karcz will try to answer some of such questions in connection with two vital organs, pancreas and liver.

Language: English
Time: 23 October, 18:00, Ilia State University (1 G. Tsereteli Str.)
Attendance is free.

Conference Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-1921): In Search of Form and Content
2018-10-23 14:00
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 have been studied so far. It seeks to identify the challenges and prospects of future research both in terms of empirical evidence and theoretical considerations.
The conference is planned within the frames of the annual project dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of fundamental political, cultural, economic and theoretical aspects related to the First Republic of Georgia beyond the previously dominant perspectives of historiography and politology.
Date: 23-24 October
Venue: Ilia State University (3/5 Kakutsa Cholokashvili Ave., Room E207)
Attendance is free.

Public Lecture from Professor Hans Ulrich "Sepp" Gumbrecht
2018-10-22 18:00
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 developing artificial intelligence in Silicon Valley. Being unable to fit within the established frames of thought, which most of us associate with philosophy, Silicon Valley inhabitants are obviously disregardful of traditionally-minded intellectuals.
However, do they need epistemological frames? What stands beyond their amazing and frightful fecundity?
About the speaker:
Hans Ulrich “Sepp” Gumbrecht , Honorary Doctor of the Ilia State University, is among the most influential literary and cultural theorists. Professor at Stanford University, he specializes in literature and philosophical traditions of France, Spain, Germany and Portugal. Gumbrecht is the author of The Powers of Philology (2003), In 1926: Living on the Edge of Time (1998), In Praise of Athletic Beauty (2006), Vom Leben Und Sterben Der Grossen Romanisten: Karl Vossler, Ernst Robert Curtius, Leo Spitzer, Erich Auerbach, Werner Krauss, Hanser (2002), Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey (2004) and many others that have been translated into different languages of the world.

Language: English
Time: 22 October 2018, 18:00
Venue: Ligamus Book House, Ilia State University (32 Ilia Chavchavadze Ave.)
Attendance is free.

Public Lecture "Sustainable Forest Management: Growth Models"
2018-10-22 11:00
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 in Georgia
Martin Gudde – Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
New generation of forest growth models.
Brief description:
After presenting sustainable forest management criteria and indicators, as well as forest and the land-use atlas of Georgia (https://atlas.mepa.gov.ge/), the speakers will discuss the possibilities of applying the indicators to the forest and land-use atlas. The second part of the event will be devoted to available and necessary data for forest growth modelling, such as data extraction tables, remotely sensed data, national forest inventory, dendrochronic data, etc. Finally, state of the art approaches to forest growth modelling will be presented, to facilitate decision-making in the process of sustainable forest management.
Language: English
Time: 22 October, 11:00
Venue: Room G106, Ilia State University (1 G. Tsereteli Str.)
Attendance is free.

'So this is the strong Sex.' Women in Psychoanalysis’ – Exhibition Launched at ISU
2018-10-19 18:30
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 the audience six women of our time, psychoanalytic practitioners and theorists who have made an important contribution to the development of psychoanalysis but are less known to the public. They are: Marie Bonaparte, Helene Deutsch, Emma Eckstein, Anna Freud, Lou Andreas-Salomé and Sabina Spielrein.
The event will be opened by the initiator and curator of the exhibition, the Scientific Head of Sigmund Freud Museum, Dr. Daniela Finzi, who is visiting Georgia at the invitation of ISU Austrian Culture Center.
H.E. DR. Arad Benkö, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Austria to Georgia, will attend the event.
Time: 19 October, 2018, 18:30
Venue: ISU B 201 (32 Ilia Chavchavadze Ave.)
Language: English (simultaneous interpretation in Georgian will be provided)
Attendance is free.

Public Lecture by Professor Nebahat Avcıoğlu
2018-10-12 17:00
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 and, as the researcher considers, they perform both theological and civic functions. Two buildings of this type are discussed in the paper – Vatan Memorial Complex in Dagestan (2004), The Oriental Institute built by Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner and Shah Jahan Mosque in London (1889).
Language: English
Time:12 October, 17:00
Venue: Ligamus Book House (Chavchavadze Ave N32), Ilia State University.
All are welcome to attend the event.

International Conference on Wildlife Diseases and Species Conservation
2018-10-11 10:00
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 of the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Species Survival Commission, NACRES (Noah’s Ark Centre for the Recovery of Endangered Species) and the Tbilisi Zoological Park.

The conference speakers will present information on the spread of various diseases in wildlife, both terrestrial and aquatic, and their detection, as well as the importance of the study of disease causes for the conservation of rare species;
Presentations will be made on the current status and the ways of conservation of mountain ungulates;
A separate seminar will be dedicated to the planning of conservation of mountain ungulates (12 October, after the break).

Speakers:

Prof. Luca Rossi (University of Turin)

Overview of the major diseases affecting Caprinae

Prof. Andrea Gröne (Utrecht University)

Observation of wildlife health in the Netherlands–ranavirus induced diseases in amphibians

Prof. Maria Kiki (Utrecht University)

Wildlife diseases in the Netherlands

Prof. Sandro Lovari (University of Siena, Chair of the IUCN Caprinae Specialist Group)

Climate change as a potential threat to caprinae

Dr. Zurab Javakhishvili (ISU)

Avian influenza virus surveillance in wild birds in Georgia

Ivane Daraselia (Tbilisi Zoological Park)

Methods of wildlife immobilization

Levan Ninua (ISU)

Stranding Black Sea cetaceans: Study of the causes

Bezhan Lotrkipanidze (NACRES)

East Caucasian Tur monitoring in the Lagodekhi Protected Areas

Nika Kerdikoshvili (Tbilisi Zoological Park)

Spread and Status of West Caucasian Tur

Prof. Zurab Gurielidze (Tbilisi Zoological Park, ISU)

Conservation of mountain ungulates in Georgia

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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/

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/

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.
