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Thematic Scientific Conference
Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani and Georgian European Tradition. Literature, Culture, Consciousness
In 2008, we celebrated the 350th birthday anniversary of an eminent Georgian writer and public figure Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani. Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature, with the support of the Foundation for Georgian Studies, Humanities and Social Sciences (Rustaveli Foundation) organized the thematic scientific conference – “Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani and Georgian European Tradition. Literature, Culture, Consciousness”. The conference was conducted within the frameworks of the Second International Symposium – “Contemporary Issues of Literary Criticism”. The Symposium was scheduled to take place in September, but due to the recent tragic events that occurred in Georgia had to be postponed.
The opening ceremony was attended by the following invited guests: Nodar Surguladze, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Georgia, Tinatin Bochorishvili, Director of the Foundation for Georgian Studies, Humanities and Social Sciences (Rustaveli Foundation), Iago Kalandadze, Head of the Department of Science, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.
A board of Experts has approved twenty-seven conference participants from thirty-eight applicants. Representatives from the Institutes of Literature, Linguistics, History and Ethnology, Politology and Philology as well as from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Akaki Tsereteli Kutaisi State University participated in the Conference.
Six sections operated within the scope of the scientific conference; the presentations were of interdisciplinary nature. The researchers of the history of literature and theory, folklorists, linguists, historians and philosophers have displayed different aspects of life and creative works of the great Georgian writer and public figure. There were also presentations concerning political and religious orientation of XVIII-century Georgia.
The conference Programme and theses had been published. The Institute is planning to publish conference materials in the near future.
For further information contact:
Mariam Nebieridze
Phone: (99532) 99 63 84; Fax: 99 53 00; E-mail: maillit@litinstituti.ge
Institute directorate and organizing committee thank you for your cooperation.