უნივერსიტეტის ღონისძიებების პორტალი

Information Meeting at the Ilia State University
2010-10-18 00:00 (Asia/Dubai)
On October 20, 2010, 5pm Ilia State University (address: 32 Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue, building “A”, room #101) will host an information meeting concerning a joint project of Ilia State University and the Arizona State University.
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October 22, 2010, 6pm UniKino presents: “Ragtime”
2010-10-18 00:00
On Friday, October 22, 2010, 6pm UniKino presents Milos Forman’ “Ragtime” (1981)
Starring: James Cagney, Elizabeth McGovern, Mary Steenburgen, Brad Dourif and others.
Address: 32 Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue, building “A”, room #101.
Attendance is free of change.

Internships at “OUTDOOR.GE”
2010-10-18 00:00
On October 19, 3pm Ilia State University and advertising company “OUTDOOR.GE” will sign a memorandum of cooperation.
According to the memorandum undergraduate and graduate students from the Ilia State University will be able to complete their interrnships at “OUTDOOR.GE”.
Memorandum will be signed by the rector of the Ilia State University Gigi Tevzadze and the General Director of the company “OUTDOOR.GE” Dimitry Chikovani. A ceremony will take place at the Ilia State University (address: 32 Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue, building “A”, room #101).

Public Lecture by Robert van Voren
2010-10-15 00:00
On October 20, 2010, 6pm Ilia State University (address: 32 Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue, building A, room #101) will host a public lecture of Dutch scientist and civil activist Robert van Voren. Mr. Voren will talk about “Totalitarianism and Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes”.
You are cordially invited to attend the lecture.

Meeting with Giorgi Papuashvili
2010-10-15 00:00
On Monday, October 18, 11am Giorgi Papuashvili, Head of the Constitutional Court of Georgia will meet the students of the Ilia State University. Meeting will be held at the premises of the University (address: 32 Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue, building “A”, room #101). Mr. Papuashvili will talk about the Constitutional Court and discuss changes in the Constitution of Georgia.
Attendance is free of charge.

Training: “How to Write a Project”
2010-10-15 00:00
On October 15-16, 2010 from 3pm until 5pm Ilia State University (address: 32 Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue, building A, room #101) will host a training “How to Write a Project”. Training will be conducted by Oskars Mickans (Latvia) and Giorgi Khanchaveli, President of an NGO YSG.
Attendance is free of charge.

“Biodiversity of Alpine Soils”
2010-10-15 00:00
On October 18-20, 2010 Ilia State University will host an international conference “Biodiversity of Alpine Soils”. The conference was initiated by the Institute of Zoology of Ilia State University and is supported by Georgia National Science Foundation. The conference will start on Monday, October 18, 12pm at Ilia State University (address: 32 Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue, building “A”, room #101).

EU Observer Mission Presentation
2010-10-11 15:06
On the 12th of October, Tuesday, at 11.00, Ilia State University will host a presentation on the work of the EU Observer Mission in Georgia.
The presentation will be followed by a discussion. The guests of the presentation will have an opportunity to ask questions.
The EU Observer Mission is a civil mission that was created on the 15th of September, 2008. Since the August war, the mission has been observing the implementation of the six-point agreement between Georgia and Russia.
Address: Ilia State University
32, Chavchavadze Ave.,
Room 101, “A” campus

Sufism in the North-eastern Caucasus
2010-10-11 12:41
Moshe Gammer is Associate Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University. He is the author of many works on the history and contemporary affairs of the Caucasus, Cantral Asia and the Middle East. His books include Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan, London: Frank Cass, 1994 and The Lone Wolf and the Bear. Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Power, London: C. Hurst & Co. 2005 The Lone Wolf and the Bear. Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Power, London: C. Hurst & Co. and Pittsburgh: Pitsburgh University Press, 2005.
Date: Wednesday, 13 October, at 15.00.
Venue: 3-5 Kakutsa Cholokashvili Ave, H105 (Austrian Library).

Presentation of European Union Monitoring Mission
2010-10-11 00:00
On Tuesday, October 12, 11am Ilia State University (address: 32 Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue, building A, room #101) will host a presentation about activities of the European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia.
Presentation will be followed by a discussion and a Q&A session.
European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) is an unarmed civil monitoring mission, which was established on September 15, 2008 and since August War monitors fulfillment of the Georgia Russia six paragraph agreement. Mission carries out a twenty-four-hour patrolling. Its mandate includes stabilizing the situation, as well as normalizing and trust restoration.

Sufism in North-Eastern Caucasus
2010-10-11 00:00
On Wednesday, October 13, 3pm Ilia State University (address: 3/5 Kakutsa Cholokhashvili Avenue, room H105 (Austrian Library) will host a public lecture “Sufism in North-Eastern Caucasus: Exaggerated Influence?”
Lecture will be delivered by Prof. Moshe Gammer from Tel Aviv University.

Presentation About the Fulbright Program
2010-10-07 10:35
Presentations about the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program will be held:
7 October, 17:00 – Tbilisi State University, Building 2, Room#135
Address: 3, Chavchavadze Avenue.
12 October, 17:00 – Ilia State University, Building A, Room#101
Address: 32, Chavchavadze Avenue.
2011-2012 Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program

October 8, UniKino presents Pedro Amodóvar’s “Broken Embraces”
2010-10-04 00:00
On Friday, October 8, 2010, 6pm UniKino presents Pedro Amodóvar’s “Broken Embraces” (2009)
Starring: Penólopa Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo, José Luis Gomez etc.
Address: 32 Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue, building “A”, room #101.
Attendance is free of change.

October 8, 2010, 6pm UniKino: “Broken Embraces”
2010-10-04 00:00

Workshop on the Healthy Lifestyle
2010-10-04 00:00
On October 7, 2010, 3pm “Association of Caucasian Youth Development” will conduct an information meeting and an educational workshop about living a healthy lifestyle. The meeting and workshop will take place at the Ilia State University (address: 32 Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue, building “A”, room #101) sponsored by USAID, “Georgia AIDS Prevention Project”.
During the meeting representatives of the Association will discuss the following issues:
1. HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases;
2. Healthy lifestyle;
3. Influence of unhealthy substances on health: drugs, tobacco, alcohol;
4. Gender equality and gender violence.

Program “Translation and Terminology”
2010-10-04 00:00
Certification program “Translation and Terminology” prepares highly qualified professional translators and equips them with methodological knowledge and skills necessary for translation of any type of texts.
Duration of the course is one semester. Tuition fee is 850 GEL.
Candidates, who would like to participate in the certificate program, should already have a BA degree or provide proof of a three-year university general education in any field. Candidate should speak at least one European language (English, German, French, Spanish or Italian). Knowledge of Russian language is a plus. Candidates will be invited to an interview and a written exam.
After completing of the certificate program, graduates will have gained terminology in different fields (policy, economics, law, scientific and technical fields) in their native and two foreign languages and will be able to use them during written translations.
Graduates of the program will be able to work as translators at the state or private institutions: Ministry of Justice, Office of the Prosecutor, banks, parliament, different state and private enterprises.
Presentation of the program will be held on October 13, 2010 2pm at the Ilia State University (address: 32 Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue, building “A”, room #101).
Interested persons can register at Ilia State University (address: 32 Ilia Chavchvavadze Avenue, building “A”, room #201). For additional information please contact Ketevan Maghalashvili. Tel.: 29 46 12.

Public Lecture at the Ilia State University
2010-10-01 00:00
On October 2-9, 2010 Georgia will host a working visit of representatives of the University of Oslo. This visit is to take place in the framework of the project “Norwegian Way to Inclusion”. The administration of the program is the Association of Disabled Women and Mothers of Disabled Children “Dea”. Support for the project is provided by the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Georgia and the Government of Norway. The project is carried out as an offshoot of a bigger project, “Development of Inclusive Education in Nine Regions and Schools of the Adjara Autonomous Republic”. Its goal is to popularize and support the implementation of approved Western innovative ideological methods of inclusive education.
One of the activities of the project includes the organization of public lectures for the representatives of the professional community at the Ilia State University. The goal of the lectures is to raise awareness about the Norwegian experience concerning inclusive education and transfer knowledge to Georgian professional circles and other stakeholders.
Lectures will be delivered by the following representatives of the University of Oslo:
Mrs. Miriam Skjørten: founder of the international graduate program of education philosophy for special needs persons at the University of Oslo and coordinator of other academic programs. She is a renowned scholar in the field of inclusive ideology and problems connected with its implementation. She is especially well known for her research in the comparative teaching of sciences and the role of cultural events related to special needs education. Mrs. Skjørten is actively involved in the process of cooperation development between different universities of different continents.
Prof. Berit Johnsen – associate professor at the University of Oslo, Department of Special Needs Education. The areas of her scientific research lies within the general education system, history of special needs education, thinking traditions and verbal communication. Her scientific interests include research of curriculum and class education, renewal and development of cooperation with the universities of different countries and continents.
Lecture will take place on October 4, 2010, 10am at the Ilia State University (address: 32 Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue, building “A”, room #101).

Presentation of DAAD Programs
2010-10-01 00:00
On Monday, October 4, 2010 12pm Ilia State University will host a meeting with Tanja Grieshammer, the lector of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). During the session she will pesent scholarship programs.
If interested, please view the description of the programs at the webpage of the Ilia State University: (http://www.iliauni.edu.ge/index.php?lang_id=GEO&sec_id=435&info_id=2958).
Interested persons will have an opportunity to ask questions and receive information from the representative of the German Academic Exchange Service.

Information Session On PhD Scholarships
2010-09-30 00:00
On Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 5pm first year PhD students from the field of political sciences (enrolled in the Fall Semester 2010-2011) will have a chance to attend an information session on scholarships provided by the program “Academic Swiss Caucasus Net” (www.ascn.ch). This meeting will take place at Ilia State University (address: 32 Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue, building “A”, room #101). It will be moderated by the dean of the School of Graduate Studies David Aprasidze and a representative of the “Academic Swiss Caucasus Net” Tiko Khadagishvili.
“Academic Swiss Caucasus Net” is a five-year program, which sets the goal to develop humanities and social sciences in the Caucasus.
The scholarship offers a monthly stipend of 700 GEL. First year PhD students of the Ilia State University who are enrolled in the program of political sciences and whose dissertation thesis concerns issues of democratization and transition are eligible to apply for the scholarship this funding. The scholarship will be awarded to two PhD students for a period of one year (there is a possibility of extension).

Unikino screening “Waltz With Bashir” on October 1st, 2010
2010-09-29 00:00
On Friday, October 1, 2010 6pm Unikino resumes its screenings with a documenary animation film “Waltz With Bashir” (2008).
Director: Ari Folman. Voices by: Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dyag, Ari Folman, Shmuel Frenkel etc.
Attendance is free of charge. Address: 32 Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue, Building “A”, room #101.

”Georgia and the Eurasian Heartland”
2010-09-28 17:46
Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (GFSIS) AND Georgian Security Analysis Center (GSAC) Present S-300 Missiles, Georgia and the Eurasian Heartland.
Chaired by Professor Alexandre Rondeli, President, GFSIS Presentations by Khatuna Mshvidobadze, Senior Associate, Georgian Security Analysis Center, GFSIS Amb. David J. Smith, Director, Georgian Security Analysis Center, GFSIS Shota Utiashvili, Research Director and Spokesman, Ministry of Internal Affaires.
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Time: 18.30 pm
Venue: GFSIS, #3a Sh. Chitadze Street.

Ten Year Anniversary of the Dutch Language Center
2010-09-28 00:00
Publishing house “Link”, Georgian National Museum and Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands would like to invite you to the presentation of a book: “Life in the Museum.” Time:
Monday, October 4, 2010, 4pm.
Address: Auditorium of the Georgian National Museum, 1 Purtseladze Street.
Dutch Language Center of the Ilia State University, publishishing house “Link” and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands” have the honor to invite you to a literary and musical evening dedicated to the Dutch poet Ramzi Nasri.
Time: Friday, October 8, 2010, 8pm.
Address: Royal District Theare, 10 Gia Abesadze Street.

Series of Open Lectures conducted by Prof. Giorgi Maisuradze (philosophy)
2010-09-27 00:00
Philosopher Giorgi Maisuradze (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin /Ilia State University) will deliver series of open lectures at the Ilia State University between September 28 and October 11. Sessions are open for attendance to all interested persons. In case of interest, students of the Ilia State University can receive academic credits for attendance.
Schedule of the lectures:
1. September 28, 2-4pm, “Political Theology” – History of the Term and its Function
2. October 1, 2-4pm, Historic Contexts of Political Theology
3. October 4, 3-5pm, Secularization and “Political Religions”
4. October 11, 3-5pm, Georgian Political Theology in the Middle Ages and Problems of Secularization.
All four lectures will take place in the room A101 (address: 32 Ilia Chachavadze Avenue).

U.S. Embassy Information Meeting
2010-09-22 11:52
On Friday, October 1, 2010 at 4PM at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, the U.S. Embassy Consular Chief, Patrick R. Wingate, will hold the presentation on the Diversity Visa Lottery Program for 2012, otherwise known as the “Green Card Lottery.”
The Green Card Lottery, offers eligible applicants the opportunity to legally immigrate to the United States based on the random, computerized selection of all eligible entries from around the world. Each year, 55,000 immigrant visas are made available to qualified applicants born in a country with a low rate of immigration to the United States.
The new season for Green Card Lottery entries will last a total of thirty days beginning on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 and ending on Wednesday, November 3, 2010. The only web site from which you may officially enter your name for the lottery is www.dvlottery.state.gov. Entering the Green Card Lottery is completely free of charge. Beginning May 1, 2011 this is also the only site from which you will be able to check if you have won the lottery using the confirmation number provided at the time of you entered. Absolutely no/no letters or e-mails will be mailed out to notify winners.
The U.S. Embassy strongly discourages applicants from using any private businesses (visa facilitators) or translation services to enter the Green Card Lottery as these services are unnecessary, often fraudulent, and could damage the applicant’s chances of being granted a U.S. visa.
Additional information sessions will be offered in Kutaisi, Telavi, and Rustavi over the next few weeks. Please refer to http://georgia.usembassy.gov for the latest information about the Green Card Lottery.

Public Lectures at Ilia State University
2010-09-22 00:00
On September 24, 2010, 3pm, Ilia State University (building “A”, room 101, 32 Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue) will host a lecture of the director of the Institute of Geophysics of Technical University Claustahl Prof. Andreas Weller. The lecture will be titled ”Use of Geophysical Methods in Archaeology”. Prof. Günther Bunterbarth will deliver a lecture “Heat Signals of the Planet Earth”.
On September 27-28, 2010 9.30am a working session will be held at the Ilia State University (Encyclopedia Building, room #505, 3/5 Cholokhashvili Street). During the meeting participants will discuss issues of study and exploitation of underground waters, among them thermal ones. Working meeting will be held in the framework of a joint project of the Institute of Geophysics, Technical University Clausthal (Germany) and Ilia State University “Study of Geodynamic Influence on the Underground Water Basins”.

Memorandum of Cooperation between the university and Tbilisi Public Schools
2010-09-20 00:00
On Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 2pm Ilia State University and twenty-three public schools will sign a memorandum of cooperation (address: Ilia State University, building A, room #101, 32 Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue).
Memorandum foresees cooperation between the schools and the university. It will include open lectures for the senior students (grades 10, 11, 12). Lectures will be delivered by the professors from the Ilia State University.
Memorandum sets the goal to establish common ground for future cooperation between the schools and the university, connect students from the public schools to the Ilia State University and its professors, ensure establishment of links between teachers and the students who are enrolled in an education program of the university.
Memorandum of cooperation will be signed by the rector of the Ilia State University Prof. Gigi Tevzadze and directors of the schools.

Ghia Dvali’s Public Lecture “Big Bang and Cosmological Singularity”
2010-08-25 00:00
On August 26 and 27, 12pm lecture hall of the Institute of Physics will host Ghia Dvali’s public lecture “Big Bang and Cosmological Singularity”.

Summer School “Georgian Studies”
2010-08-24 00:00
On August 27, 2010, 6pm two summer schools of the Ilia State University: “Georgian Studies” and “South Caucasus: Culture, Society, Policy” will be officially launched at the Open Air Museum of Ethnography of Georgia.
Funding for the summer school “South Caucasus: Culture, Society, Policy” is provided by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). It brings together 20 German students and two world-renowned experts.
Project “Georgian Studies” which is jointly financed by the Ilia State University and the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation will consist of 10 international and 10 local participants.
During the summer schools Georgian and foreign students will attend lectures, workshops, meet experts and spend one working week in Abastumani at the scientific-research center of the Ilia State University.

James Traub's Public Lecture
2010-08-11 00:00
August 11, at 18.30 Ilia State University (Build. A, 101 auditorium, I. Chavchavadze Ave. 32) will host James Traub public lecture “Foreign Policy of Barak Obama Administration”.
James Traub writes for New York Times Magazine and he is a columnist for Foreign Policy journal. For more of his works see: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/category/section/terms_of_engagement

Presentation of New Graduate Programs
2010-08-03 16:40
On June 9, at 7pm, presentation of four new graduate programs of the Ilia State University will take place at the Ilia Chavchavadze Saguramo House.
The programs are:

Georgian Studies
Caucasus and Black Sea Region Studies
Identity Studies
Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies

Graduate programs of the Ilia State University are unique for Georgia. They are based on inter- and multidisciplinary research principles, meeting the international standards of humanitarian and social sciences.
Over the course of several years, established scholars of humanitarian and social sciences will conduct joint studies on various research topics at Ilia State University. Active involvement of future PhD scholars into ongoing studies will offer them a chance to analyze the research objects from various angles.
