Conference Program

2025

Friday

Presentation – 10 minutes | Discussion – 5 minutes
Date: December 12

Section I | 12:00–13:30

Chair: Mikheil Kartvelishvili

Tengiz Simashvili, Shalva Chkaduа, Irma Shioshvili, Nino Kakhashvili
Soviet Anti-Religious Policy Reflected in Archival Materials (1920s–1930s)

Dimitri Shvelidze
The Democratic Republic of Georgia on Trial in Soviet Historiography

Gigi Gioroshvili
The Process of Preparation for the Elections of October 28, 1990

Mikheil Kartvelishvili
Perception of the Press as a Historical Source: From Positivist Historiography to Intellectual History (Main Characteristics)

Monika Mirzoyan
Socio-Cultural and Ethnographic Representation of Georgian and Armenian Women Living in the Caucasus in European and American Travel Literature of the 17th–19th Centuries

Zurab Targamadze
The Treaty of Georgievsk and the Problem of Its Interpretation in Soviet and Post-Soviet Georgian Historiography

Mariam Marjanishvili
The Manuscripts of Tamar Papava Tell Their Story

Break | 13:30–14:00

Section II | 14:00–15:30

Chair: Giorgi Arkania

Asmat Gvazava, Tinatin Gabodze
Decorative Textiles and the Specifics of Their Restoration

Lela Gotsiridze
Types of Seals and Stamps in Documents

Tamar Dvalishvili
On the Conservation of Parchment Scrolls of the 12th–16th Centuries (S-4980; H-511)

Maia Tsertsvadze
At the Origins of the 1832 Conspiracy – Okropir Batonishvili

Giorgi Arkania
“The Law on National Minorities” – An Unrealized Project of the Second Republic of Georgia (1990–1992)

Anna Palaqyan

The Causes and Historical Background of the Armenian-Tatar Clashes of 1905-1906

Nodar Chkhaidze
Letters of Komando Gogelia Addressed to Tamar Falavandishvili and Their Historiographical Significance

Section III | 16:00–17:30

Chair: Nikoloz Zhgenti

Hirotake Maeda
Late Medieval Georgian Society and the Reflection of Safavid Power in the Works of Tamaz Gogoladze

Irakli Baghava
The Price of Copper in the United Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti: Production, Status, and Circulation

Lado Mirianashvili
The Artistic Image of Medieval Georgian Lapidary Inscriptions and The Principal Elements reflected in them

Ketevan Kutateladze
Research on the Name “Queli Fortress”

Lela Shatirishvili
An Interdisciplinary Study of a Scroll Manuscript

Astghik Minasyan

Healing and Magical Rituals among the Yezidis of Armenia in the Contemporary Period

Nikoloz Zhgenti
The inscription of the Lukuni Mountain Church and new material about the ‘Mtskhetishviloba’ Institute.

Saturday

Section IV (Online) | 11:00–12:30

Chair: Manuchar Guntsadze

Nato Songhulashvili
Education and National Freedom in the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918–1921)

Otar Gogolishvili
The Batumi Question in the 18th–19th Centuries Russo-Turkish Wars

Tea Kamushadze
Thematic Framework and Colonial Logic in the Study of Georgian Soviet Ethnography

Irakli Nodia
World War I and Georgian Society: Different Views, Expectations, and Hopes

Section V (Online) | 12:45–14:00

Chair: Natia Kenchiashvili

Giorgi Chubinidze
The Translation of Isaiah 9:6 by Ioane Petritsi

Natia Kenchiashvili
Analysis of the Terminological System Based on the Example of the Georgian Rhetoric Manual “Brief Rhetoric”

Harutyun Khudanyan, Nino Datunashvili
Clothing of Georgian Nobility and Kings in Medieval Armenian Sources

Nino Gokhidze
Greek Burial Ritual in the Classical Necropolis of Pichvnari

Section VI | 15:00–16:30

TSU, First Building, Room 214
Chair: Eter Churadze

Otari Gabunia, Zurab Baratashvili
“The Epic of Gilgamesh”: Lemmatization, Concordance, and Interlinear Glossing – Digital Documentation of Dead Languages on a National Database

Lia Tsereteli
“Drinking, Feasting, Dining” in The Knight in the Panther’s Skin

Ketevan Samadashvili
Thematic and Artistic Characteristics of Mikheil Kvlividze’s Lyric Poetry

Nino Gvenetadze
“One Word Frees Us from the Burden and Pain of Life: This Word Is Love” (Lessons of Love from Sophocles)

Eter Churadze
Translation as Interpretation and the Concept of Equivalence

Mari Simonishvili
Who Is the Reader? On the Interpretation of Givi Margvelashvili’s Miniatures

Otari Gabunia, Zurab Baratashvili

Aspectual Features in the Sumerian Language: The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Gudea Cylinder (Comparative Analysis)

Section VII | 15:00–16:30

TSU, First Building, Room 201
Chair: Ketevan Siradze

Naile Mikeladze, Mariam Papiashvili
Legends of Saint Mary Preserved in the Consciousness of the Heretians

Ketevan Siradze
Saint George the Victorious and the Phenomenon of the “Holy Warrior” in Georgian Culture

Monk Ioane (Mamuka) Tsukhishvili
Catholicos-Patriarch of United Georgia Arsen III (1220–1230)

Nari Chkhaberidze
Ecclesiastical Symbolism Formed in Georgian Ethnological Space – Toward the Cognition of Truth

Nugzar Papuashvili
The German Translation and Publication of The Martyrdom of Eustathius of Mtskheta: The Collaboration of Adolf Harnack and Ivane Javakhishvili

Ketevan Mamasakhlisi
The Typikon of the Studite Monastery and the Old Georgian Translation of Theodore the Studite’s “Teachings”

Section VIII | 15:00–16:30

TSU, First Building, Room 217
Chair: Shota Matitashvili

Bachana Rukhaia, Nikoloz Sarajishvili
On Two Russian-Language Works of Academician Simon Janashia

Lali Mekerishvili
The Byzantine Military Campaign in Western Georgia in the Mid-9th Century: Regional Interests and Political Consequences

Gor Margarian
Nomads in the Perception of Medieval Armenia and Georgia (Comparative Analysis)

Ana Torosyan
History of the Jewish Diaspora: On the Example of Jewish Communities in the South Caucasus Countries (Early 20th Century – First Quarter of the 21st Century)

Anush Harutyunyan
The principle of self-identification in the 1926 All-Union Census: The Case of Soviet Armenia

Shota Matitashvili
The Canonical Status of the Church of Kartli in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Arevik Harutyunyan

The Attitude of Azerbaijani People in Georgia Towards the Local Armenian Population

Section IX | 15:00–16:30

TSU, First Building, Room 304
Chair: Levan Kochlamazashvili

Tornike Poilarashvili
The Hittite “harnu/au Childbirth Chair” – Function and Ritual Practice

Nino Megeneishvili, Shorena Tavadze
For the Interdisciplinary Study of Manuscripts written by a Woman’s Hand

Khatuna Baindurashvili
An Unknown Persian Manuscript of “Jami Abbas”

Omiko Ejibia
Why Western Georgia is Not Visible in Arab-Muslim Geographical Sources of the 10th–11th Centuries?

Levan Kochlamazashvili
Insertion in Georgian Caused by the Addition of the {-al} Suffix-Determinant

Section X | 17:00–18:30

TSU, First Building, Room 214
Chair: Guram Legashvili

Salome Chanturidze
The Newspaper Kommunisti – Politics of Memory in the Soviet Press

Maia Barnaveli
Traces of Censorship in 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-Century Georgia

Sandro Bakuradze
Kartli’s “Black Squad” – An Example of Self-Organization of the Landed Aristocracy Against Agrarian and Revolutionary Movements

Ana Natroshvili
The Importance of the Silk Issue in the International Relations of the First Republic of Georgia

Davit Merkviladze
On a Well-Known Case of the Slave Trade in Foreign Sources

Olga (Oliko) Beridze
Agathias of Myrina (the Scholasticus) in Georgian Scholarly Literature

Guram Legashvili
The History of the Village of Qandaura