PROGRAMME

ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM

PROGRAMME

SPEAKERS

 

10:00 am – 10:40 am OPENING Session
Opening Remarks & Moderator	Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia University
Welcome	Alexander Lomaia, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Georgia to the United Nations
Georgia after August war with Russia	Temur Yakobashvili, Vice Prime Minister, Minister for Reintegration of Georgia
Q/A
10: 40am – 11:00 am	Coffee Break
Session I. The Historical Overview and Cultural Heritage highlights of the Conflict Regions of Georgia
Chair: Maka Dvalishvili, GACC International Initiative for Georgian Cultural Studies Leader
11:00- 11:20	Dr. Iulon Gagoshidze, Georgia’s State Minister on Diaspora Affairs Abkhazians and Ossetians in Georgia- History and Nowadays
11:20 am – 11:40 am	Dr. George Otxmezuri, Associated Professor, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Abkhazeti – the integral part of Georgia (based on the historic sources)
11:40 am - 12:00 pm	Dr. Mariam Didebulidze, Director of  Giorgi Chubinashvili National Research Center for Georgian Art History and Monuments Preservation, Professor of Tbilisi Theological Academy.  Cultural Heritage of Abkhazeti
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm	Dr. George Otxmezuri, Associated Professor, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Administrative status of Shida (inner) Kartli, and the ethnicity of its population (based on the historic sources)
12:20 pm - 12: 40 pm	George Gagoshidze, Dr. Art History, Georgian National Museum Medieval Art and Architecture on the territories of conflict regions of Georgia  - Shida (inner) Kartli
Q/A
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Lunch Brake
Session II. Georgia on the Crossroads
Chair: Dodona Kiziria, Professor, Indiana University
2:30 pm – 2:50 pm	Giuli Alasania, Professor, Tbilisi State University vice-Rector, International Black Sea University, the founder, head of Trustee Board, University of Georgia Georgia as a bridge between the West and the East (Advantage and disadvantage)
2:50 pm - 3:10 pm	Gigi Tevzadze, Professor, Rector of Ilia Chavchavadze State University At the Crossroads of European and Asian Cultures: ” A Geopolitical Constant or a Mythical Construct?”
3:10 pm - 3:30 pm	Giga Zedania, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies. IIlia Chavchavadze State University Georgia as a Part of Black Sea Europe: Towards a New Understanding of Regional Identity
Q/A
3:50 pm - 4:10 pm    Coffee Brake
4:10 pm - 4:30 pm	Mzia Chikhradze, PhD, Senior Research Fellow at G.Chubinashvili National Center for the Research of Georgian Art History and Monuments Protection Expansion/Integration, Georgian-Russian Cultural Relationship in 1910-1980
4:30 pm - 4:50 pm	Tinatin Bochorishvili, Professor, Dr. Philosophy, Director of Rustaveli Foundation for Georgian Studies, Humanities and Social Sciences Rustaveli Foundation - Mission and Activities
4:50 pm – 5:10 pm	Carl Linich, MFA, Bennington College The Gramophone Comes to Georgia: 1901-1914 Presentation of the anthology of Georgian folk music; 4 compact discs comprising the complete recordings made by the London Gramophone Company
Q/A
Closing Remarks Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia University