უნივერსიტეტის ღონისძიებების პორტალი

Public lecture by Dr. Alberto Roper Pol Primordial Magnetic Fields and Gravitational Waves An Overview of Research
2025-12-18 17:00 - 18:00 (Asia/Dubai)
On December 18 at 5:00 PM, a seminar of Space Research Center will be held at Ilia State University S507. Dr. Alberto Roper Pol will give a presentation on the multi-messenger studies of primordial magnetic fields and gravitational wave backgrounds.
Dr. Alberto Roper Pol is the leader of the Cosmology and Astroparticles Group at the University of Geneva.
Dr. Roper Pol collaborates with Ilia State University professors and researchers on issues related to cosmological gravitational waves, and they have jointly published articles in leading scientific journals.

Conference "Dictionary Day"
2025-12-20 10:00 - 19:30
On December 20, 2025, the Centre for Lexicography and Language Technologies at Ilia State University will host Dictionary Day, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Professor Tinatin Margalitadze’s birth. This year, Dictionary Day will be held as a conference, featuring contributions from Tinatin Margalitadze, Giorgi Meladze, and students of the Master’s and PhD programmes in Lexicography.
Working language: Georgian
Time: December 20, 10:00 AM – 7:30 PM
Venue: Ilia State University, Hall G106, G. Tsereteli Entrance N 1-3
Conference program available at the link.
Attendance is free.

Mohammad Golshan’s Lecture JUDEO-PERSIAN IN THE HISTORY OF IRAN AND AS A LANGUAGE OF RECOMPILING MEDICINE
2025-12-25 16:00 - 17:00
About the Presenter
Mohammad Golshan is currently pursuing a joint double-program PhD in Iranian Studies at the University of Göttingen in Germany and in Terrains, textes, interdisciplinarité (2TI) at EHESS in France. His main focus is on the history of medical science in the early modern global history. Currently, He is working on the feminine body in Indo-Persian medical and occult texts of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries. Along with Judeo-Persian codicology, he is also interested in Judeo-Persian medical writings, folk medicine, divination, and magic in Iran and Central Asia, specifically in texts from the 15th to the 19th century in Iran and Bukhara.
Annotation
The medical texts that were recompiled in Judeo-Persian are among the sources that have not received the attention they truly merit. A significant collection of Judeo-Persian medical manuscripts, which are recompilations of medieval Persian medical texts, is housed in the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. While there may be similarities in their codicological features, it is essential to examine them as discrete cases. This lecture proposes a general examination of one of these sources in The Library of JTS, Kifāyat-i Manṣūrī, along with a practice of reading some excerpts of the text as an interactive learning endeavor. This lecture will encompass two primary components as well: an exposition of the sources stored in the Library of JTS and a historical background of writing in Judeo-Persian in Persianate world context.
Working language: English
Time: December 25, 16:00
Location: Ilia State University, 201/202 meeting hall of Building S, Acad. G. Tsereteli Street N3
Attendance is free.

Studying and Living in Korea: International Student Experience
2026-02-04 16:00 - 17:00
Are you considering studying or living in South Korea?
Many prospective students form their expectations of life in Korea through K-dramas and social media. This workshop offers a more realistic and informed perspective on what it truly means to study and live in South Korea.
The session will be led by Zarina Nurillaeva, who has been studying in South Korea at the University of Inha for the past three years. Drawing on first-hand experience, the workshop aims to present the realities of academic and everyday life beyond dramatized images.
The workshop will cover the following topics:

The reality of Korean university life
Academic culture, examinations, and student responsibilities
Housing options, living expenses, and part-time employment
Cultural differences and adaptation challenges
Useful information for students who want to study in Korea, including scholarship opportunities

Additional highlight:
The session will include short quiz activities, with small prizes for participants.
Join us to explore the real side of studying and living in Korea.
Working Language: English
Venue: G 106 Hall, G. Tsereteli 1
Time: 4 February 2026, 16:00

Iliauni Turns 20! Unite for Iliauni!
2026-02-15 18:00 - 20:00
Twenty years of learning loud.
Twenty years of thinking free.
Twenty years of research, courage, and building something together that matters.
For two decades, we’ve been creating more than a university.
We’ve been creating an academic free space for questions, for ideas, for science that has power.
Because a university is not just walls and classrooms.
It is our responsibility.
To society.
To the country.
To the future.
We stand together to defend our university.
To defend education.
To defend the belief that a better future is built only on knowledge.
We stand together to face challenges head-on and say clearly:
This path is ours. And no one will rewrite it for us.
“Only science can fight ignorance.”
“Where there is no knowledge, there is no person; where there is no person, there is no society; and where there is no society, there is no nation.” – Ilia Chavchavadze
On February 15, at 6:00 PM, students, alumni, professors – all of us – gather at Ilia State University’s A Building to stand for 20 years of continuous building, growing, and believing.
Side by side.
Stronger together.
The journey continues.
With us: Lexo Ratiani & LOUDspeakers
Ligamus – Iliauni unites us
Time: February 15, 6:00 PM
Location: Ilia State University, Building A Courtyard, 32 Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue

Workshop - Academic Writing and Publishing in the Postplagiarism Era
2026-03-19 08:00 - 17:00
This workshop is part of the project “Addressing Academic Misconduct and Integrity in Georgia,” funded with the support of the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE-HSG) at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland.
This workshop is designed for early-career researchers and doctoral students and focuses on academic integrity, generative AI, and scholarly writing and publishing in the digital age. It explores how AI tools are reshaping research practices, authorship, and scholarly responsibility, with particular attention to ethical use, transparency, and integrity. Participants will engage in practical discussions on responsible AI-supported writing, avoiding academic misconduct and navigating emerging institutional and journal policies. The workshop also provides guidance on developing a strong academic voice and maintaining rigor while working with digital tools. Through interactive sessions and real-world examples, participants will gain concrete strategies for ethical, confident, and future-oriented academic practice, including insights into publishing in leading international journals.
The workshop will be led by PD Dr. Elena Denisova-Schmidt, Privatdozentin at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and Research Fellow at the Boston College Center for International Higher Education, and Dr. Tatiana Sitchinava, Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Demography and Sociology, Ilia State University.
The workshop will be held on 25 May 2026 at 11:00, at Ilia State University.
The working language of the workshop is English.
For submission, please fill in the Google Form: Blank Quiz – Google Forms
The deadline for submission is 30 April 2026.
Selected candidates will be contacted by email in early May.

Nana Iashvili's online lecture “Collateralized lives”: Home, debt, and financialization in the Republic of Georgia
2026-03-24 17:00 - 18:00
Tuesday, 24 March at 17:00 PM Nana Iashvili will deliver an online lecture “Collateralized lives”: Home, debt, and financialization in the Republic of Georgia.
In this talk, Nana will present framework and preliminary findings for her PhD project that investigates credit-debt arrangements in Georgia where individuals use their homes to borrow large sums of money. Examining the roles of creditors ranging from banks to informal moneylenders, to ‘Giravnoba’, her work delves into the transformation of housing into a financial asset, subsequent displacements and dispossessions and how these processes affect households and people’s daily lives.
Nana holds an MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Central European University. Currently, at the Social and Cultural Anthropology department at the University of Vienna, Nana’s PhD research centers on housing-related debts in Georgia. Nana is a member of the Landscapes of Extraction: Capital, Violence and City team and a fellow at the Challenge of the Urban Futures Platform.
Working language: English
Format: online — for details contact mariam.darchiashvili@iliauni.edu.ge
Time: 24 March 2026, 17:00 Tbilisi time
Free to attend.

The Agency and Materiality of Sacred Texts in Armenian Christianity
2026-03-31 17:00 - 18:00
The Anthropology Research Center of Ilia State University, together with the PhD Program in Social and Cultural Anthropology, invites you to a seminar by Konrad Siekierski on March 31 at 17:00: “The Agency and Materiality of Sacred Texts in Armenian Christianity”.
The seminar will take place at Ilia State University, Room A103 32 Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue.
This lecture will discuss the social lives of Armenian Christian books and scrolls, which act as sacred thing-beings endowed with supernatural power and agency, having life histories and personalities. Drawing on literature on material religion and ethnographic examples from my research, I will ask what these texts are, what they do, and how they relate to people. To respond to these questions, I will examine the phenomenon of ‘home saints’ venerated in unoﬃcial shrines across several regions of Armenia and in Armenian-populated parts of Georgia, where they aﬀord the Armenian Christians the experience of a ‘radical presence or realness’ (Orsi 2008: 14) of the sacred. Then, I will turn to the Matenadaran (the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts) in Yerevan. In this state repository, research centre, and museum, Armenian religious texts have been protected, renovated, studied, and displayed as precious pieces of tangible national heritage. However, some of these manuscripts have resisted secularisation while preserving the traditional roles of powerful thing-beings which/who attract not only visitors but also pilgrims to the Matenadaran.
Konrad Siekierski holds a PhD in social anthropology from the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, King’s College London. Konrad is a co-editor of Armenia: A Modern Culture from an Anthropological Perspective (2014), Armenians in Post-Socialist Europe (2016), and a special issue of the Entangled Religions journal on “Religion and Pandemic” (2022).

The Ecology of Everyday Life: Local Food Practices in the Face of Environmental Threats in the Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti Region
2026-04-07 17:00 - 18:00
On April 7 at 17:00, the Anthropology Research Centre and the Doctoral Programme in Social and Cultural Anthropology invite you to an online seminar by Dr. Natallia Paulovich: “The Ecology of Everyday Life: Local Food Practices in the Face of Environmental Threats in the Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti Region.”

Abstract:
This presentation outlines the conceptual foundations of the emerging research project “The ecology of everyday life: Local food practices in the face of environmental threats in the Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti region”. The future study will investigate how communities living in an arsenic-affected area of northern Georgia navigate environmental uncertainty in their daily lives, with particular attention to food sourcing, preparation, and consumption. Although geological, environmental and medical researchers have extensively documented arsenic contamination stemming from abandoned processing facilities, the social dimensions of this ecological crisis remain largely unexamined. Little is known about how residents understand contamination, how risk knowledge circulates within households and communities, or how longstanding culinary traditions are re-interpreted in light of perceived threats. Building on Mary Douglas’s insight that purity and pollution operate as both symbolic and social classifications, the project approaches toxicity not only as a measurable chemical hazard but also as a lived condition embedded in everyday practices. The presentation maps the conceptual terrain that guides this ethnographic inquiry, drawing on scholarship in environmental anthropology and studies of foodways under conditions of degradation, and comparative research on community responses to industrial pollution. It introduces the proposed methodological framework—long-term participant observation, semi-structured interviews, household food mapping, and interdisciplinary collaboration with environmental scientists—designed to trace the interplay between ecological risk and domestic life. By outlining the theoretical rationale and research design, this presentation sets the stage for a broader investigation into how rural communities in Georgia interpret, negotiate, and accommodate environmental threats in their everyday ecologies. The goal is to articulate the analytical questions that will drive the fieldwork and to situate the project within ongoing environmental debates.
Bio
Dr. Natallia Paulovich is an Assistant Professor at The Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw, Poland, specialising in gender studies, food anthropology sociology, and Eastern European studies. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2018, and holds a master’s degree in History. Dr. Paulovich has conducted extensive fieldwork in Georgia and Belarus, focusing on issues of gender, social identity, and post-Soviet transformations. Her work has been published in journals such as Slavic Review and Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia. Her first book called ‘The Taste of Agency: Cooking, Gender, and Social Change in Georgia’ appeared in 2025 in Palgrave MacMillan.

Meet the Austrians, meet the Georgians: Business, Communication and Culture – what are we talking about? An interactive Workshop
2026-04-17 19:00 - 21:00
About the workshop

What characterizes business today in Austria and Georgia?
Which impacts do international settings have on business?
How is business affected by cultural differences?
What has to be considered when engaging in intercultural exchange in a corporate context?
What’s an Austrian working style, what do young professionals think in Georgia?

Interactive Workshop
About the speakers
Alexander Burka, Prof. PhD. M.A
Professor for international Business Communication at the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland, Austria. Courses on international competencies, intercultural management and Russian as foreign language.
More than 25 years professional experience in various fields of activity in more than 60 countries worldwide for international organisations and enterprises.
Nina Trinkl, Prof. MMag.
Programme Director of the Master’s program in International Business Relations at the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland, Austria. Courses in strategic management, international marketing and research methods.
More than 15 years professional experience in higher education as well as consumer marketing in FMCG and telecommunications industry.
Date: April 17, 2026
Venue: E207, 45 Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue, Tbilisi, 0179, Georgia
